Archive for 2009

>A Cooler Britain after a balmy October close

Written by on November 8, 2009 in Rest of Europe with 1 Comment
>A Cooler Britain after a balmy October close

> 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 […]

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>Brilliant Clear Skies, Calm Winds and frost!

Written by on November 8, 2009 in Rest of Europe with 3 Comments

>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 […]

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>957Millibar Storm Center Over Gulf of Alaska, Warm Central Plains, Cold Russia

Written by on November 6, 2009 in Rest of Europe with 1 Comment
>957Millibar Storm Center Over Gulf of Alaska, Warm Central Plains, Cold Russia

> -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 […]

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>Potential for Extremes is High

Written by on November 6, 2009 in Rest of Europe with 0 Comments

>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 […]

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>A lot to blog about, so stay tuned throughout today

Written by on November 6, 2009 in Rest of Europe with 0 Comments

>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 […]

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>3AM UPDATE: Forty and Fog!

Written by on November 5, 2009 in Rest of Europe with 0 Comments

>Good Morning!I am up, had my cereal, crumpets and coffee and ready to head to Glasgow where I should be loaded up and ready to pull out of the yard for 4am and bound for Dumfries..Thermometer reads 40.1 degrees and by looking outside it’s a cool, foggy morning. Interesting weather happenings..I notice a new Tropical […]

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>Is Britain’s Rainfall Frequency becoming more Intense?

Written by on November 4, 2009 in Rest of Europe with 0 Comments

>I don’t know if it’s my imagination, perhaps as I grow in my meteorological mind or I’m just paying more attention to the weather here, but is our rainfall frequency becoming more regular and more importantly, more intense.. It seems extreme precipitation events are becoming more regular. The floods of 07, the 2007 and 2008 […]

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>Is Britain’s rainfall frequency becoming more intense?

Written by on November 4, 2009 in Rest of Europe with 0 Comments

>– By Mark VoganI don’t know if it’s my imagination, perhaps as I grow in my meteorological mind or I’m just paying more attention to the weather here, but is our rainfall frequency becoming more regular and more importantly, more intense.. It seems extreme precipitation events are becoming more regular. The floods of 07, the […]

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>EXTREME RAINFALL CAUSES HAVOC TO ROADS, HOMES AND SPORT

Written by on November 4, 2009 in Rest of Europe with 0 Comments

>As I drove the truck along the Glasgow-bound along the M77 from Saltcoats this afternoon, the rain was battering off the windshield. About 1-2 inches of water covered the surface of the motorway and traffic crawled as they headed over the exposed, higher ground near Fenwick, Ayrshire.Extremely heavy pockets of rain have been rotating around […]

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>Winter heading for the Northeast

Written by on November 4, 2009 in Rest of Europe with 0 Comments

>It;s 07.10am here and 35 degrees. A chilly, fresh morning! But up to now it’s been generally wet, breezy and cool but more mild than cold.Are changes on the way? We’ve only had one frost here in this area and I am waiting for more, I love winter and we are having to wait a […]

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