Looks like Feb will end up 0.1 or 0.2 degC above the
1971-2000 mean. That will, of course, put it well above
the 61-90, 51-80 and 41-70 means. The Febs of
2003, 2005 and 2006 were all a little colder by this
measure.

That will give a winter quarter CET of 3.7°C which
is 0.7degC below the 1971-2000 mean, but only 0.1degC
below the 1941-70 mean. Compare recent winters:

2005-06 4.3°C
2000-01 4.5°C
1996-97 4.0°C
1995-96 3.0°C

The winter quarter was colder in:
1995-96 3.0°C
1990-91 3.0°C
1986-87 3.6°C
1985-86 2.9°C
1984-85 2.9°C
1981-82 2.8°C
1978-79 1.8°C
1976-77 3.3°C.

Seven of the winters in the 1960s were colder. Who wants to
tell Channel Four?

(c) Philip Eden

On 25 Feb, 12:01, "Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:

Seven of the winters in the 1960s were colder. Who wants to
tell Channel Four?

I am "looking forward" to this snow programme with much trepidation.
How can you write a 60-minute programme on a snow event which has
happened all of about 4 weeks ago? Is there really enough material to
detail the event? Will it be lots of soundbites from professional C-
list retrospective programme celebrities like Trevor Nelson and Paul
Ross on how they couldn't get into to work that day?

They don't even have the "why weren't we warned element" this time to
pad out a good 20 minutes of mildly angry whining about the Met
Office, so maybe this 20 minutes will be allocated to why the local
councils didn't listen to the Met Office and/or the "lack of grit"
bombshell with extensive interviews with the British Board of Salt.

Fair enough the last show about the UK Storm-chaser made an hour of
interesting viewing as it was quite quirky and was as much human as it
was meteorological, but an hour on a snow event? Please.

Documentary cynic? Me?

Richard

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
...
Looks like Feb will end up 0.1 or 0.2 degC above the
1971-2000 mean. That will, of course, put it well above
the 61-90, 51-80 and 41-70 means. The Febs of
2003, 2005 and 2006 were all a little colder by this
measure.

That will give a winter quarter CET of 3.7°C which
is 0.7degC below the 1971-2000 mean, but only 0.1degC
below the 1941-70 mean. Compare recent winters:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporat...r20090225.html

suggests a Winter Dec-Feb of 3.2c for England.
"Coldest for a decade"

Phil