I am also pleased to announce the start of the west Cornwall mild, misty
murk & drizzle season.

The forcast will indicate the severity on a 3 category scale.

1. Only Pendeen affected.
2. Everywhere above 100m affected
3. Everywhere affected.

If there is any chance whatsoever of an air frost an early EMERGENCY WEATHER
WARNING will be issued.
Under these circumstances please remain indoors until the danger has passed,
1st ensuring that all banana tress are covered in plastic.

Graham

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Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am pleased to announce that with the rapid approach of winter Haytor
meteorological office will be preparing sledging forecasts for winter
weekends
on Dartmoor. The forecasts will commence in the first week of December and
run
through to the end of April. The forecasts will be issued along with the
now
routine 2 weekly outlook issued on Thursday or Friday.

The forecasts will attempt to predict the snow line for Saturday and
Sunday and
likely sledging and ice conditions. Ice scrambling over frozen Tors is an
"interesting" pursuit.

The snow line will be predicted as follows:

200m, 250m, 300m, 350m, 400m, 450m, 500m, 550m, 600m, above summits. An
indication of whether it will rise or fall during the day will also be
given.

600m will effectively be High Wilhays and Yes Tor. The forecasts will be
prepared using data from Topkarten as normal. Naturally I will also be
using
local knowledge and experience too.

It will be interesting to verify my own forecasts on my Sunday walks, I'm
nervous about that :-)Anyway, here's to a great sledging season !!!

Example forecasts:

Saturday xx/xx/xx Snow line 400m falling to 250m by dusk. Sledging
conditions
becoming good in evening. Ice unlikely. Most snow on the North moor.
Sunday xx/xx/xx Snow line 250m rising steadily to 550m during the day.
Sledging
conditions becoming slushy then non-existent below 500m.

or

Mild, wet and foggy all weekend. No snow.

Will (Chief forecaster HMO).
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On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:22:55 -0000, "Graham Easterling"
wrote:

I am also pleased to announce the start of the west Cornwall mild, misty
murk & drizzle season.

The forcast will indicate the severity on a 3 category scale.

1. Only Pendeen affected.
2. Everywhere above 100m affected
3. Everywhere affected.

If there is any chance whatsoever of an air frost an early EMERGENCY WEATHER
WARNING will be issued.
Under these circumstances please remain indoors until the danger has passed,
1st ensuring that all banana tress are covered in plastic.

Graham

Surely the scale should start at around:

0.1 (v. slight murk), Longships foghorn goes into non-stop tooting
mode.

John

"John" wrote in message
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On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:22:55 -0000, "Graham Easterling"
wrote:

I am also pleased to announce the start of the west Cornwall mild, misty
murk & drizzle season.

The forcast will indicate the severity on a 3 category scale.

1. Only Pendeen affected.
2. Everywhere above 100m affected
3. Everywhere affected.

If there is any chance whatsoever of an air frost an early EMERGENCY
WEATHER
WARNING will be issued.
Under these circumstances please remain indoors until the danger has
passed,
1st ensuring that all banana tress are covered in plastic.

Graham

Surely the scale should start at around:

0.1 (v. slight murk), Longships foghorn goes into non-stop tooting
mode.

John

I used to live at Sennen, where you could get foghorns in stereo (Longships
& Pendeen)

Currently 1.5

Graham