Landsort (literally meaning ‘spit of land’) is generally considered the most southerly point of the Stockholm archipelago and is actually a village on the island of Öja. The village has around 30 permanent residents and is probably most famous for the lighthouse. The lighthouse is the oldest one in Sweden …
Forecasting is these days a highly sophisticated scientific process. The trigger for this development arguably came from one event and one man. The event was the Royal Charter Gale in October 1859. This was considered the most severe storm to hit the Irish Sea in the 19th century; 133 ships …
The weather cleared today and so it was sunny. Unfortunately the other half of the equation we want for sailing – wind – wasn’t there so we ended up motoring all morning. From Nynashamn we headed north with our eventual target being Dalarö. On the way, we headed past Älvsnabben. …
There are lots of adjectives to describe the weather. Possible candidates for this include rainy, wet, sunny, clear, bright, humid, dry, arid, frigid, foggy, windy, stormy, breezy, windless, calm, still and so on …. Today was a 50% day – a day when we could justifiably use around half these …
