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)

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)

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.

"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.
--

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)

"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?

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

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.)

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?

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)