If you want snow this year best get off to Tenerife where about a foot
of anow fell at Izaña Observatory, 2000m, with a temp of -3°C. Crazy
weather...
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Keith (Southend)
"Weather Home & Abroad"
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On 20/02/2016 10:18, Keith (Southend) wrote:

If you want snow this year best get off to Tenerife where about a foot
of snow fell at Izaña Observatory, 2000m, with a temp of -3°C. Crazy
weather...

Izaña is on Mount Teide, the highest mountain in spain - it has a ski
resort.

Keith (Southend) wrote:

If you want snow this year best get off to Tenerife where about a foot
of anow fell at Izaña Observatory, 2000m, with a temp of -3°C. Crazy
weather...


It snowed one year when I was on holiday there. We drove up the mountain
hoping to get to the top of the volcano but the ski lift was closed because
of ice. The snow line was about 1800m that day. It was 20C at sea level.


--
Brian Wakem
Lower Bourne, Farnham, Surrey
http://www.brianwakem.co.uk/weather

"Brian Wakem" wrote in message
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Keith (Southend) wrote:

If you want snow this year best get off to Tenerife where about a foot
of anow fell at Izaña Observatory, 2000m, with a temp of -3°C. Crazy
weather...


It snowed one year when I was on holiday there. We drove up the mountain
hoping to get to the top of the volcano but the ski lift was closed
because
of ice. The snow line was about 1800m that day. It was 20C at sea level.


I'm off to Teneriffe for a week from Saturday. Glad that it has been
snowing, means I won't be missing out much on winter. I don't normally do
winter sun holidays, but sometimes you have to .......
Owner said that there was a terrific storm where we are to be staying and
that the access road was washed away, we always do have eventful holidays. I
got ill in the Himalayas a few years ago and many years ago in the Alps I
managed to slide 800 feet down a snowy hillside, luckily uninjured.

Will
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" Some sects believe that the world was created 5000 years ago. Another sect
believes that it was created in 1910 "
http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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On Monday, 22 February 2016 14:21:44 UTC, Brian Wakem wrote:
Keith (Southend) wrote:

If you want snow this year best get off to Tenerife where about a foot
of anow fell at Izaña Observatory, 2000m, with a temp of -3°C. Crazy
weather...


It snowed one year when I was on holiday there. We drove up the mountain
hoping to get to the top of the volcano but the ski lift was closed because
of ice. The snow line was about 1800m that day. It was 20C at sea level.


--
Brian Wakem
Lower Bourne, Farnham, Surrey
http://www.brianwakem.co.uk/weather

That sounds fairly similar to my experience when I went there in January 1978. Similar snow level.

We went to the top of El Teide which was above the weather and I'd guess the temperature was about -3°C with very strong sunshine, the sky not so much blue as black. I got quite a red face in half an hour. Pressure about 645 mb so that 35mm film canisters opened with quite a pop. The top of El Teide is 3717 m, 12195 ft.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey, a paltry 557 ft, 169 m.