Archive for January, 2010

>Todays Extremes here at the houseHigh 44 degrees Low 33 degreesRAIN: Light rain at timesA generally cool and cloudy start with forst and icy patches in places where skies were clear. light rain at times through the day and a generally mild day with yet another dominated by heavy, low cloudcover. The daytime temp hovered […]

>It is bone-chillingly cold across much of eastern Europe and much of Asia as the Arctic pours it’s most concentrated air into this vast territory of the northern world. Here are current readings: Minsk, Belarus -21CErzulum, Turkey -23CIasi, Romania -20CIvano-Frankivs, Ukraine -25CKrakow, Poland -20CMoscow, Russia -21CQostanay, Kazakhstan -30CAstana, Kazakhstan -33C Areas of Mongolia have been […]

>Todays Extremes here at the houseHigh 37 degrees (3.02pm) Low 33 degrees (9.20am)RAIN: NoneA generally cooler day with a high slightly below normal. Remained very cloudy again with minimal sunlight, a gloomy late January day..

> Isle of Arran (Jan 2010) by M. Vogan what’s already happened in a nutshell November: Mild and Stormy December: 1-15th Mild and Stormy 15th-31st Cold and Snowy January 1-10th Very Cold 10-25 milder and more unsettled but the “thaw” brought average conditions not really above normal. FEBRUARY IDEAS After a mild November through mid-December […]

>Todays Extremes here at the houseHigh 41 degrees (1.39pm) Low 35 degrees (6.14am)RAIN: A few sprinkles now and againAnother generally dry and cloudy day with Atlantic air continuing to be firmly in control but this may be having to fight cooler air off the continent over the next few days. Hills are still seeing some […]

>A DRAMATIC FEBRUARY AHEAD FOR THE USA AS NEGATIVE ARCTIC OSCILLATION RETURNS!Building Hudson Bay Vortex to be injected by super Siberian air via cross polar flow CROSS POLAR FLOW AND STRATOSPHERIC WARMINGIt’s looking more and more likely that a major weather month is ahead for the United States and perhaps the very worst this winter […]

>Todays Extremes here at the houseHigh 39 degrees (4.59pm) Low 30 degrees (5.49am)RAIN: Morning and afternoon showerA generally cool, foggy start with heavy moisture hanging in the air, frost formation was limited but a touch of frost and some ice patches were found in the sub-freezing air. A generally foggy/cloudy day around the Glasgow area, […]

>Todays Extremes here at the houseHigh 43 degrees (3.31pm) Low 38 degrees (8.12am)RAIN: Light sprinklesA day of mostly cloudy conditions with low-lying surface fog, particularly over water and over fields as the skies cleared somewhat enough to let water in the soils and a cooling air form fog. Fog lingered in many low lying areas […]

>Well as we continue on the mild side of things, all i’ll say is this.. enjoy it while you still can because sometime between Jan 25 and Feb 5 the cold air will return and may last the first half of Feb for us here in Scotland and perhaps until March for the US (East […]

>Todays Extremes here at the houseHigh 41 degrees (2.01pm) Low 34 degrees (1.43am)RAIN: Moderate to heavy rain pushes in this evening Another generally mild day with generally skies with a few sunny spells in breaks in the cloud canopy. A day which topped a mild 41 degrees fell off into the mid-30s this evening with […]