Thursday, 26 March 2009

Power-cut at Ballogie Weather

yes  we, along with others in the area have a power-cut at the moment, so all uploads will be suspended till it is fixed.

In fact I'm using the last of the battery power to send this, even the mobile doesn't seem to want to send emails.

Cold tea for us all electric'ers then, hope it's not for long.......................

Came back on just before 7pm and held ok..

Monday, 23 March 2009

All Change

What a change! this week from last;

Almost summer last week with local temperatures making 18 deg C, even the weekend wasn't bad, now what's happened?

The week ahead looks grim, today saw single figure temps all day with frequent sleet at low levels and snow on the hills, locally high winds as well.

All thanks to a northerly cold front.

So put the shorts away and get the winter wear back on..................

Sunday, 15 March 2009

Re-set station

Having taken advise from Davis about my data errors I decided to follow their tips and re-set the data logger and station consel. Un fortunatly this has mucked up the Baromatic settings, which still do not want to calm down.

So will be leaving it to settle for a day or so to see what happens.....

Saturday, 14 March 2009

Wet and windy Weekend?

Not quite as bad as had been expected!

But still due to be quite damp on Saturday with a spell of high winds around mid day, mild to.

Make the most of Sunday!!!

Sunday, 8 March 2009

Didn't see that coming


This morning sees another covering of snow for Ballogie which I, for one didn't see coming.

Still with blue skies and light winds it makes for a fine Sunday morn.

Monday, 2 March 2009

I see snow tomorrow

Mmm;

What do you think?

Looks like a lot of the wet stuff in the air pushing in from the west, but then we seem to be getting cold air North/NorthEast toward evening.

Could give a dump of white tomorrow evening...

Just my thought.. see how it goes!!!!!!

Looks like it's moving forward; more into Tuesday night/Wednesday morning now'

Sunday, 1 March 2009

First Day of Spring???

Well I know that's up for debate! but it is the 1st March.

So whats going on?

Well; a fantastic day here at Ballogie with Solar rad in the high 600's and only average wind; looking around, others  seem to agree that even if it isn't here quite yet, Spring is definitely in the air, birds are singing, grass is trying to grow, all the bulbs are showing their fingers above ground and there's even the odd, brave crocus among the snow drops; the sap is rising and the trees have started to bud, the last remnants of snow on the hills gets less every day.

None of this means that Winter is over yet, remember last year with Spring showing snow well late on, but still; hey, it does make you feel good.

Enjoy..................