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Old February 6th 13, 02:44 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Funny old cold spell

On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 6:29:27 AM UTC, Graham P Davis wrote:
On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:55:10 +0000

Dave Cornwell wrote:



...... that hardly justifies the dire warnings being bandied about


at the


moment,mind Piers has decamped to the Caingorms I hear.....




RonB


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It's not actually the Met Office that's been banding about dire


warnings though is it Ron. They seem to be getting it right


regionally and have only said rain, sleet and wet snow for most


except in parts of the North where the snow has been..


Still I got enough flakes earlier this evening for it to be a "snow


falling day" :-)


Dvae




The warnings aren't the problem; yet again it's the presenters going

overboard about it being "bitterly cold." Yes, it's windy but combining

that with temperatures barely below average doesn't warrant the use of

such extreme terminology.



I presume that the people who issue these descriptions of how cold it may be, are themselves sat in shirtsleeves, in an air conditioned and centrally heated room where (in my experience due to persistent moaning about 'draughts') the ambient temperature is kept in the region of 24C.

When they venture outside, in the dash to their air conditioned cars, it probably does feel "bitterly cold" in the wind.

I have just pruned my holly tree, and in the sunshine with the outside thermometer reading +7C, it felt quite pleasant.