Winter Predictions – Early Snow
By Fajja at 17 November, 2008, 2:38 pm
So far this winter, we have already had a substantial amount of snow in some areas during October. After the past few warm days, the BBC’s Countryfile forecast (starts at 47mins via the Iplayer) are predicting drastic changes to the weather starting on Friday.
The Iso-bars swing round to the north and basically make a perfectly [...]
Falun Snowfall – Sweden
By Fajja at 7 November, 2008, 3:13 pm
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!
Read More >>What is freezing Fog?
By Fajja at 3 November, 2008, 7:10 pm
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 [...]
Coldest Night of the Winter so far
By Fajja at 3 November, 2008, 8:14 am
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, [...]
Read More >>Is that why its cold?
By Fajja at 28 October, 2008, 8:06 pm
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, [...]
Read More >>Early Winter Weather for UK due in October
By Fajja at 27 October, 2008, 3:57 pm
Have wee think…when was the last time you heard anyone mention the words “Global Warming”?
Check out the front page of TWO and look whats in instore for the UK over the next couple of days. An early Arctic blast, with the high possibility of widespread snowfall, though it probably won’t lie down low, but already [...]
Winter Weather Predictions 2008 – 2009
By Fajja at 3 October, 2008, 8:15 pm
For the winter 2009 – 2010 predictions see here.
It feels like winter has kicked in early this year! Where was the summer? I think back in May and early June scotland certainly had its summer. Since then, theres been nothing special, no heatwaves, rare consecutive days of sunshine. Yesterday morning there was pretty thick frost [...]
Global Temperatures to Cool this Year
By Fajja at 20 April, 2008, 6:43 pm
Well guess what was on the news? Now they are saying the Temperature will actually drop this year! This is due to a a cooling effect in the Pacific ocean called “La Niña” which occurs every fews years in a fairly regualr cycle. In fact, the more famous “El Niño?” and the “La Niño” have [...]
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