Wet and fairly windy start to the day, although some brightness is discernible on the eastern horizon. The weather radar shows a band of rain just moving northeast from the Butt of Lewis (the northern cape of the island, 25 miles from Stornoway), followed by a scattering of showers. Mainland Scotland is under warning for substantial hillsnow.
Out in the South Pacific, Cyclone Funa is now at hurricane strength, and may reach category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Its eastern outliers may sweep Fiji through tomorrow (GMT), which will leave the place rather wet. Funa will remain over the open ocean, but is heading south. Puts me in a bit of a worry for New Zealand, which lies south of Fiji. This is long-term forecasting, and bearing in mind the unpredictability of tropical cyclones, is a hazardous assumption to make. Watch this space.
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very windy here today in Southern California;
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betty
Wet, wet, and wetter weather here in Wiltshire...lucky for me the bye brook is a bit down hill from us..so we are in no danger. Looked at it yesterday and it has almost broken over the bridge...all around roads are being closed Sybil x
ReplyDeleteI have always wanted to visit New Zealand - I hope they don't get hit.
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It's snowing here, beautiful and sticking now. It took several hours longer to get started than predicted originally. It's okay -- just we'd like enough to "have" to stay in some:)
ReplyDeleteIts never been true daylight here in the Lakes Guido. The sky is slate grey.
ReplyDeleteWe have had lashing heavy rain and hailstones. Please God lets see a bit of a taster for Spring....sooooooon!
I am so fed up with this dreich weather...roll on blue skies.
Jeanie
RainRainRain here and realy cold.Oh! how I wish spring would hurry as many do.Then again we are fortunate we don't get the hurricanees thank goodness.Take Care God Bless Kath astoriasand htttp://journals.aol.co.uk/astoriasand/MYSIMPLERHYMES
ReplyDeleteWe're still cold here. Just slighty above freezing. It's overcast this morning, I'm not sure what that means. Hopefully not the white stuff. But at least there's no wind so far today. Stay warm & dry. Linda in WA http://journals.aol.com/lsfp1960/LindasWorld/
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