"Adam Lea" wrote in message
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On 09/02/13 15:33, Eskimo Will wrote:

"Col" wrote in message
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"Lawrence13" wrote in message
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On Saturday, 9 February 2013 14:01:07 UTC, Stephen Davenport wrote:


These New Englanders need to grow a pair.



Stephen.

Well Stephen your sarcasm to one side. I was commenting on that video
which obviously you were too scared to watch on your own without an
adult present

Just because somebody has posted a video from Long Island
showing conditions that aren't unusual in Bolton, doesn't mean
that this storm isn't severe overall.

They're talking about 1 *metre* of snow in Boston.
That's an exceptional storm, even by the standards of
the Eastern Seaboard.

3 feet Col get the units right :-)
It's not bad I suppose. Here on dartmoor we measure snow in centimetres
to make it sound more, like 5 centimetres is more than 2 inches, yes?

Will
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I find it interesting that these storms are capable of producing such
heavy snowfall. Three feet of snow is roughly equivalent to 3 inches of
rain, is it not? Three inches of rain in the UK even in the summer would
be classed as a lot of rain, let alone at sub-zero temperatures. In the UK
lowlands it seems to be very rare to get more than about six inches from a
single event.


Adam, combine 30-35mm total column precipitable water from the Gulf of
Mexico (warm air origin) and combine that with air from Arctic Canada you
are going to get one hell of a snowfall! We cannot get such extreme
variations here as cold air is modified by the sea and very warm air only
arrives in summer. The best we can do is a quasi-stationary system dumping
12-18 inches realistically.

Will
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