It is amazingly cold. When I went kayaking on the Tryweryn river in
North Wales just before Christmas there was ice and snow around, and
the gravel paths were extremely slippy due to the ice, yet I didn't
feel anything like as cold as I did last Saturday on the river Dee. In
fact although the temps were pretty similar on the two occassions, for
some reason last Saturday felt so cold that we came off the river early.

Whether it was the wind I don't know. I do know that I had three layers
of thermals and a drysuit on though and it still wasn't enough!

Simon

On 2012-02-07 17:17:03 +0000, Graham Easterling said:

On Feb 7, 4:47*pm, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote:
I can't remember the near continent being quite so cold as it
currently is and I wonder whether the models are allowing for this.
Zonality seems to be struggling to establish itself, and I doubt the
UKMO medium range forcast will be correct.

Then there's this northerly scenario that the models keep thowing into
the ring.

Of course we could just stay on the edge of the action, but the SE in
the cold for sometime to come.

Wonder if Will has any new thoughts?

Temperature dropping like a stone, which is unusual given the NE wind
with shallow cumulus coming off the North Sea.

17:50
Temp -2.9°C
DP -8.4°C
Wind NNE (Backed) 2mph

Keith (Southend)http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"

For a few days now the temperature range E - W along the south coast
has been close to 10C, irrespective of the time of day. E.g. at 13:15
it was 8.1C in Penzance (today's max was 8.7) but only around -2C in
east Kent. Currently the range is roughly -4 to +6C.

It looks like turning somewhat colder here for 36 hours or so, but
still nothing like the temperatures further east. It felt quite
pleasant today http://www.sennen-cove.com/today2.htm

Graham
Penzance


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