"Len Wood" wrote in message
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On Feb 2, 8:01 pm, Graham Easterling
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On 2 Feb, 19:22, Len Wood wrote:





Wembury, SW Devon coast, 83m, 275 ft asl, record since 1984

January 2010

Mean max 6.0C, Mean min 0.7C, mean 3.4C
Absolute min -5.2C (5th)
14 air frosts

Precipitation 97.8 mm

Not as cold as January 1987:

Mean max 4.9C, Mean min 0.2C, mean 2.5C
Absolute min -10.1C (13th)
12 air frosts, but with 3 mins at 0C, thermometer precision +/- 0.1C,
so it could be 15 air frosts.

Precipitation 33.9 mm

Yes, 1987 really was cold.

Snow photos from the very tip of Cornwall (Ignore the 1997 in the file
name - it was '87)

http://www.peterpuddiphattphotograph...o_1997906.html (a few
yards from where I once
lived)http://www.peterpuddiphattphotograph...97904.html(mis
labelled - it's cove hill)

Graham
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Great photos Graham.
You seem to have had a bit more snow than we did in 1987.
We had about 3 inches.
This year we had about an inch and half in the small hours of the 6th.
Enough for us to get the sledge out and have a bit of fun.
I have a great picture of my wife sledging down from the church.
Don't ask me to post it on the web. She'd kill me if I did! :-(

Len
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Go on Len, we *dare* you!

Those pictures of Graham's are awesome. I remember the situation well, a
convergence line along the middle of the English Channel clipping the far
south of Cornwall. Alledged cause was where two land breezes met, but I
think it was due to frictional convergence in the eastern Channel which then
self-maintained due to deep convection daughter cell generation downwind.
Anyway, I thought I was doing well with 4" in Crowthorne Berkshire, but
sheesh .... nothing like Penzance.

Will
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