Friday Forecast....week 1.....7/1/12....and yes it's a day late!!

Well this is my first post of a new year and already I'm running late. I had already decided to change my weather updates to a Friday but then computer problems made things a little problematic.

Anyway I am writing this on the laptop which I'm not so familiar with and doesn't have the same facilites as the main computer so please bare with me until we get our main system fixed.

There may be a few spelling errors and I'm not sure I know how to get photos on but I will try on my next post.

So enough of the excuses...lets get on with the weather!

Well 2012 was certainly seen in with a bang this week as storms swept across the UK....I'm in the east midlands and we actually saw the lowest gusts...but living through them I can tell you they were in excess of 80m.p.h. ......even though they weren't given as being that. With that came the torrential rain and hail stones. These lasted for three days and nights but I am glad to say that for now they have abated and the rain has held off for a couple of days to leave us relatively calm days of gusts up to 30 m.p.h. Temperatures throughout the week have been changeable with the days between 10 and 4 degrees and the evenings between -1 and 9 degrees.

Fortunately the winter solstice came and went before the new year and we are seeing later sunsets...the light disappeared over the horizon tonight at nearly 5pm this evening.

Luckily we came through the winds unscathed although there were lots of trees down and many people suffered damage in our area. Great damage was suffered in Scotland and there were many casualties and a few deaths due to accidents and falling trees/debris. My heart goes out to all those who weren't as lucky as us.

I have no idea if I had any damage on the allotment as I haven't managed to get down there since the winds subsided...hopefully I will get the chance tomorrow.

That'a all for right now. Wishing you all a calm week of weather to come.

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