Still a full cover this morning but now down to just 2cm. Much of this is
ice and absolutely awful on pavements and untreated roads - and the Stansted
car park at 0345 this morning as I picked up young grandson and his mum at
the end of their epic journey from snowbound Edinburgh. (0945 takeoff
yesterday eventually became 0230 this morning).
Everything but the kitchen sink here yesterday with rain snow and hail
showers am followed by some heavy rain showers pm+lights flickering but no
thunder heard. Sharp fall in temperature after the heaviest shower at 2100
led to everything freezing up again.Much milder today with temperature up to
a balmy +4.1 by midday.

Wouldn't mind a break before the next lot

All the best


--
George in Epping, West Essex (107m asl)
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk
COL 36055

On 24 Dec, 14:13, "George Booth" wrote:

Wouldn't mind a break before the next lot

George, how could you! You'll be ostracised by the cold-weather
junkies.
Merry Christmas.

Ken

Ken Cook wrote:
On 24 Dec, 14:13, "George Booth" wrote:

Wouldn't mind a break before the next lot

George, how could you! You'll be ostracised by the cold-weather
junkies.
Merry Christmas.

Ken


No, I know what George means, it's a right old mess now, so lets have a
break and start again afresh next week :-)

--
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

"Keith(Southend)" wrote in message
...
Ken Cook wrote:
On 24 Dec, 14:13, "George Booth" wrote:

Wouldn't mind a break before the next lot

George, how could you! You'll be ostracised by the cold-weather
junkies.
Merry Christmas.

Ken


No, I know what George means, it's a right old mess now, so lets have a
break and start again afresh next week :-)

--
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

Ken and Keith

After a week of snow cover it just looks tired. I know it was freshened up a
couple of times but now it's that horrible mixture of frozen snow which has
been through several freeze-thaw cycles and solid ice which is an absolute
pain to walk on with our undulating pavements (the trees you see). With my
high c of g I find it a real challenge to walk along an ice covered pavement
on a hill where the pavement also has a slope towards the road. I noticed
somebody using a trekking pole the other day-good idea. Yesterday I broke
open one of the bags of rock salt which I have kept 'on ice' since the last
glaciation here in the early 1980's. This did the trick and allowed me to
use the curved blade snow clearing tool to create impressive mounds of snow
and ice at the edge of the drive. I still have one bag left - looks as if I
may be using it soon.

--
George in Epping, West Essex (107m asl)
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk
COL 36055

In article ,
George Booth writes:
After a week of snow cover it just looks tired. I know it was freshened up a
couple of times but now it's that horrible mixture of frozen snow which has
been through several freeze-thaw cycles and solid ice which is an absolute
pain to walk on with our undulating pavements (the trees you see). With my
high c of g I find it a real challenge to walk along an ice covered pavement
on a hill where the pavement also has a slope towards the road. I noticed
somebody using a trekking pole the other day-good idea. Yesterday I broke
open one of the bags of rock salt which I have kept 'on ice' since the last
glaciation here in the early 1980's. This did the trick and allowed me to
use the curved blade snow clearing tool to create impressive mounds of snow
and ice at the edge of the drive. I still have one bag left - looks as if I
may be using it soon.

When I were a lad, most people would clear the snow from the pavement in
front of their house, so it never got the chance to be compacted into
ice, (You might get a little ice from mel****er running across the
cleared area, but that was usually only a minor problem.) Nobody seems
to do that any more.
--
John Hall "[It was] so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps,
like a person breaking into giggles or hiccups, and then resumed
its sober climb, until it had another fit of steps."
Ursula K Le Guin "The Beginning Place"

On Dec 24, 2:13*pm, "George Booth"
wrote:
Still a full cover this morning but now down to just 2cm. Much of this is
ice and absolutely awful on pavements and untreated roads - and the Stansted
car park at 0345 this morning as I picked up young grandson and his mum at
the end of their epic journey from snowbound Edinburgh. (0945 takeoff
yesterday eventually became 0230 this morning).
Everything but the kitchen sink here yesterday with rain snow and hail
showers am followed by some heavy rain showers pm+lights flickering but no
thunder heard. Sharp fall in temperature after the heaviest shower at 2100
led to everything freezing up again.Much milder today with temperature up to
a balmy +4.1 by midday.

Wouldn't mind a break before the next lot

All the best

--
George in Epping, West Essex (107m asl)www.eppingweather.co.ukwww.winter1947.co.uk
COL 36055

A break of a year would be good. Thirty years? Even better!
My next-door neighbour agrees; he spent five hours driving home from
Leatherhead (15 miles) the other day. His young children think it's
all rather fun, as of course they should.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.