On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 17:07:51 -0000
"Eskimo Will" wrote:


"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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Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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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.


Sorry Will, it looks like I'm going to have to remind you of the
Rushden event of 4th March 1970 when 24" fell in four hours.

This was caused by a rather swift-moving low which was close to west
Iceland at 00Z on the 3rd and 24 hours later was just west of Scotland.
The forecast at 0755Z was going for the low to move south down the
Irish Sea, giving the west of the country a dumping of snow. This
forecast was going for the East Midlands, which then included
Northamptonshire, to have a sunny day with isolated snow showers. At
the time, it had been snowing heavily in Rushden for an
hour-and-a-half and was probably around 9" deep.

The low had continued on a more-or-less straight course for a couple
days, passing through the Cheshire Gap and on to the London area,
having passed close to the west of Rushden where the snow ceased at
around 1030Z. The low had well-defined warm and cold front giving at
Bracknell, as I distantly recall, about 4" of snow on both fronts and
temperature of 7C in the warm sector. My comment at the time, as I
looked out of the windows at Eastern Road, was that "someone must have
got a packet out of this," little realising that my old home had got
the worst (or best, depending on your point of view) of it and I'd
flaming well missed it!


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