"Will Hand" wrote in message
...

"nguk" wrote in message
...
Is there a chance of a whiteout or blizzard
in ea and se this week? thats what im looking
forward to seeing, with slight gusts and complete
whiteout from snow. Granted we had alot of
snow early in the year, but nothing at night whereby
you couldnt even see the house across the road
now that id love to see!




True whiteouts are very rare in lowland Britain. Only ever seen it once
myself
in the Scottish mountains where you cannot tell whether you are up or down
as
literally everything is white.
Having heavy snow falling where the visibility is reduced to fog levels is
another matter, get that on Dartmoor every winter, but strictly that is
not a
whiteout.

Will.
--

Neil,

I experienced whiteout conditions like Will describes above once in the
French Alps at about 2800m asl. The wind was blowing a good 25KT and I
struggled to see my skies let alone in front of me. Luckily we all had
walkie-talkies so managed to keep in touch.

Joe