"BWS" wrote in message
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Joe

I have skies Val Thoren in April and can recommend it thoroughly.

We are off to Winter Park in Colorado at the end of March, hoping for a
load of powder!

Back to uni soon?

Hi Steve,

I have done Whistler, BC, Canada in April and that was suffering a little as
the valley is at 600m and is near to the coast of Vancouver. I have never
done America but do keep me informed as to how it goes.Uni starts on 17th
Jan. but not properly until the start of Feb.

Getting back on topic, a cool NW flow off the Irish Sea here in Thornton,
Lancashire, clear skies except the odd bit of Cu fra.

Joe

Anyone else enjoying the mild winter as much as me? I really feel the
cold and normally cannot get warm enough from October to May. These new
mild winters are a blessing for me. I reckon we will have full on spring
weather by Feb this year. Winter is practically done and dusted. Thank
god.

Yes I do too. In fact I start to live up at this time of year, since I know
Spring is now only a few weeks away :-)

Marc
Belgium

Brian Blair wrote:
"Graham Jones" wrote in message
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Anyone else enjoying the mild winter as much as me? I really feel
the cold and normally cannot get warm enough from October to May.
These new mild winters are a blessing for me. I reckon we will have
full on spring weather by Feb this year. Winter is practically done
and dusted. Thank god.

Graham

What a rather redundant post bearing in mind we have people
contributing from Orkney down to Penzance and several posters living
above 1000 feet, others at sea level. You feeling cold is probably
more to do with what you wear and how you heat your house than
anything weatherwise.
Put on a Fair Isle jumper, eat some oats and stop your blethering

Love

brian
aberfeldy

You were lucky there Graham - coming on here expressing a preference for
warm weather and earning a reprimand no worse than 'redundant'. The
puritanism of the thermally de-sensitised can know no bounds.

You also received free fashion and dietary advice. I may try to adapt
that and adjust clothing and diet in order to avoid the excesses of
Summer heat.

Regards,
Tom

I think it is meaningless to refer to winter as anything other than the
period 22 December - 21 March, i.e. the astronomical winter period from the
winter solstice to the spring equinox. We all know April can be colder than
January, but to talk of December as a winter month is largely meaningless,
as 68% of it is in the autumn.

If we stuck to the astroinomical seasons, there would be far less sloppy
talk about May being a summer month for example.
"Jim Webster" wrote in message
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"Joe Egginton" wrote in message
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Jim Webster wrote:
"Gianna Stefani" wrote in message
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Graham Jones wrote:

Anyone else enjoying the mild winter as much as me? I really feel the
cold and normally cannot get warm enough from October to May. These
new
mild winters are a blessing for me. I reckon we will have full on
spring
weather by Feb this year. Winter is practically done and dusted. Thank

god.

Graham

It was snowing yesterday!
Winter (in terms of the weather) has barely begun.

(-:


yes, up here the worst part of winter in January and February.

I never talk about the end of winter until March,

Jim Webster



I never talk about the end of winter until the beginning of May.

round here we can get the cutting winds that blow for days at the end or
march or april, which are pretty miserable but do dry the ground up a
treat.
But April is pretty well a spring month here in South Cumbria

Jim Webster

"Peter McCloskey" wrote in message
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I think it is meaningless to refer to winter as anything other than the
period 22 December - 21 March, i.e. the astronomical winter period from
the
winter solstice to the spring equinox. We all know April can be colder
than
January, but to talk of December as a winter month is largely meaningless,
as 68% of it is in the autumn.

If we stuck to the astroinomical seasons, there would be far less sloppy
talk about May being a summer month for example.

True enough. Certainly December here is rarely that cold, I wouldn't expect
to see snow before Christmas whatever.

Jim Webster

"Peter McCloskey" wrote in message
...
I think it is meaningless to refer to winter as anything other than the
period 22 December - 21 March, i.e. the astronomical winter period from the
winter solstice to the spring equinox. We all know April can be colder than
January, but to talk of December as a winter month is largely meaningless,
as 68% of it is in the autumn.

If we stuck to the astroinomical seasons, there would be far less sloppy
talk about May being a summer month for example.

If it's good enough for the Met Office, it's good enough for me. ;-)

Victor

In message , Brian Blair
writes

"Graham Jones" wrote in message
...
Anyone else enjoying the mild winter as much as me? I really feel the cold
and normally cannot get warm enough from October to May. These new mild
winters are a blessing for me. I reckon we will have full on spring
weather by Feb this year. Winter is practically done and dusted. Thank
god.

Graham

What a rather redundant post bearing in mind we have people contributing
from Orkney down to Penzance and several posters living above 1000 feet,
others at sea level. You feeling cold is probably more to do with what you
wear and how you heat your house than anything weatherwise.

Put on a Fair Isle jumper, eat some oats and stop your blethering

Love

brian
aberfeldy



Oh you are a card Brian.

Mild winters are ace, living oop north (sort of) way out in the
country and high it makes life so much easier, suburban SE types look
away now, you won't understand. Walking, cycling, just getting down to
the village for supplies and outdoor activities are so much easier and
there's the added bonus of all you snowballers throwing your rattles out
of the pram!!


I love mild me, mild, mild, mild.

--
Bill

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 01:22:43 +0000, Bill wrote:

Mild winters are ace, living oop north (sort of) way out in the
country and high it makes life so much easier, suburban SE types look
away now, you won't understand. Walking, cycling, just getting down to
the village for supplies and outdoor activities are so much easier and
there's the added bonus of all you snowballers throwing your rattles out
of the pram!!

I love mild me, mild, mild, mild.

AOL
I agree 100%
/AOL

Seriously though, one of my best friends is partially disabled.
She is unsteady on her feet and needs a walking stick at all
times. When the weather is cold the local kids' idea of fun is to
turn the only pathway out of her block into an icy slide. Bearing
in mind her osteoporosis if she fell on the stone pavement she
might never walk again.
Please spare a thought for whom snow causes serious difficulties
in everyday life.

(back to lurking)
Peter Harris
--
If you're happy and you know it, rattle your chains.

Mild Winters save on heating bills.

Less icy roads i'm sure means less chance of accidents, but there still
are, because motor accidents are not entirely tied to the weather
conditions

One thing i do predict, TWO will never stop bashing the BBC
Nah, the only person that is ever the 'laughing stock' as they call it,
is called Brian Gaze

Who's got the arrogance to call his forecast stunningly accurate, when
it blatantly isn't. The denial there is amazing to witness

"Peter McCloskey" wrote in message
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I think it is meaningless to refer to winter as anything other than the
period 22 December - 21 March, i.e. the astronomical winter period from the
winter solstice to the spring equinox. ... to talk of December as a winter
month is largely meaningless, as 68% of it is in the autumn.
It's only 68% in the autumn if you use that definition though - using the
MetO version means it's *all* in winter.

I certainly would rate the 1st December as being more "wintry" than say the
15th of March (down here), as by the latter date the sun is quite strong,
the days are relatively long and temperatures are likely to be in double
figures. The same isn't true at the beginning of December...
Equally, mid June isn't "springlike" in my view, at least not down here (and
besides, there's something bizarre about using the solstices to me, "Ding!
It's summer, so the nights will now start drawing in straight away.")