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Old November 21st 04, 12:25 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Philip Eden Philip Eden is offline
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Default Helsinki 20 cm, delays in tram service


"George Booth" wrote in message
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"Elena Saltikoff" wrote in message
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Yesterday a chain of snow showers, induced by open sea at Gulf of
Finland, poured (is there a more approppriate word for solid
precipitation ?) .......


Maybe the answer was in The Times on Friday. According to 'A
Correspondent' 'Much of Britain saw its first snow of the winter with
downfalls reported as far south as Oxfordshire and Milton Keynes'

They might have got into even more trouble if they had said:
" ... with dumps as far south as ... Milton Keynes."!

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