Weather Services

Frosted Earth has an extensive set of

meteorological data for a number of localities in the Southeast. We also have many weather

photographs. Frosted Earth has helped in resolving  many insurance claims, provided data for industry,  forecasting for garden centres and farmers,   building projects such as motorway construction, providing weather material for publications and for the media.

Ian Currie– Frosted Earth, has been involved, weather wise, in everything from disputes over cess-pits to murder enquiries.

Ian Currie at Frosted Earth has much experience in the world of the Media and can supply instant facts and statistics. He has appeared on BBC 1 ‘s Weather Show and The One Show, Channel 3,  Channel 4’s

Big Breakfast and Channel 5’s Weather Watch series and BBC South Inside Out Ian Currie was heard talking about legendary London fogs especially December 1952 on Radio 4’s series Strange Weather Days on Tues. 24th Aug 1999 at 0930 hrs and often is on BBC southern Counties Radio.

*TEMPERATURE

*RAINFALL

*AND HUMIDITY

*WIND SPEED AND

*DIRECTION

*AIR PRESSURE

*SNOW COVER

 *OUTSTANDING           

   WEATHER EVENTS

 * DATA BACK TO NINETEENTH CENTURY

AND OUTSTANDING

EVENTS   THROUGH  THE PAST MILLENNIUM. 

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Week Ian Currie’s Weather Columns in Garden News,

Surrey Mirror

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GN Weather Watch from Ian Currie : 16th October 09

I am writing this a couple of days before a day known as St Luke’s Little Summer based around 18^th October. It looks like it is going to be fine this year and it has a good track record of late. In the Southeast we had dry weather last year, almost unbroken sunshine in 2007, dry and warm during daylight hours in 2006 and we have to go back to October 18^th 2000 for a poor day with rain at times.

Studies of this period earlier in the twentieth century and during Victorian times showed the weather was not so favourable and heavy snow fell in 1880 which did great damage to oaks and elms as this observer at Weybridge wrote , “ the wind was calm and the oaks were still in full leaf and bore a heavy crop of acorns and the trees were very seriously damaged by the  heavy weight of snow. Deodars and Scotch pine were uninjured”. Elsewhere a gardener in Croydon bemoaned that his dahlias were killed outright by the night frost.

Across parts of west Wales the 18^th was disastrous due to heavy rain in 1987 with many places having over 100mm ( 4 inches) of rain, the result of a slow moving frontal system. Some 400 homes were flooded in Dyfed and a train was swept away at Llandovery.

Tuesday 13th saw the first air frost of the season in my local valley although in most places it was restricted to a slight grass frost with a low of 1C to 2C. The earliest frost I have recorded 50 metres in altitude above the valley floor during the past 31 years was the 10^th October 1980. Often there is a time gap of at least a month between the first air frost in the valley and at my garden weather station. Last year it was 24 days, in 2007  it was 5 weeks. Just to remind you though I am sure that most readers know this by now that air frost is minus  -0.1C or lower measured at a height of around 4 feet or 1.2 metres and that a grass frost is  minus 0.1C measured just above the tips of the blades of short cropped grass.

Feb 2nd 09 in Ian Currie’s Garden with 30cm of snow lying.