"Jack Harrison" wrote in message
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Land temperatures have been too low to trigger convection. The North Sea
however is still at around 10 degrees, more than enough. Consequently,
the
snow showers have to a very large extent been confined to coastal
districts
and a short way inland. I doubt that any showers were actually GENERATED
over the cold land.

So in situations like Monday morning, "too cold to snow" has a ring of
truth
about it.

Jack


Jack my instincts tell me that many a severe cold spell back in my youth
were very cold indeed. Now call me naive and stupid but I also thought the
classic parttern for really heavy snow was a high over europe scandinavia
and an atlantic depression trying to push in creating heavy snow for the
south as it hit the dense cold air.. Being old fashioned I then believed
that temps can rise as this happens.
As for Monday morning was'nt that a totally differnet set up? with a cold
arctic air stream bringing in the heavy showers of the north sea.

Have I got hold of the wrong end of the stick again?