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 […]
Every morning, as soon as I get up, I go to let the cat in. This morning, I opened the door to a blast of what seemed like arctic air. It was only 10°C, but it felt far colder. And then today, there was a very unseasonal shower of sleet around lunchtime. So it’s getting […]
I’m currently reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Fifty Degrees Below, which is about climate change and economic and political responses, and is a sequel to Forty Signs of Rain. There’s a section of the book about the concept of getting ready for winter that I’m - obviously - interested in, and I’m going to quote some […]
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.
Winter in the British Isles - and in many other parts of the world - is cold, wet, and generally miserable. With changing climates, things aren’t getting any better, and there are plenty of people who don’t like the season. On this site, I’ll show you how to survive winter in comfort, and without costing […]