Dalgety Bay Climes: As at 11:30 am on 05/01/2021.
Here is the weather for Tuesday
Caution
There is a Met Office UK weather warning of ice for the East Coast of Scotland and Most of Eastern England.
A cold evening with temperatures at 3c and perhaps below dropping to -1C during the morning rush hour tomorrow (Wednesday). Beware of ice on the roads, under bridges and trees. Take care while out and about today and tonight when walking or driving. A small risk of snow/rain today and overnight Because of the challenges facing snowfall forecasts, these showers could be rain, sleet or snow or a combination of those just mentioned. Therefore, plan for rain and frost overnight if you need to travel on Tuesday and expect some icy patches.
Summary and temperature:
Ice Risk, Cloudy (showers early morning) with Sunny Intervals
Temp: A high of 38 °F (3 °C) and a low of 28 °F (-2° C)
Morning
Sunny intervals and showers. Snow on hills
Afternoon
Cloudy with some sunny intervals. Risk of rain and snow before tea less than 12%
Evening
Cloud with some clear sky for the rest of the evening and overnight. Temperatures to drop to -1c beware of ice
Wind: Northerly, but mainly North-North Easterly until midnight
Speed: 9-(11)-9-(10)-9-(10) mph
Gusts: Start at 21 mph, and drop to 17 mph just before mid-afternoon rising to 21 mph by teatime. Then drops to 17 mph near that midnight hour.
Risks:
Of showers throughout the day and perhaps tonight and overnight, but none are forecast locally. These showers may be of rain or snow.
Ice on roads and pavement particularly tonight and possibly and during the rush hour Wednesday morning. A high risk for essential workers in addition to COVID-19. Take it nice and easy when going to work. Some forecasters say that there may be snow tomorrow (Wednesday – snow on the hills).
Time for me to log-off:
I hope you have a terrific Tuesday, especially under the COVID-19 lockdown rules (see below).
The birds are tweeting. Golden Seeds stocks now rationed. We hear that the Golden Seed harvesting team of Aves are on their way home from France.
Weather report broadly based on IFTTT, AccuWeather and Met Office forecasts.
COVID-19 Lockdown Rules via Councillor David Barratt and the Billboard…
The new guidance couldn’t be clearer.
🏠 Stay Home
❤️ Save Lives
🏥 Protect the NHS
As in the first lockdown, this is very difficult for many people and the new measures are pretty unwelcome but they are entirely necessary in the circumstances. If anyone needs help, I’m here to to assist as normal and I’m always available for a chat.
I’ve included a link below to the full detailed guidance for each sector. The key points are as follows,
🏠 From midnight tonight and for the rest of the month, there will be a legal requirement to stay at home, except for essential purposes. This is similar to the lockdown of March last year.
💻 Everyone who can work from home, must do so. It will only be a reasonable excuse to leave your home to go to work, if that work cannot be done from home.
✏️ Primary, secondary & nursery schools will remain closed until February, except for vulnerable children and the children of key workers. This will be reviewed on mon 18th Jan.
🌳 A maximum of 2 people from 2 households can meet outdoors. Children aged 11 and under are not counted in this limit.
🚗 Strict travel restrictions remain in place. When you do go out, stay as close to home as possible and avoid crowded places.
https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-stay-at-home-guidance/
Editorial Note…
Below are some but not all of the rules. For the full story please click on the link above.
Stay at Home
To minimise the risk of spreading the virus, you must stay at home as much as possible. By law, in a level 4 area, you can only leave your home (or garden) for an essential purpose.
- View the First Minister’s statement to Parliament
- Read the state of the epidemic in Scotland report
- Scotland in lockdown news release
There is a list of examples of reasonable excuses below. Although you can leave home for these purposes, you should stay as close to home as possible. Shop on-line or use local shops and services wherever you can. Travel no further than you need to reach to a safe, non-crowded place to exercise in a socially distanced way. To minimise the risk of spread of Coronavirus it is crucial that we all avoid unnecessary travel.
Examples of reasonable excuses to go out:
- for work or an activity associated with seeking employment, or to provide voluntary or charitable services, but only where that cannot be done from your home.
- for education including, school, college, university or other essential purposes connected with a course of study.
- for essential shopping, including essential shopping for a vulnerable person. You should use online shopping or shops and other services in your immediate area wherever you can.
- to obtain or deposit money, where it is not possible to do so from home.
- for healthcare, including COVID-19 testing and vaccination.
- for childcare or support services for parents or expectant parents.
- for essential services, including services of a charitable or voluntary nature such as food banks, alcohol or drug support services.
- to access public services where it is not possible to do so, including from home:
- services provided to victims (such as victims of crime),
- social-care services,
- accessing day care centres,
- services provided by the Department for Work and Pensions,
- services provided to victims (including victims of crime),
- asylum and immigration services and interviews,
- waste or recycling services,
- to provide care, assistance, support to or respite for a vulnerable person
- to provide or receive emergency assistance.
- to participate in or facilitate shared parenting.
- to visit a person in an extended household.
- to meet a legal obligation including satisfying bail conditions, to participate in legal proceedings, to comply with a court mandate in terms of sentence imposed or to register a birth.
- for attendance at court including a remote jury centre, an inquiry, a children’s hearing, tribunal proceedings or to resolve a dispute via Alternative Dispute Resolution.
- for essential animal welfare reasons, such as exercising or feeding a horse or going to a vet.
- local outdoor recreation, sport or exercise, walking, cycling, golf, or running that starts and finishes at the same place (which can be up to 5 miles from the boundary of your local authority area) as long as you abide by the rules on meeting other households
- to attend a marriage ceremony or registration of a civil partnership.
- to attend a funeral or for compassionate reasons which relate to the end of a person’s life. This includes gatherings related to the scattering or interring of ashes, a stone setting ceremony and other similar commemorative events.
- if you are a minister of religion or worship leader, for the purposes of leading an act of worship (broadcast or online), conducting a marriage or civil partnership ceremony or a funeral.
- to donate blood.
- for activities in connection with moving home (including viewing a property), or for activities in connection with the maintenance, purchase, sale, letting, or rental of residential property that the person owns or is otherwise responsible for. Travelling for the purposes of undertaking essential work on a property other than your main residence should not be used as a pretext for a holiday. You should not stay longer than for the length of time required to undertake the necessary work.
- to avoid injury, illness or to escape a risk of harm.
- for those involved in professional sports, for training, coaching or competing in an event.
- to visit a person receiving treatment in a hospital, staying in a hospice or care home, or to accompany a person to a medical appointment.
- to register or vote in a Scottish or UK Parliament, Local Government or overseas election or by-election, including on behalf of someone else by proxy
- to visit a person detained in prison, young offenders institute, remand centre, secure accommodation or other place of detention.
