Author: Peter Taylor
27th February: Canopy update!
Today we had a light flurry of snow and I went out to look at Seatern. Where the small amount of settled snow on the...
1st-2nd March: Beast from the East
Over the last day or two we’ve had an intense high over Scandinavia (1055mb!) resulting in a strong easterly flow over the UK and snow...
Photo Album: 2nd March 2018
Photos showing the day after the snow fall on the first day of Spring, 2018!
17th – 18th March: it snowed again!
Just to prove it’s Spring it snowed again! Snow is fairly rare in Southampton which lies coastwards of the South Downs hills which run through...
18th March: Snow in the New Forest
Photographs of the snow taken on a detour through the New Forest while driving home from being on watch at Calshot. The first set were...
4th – 7th April: Weather and Seafly
March was wet with below average temperatures. It’s now April but the weather has hardly improved! On the 4th it was windy and rain squalls...
11th-12th April: Top Down Furling spinnaker
Towards the end of November last year I finally decided to order a new spinnaker with a top-down furling system. The hope is that it...
15th April: BC23 and Wayfarers at Calshot
Sunday 15th April was a grey day and the passage of an occluded front brought wind squalls and rain. On the 12-16 watch in Calshot...