"Ken Cook" wrote in message
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Hi, All,

This must have been the sunniest first week in February on record in
NE England. Virtually cloudless skies have produced 55.9hr(R&D) or
8hr / day average here - wonderful.

That could well be it for a while, though. Easterly flows are not kind
to us and can be persistent. The snow that we shall inevitably have
will soon turn dirty and slushy. It will hang around for days as it
does in the NE Pennines and skies will be overcast with hill fog.
Everything will be wet and miserable and temperatures will be stuck on
+1C.

No one around here wishes for this type of snow, let's hope it goes
quickly. North Sea snow showers with a low dew point, dry snow, clean
air, good visibility - now that's what we want!

Ken
Copley 253metres, nr Barnard Castle, Teesdale, County Durham
http://copley.mysite.orange.co.uk


North Sea snow showers! Whatever happened to them?
Although the forecasters have promised us a covering the last two nights, we
could almost have counted the flakes. Just when the showers seemed to be
building up on the coast, as soon as they moved inland, nothing happened.
I counted 4 separate bands of showers in the last 24 hours when it looked
like a decent dumping was on the way that just evaporated.
Can't see us getting much here tomorrow Ken, but as you say I used to hate
the snow soup that you get in these situations when in Penistone.

--
David Mitchell, 70m amsl, Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire.