Archive for November, 2009

> Photo taken by myself in Deceember 2008 looking down Glenshee A noteworthy low was reported yesterday morning at Braemar, Aberdeenshire of -8.6C or 17 degrees F.. Braemar, nestles in between hills in a cold hollow in the Cairngorm National Park is regularly home to Britain’s lowest high’s and Low’s and is also home to […]

>Today’s Extremes here at my houseHigh 46.1 degrees at 2:20pm Low 37 degrees at 6:57amStarted off periods of moderate to even heavy rain at times during the overnight, rain away clearing during the morning hours to a mostly cloudy afternoon with seasonal temps for early November, skies clearing out this evening with temps dropping into […]

>For a hurricane enthusiast like myself, the 2009 season will be quickly be forgotten about and will go down for producing all but two landfalling tropical systems, both of which tropical storm status as they came ashore on US soil..After a gusty, soaking hit on the Florida Panhandle, Ida’s remnant low will head north and […]

> A strong Ida, now a tropical storm and down from Cat.2 hurricane will still have a high impact along the Miss, Alabama and Fla coastline tonight into tomorrow and the fear is that Ida will hit with sustained tropical storm-force winds and gusts likely surpassing hurricane-force.. Whilst this is a concern I personally am […]

>UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS ALONG THE US GULF COAST, WHAT TIME OF YEAR IS IT?A very interesting weather situation is unfolding in the southern Gulf of Mexico as a strong category 2 Hurricane Ida is starting to create a stir along the US Gulf Coast between Mississippi and the Florida panhandle. It was said that once off […]

> We are certainly back to normality after the upper 50s to near 70s across much of the UK to end October. Yesterday Britain’s warmest was only 12C or 55F. Much closer to normal for this time of year. What I find interesting is that when we manage to get a small bubble of high […]

>It is simply a delightful winter-like or fall-like morning to waken up to here in Lennoxtown. The low this morning here at the house was 30 degrees reached at 7.40am and now with the rise of sunshine and increase of solar energy to the ground we’re warming nicely. Still a point of year when the […]

> -29 degrees at Eureka and -14 at Repulse Bay in north-central Canada compared to the warmth of 75 degrees at Rapid City, South Dakota, 73 at Denver, Colorado, is the thermal contrast driving a powerhouse jet stream and associated pile-driving storm centers that are controling the depth of troughs and heights of ridges across […]

>2009 HURRICANE SEASON IS ALIVE AS THE END IS NEARJust when I thought the 2009 Atlantic Basin Hurricane Season was dead back before the close of August, so had have witnessed a hurricane landfall on the coast of Nicaragua we have a high potential for this remnant low to return back to the exceptional high […]

>I am enjoying a much needed day and shall be blogging about all the major weather happenings occuring now and so I shall be talking about the sleepy hurricane season that might just be waking up, winter, British rains, frost and what lies ahead here as well as other things.Hope you can read this stuff […]