What's your weather like.? MK3.. - Part 1

Well, I knew about some settlers coming from nowadays area of southern Jutland (Denmark) and northern Schleswig-Hollstein (Germany) who settled in south-eastern England.
They were the Jutes (from southern Jutland), the Angel (from northern Schleswig-Hollstein) and the Sachsen (from the North-Sea coast north of the mouth of the river Elbe).
Last summer I visited those lands. I was in Hamburg and I travel by train through Schleswig-Hollstein to Westerland (the northermost part of Germany at the border with Denmark on the Nordsee).
To every british people who want to discover its origins and roots, I suggest such a journey.
In those lands he will discover, expecially in the architecture style of Houses and Dwelling, where its ancestors come from.
However, I didn't know the reason why they left their homeland to go to Britain.
About climate, I read that in the middle ages, Britain was warmer than today so much that it was very widespread the vineyards.
But what I mean to argue, it is not the fact that throughout history some hot decays have occurred.
I argue that if anything, those climate changes were taking place gradually and in a long time.
Nowadays, I've got the feeling that all changes are taking place in an extremely quick time.
For example: today it is minus 10 and it is snowing hard; tomorrow is +30 and we are all T-shirt and shirt...
That feels to me anomalous.
And the question is: is that due to human activities ?

 

Mr Noah reckons everyone laughed at him when he said the voices in his head had told him to build a huge boat even though he lived inland. And look how sudden the weather changed there. All those people that laughed at him were laughing on the other side of their faces as they watched their homes being washed away. That was pretty sudden.

Its quite normal for sudden drastic changes in weather, depending on where you are at the time. It only takes a slight change in the direction of the wind and it can change from, say, hot dry air coming off the lowlands to the south, or freeze cold air coming off the mountains.

Here in Britain, we are far enough north that it should be bitterly cold in the winter, but a combination of prevailing winds and sea currents means that generally its not too bad, but it only takes a slight change in the weather fronts to bring freezing air in from the arctic and then we go from mild temperatures to almost arctic conditions within hours. Another slight shift switches the wind back to its usual westerly, and once again we've got mild weather.

 

A grey slightly chilly day for the most part today; although it was warm for the hour or so the sun poked through the clouds this afternoon.

All the clouds cleared just before dusk, chance of a light frost tonight..

 

Well, we have a light frost this morning; 0 degrees, nothing too drastic, looks like we're in for a nice day before the weather goes down the pan this week...

 

Yes - had to rewatch it on BBC i player again the next day to try and absorb more info. I like the bandings on the ice core - found it somehow reassuring: it seems to have happened before and, God willing, will happen again and emerge the other side

 

Overnight stayed above 5C. It also rained quite a bit.
Now raining again, although 14C.
BBC suggest we are getting Snow within the next couple of days, although I'm doubtful of this.
Having said that Netweather say 50% chance of Snow and -4C by tomorrow evening - maybe I need to cross my fingers!

 

Yesterday was a far better day than forecast; after the frosty start it was sunny all day and the temperature topped a very pleasant 18 degrees with just a light breeze. Today is overcast and much cooler, the temperature at the moment struggling to 12 degrees, we've also had a few spots of rain but not enough to even wet the ground..

 

spent all morning draping fleece around some newly planted sensitive plants such as musa basjoo and T-Rex

also bought a few large plastic cloches from Homebase aswell that look similar to this:


wednesday and thursday's weather prediction for Cambridge is -2 degrees C

 

A frost here this morning, 2c, sunny all day but a cold breeze.
Some large Magnolias here burnt over night, pink yesterday, brown today.
New Pieris tips frosted.

 

No frost here as yet, I'll see what tomorrow brings. Cloudy today with the threat of rain but it didn't materialise. 9C now at 9.30pm.

I'm preparing to bring all my seedlings in from the greenhouse.

 

22:00 -1c outside cold greenhouse bubble wrapped the seedlings now sat at 7c
Fleeced the onions and bedding plants in the border at 19:30

Snow for the morning forcast

Jack McH

 

No sign of a frost here last night; its currently 7 degrees and cloudy, BUT I'm hoping my local weather forecasters have got it wrong for tomorrow night ~ -4 to -6!!!, I'll be out in the garden today protecting things just in case, I'm taking no chances. I've got spuds through which one layer of fleece on them at the mo but I'll be giving them a bit more protection I thinks..:WINK1:

 

We had high temps of 23 last week and Spring colour and through the night that white stuff has been dumped must have about 8inches and still snowing and now started to blow.