I really sympathise Keith, it must be dreadful for weather enthusiasts like
yourself ATM down there.
It must surely improve ?

It has been pretty tame here too. OK 3 days snow lying and 6 days snow falling
so far this winter and 85 mm rain so far this month, but for my part of the
world that is small beer. What has got me this winter is the incessant mildness,
day after day after day. Maxes have been running at 9-11 recently, even at my
altitude. Even today at 8.1 it was above normal. Also the lack of frost is
amazing. The other thing is that people seem to be getting used to it. Local
radio talked about the possibility of a frost as if it was an interesting event,
it was only forecast to go down to 0 deg C for goodness sake - in January ! Ah
well, the coldest time of the year is still to come for us when the sea
temperatures fall in February and then there are the April snow showers, always
good fun. As you say, though, heating bills are down, but also no need to light
a real fire either :-(

Every silver lining has a cloud I suppose :-)

Inside temperature still 17.4 deg C with the heating off !

Will.
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"Keith (Southend)" wrote in message
...
Certainly my sentiments Will. All this electronic instrumentation I
have in readiness to witness a real winter and nothing, absolutly
nothing! We've even missed the rain and gales of the last week, which
does'nt bother me particularily, but I am realy getting dissolusioned
with the weather nowadays. I've only recorded 9.4mm of rain this
January, so we maybe heading for one of our driest January's for many
a year, hard to beleive for many I guess. Of course media attention
will be focused on the 'Frost' that may bring the SE to a standstill
with headlines such as 'Deep Freeze' comes in as forecast. I can only
think the media are still in nappies and think a blizzard is something
you have a day out at in Orlando. On the plus, heating bills are kept
down and I hardly have to scrape ice off the car in the mornings. I am
expecting the 21°c to be recorded in the SE sometime at the end of
March this year after that who knows anything could happen, but one
thing is certain it will be blamed on global warming, which was
happening anyway and there's nothing we can do about it!

Another tablet :-)

Keith (Southend)

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On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:38:47 -0000, "Will Hand"
wrote:



Perhaps the weather has got so boring in SE England this winter that the BBC
are
after *anything* of interest :-)

Will.