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Have I ever seen a newspaper so full of snow related news than this one
right now? http://www.fedrelandsvennen.no/ see also: http://www.aftenposten.no/english/ or http://bt.dk It started on Wedensday and have continued ever since. Very cold air from a high over Finland/western Russia collided with a humid low over the UK/North Sea. Almost unprecedented amounts of snow combined with strong winds have closed main and local roads in the Sørlandet area of Norway. The main road between Kristiansand and Grimstad was closed for a long period on Wedensday/Thursday mainly because of trucks having bad tires for the weather. Stuck trucks made it impossible for the snow-plows to hold the road open. Thousand of people got stuck in cars and the only way to come to their rescue was with snowscooters! Quite unprecedented also for Norway. The snowfall has not ceased, and large shopping centres must close because of threats to the building and lack of customers. Many smaller buildings have collapsed. Elderly people snowed in in their houses. Petrol, post, schools, powerservices etc. have suffered in the continuos snowrelated difficulties. Bjørn Sørheim, in Norway (not in this area) |
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I wonder what Al Gore will be doing in Kristiansand on the 13th of March
now?! He has to be hoping for an early spring to get attendants! (See near the end of http://fvn.no) Bjørn Sørheim "Bjørn Sørheim" skrev i melding ... Have I ever seen a newspaper so full of snow related news than this one right now? http://www.fedrelandsvennen.no/ see also: http://www.aftenposten.no/english/ or http://bt.dk It started on Wedensday and have continued ever since. Very cold air from a high over Finland/western Russia collided with a humid low over the UK/North Sea. Almost unprecedented amounts of snow combined with strong winds have closed main and local roads in the Sørlandet area of Norway. The main road between Kristiansand and Grimstad was closed for a long period on Wedensday/Thursday mainly because of trucks having bad tires for the weather. Stuck trucks made it impossible for the snow-plows to hold the road open. Thousand of people got stuck in cars and the only way to come to their rescue was with snowscooters! Quite unprecedented also for Norway. The snowfall has not ceased, and large shopping centres must close because of threats to the building and lack of customers. Many smaller buildings have collapsed. Elderly people snowed in in their houses. Petrol, post, schools, powerservices etc. have suffered in the continuos snowrelated difficulties. Bjørn Sørheim, in Norway (not in this area) |
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http://www.fedrelandsvennen.no/
Snip Just for a moment I thought it was affecting Graham and a report from the Svennen Cove Gazette. -- David Mitchell, 70m amsl, Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire. |
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![]() "David Mitchell" wrote in message ... http://www.fedrelandsvennen.no/ Snip Just for a moment I thought it was affecting Graham and a report from the Svennen Cove Gazette. ROFL Will. -- |
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On Feb 24, 8:32 pm, "David Mitchell" wrote:
http://www.fedrelandsvennen.no/ "Liverpool fester videre" ? View Liverpool festering? Liverpool infestation spreads? |
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.....meaning 'Liverpool partying on'
-after the victory over 'Barca', now also beats.... 'fester'='partying', 'fest'=party ('fiest') If the snow situation is of interest, see: http://www.senorge.no/ Click english flag, click 'Snow', click 'Fresh snow weekly' for the snow last week in Norway. Zoom in on the southernmost tip of Norway, area near Kristiansand. Bjørn, having a balmy 8C here locally today (far from Kristiansand) "Weatherlawyer" skrev i melding oups.com... On Feb 24, 8:32 pm, "David Mitchell" wrote: http://www.fedrelandsvennen.no/ "Liverpool fester videre" ? View Liverpool festering? Liverpool infestation spreads? |
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On 24 Feb, 18:17, "Bjørn Sørheim" wrote:
Almost unprecedented amounts of snow combined with strong winds have closed main and local roads in the Sørlandet area of Norway. The main road between Kristiansand and Grimstad was closed for a long period on Wedensday/Thursday mainly because of trucks having bad tires for the weather. Stuck trucks made it impossible for the snow-plows to hold the road open. Thousand of people got stuck in cars and the only way to come to their rescue was with snowscooters! Quite unprecedented also for Norway. Very interesting stuff - an old colleague of mine sent some pictures of her new home in Denmark and reported 20cm of snow and much shovelling, but the fact that most of the roads were easily passable (and a comparison to what might have happened if 8 inches fell in the UK!). I realise not many people have replied to this thread - but this snow could have been us - and indeed the weather models had many people quite excited over here for a while before they backed off the cold further east. Got work trips to Denmark and Norway in the next 6 weeks so who knows, maybe I'll see some more snow further east than these shores ! Richard |
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On Feb 24, 10:45 pm, "Bjørn Sørheim"
wrote: "Weatherlawyer" skrev i ooglegroups.com... On Feb 24, 8:32 pm, "David Mitchell" wrote: http://www.fedrelandsvennen.no/ "Liverpool fester videre" ? View Liverpool festering? Liverpool infestation spreads? ....meaning 'Liverpool partying on' -after the victory over 'Barca', now also beats.... 'fester'='partying', 'fest'=party ('fiest') If the snow situation is of interest, see:http://www.senorge.no/ Click english flag, click 'Snow', click 'Fresh snow weekly' for the snow last week in Norway. Zoom in on the southernmost tip of Norway, area near Kristiansand. Bjørn, having a balmy 8C here locally today (far from Kristiansand) I took the liberty of correcting your top posting to keep the aspidistra flying in a more reasonable arc. As the first of a set of cyclones hits Mozambique and a lot of your people are suffering, I dare say the very small amount of humour in that link wasn't much of a joke. Thanks for pointing out the translation tool in the link. Here is something about this site: http://satellite.ehabich.info/hurricane-watch.htm Exchange the "-watch" in the link for the numbers 1, 2 or 3 and you get one of the cyclones threatening the area as in: http://satellite.ehabich.info/hurricane1.htm for example. (4, 5 and 6 get you old links from a time of world wide extremes.) A lot of meteorologists hesitate to make the connection to the interconnectivity to these seemingly anomalous phenomena, no matter how strident the links. In all fairness of course, they are by no means as bad as geologists in this regard: http://groups.google.com/group/sci.g...4e035cfaf955b5 Further to the main tenet of your thread, there is a severe weather warning out about heavy and persistent rain along the south coast of England. And of course the misty weather also noted in that forecast (on the spitBBC/spit a few moments into my starting this post) indicates that my earlier stuff about mists and tropical cyclones still stands. (I really must put together a database on that.) |
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On Feb 25, 12:36 am, "Richard Dixon" wrote:
I realise not many people have replied to this thread - but this snow could have been us - and indeed the weather models had many people quite excited over here for a while before they backed off the cold further east. Got work trips to Denmark and Norway in the next 6 weeks so who knows, maybe I'll see some more snow further east than these shores! IIRC the time it did happen to us it wasn't the usual wet snow that comes when it is normally warm enough to snow but a more acceptable event entirely. Anyone got ye synopes ane 1963? |
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In article .com,
Weatherlawyer writes: Anyone got ye synopes ane 1963? http://www.mtullett.plus.com/1962-63/ -- John Hall Weep not for little Leonie Abducted by a French Marquis! Though loss of honour was a wrench Just think how it's improved her French. Harry Graham (1874-1936) |
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