Kiwi

What a great start to Winter ....not expecting anything from the coming days but enjoying the ride immensely!! And as Dancerwithwings says we need to keep the faith .....see below ....

Fortunately, as we know, models can swiftly change. I'm optimistic - blocking is on the cards.

Looking interesting out west ...Pembrokeshire Dangler?

Saalbach and Hinterglemm again this year. Ok re more restricted apres (mornings will probably feel a bit less painfull and confusing!!) and masks on lifts etc. I suppose the biggest issue for is getting there (and back again).. into Munich and then drive down to Saalbach. Great news for us if some of the mountain restaurants are a bit quieter and less rushed (Berggasthof Wildalpgatterl in Fieberbrunn is a big favourite!) ...if not so good for the resort. Hopefully we can all get through this season in an enjoyable and financially viable way and look forward to a fabulous and even more snowy 2021/22. Always ski Austria (and NZ )...love it!

Beautiful!! ...hope to repeat the usual Austria Pilgrimage in February. Booked up and clinging on to hope that Covid won't stop me and my merry band from enjoying a week on the slopes - even if dancing on the tables is a non-runner. What is the thinking in Austria re the prospects for the upcoming season? - From both a covid/will we open perspective and weather/snowfall.

Rain seems to have set in here now. Really pepped up in the last half hour. Dark and wet outside.....great excuse to fire up the woodburner for the first time this season! . ..a few glasses of wine, several episodes of Schitts Ceek and all will be well with the world..,.until the morning.

Love Austria!! I'm heading to Fieberbrunn again over the February half term with my wife and 3 teenage boys. All booked up. Hopefully test on arrival back into UK (travelling via Heathrow) will be on offer by then rather than quarantine. But unless Covid is wildly out of control in Austria in February we're definitely going. Went in February this year and had a great time with a large group of friends (although several of the group were unwell on return and subsequently tested positive for Covid antibodies!!). Hopefully our friends will join us again ...but most are holding off at the moment ...they're understandably nervous about quarantine requirements on return.

My sister in Queenstown should get the benefit of this. And should freshen up the snow conditions for the last week(s) of the ski season.

love the sheep warning symbols in this clip!!

Yes, lovely morning here in the east of our region. Best that I make the most of it looking at the radar.

Biblical rain? ....figures..it is 2020 after all. Wonder what today will bring? Any chance of tornadoes and waterspouts or perhaps a plague of locusts?

Clouds building here in Hampshire

Yep, the Met office forecast a bright dry morning, with cloud increasing this afternoon. Instead it's been grey and wet. Noticed that the short range forecasts have been pants recently -- Is this due to lack of data from aircraft? or are the Met office mainly working from home with more limited forecasting resources?

Tends to make me a bit wobbly.....or is that the gin?

This is ridiculous!! ........and now I'm panicking, some morons think tonic water fends off coronavirus and the shelves in my local supermarket were empty! Plans to fight my way through a lockdown fortified by Gin and Tonics are now in tatters!!

Yes, the UK response isn't overly reassuring!!.....

The name!! ........of the Apocalypse

Yes...weird! why no protection for coach drivers? And who thought it was a good idea to hire Horseman coaches for this?....I'm sure I saw 4 of them!!

Should I be avoiding fish and chips? ...or is the link to a seafood market a red herring?

Seems unusually early Kazan isn't particularly far north. About the same latitude as Moscow. 55 degrees.

And now re-strengthened to cat 2.

42,000 without power already ...many hours before Dorian makes landfall.

Dorian due to hit Halifax, Nova Scotia this evening and then track up through Cape Breton Island before heading off towards Newfoundland. I was in Halifax a couple of weeks ago for my brother's wedding (great place by the way, incredibly friendly people and well worth a visit). We drove up to Cape Breton island following the track that the hurricane is forecast to take - What amazed me at the time is the number of trees - hours upon hours on the highway with nothing but trees- I knew there'd be a lot of trees - but wow! I imagine these will take quite a battering tonight along with some of the more vulnerable communities along the east coast. Traffic webcams http://roadcams.ca/