I'm assuming the North Sea is pretty cold this year.

So I expect that means, right through late spring and early summer,
potentially warm, sunny days in East Anglia are going to be ruined by
sea frets, gloom and drizzle. Deep joy.

Just had to order more oil and wood. I'm guessing a bit, but I think
this winter has cost me about £300 extra in heating.

Hateful weather - but xcweather is promising us +10c tomorrow. We shall
see...

--
Chris
Swaffham, Norfolk

On Feb 23, 10:39*am, Chris Smith wrote:
I'm assuming the North Sea is pretty cold this year.

So I expect that means, right through late spring and early summer,
potentially warm, sunny days in East Anglia are going to be ruined by
sea frets, gloom and drizzle. Deep joy.

Just had to order more oil and wood. I'm guessing a bit, but I think
this winter has cost me about £300 extra in heating.

Hateful weather - but xcweather is promising us +10c tomorrow. We shall
see...

--
Chris
Swaffham, Norfolk

True Chris! The heating has been on far more than usual.

Better side effects could be the probable lack of pests in the garden
this summer and a killing off of some of the alien species from the
south which have managed to get a toe-hold on the UK over the past 20
years, or so. This winter should have killed a lot of larvae and pupae.

On 23/02/10 10:39, Chris Smith wrote:
I'm assuming the North Sea is pretty cold this year.


Looks to be a degree or two below normal but it's about 4C warmer than
Feb 63.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
"I wear the cheese. It does not wear me."

On 23/02/10 11:23, Dawlish wrote:
True Chris! The heating has been on far more than usual.

Mine was this morning. I was starting to sweat and wondered whether I
was sickening for something. Checked the lounge temperature and it was
26C! The thermostat was off so checked the boiler and the CH circuit was
also off. Must be my mother's ghost is tinkering with the system - 26C
was just about comfortable for her.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
"I wear the cheese. It does not wear me."

A graph of sea surface temps at locations around the BI since 2000, up to
end Jan 2010, can be found at:

http://www.woksat.info/wwp/seatemp.gif

The point at 55N 05E is near the middle of the North Sea.

--
Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

Weather satellite images at:
www.woksat.info/wwp.html

"Chris Smith" wrote in message
...
I'm assuming the North Sea is pretty cold this year.

So I expect that means, right through late spring and early summer,
potentially warm, sunny days in East Anglia are going to be ruined by
sea frets, gloom and drizzle. Deep joy.

Just had to order more oil and wood. I'm guessing a bit, but I think
this winter has cost me about £300 extra in heating.

Hateful weather - but xcweather is promising us +10c tomorrow. We shall
see...

--
Chris
Swaffham, Norfolk

On Feb 23, 10:39*am, Chris Smith wrote:
I'm assuming the North Sea is pretty cold this year.

So I expect that means, right through late spring and early summer,
potentially warm, sunny days in East Anglia are going to be ruined by
sea frets, gloom and drizzle. Deep joy.

Just had to order more oil and wood. I'm guessing a bit, but I think
this winter has cost me about £300 extra in heating.

Hateful weather - but xcweather is promising us +10c tomorrow. We shall
see...

--
Chris
Swaffham, Norfolk

No reason to suppose that the North Sea won't warm up or that low
SST's in the North Sea preclude a decent summer, even in the east, if
the figures on Bernard Burton's (q.v.) site are to be believed. 2006
is a good example.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

"Tudor Hughes" wrote in message
...
On Feb 23, 10:39 am, Chris Smith wrote:
I'm assuming the North Sea is pretty cold this year.

So I expect that means, right through late spring and early summer,
potentially warm, sunny days in East Anglia are going to be ruined by
sea frets, gloom and drizzle. Deep joy.

Just had to order more oil and wood. I'm guessing a bit, but I think
this winter has cost me about £300 extra in heating.

Hateful weather - but xcweather is promising us +10c tomorrow. We shall
see...

--
Chris
Swaffham, Norfolk

No reason to suppose that the North Sea won't warm up or that low
SST's in the North Sea preclude a decent summer, even in the east, if
the figures on Bernard Burton's (q.v.) site are to be believed. 2006
is a good example.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.



1947 is possibly the best example, very cold start to the year and no doubt
a very cool North sea, very hot summer followed.
Alex.

My mother keeps her house around a steady 14C!


"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
...
On 23/02/10 11:23, Dawlish wrote:
True Chris! The heating has been on far more than usual.

Mine was this morning. I was starting to sweat and wondered whether I
was sickening for something. Checked the lounge temperature and it was
26C! The thermostat was off so checked the boiler and the CH circuit was
also off. Must be my mother's ghost is tinkering with the system - 26C
was just about comfortable for her.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
"I wear the cheese. It does not wear me."