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Hi, All,

This must have been the sunniest first week in February on record in
NE England. Virtually cloudless skies have produced 55.9hr(R&D) or
8hr / day average here - wonderful.

That could well be it for a while, though. Easterly flows are not kind
to us and can be persistent. The snow that we shall inevitably have
will soon turn dirty and slushy. It will hang around for days as it
does in the NE Pennines and skies will be overcast with hill fog.
Everything will be wet and miserable and temperatures will be stuck on
+1C.

No one around here wishes for this type of snow, let's hope it goes
quickly. North Sea snow showers with a low dew point, dry snow, clean
air, good visibility - now that's what we want!

Ken
Copley 253metres, nr Barnard Castle, Teesdale, County Durham
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Ken Cook wrote:
Hi, All,

This must have been the sunniest first week in February on record in
NE England. Virtually cloudless skies have produced 55.9hr(R&D) or
8hr / day average here - wonderful.

That could well be it for a while, though. Easterly flows are not kind
to us and can be persistent. The snow that we shall inevitably have
will soon turn dirty and slushy. It will hang around for days as it
does in the NE Pennines and skies will be overcast with hill fog.
Everything will be wet and miserable and temperatures will be stuck on
+1C.

No one around here wishes for this type of snow, let's hope it goes
quickly. North Sea snow showers with a low dew point, dry snow, clean
air, good visibility - now that's what we want!

Ken
Copley 253metres, nr Barnard Castle, Teesdale, County Durham
http://copley.mysite.orange.co.uk


Most people moan there's no snow.... and when it comes you pop up with
"It's the wrong type!" You didn't used to work for British rail perchance?
;o)

Les




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Hi, All,

This must have been the sunniest first week in February on record in
NE England. Virtually cloudless skies have produced 55.9hr(R&D) or
8hr / day average here - wonderful.

That could well be it for a while, though. Easterly flows are not kind
to us and can be persistent. The snow that we shall inevitably have
will soon turn dirty and slushy. It will hang around for days as it
does in the NE Pennines and skies will be overcast with hill fog.
Everything will be wet and miserable and temperatures will be stuck on
+1C.

No one around here wishes for this type of snow, let's hope it goes
quickly. North Sea snow showers with a low dew point, dry snow, clean
air, good visibility - now that's what we want!

Ken
Copley 253metres, nr Barnard Castle, Teesdale, County Durham
http://copley.mysite.orange.co.uk


North Sea snow showers! Whatever happened to them?
Although the forecasters have promised us a covering the last two nights, we
could almost have counted the flakes. Just when the showers seemed to be
building up on the coast, as soon as they moved inland, nothing happened.
I counted 4 separate bands of showers in the last 24 hours when it looked
like a decent dumping was on the way that just evaporated.
Can't see us getting much here tomorrow Ken, but as you say I used to hate
the snow soup that you get in these situations when in Penistone.

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David Mitchell, 70m amsl, Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire.


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On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:16:38 -0000, Les Hemmings wrote:

Most people moan there's no snow.... and when it comes you pop up with
"It's the wrong type!" You didn't used to work for British rail
perchance?


British Rail don't like the snow we get, dry and powdery. Gets in
everywhe

http://srv1.howhill.com/weather/view...2005&m=02&d=24

Scroll down to the bottom, that interior drift got at least twice as big.

Ken really knows how to cheer a chap up, if there is one thing I hate it
is temps just above freezing with overcast grey skies or hill fog. It's
just cold, damp and depressing, ugh... Drop the temp to below freezing
and it's just cold, the dampness goes and lifts the depression.

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On 7 Feb, 18:16, "Les Hemmings"
wrote:
Most people moan there's no snow.... and when it comes you pop up with
"It's the wrong type!" You didn't used to work for British rail perchance?
;o)

Les

Hi, Les,

I've sent this once - must be lost in the snow!
I worked at WH Smiths bookstall in Scarborough in my youth - so you
were close!
My nickname is Victor in this house, but I cheer up uncontrollably
when warm sun shines.

Ken



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Ken Cook wrote:
On 7 Feb, 18:16, "Les Hemmings"
wrote:
Most people moan there's no snow.... and when it comes you pop up
with "It's the wrong type!" You didn't used to work for British rail
perchance? ;o)

Les

Hi, Les,

I've sent this once - must be lost in the snow!
I worked at WH Smiths bookstall in Scarborough in my youth - so you
were close!
My nickname is Victor in this house, but I cheer up uncontrollably
when warm sun shines.

Ken


Hi Ken... I was living in the S.W. at the time of the "wrong snow" incident.
It was dry, powdery stuff that got into the air vents of the intercity 125's
if i remember. Not the usual clumpy wet stuff we normally get...

Known as Meldrew myself 'round these parts... ;o)

Les


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"That's 10 times I've explained binary to you. I won't tell you a 3rd
time!"


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Dave Liquorice wrote:
British Rail don't like the snow we get, dry and powdery. Gets in
everywhe

http://srv1.howhill.com/weather/view...2005&m=02&d=24

Scroll down to the bottom, that interior drift got at least twice as
big.

Tried but....

Firefox can't find the server at srv1.howhill.com.

Les

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"Oh Bother!" said the Borg, "We've assimilated Pooh!"

"That's 10 times I've explained binary to you. I won't tell you a 3rd
time!"


http://armsofmorpheus.blogspot.com/

http://www.richarddawkins.net/index.php


Les Hemmings a.a #2251 SA



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On Feb 8, 10:19 am, "Ken Cook" wrote:
On 7 Feb, 18:16, "Les Hemmings"
wrote: Most people moan there's no snow.... and when it comes you pop up with
"It's the wrong type!" You didn't used to work for British rail perchance?
;o)


Les


Hi, Les,

I've sent this once - must be lost in the snow!
I worked at WH Smiths bookstall in Scarborough in my youth - so you
were close!
My nickname is Victor in this house, but I cheer up uncontrollably
when warm sun shines.

Ken


Ken & Dave,

Your comments support my ultimate preference for sun over warmth. In
this country we don't get many prolonged spells of overcast gloomy
weather,
which I hate. Mean annual sun in the towns varies from about 39% of
the possible to 59%, with average of about 49%. The relatively
sunniest month
on record was July 1952 at Blenheim (231 hrs of recordable C/S
possible 273, or over 84%), and in December(!) one station once
recorded only 60 hrs
of a possible 450 [13.3%] - persistent cloudy onshore flow in an
anticyclonic situation, plus some unsettled cloudy weather. The same
site recorded 161
hrs of sunshine in the June of that year!!





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