If you get tired of never seeing any snow, then there are places not too far away where you will get pretty much garuanteed snow after christmas, just check out this example of swedish snow fall, this took only a few hours to accumulate!

After last night’s low of -5Celcius, freezing fog formed and lingered around for a good part of the morning, especially in dips and valleys wehre the sun hadn’t quite reached.

First of all, you may be thinking what is the difference between mist and fog? Well they are both made up from water droplets, the main difference being that fog is much denser than mist, and hence has worse effect on visibility when its bad.

Freezing fog, is where the water droplets cool below freezing point, but don’t freeze. Don’t ask me how this is possible, thats just what happens! A noteable effect of freezing fog are the ice formations it leaves behind on surfaces like windscreens and lamposts. This distinctive ice formation is called “rime” and looks quite streaky and rough to touch leaving almost “feather like” patterns.

The photo was taken beneath the Whitecard viaduct in Glagsow. As you can see there is remarkably reduced visibilty beyond about 300 metres. This was taken at 9am and the fog lingered around until about lunch time.

Other types of fog you get are Advection, Radiation Fog. I will explain these one soon.

Last night saw the temperature drop to minus 5 celcius in Glasgow. Definetly the coldest night so far this season. The cars and grass are covered in a very thick layer of frost and ice, which is sparkling rather nicely in the early morning sunshine. There is also the remanents of some Fog floating around, but I’d imagine that will disapear quickly when the sun hits it.

Just been having my daily browse on the BBC website, and came across an article which explains why its so cold. The cold snap is being “blamed” on arctic air. Well where else does cold air come from?! When its a northerly wind, its bound to be cold becuase of the region it comes from, surely that’s just common sense!?

However there is a good explanation as to why the air feels so nice, it hasn’t been polluted yet! Just fresh crisp air blown right down from the Arctic Regions. Nothing feels better on a winters day in my opinion.

Although snow never reached Glasgow, there have been some fairly substantial snow falls further North and in some parts of England. Fingers crossed this is a sign of the winterto come.