It has now been raining that awful fine misty stuff all evening. It's a
shame that such a good cold snap should wimp its way out in the worst
way possible!
Dave

On Dec 21, 9:31*pm, Dave Cornwell wrote:
It has now been raining that awful fine misty stuff all evening. It's a
shame that such a good cold snap should wimp its way out in the worst
way possible!
Dave

LOL, we must be thinking along the same lines Dave, as I think we
posted exactly the same time.

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"

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Dave Cornwell writes:
It has now been raining that awful fine misty stuff all evening. It's a
shame that such a good cold snap should wimp its way out in the worst
way possible!
Dave

There's not much more depressing than thawing snow. But this is merely a
temporary milder interlude, I think. (With temperatures around 1-2C it's
hardly all that mild. And of course it's really only affecting the SE.)
It looks to me as though even by this time tomorrow 850mb temperatures
will be falling and the air should be getting drier, with a pretty fresh
northeaster setting in. After that it's going to be pretty cold till the
26th at the earliest.

Actually I can remember several days like today back in February, 1963 -
grey with a slow thaw and sometimes a bit of light rain or drizzle -
though I think there was only about one night when it didn't freeze.
February that year was nothing like as intensely cold as January. Though
the February CET was below zero, the mean temperature here south of the
Thames was probably positive. But with such a thick snow cover at the
start of the month it never all got shifted.
--
John Hall
"I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
will hardly mind anything else."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
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It has now been raining that awful fine misty stuff all evening. It's a
shame that such a good cold snap should wimp its way out in the worst way
possible!
Dave

UKMO did predict it Dave......................NOT

On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:31:39 +0000, Dave Cornwell wrote:

It has now been raining that awful fine misty stuff all evening. It's a
shame that such a good cold snap should wimp its way out in the worst
way possible!
Dave

It has been at 0.3C most of yesterday evening and dropped to -0.1C this
morning; there has been very light snow on a nd off over this period not
adding significantly to any snow totals.

Alan Gardiner
Chiswell Green, St Albans
101m ASL
22/12/2010 08:11:03
https://sites.google.com/site/alangardinersinfo/

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Dave Cornwell writes:
The 850's do seem to drop a fair bit by Thursday but I still fear more
grey bleakness for some reason, it's so damp now.

I didn't venture out this morning to get my newspaper, as I think it
dropped to just below freezing here overnight, and after yesterday's
slow thaw it could have been very icy. We still have a full snow cover
here, though a bit moth-eaten in sheltered spots.
--
John Hall
"I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
will hardly mind anything else."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)