On 05/01/12 16:39, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Without drawing global warming into it, do you have an impression that
certain weather types, if any, in your area have become less frequent.
Until this week I would have said gales and that probably is still true
to a large extent. The lack of snow showers off the North Sea,
particularly any giving significant falls of snow and perhaps violent
thunderstorms with associated downpours and flash flooding are the most
significant here.

Dave, S.Essex

Easterlies/North Easterlies in winter (probably related to the lack of
snow showers off the North Sea).
Summer thunderstorms.

You are right about gales, storminess around Europe has been trending
down over the last 20 years.