15 May 2021
Bethesda
22° halo
31 July 2020
Bethesda, Wales
‘International’, at the old Pumping Station, looking towards the Glyderau
2 March 2018
Gerlan, Bethesda
SH 63330 66572; 53.17863°N, 4.04646°W
After the ‘Beast from the East’ and Storm Emma.
Llanfairfechan beach, looking towards Anglesey (left) and Puffin Island (centre), with a faint auroral glow above the horizon
7 November 2017
Llanfairfechan
SH 67906 75446; 53.25950°N, 3.98171°W
B&M in the rain
25 February 2017
St David’s Retail Park, Caernarfon Road, Bangor
SH 57090 71100; 53.21766°N, 4.14179°W
Newborough Forest
17 July 2016
Newborough Forest, Anglesey
SH 41320 63620; 53.14601°N, 4.37405°W
Ogwen Bank
6 December 2015
Ogwen Bank, Bethesda
SH 62633 65403; 53.16795°N, 4.05639°W
Car park, St David’s Retail Park
19 September 2015
Caernarfon Road, Bangor
SH 57090 71100; 53.21766°N, 4.14179°W
In 1837 the Bangor and Beaumaris Poor Law Union was established and the following year it proposed the setting up of a workhouse in Bangor. The plans, however, were not realised until 1845 when the Glanadda Workhouse was opened on the east side of Caernarfon Road. The workhouse closed in 1929 and the premises were sold to The Bangor Ice Company. The building was demolished in the 1960s to make way for a supermarket and the site is now occupied by Home Bargains.
On the opposite side of Caernarfon Road a new workhouse infirmary was built in 1913-14. It was soon after requisitioned as a military hospital during World War I, when additional hospital accommodation was provided by tents erected in the grounds. The hospital was returned in 1920 and it became a County Hospital in 1930 after the workhouse closed. It was later known as St David’s Hospital and served as a children’s and maternity hospital, coming under the NHS in 1948. The maternity unit was moved to Ysbyty Gwynedd and St David’s was demolished in 1994.
The five-hectare site was purchased from North Wales Regional Health Authority by Widnes-based developers Morbaine and St David’s Retail Park was built there in 2002. Morbaine later sold the park to UBS Global Asset Management who in turn sold it for £14 million in 2011 to London-based Orchard Street Investment Management for its UK Special Situations Fund. The original occupants of the retail park were: Matalan (still there); JJB Sports (now DW Sports Fitness); and PC World (unit now occupied by B & M).
Capel Curig
| Date | 4 January 2015 | ||
| Location | Capel Curig | SH 72664 57805; 53.10218°N, 3.90340°W | |
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Primary and secondary rainbows. Looking towards the Carneddau mountains.
| Date | 7 June 2014 | ||
| Location | Bethesda | SH 63395 66545; 53.17841°N, 4.04548°W | |
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Morfa Drive, Conwy
| Date | 2 February 2014 | ||
| Location | Morfa Drive, Conwy | SH 77537 78288; 53.28735°N, 3.83851°W | |
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Flooding outside Ysgol Aberconwy in Morfa Drive, Conwy from overflowing drains at high tide. High tide at Conwy on 2 February was 8.8 metres.
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Llanfairfechan
| Date | 3 January 2014 | ||
| Location | Llanfairfechan | SH 67748 75339; 53.25851°N, 3.98404°W | |
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Tides smash north Wales coast (BBC News, 3 Jan 2014);
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Cloud formation beyond Yr Elen seen from Ysgolion Duon
| Date | 21 August 2011 | ||
| Location | Carneddau | SH 67761 63218; 53.14962°N, 3.97882°W | |
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Looking towards Yr Elen, with Anglesey in the distance, from Ysgolion Duon, the ridge between Carnedd Dafydd and Carnedd Llewelyn in the Carneddau range of mountains.
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Sun dog over Moel y Ci
| Date | 5 August 2011 | ||
| Location | Viewed from Bethesda, Wales | SH 63219 66497; 53.17793°N, 4.04809°W | |
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A sun dog (or parhelion) is a luminous spot on one or both sides of the sun at the same height as the sun. It is formed by refraction through hexagonal plate crystals of ice in high cirrus clouds.
Featured in NASA Earth Science Division’s Earth Science Picture of the Day, 12 October 2011. Sun dog over Moel y Ci (‘Dog Hill’), 1 September 2010 |
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Lenticular Clouds
| Date | 26 June 2011 | ||
| Location | A5, Nant y Benglog | SH 67497 60439; 53.12459°N, 3.98161°W | |
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Normally found in the lee of a mountain, Altocumulus lenticularis is a ‘wave’ cloud created when a standing wave forms in the flow of air forced to rise up over the mountain. Water vapour in the air travelling in the wave condenses to form the cloud when it reaches the crest of the wave when the temperature there is low enough, and then evaporates again as it sinks back down into the warmer trough. Lenticular clouds remain stationary but are continuously being formed as the moisture in the air flowing through them condenses and then vapourises again. They are smooth and lens shaped, and this saucer-like appearance can lead to their being confused for UFOs. These stacked lenticular clouds were observed from the A5 road just east of Tryfan in the pass between the Carneddau and Glyderau mountain ranges. Featured in NASA Earth Science Division’s Earth Science Picture of the Day, 26 July 2011.
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