Thanks for that Will ,I hope any rain dance you can organise will be more
succesful than your snow efforts this winter ,strikes me there's been a
dearth of the white stuff in the southwest generally and Dartmoor in
particular .
Come east young man , 6"of snow one day and 18C the next and all in one
month ,you should never have left Bracknell !

RonB




"Eskimo Will" wrote in message
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Well, if you want/need rain in the east and south the word is dire.

High pressure looks like dominating for quite a while, as indeed it has
all winter really. The Azores high has never been far off the scene, even
when Mr Russia exerted his influence, Mr Azores was still there
complicating things in the west, preventing a full blow easterly with high
pressure extending to Iceland. Charts show a blocked pattern once again
but with the location of high pressure uncertain. Increasing signal that,
as Atlantic trough disruptions take place next week pressure will build
either over us or to our east. Any easterly is unlikely to be really cold
though, probably almost spring-like but with night frosts. But as I have
said if you need appreciable rain in the forseeable future, forget it,
that will be reserved for the north and west.
Rain dance anyone? I can do snow dances but not rain :-)

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Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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