I’ve added a ‘Satellite Images’ menu in the sidebar to allow quick access to some excellent imagery from Eumetsat. Have also updated the historical reports to be available up until the end of ’08; I’ll have to find an improved menuing structure for the historical data, but that can wait a little while longer. On a side topic, get your sledges ready, we may have some snow next week.

Well after a dry frosty start to Jan 2009, the weather seems to be trying to make up for lost time. It started raining at about 6am on Sunday (yesterday) by 9pm this evening we’ve notched up 4.25 inches of rain. The local rivers are quite swollen but coping. Hope there are no problems further down stream.

Light dusting of powder snow this morning but now snowing a little more substantially. Temperature below freezing, snow sticking. Will it amount to very much?

Whilst 2008 has finished on a cold dry note, the year itself has been a wet & somewhat cloudy one. With 20% more rain than the recent average & 1% less sunshine, we recorded 100 inches of rainfall for the year.

Here’s hoping 2009 isn’t quite so wet!