It is incredibly still outside and the temp has now just crept down to
-6: it reached -6.1C this morning.

I dont expect it to get much lower - or will it..

My record is -9.2c last Feb

However, the neighbours outside stop cock has failed and water has
been pouring across the road from an area just one foot from my front
door. Wessex have put a vast amount of brine down to reduce ice....
The whole village is suffering from problems of very water high
pressure and at least six stop cocks have failed even though some of
these are only months old

Inside the stove has been working hard and I now have reached 16C so
things are looking up since the low of 5C yesterday.

I am beginning to think that we might get a dusting tomorrow evening

R

Hilton

Dorset

"Robin Nicholson" wrote ...
It is incredibly still outside and the temp has now just crept down
to
-6: it reached -6.1C this morning.

I dont expect it to get much lower - or will it..
snip

.... At 2145Z -4.8°C in my very sheltered garden enclosed by objects
that radiate nicely, so it must be even parkier out in the country! -6
at Hurn, with a gentle drift down the Stour valley.

I am beginning to think that we might get a dusting tomorrow evening

.... I'm planning on something a bit more than that now: a few days
ago, I was dismissing the possibility of anything too significant, but
gathering all the dynamics together, the *risk* of something quite
substantial is higher than 50%, certainly high enough for me to make
sure that everything is to hand, like shovels, salt etc.

Martin.



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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 21:45:15 -0000, "Martin Rowley"
wrote:


... At 2145Z -4.8°C in my very sheltered garden enclosed by objects
that radiate nicely, so it must be even parkier out in the country! -6
at Hurn, with a gentle drift down the Stour valley.

Temp has shot up to -4 ( with a slight mixing of air I guess) And the
top storey inside is 11C which is most acceptable!

... I'm planning on something a bit more than that now: a few days
ago, I was dismissing the possibility of anything too significant, but
gathering all the dynamics together, the *risk* of something quite
substantial is higher than 50%, certainly high enough for me to make
sure that everything is to hand, like shovels, salt etc.

Yes- it is getting MOST exciting. And Wessex Water have been ( 2100)
and failed to stop the flow so the job is being done tomorrow. Just as
well, as the flow would fill a bath in 5 minutes.

Aiming to get back from work at 1600 so things can start then if they
wish to!

R

"Hilton -6C"

What a cool hotel