WHAT'S YOUR WEATHER LIKE - 2017 a

Because of the clear skies last night I was out in the Observatory until just gone 2am and the thermometer inside recorded 20f/-6C, while the inside of the Dome Roof was glistening with ice and frost. So today the skies have been clear and the temperature has never gone above freezing. This morning on my morning amble around the garden it was 21f but cloud slowly appeared around 6pm and the temperature is, for the first time today above freezing at 34f. So the snow is still on the ground while rain is forecast during the night and tomorrow, with the pressure at the moment reading 984hpa.

 

We were down to -4C and 7" of snow the other day and yesterday, when I went to feed the birds, I noticed that some of the Verbena were still in flower! I don't know yet whether they had just frozen on the stems.

 

Good morning

 

You were in a frost pocket .

 

It's just on freezing point at the moment.

We had a peculiar phenomena last night. From 11.30 p.m. until 12.30 a.m. the sky was glowing orange in all directions.

To the SW, about 6 miles as the crow flies, is a town and I could understand if there was low lying cloud reflecting the orange street lighting but we had clear skies above us and could see the stars - although they may have had cloud over the town.

To the N, 7 miles, is the airport. They don't have orange lighting as all their lights are white light

To the E. there is no lighting for 14 miles but the sky still glowed but not as much as the other directions.

We don't have any windows facing W.

Maybe @ARMANDII might have an idea about it.

 

Thanks for the thought, silu, but while Monday night had clear skies, Tuesday night was cloud covered so I didn't get a chance to see the Geminids. But after the very late night/early morning on Monday night in a very cold Observatory taking images I don't think I was awake enough to see them anyway The source that's causing the Geminids shower is an old visitor but unusual in that usually it's the tails of Comets that cause the showers when the Earth passes through the remnants of the tail but, in this case, it's caused by an asteroid 3200 Phaethon which warms up as it nears the Sun.

It's a mundane answer I'm afraid , Shiney and Tetters, as it was the "usual suspect"........a pressure weather front bringing the red dust from Africa just at the right time in the evening lighting. It does turn up quite frequently in varying degrees, sometimes we see in only in the marks left by rain but this time we were lucky enough to see it being carried by high moist winds.

Naah, the Asteroid "Oumuamua" only got as close as 21.000.000 miles to the Earth and is now on it's way travelling away from the Sun. It's an interesting visitor though and was a surprise to Scientists/Astronomers when it appeared, and was first thought to be a Comet but later they found it was an Asteroid.