Without drawing global warming into it, do you have an impression that
certain weather types, if any, in your area have become less frequent.
Until this week I would have said gales and that probably is still true
to a large extent. The lack of snow showers off the North Sea,
particularly any giving significant falls of snow and perhaps violent
thunderstorms with associated downpours and flash flooding are the most
significant here.

Dave, S.Essex

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
Without drawing global warming into it, do you have an impression that
certain weather types, if any, in your area have become less frequent.
Until this week I would have said gales and that probably is still true to
a large extent. The lack of snow showers off the North Sea, particularly
any giving significant falls of snow and perhaps violent thunderstorms
with associated downpours and flash flooding are the most significant
here.

Polat lows.
OK, there were never that common, but I'm sure I remember a few here
in the early-mid 90s, but no proper ones since then.
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...

Without drawing global warming into it, do you have an impression that
certain weather types, if any, in your area have become less frequent.
Until this week I would have said gales and that probably is still true to
a large extent. The lack of snow showers off the North Sea, particularly
any giving significant falls of snow and perhaps violent thunderstorms with
associated downpours and flash flooding are the most significant here.

Dave, S.Essex


Down here in Winchester I would say fog is almost non-existent nowadays.

Tony

On Jan 5, 6:03*pm, "Tony Kenyon"
wrote:
"Dave Cornwell" *wrote in message
...
Without drawing global warming into it, do you have an impression that
certain weather types, if any, in your area have become less frequent.
Until this week I would have said gales and that probably is still true to
a large extent. The lack of snow showers off the North Sea, particularly
any giving significant falls of snow and perhaps violent thunderstorms with
associated downpours and flash flooding are the most significant here.
Dave, S.Essex

Down here in Winchester I would say *fog is almost non-existent nowadays.

Tony

Large areas of thundery activity moving north overnight in summer. In
the 1980s and 1990s they seemed to be a regular occurrence after a hot
and humid day and used to wake me up in the early hours.

We seem to get very few of those in recent years, but it maybe just
that I remember them being more frequent than they actually were.

Hoar frost with freezing fog that would last for days on end. All the
trees, telephone wires, grass etc would be covered in a thick layer of
frost that would get thicker and thicker as the days went on. I just
remember it being magical from my childhood in the mid to late 70s,
especially around Xmas time.

Haven't seen anything like that for over 20 years, though I suspect
living here near the south coast in Devon, it is always a rare prospect.

--
Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

Without drawing global warming into it, do you have an
impression that certain weather types, if any, in your area
have become less frequent. Until this week I would have said
gales and that probably is still true to a large extent. The
lack of snow showers off the North Sea, particularly any
giving significant falls of snow and perhaps violent
thunderstorms with associated downpours and flash flooding are
the most significant here.
Dave, S.Essex

Settled warm sunny spells in summer seem to have become as rare
as hens' teeth here sigh

Anne

In article ,
Dave Cornwell writes:
Without drawing global warming into it, do you have an
impression that certain weather types, if any, in your area have
become less frequent.

I have the impression that the traditional polar maritime type has
become rarer than it used to be, at least in SE England and especially
in winter. I believe it used to be the commonest type. That said, we've
had a day of it today, though windier than usual.
--
John Hall
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism
by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw

"John Hall" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Dave Cornwell writes:
Without drawing global warming into it, do you have an
impression that certain weather types, if any, in your area have
become less frequent.

I have the impression that the traditional polar maritime type has
become rarer than it used to be, at least in SE England and especially
in winter. I believe it used to be the commonest type. That said, we've
had a day of it today, though windier than usual.

Is that the same as the 'cold westerly' type we had in the first
half of December?
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

John Hall wrote:
In article ,
Dave Cornwell writes:
Without drawing global warming into it, do you have an
impression that certain weather types, if any, in your area have
become less frequent.

I have the impression that the traditional polar maritime type has
become rarer than it used to be, at least in SE England and especially
in winter. I believe it used to be the commonest type. That said, we've
had a day of it today, though windier than usual.
-------------------
It's interesting you should say that - I remember making a similar
comment on here a couple of years ago in relationship to short term
heavy snow falls in a westerly flow and was given rather short shrift.
My generalised view of 60 years of winters in Essex, taking out the
extremes, was one of frequent wet and windy weather, rather cold with
shorter transient spells of sunny frosty weather, some snow showers
giving a decent covering and the odd heavier fall.
This winter could still be a bit like that, though the polar maritime
seems less cold.

On Jan 5, 4:39*pm, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Without drawing global warming into it, do you have an impression that
certain weather types, if any, in your area have become less frequent.
Until this week I would have said gales and that probably is still true
to a large extent. The lack of snow showers off the North Sea,
particularly any giving significant falls of snow and perhaps violent
thunderstorms with associated downpours and flash flooding are the most
significant here.

Dave, S.Essex

I blame government cuts.