Archive for February, 2010

>This post has now been updated!Ok, the snows are periodically cranking and becoming heavy, riding a 5-10mph east wind, making the 30 degree air as well as snow flakes getting into your eyes making for a miserable night to be out in.Difficulties in forecasting snowMy question is, how much will this system bring? I predicted […]

>WASHINGTON IN MIDST OF BUMPER SNOW YEAR AND A MONSTER LOOMS THIS WEEKEND…. STAY TUNED TO THIS POST FOR UPDATING… It was just last winter and the year before, oh and the year before that.. all but a scant few inches pettered the streets of the nations capital as well as much of the Eastern […]

>BREAKING NEWS: 5PM Update: The snows have arrived after starting earlier this afternoon over Dumfries and Galloway. As the steady falling snow begins to whitten the ground, I expect this snow to continue through much of this evening and perhaps even into the early hours with perhaps periods of lightening up or even a brief […]

>Check back later today where I shall discuss the snow situation in the east and how more and more snow looks likely for DC, the (city) snow capital of the east this winter?Here we’re down to a colder 21 degrees this morning and without snow on the ground, NICE! Just watch out for ice this […]

>Check this out… http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8492333.stm If this is the coldest since all the wayback to 1914 here in Scotland and 62-63 for Ireland, how does this winter stack up for the rest of Europe I wonder? A great link worth checking outhttp://www.iceagenow.com/2009_Other_Parts_of_the_World.htm Was this perhaps a top 5 coldest winter for the entire continent in the […]

>Todays Extremes here at the houseHigh 43 degrees (1.35pm) Low 32 degrees (9.54am)RAIN/SNOW: Heavy overnight rain which dramatically turns to snowAn overnight in the mild upper 30s to near 40 degrees even around 3.30am but as colder air is driven south from the Highlands into the lowlands of central Scotland, heavy rains which wiped out […]

>Todays Extremes here at the houseHigh 38 degrees ( 9.51pm) Low 24 degrees (3.16am)RAIN: Afternoon rainAn overnight under clear skies and light winds brought another crisp night with a hard frost and ice forming under a brilliant full moon. Clouds eventually rolled in after 4am stopping the progressive temp decent at 24 degrees. A morning […]

>GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – Despite a warm start to December 2009 and warm last two weeks of January 2010 we are running as of today an impressive -5.6 degrees F below normal for the first 62 days of Meteorological Winter which runs from Dec 1 through Feb 28.December was the colder of the two months with […]

>Todays Extremes here at the house(Sunday, Jan 31st)High 44 degrees Low 25 degreesRAIN/SNOW: A couple of isolated flakes from passing patchy clouds during the late eveningSnowcover: Local Coating, none outside town.We are one of the only places across the region to have a covering of snow. Even just a mile outwith Lennoxtown, there is no […]