Bob Vila has provided an excellent bi-annual checklist to be carried out on housing in autumn and spring. It deals more with detached housing than semi-detached or terraced housing, but it’s a good basis to develop your own checklist from. It’s also one that’s worth looking at even if you’re renting, as you may need […]
The official Met Office Winter Prediction is out, and it largely agrees with their earlier NAO-based forecast - milder than average, but colder than last year.
Otherwise, looking at the current local weather forecasts, I’m thinking we might see a first frost in Dublin in early November; possibly around the 3rd to the 6th. The coldest […]
According to a post of the New York Times’ Well Blog, cold medicines are often not effective, and might do more harm than good. Seeing as early winter is when a lot of people come down with colds - and again when the weather starts to warm up, I figured I’d give this some attention.
Here […]
Professor Trevor Harley has compiled an excellent set of historical data on extreme weather events, including month by month accounts. We’re interested in October, November, December, January and February.
He also has a page on when the first frosts can be expected, concluding an average of the 5th of October. In cities, I suspect that’s a […]
There’s a fascinating set of pages on the BBC site: The Year So Far. It details averages and means in temperature, rainfall, etc, and how the current year is behaving. Well worth keeping an eye on, I think.
Also from the BBC is a page concerning that most typical of winter weather in these islands: Rain, […]
Metcheck, my favourite weather-prediction site, have just put up their winter coverage pages. Of particular interest are the FrostRisk and SnowRisk pages, and their RainRisk page is up year-round.
Metcheck’s service is pretty accurate, especially for the next three to four days, and I keep their “Today” forecast open in a browser tab pretty much all […]
Various winter food sites today:
The UK Food Standards Agency have recommendations for food in winter.
A retrospective on a radio series broadcast by the Irish national channel, RTÉ: Winter Food.
And Nigel Slater, writing in the Observer, gives us some fine winter recipes.
The British Met Office have published their predictions for this winter, based on the NAO (North Atlantic Oscillation). Here are their early predictions:
Temperature
Last winter was exceptionally warm over much of Europe and the second warmest on record […]
To get our coverage of winter started, here’s some authoritative advice from the American National Weather Service:
Winter Weather Safety and Awareness
BBC Northern Ireland have their own Winter page
And still with the BBC, Winter Wine & Food and more Winter Food.