Dec 19 2011

White Christmas?

Looks Like it!!

Dec 14 2011

Winter Wonderland

Today was just about as cold I want to experience for a while. The wind filled with wet snow made it doubly nasty! The snow only lay on high ground thank goodness. Here are two photos I took on my travels today.

Knockagh Monument Carrickfergus.

and sun setting behind Cavehill.

It would appear that my request for warmer weather will not be granted. More snow forecast.

Dec 5 2011

First Snow of the Winter

Last night saw the first snow to lie here where I live this Winter. It was only -2 °c last night but it’s only reaching about 5°c during the day.

This was my display area this morning. As you can see the snow was light and I only had one tree remaining on the bench, a stubborn Trident Maple that is refusing to drop leaves! This might make it’s mind up 🙂

Dec 2 2011

Meteorological Winter Starts Today

Obviously Mr Madden doesn’t like getting misquoted, and who can blame him. Therefore I’ll let him talk for himself in this clip. I will say that it is bloody cold this morning and de-icer was required on the car for the school run!

Nov 28 2011

Another Weather Update

I hope he’s wrong, but I bet he isn’t!! 😦

Nov 1 2011

Exacta Weather – Winter 2011/12 Forecast

Now you have watched this, you can’t say you weren’t warned 🙂 That’s why I’m adding another poly tunnel in the garden!!

Oct 19 2011

It’s Baltic outside!!!

A big change in the temperature here over the last few days. It’s a lot colder and this morning was close to a frost. For the last two nights, I have started to light my open fire in the house. I’ve been sort of looking forward to doing it, there’s nothing like a warm fire on a cold day. This will wear thin soon though 🙂

Can you feel the heat from there?

Sep 6 2011

UK Long Range Weather Forecast

I’m reliably informed that this guy, James Madden, predicted both recent bad Winters ahead of time. He also predicted in January that this would be one of the coldest Summers on record for the UK. He got that right too!!

And what about Winter 11/12???

You guessed it, Snow in Oct/Nov. Frequent heavy dumps of snow, worst in Scotland, North of England and, you guessed it, Northern Ireland. Click below for all the info.