At 09 this morning the 24hour Tmax only +0.8° making this the coldest day of
the year so far. Still only -1.7° at 1109 so, with a couple of cm of snow
cover, might just be in with a chance of the first ice day for five years.

All the best
--
George in Epping, West Essex (107m asl)
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk

Over the other side of town in Wembley a very thin dusting of snow grains
stayed on my local ungritted (typical Brent Council) road all day. Thick
frost + snow grain dusting on car scraped off pretty easily (Yep the bike's
staying in the garage this week! :P Don't need it when there is no traffic,
and I forgot how nice the car's heater is!). Other than that, all clear,
gloriously sunny all day and no snow at all. The North Circular through
Hanger Lane Gyrotary going to work in Brentford was gloriously empty!
Gunnersbury Park had large amounts of frost on the leaves, melting slowly
only in the sunniest spot. 1C max? However the ponds had little or no ice on
them. The northern pond had a bit of ice, which the gulls were curiously
congregating on in large numbers at lunchtime.

I just watched the ITV evening news. It still puzzles me how they can make
such a big event of just a few areas getting some snow. While I love the
snow I don't like rediculous sensationalist reporting. (Still can't believe
the trains are screwed. They need a kick up the rear end! How do they manage
in Eastern Europe / Russia / anywhere else where it snows?)

-Mike

"George Booth" wrote in message
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At 09 this morning the 24hour Tmax only +0.8° making this the coldest day
of the year so far. Still only -1.7° at 1109 so, with a couple of cm of
snow cover, might just be in with a chance of the first ice day for five
years.

All the best
--
George in Epping, West Essex (107m asl)
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:10:20 -0000, TerminalVelocity mike wrote:

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I just watched the ITV evening news. It still puzzles me how they can make
such a big event of just a few areas getting some snow. While I love the
snow I don't like rediculous sensationalist reporting.

Agree with you 100% on this point. I look at the sensationalist reporting
as a sign of global warming. Basically, we don't get snow of any significance
anymore, so when it does arrive, it's news.

(Still can't believe
the trains are screwed. They need a kick up the rear end! How do they manage
in Eastern Europe / Russia / anywhere else where it snows?)

Now, this is something else.

We don't get snowfall nearly as often as we used to. Even when we used to get
snow, it was a fairly rare event.

Snow needs to be cleared to keep e.g. trains running. Clearing of snow
costs money. Why keep plant maintained and money set aside for a
once-in-a-decade event?

In Russia, it snows every year. So, I'd expect them to shrug it off like we
do with rain.

I bet you're the first to complain when fares take a hike. You can't have
it both ways.

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