Keith (Southend) wrote:
Will Hand wrote:
Morning all.

Will, I'm still unconvinced, but quite happy to be proved wrong. The
general pattern is fine, it's the so called 'deep cold' I'm not so
sure will be deep enough for my neck of the woods. As you say,
potentially, the longer term could be even colder, but my gut feeling
is the mild incursion will win hands down. Also, In previous years,
we would have been looking at -10 to -25°C over Russia and
Scandinavia, those numbers don't seem to be on the scale any more.

Bah, humbug. ;-(

Keith, yes times have changed which is why you can no longer expect the
weather we had in winter's past. But that doesn't stop a cold spell with
snow in UK. In the 1960s day maxima would be well below freezing and as I
said the other day the SE is looking at +1C or 2C which is still damn cold
compared to the average max. at this time of year of around 7C at sea-level
and also well cold enough for snow. I have to say though that Southend being
close to the North Sea you do admittedly need a continual feed of very cold
air to keep snow cover going. It's just the same here in the SW where any
feed off the sea spells curtains for any snow in low-lying areas, that was
not the case in most of the 20th Century.

Go inland, or north or up young man :-)

Will
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