Now I could start of by complaining about the bitterly cold northerly wind we're having today. However, one look at the report from the weather station, closest to my father's hometown, dissuades me. That former airforce base went down to -17C overnight (0F), and is currently (lunchtime local time) only at -10C. Here in Stornoway, we're having wintry showers with the mercury only just above freezing with winds of 30 mph, force 7 on the Beaufort scale. That does make for a windchill of -7C, so we're not far apart.
The wintry weather is causing chaos on all sorts of transport. Five Eurostar trains broke down in the Channel Tunnel, after they passed from cold air in France to warmer air in the tunnel. There is major disruption at airports in southern England, and the roads defy description. The frigidity of the weather here in the north presages the arrival of our very own, private batch of snow today and tomorrow. A bout of good ole winter.
Winter is winter what can we say. It happens every year and it certainly makes us so glad when SPRING comes which thankful comes again every year too. Isn't it true though that there is always someone worse off than we are...We have only a dusting of snow here and temps around freezing.
ReplyDeleteBrrrrrrrrrr cold here as well Guido..Was -5 when Mary and I went shopping in Chippenham this morning...never got up beyond freezing all day..Thank goodness for a lovely warm house.
ReplyDeleteHope that your Dad is able to keep warm.
Love Sybil x