"Alan White" wrote in message
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:55:18 -0000, "Pete B"
wrote:

...none have forecast that the Country will get a 'Whiteout'.

A 'whiteout' refers to visibility, i.e. there isn't any, rather than
to coverage :-)

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Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow.
Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
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Yes, good point made there :-)

In casually using such a term which has a true meaning in Met language, I'm
being as bad as the journalists who tend to use it to mean what I was
implying i.e. the whole of the Country having a snowfall significant enough
to produce several cm.

What I should have said was that:

....none have forecast that the entire Country will receive significant snow.

Incidentally, although Malvern had nothing at the time I wrote that post,
that all changed very quickly around 16:00 hrs, much in line with other
observations regarding the intensity of the front. The temp immediately fell
to -1C and very quickly, a thickness of around 2cm was deposited. Not sure
how cold it is now but the sky is completely clear. If the view is good
enough tomorrow morning, I will take a couple of photo's of the hills and
dump them on a web page if I can find out how to do it.

--
Pete

Please take my dog out twice to e-mail

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