Echill’s Wood Railway is a new construction in Kingsbury Water Park in Warwickshire. The enthusiast-run railway hope to provide a 2km loop at 7¼" gauge running a selection of steam, diesel and electric trains. The Water Park sees 300,000 visitors every year - it was quite busy even on a cold and grey 27th December - so the railway will almost certainly be a big success and will no doubt draw more visitors to the park.
Christmas is over for another year.
After a short hiatus, I have once again starting bashing through my thesis with the intention of finishing it off as soon as possible. I managed to write a good 10 pages in the last day or so, and with 6 days after Christmas to work on it, I should be at the point where I can say I’ve at least written the draft of six of the nine chapters.
Yes, the fog is back again. Here are some cows in the field near home.
You don’t say!
Finally got round to fishing out the Christmassy lights to put around the kitchen window. Sadly, there isn’t a power socket in the porch and we don’t have a good front window as such.
Just 6 days to go to the big day and I guess it’s close enough now to be a little more certain with the forecast for Christmas Day. My last look at Christmas Day was a little over a week ago and at that point, strong westerly winds looked to be on the cards. However, the forecast has completely changed!
The still, cool weather that we have experienced for the last couple of days (and has produced some atmospheric foggy days) looks set to continue for a few more days. So more fog and frost to come. This is all caused by a large area of high pressure which at times looks set to top 1040mb - the air is effectively stagnating and not moving anywhere.
The high pressure dominates the forecast until Christmas Day. At the moment, Christmas Day looks to be the day when the weather transitions to a more mobile setup, but it currently looks as though the change to milder weather will happen after Christmas Day and by Boxing Day a south-westerly wind will have blown away the stagnant air.
Will it snow? Probably not. Although rain will move in and the air is cold, it doesn’t move in quick enough and the freezing level is probably way too high anyway. However, Christmas Day does look like being a day of transition, the timing of which is naturally variable.
If the forecast changes significantly, I will update my view.
