Sunday 4 January 2009

Seeing the Changes 161

The chill and the duration of the local cold snap was emphasized by the appearance of mini ice floes on the Loughor estuary. It must be at least 25 years since there were similar scenes here!

2 comments:

Caroline Gill said...

We had a 'mini-swarm' of midges above our Swansea Leylandii earlier this afternoon. It seems strange that they should be so active so soon after such sub-zero temps.

Paul Brain said...

It certainly seems strange but the male Winter midges seem quite resilient to cold. Paul B

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