wind Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/wind/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Tue, 09 Jan 2024 14:42:56 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg wind Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/wind/ 32 32 2696646 Sun, Sea and Sand https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2024/01/sun-sea-and-sand/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2024/01/sun-sea-and-sand/#comments Tue, 09 Jan 2024 14:39:47 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=41671 There’s nothing to see here, just a normal day at Ynyslas. Everything you’d expect from the beach really, sun, sea and sand. It was just turned up a notch thanks to the fact that I was sharing it with Ivor, our local Katabatic wind…. he’s a rascal!!!

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2024/01/sun-sea-and-sand/feed/ 1 41671 The Crazy Weather of Ynyslas https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/06/the-crazy-weather-of-ynyslas/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/06/the-crazy-weather-of-ynyslas/#respond Fri, 09 Jun 2023 07:37:10 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=39583 The weather has been fairly unusual across the UK these last few weeks. No rain and wall-to-wall sunshine is quite strange at any time of year for the UK. Ynyslas has been no exception in this regard. The weather station here has had notifications such as this for days. It hasn’t rained at all since...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/06/the-crazy-weather-of-ynyslas/feed/ 0 39583 Ynyslas Weather Records Tumble https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/03/ynyslas-weather-records-tumble/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/03/ynyslas-weather-records-tumble/#respond Fri, 02 Mar 2018 06:50:27 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=26194 Well, the meeting of ‘The Beast from the East’ and Storm Emma were certainly a potent combination. Along with some input from out local katabatic wind Ivor, it led to some new weather records recorded by the Borth & Ynyslas Weather Station here. First to fall was the ‘Feels Like’ temperature which hit a low...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/03/ynyslas-weather-records-tumble/feed/ 0 26194 Windsurfing in the Remnants of Hurricane Ophelia, West Wales https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/10/windsurfing-remnants-hurricane-ophelia-west-wales/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/10/windsurfing-remnants-hurricane-ophelia-west-wales/#comments Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:02:24 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=25346 What a day!! The remnants of Hurricane Ophelia were on their way to the British Isles. Ireland was about to get hammered and the West Coast of Wales was going to take a beating too. The weather first thing in the morning was mad. At 7am when we went outside it was properly warm. At...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/11/monster-squall/feed/ 5 23296 Very Autumnal Weather https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/11/autumnal-weather/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/11/autumnal-weather/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:30:14 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=20456 After a slightly extended summer that seemed to last until November, we been having some decidedly autumnal weather over the past few days. The whole of the country and West Wales in particular has taken quite a battering from first Storm Abigail and then Storm Barney. My bike ride on Sunday morning was notable due to it’s wet...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/11/autumnal-weather/feed/ 1 20456 New Record Wind Gust for Borth and Ynyslas https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/02/new-record-wind-gust-borth-ynyslas/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/02/new-record-wind-gust-borth-ynyslas/#comments Fri, 14 Feb 2014 08:29:18 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=15618 The forecast was correct and we did indeed beat our previous record wind gust here on Wednesday. The forecasting site that I use and that has always been the most accurate for me is WindGuru and it was forecasting that the wind would start really building at 1:30pm on Wednesday and peak at a maximum at...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/02/new-record-wind-gust-borth-ynyslas/feed/ 2 15618 Too Windy for the Bees https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/12/windy-bees/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/12/windy-bees/#comments Fri, 27 Dec 2013 12:52:53 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=15326 I think we may have had a lucky escape with the bees this morning. It’s been blowing a hoolie here all day, after starting to do so last night. I took a quick look at the hives this morning and all looked OK, although it was dawn so the light wasn’t great and I was only...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/12/windy-bees/feed/ 1 15326 Strongest Wind Gust in Borth and Ynyslas https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/12/strongest-wind-gust-borth-ynyslas/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/12/strongest-wind-gust-borth-ynyslas/#respond Sun, 22 Dec 2013 05:11:28 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=15267 We experienced the strongest wind gust here yesterday at Borth and Ynyslas since I began recording the weather in 2005. The wind peaked just after dark at 16:29, hitting 62.6 knots (that’s just over 72mph) recorded by the Borth & Ynyslas weather station. I think we may have lost all of our garden furniture, dustbins...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/12/strongest-wind-gust-borth-ynyslas/feed/ 0 15267 The Foolish Man Built His House Upon The Sand https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/10/the-foolish-man-built-his-house-upon-the-sand/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/10/the-foolish-man-built-his-house-upon-the-sand/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:36:18 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=8910 I  remember a song from my days at Sunday School about the ‘Foolish Man’ who built his house upon the sand. It went on to say that ‘when the rains came down’ his house didn’t stand firm. I did wonder about this in 2003 when we started building our house here, on the sand at...

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