Snowdrift survival

Despite temperatures well above 10­°C yesterday the snowdrifts show every sign of being around for a few weeks yet!

Rapid thaw

Although there was a sudden change on Sunday and a lot of green re-appeared in the space of 24 hours, it was never exactly 'mild' - but this afternoon we touched 11.8C for a couple of hours which is quite impressive for the coldest point of the year late January.

Even over the moor tops the old drifts were pouring away.
However by mid-evening temperature was falling away again so only a brief interlude.
Since it was blowing a gale and drizzly it was hardly pleasant.

New dials page

To be honest I was never that impressed withe the Weather Display dials - it seems quite hard to read some of the elements, however I've made a new page with them on.

You can still see the current temperature clearly in the top bar.
The odometer on the right shows the current day's windrun - but it only updates every 5 minutes.

It's a pity it doesn't kind of click up continuously!

I've noticed the image is often 5 minutes behind for some reason.
Perhaps this is due to rather slow internet mid-evening just now.

http://weather.westerdale.info/dials.html

And here they are live:

Drifting Snow

There are times when the North York Moors seems notorious for this. This morning the wind was sweeping straight down from Ralphs Cross at -1.5C Little snow was actually falling.

Drifting

panorama

Another bitter but calm and sunny morning

It's cold

With deep snow falling over the last couple of days, when the wind dropped out under clear skies temperatures plummeted after sunset to -10.6C this morning.

This is the lowest since December 2010 when we touched -12.3C