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On Dec 5, 6:46*pm, Tezza wrote:
On 05/12/2011 18:27, Dave Cornwell wrote: -------------------------------------------- ---------------- Worryingly, I'm finding this cold going right through me. I'm going to have to start wearing old peoples clothes to combat this now I've turned 61. Also my eyes won't stop watering, even when I get indoors. This could also be a "getting old" thing as the doctor says your tears don't drain away so well and I might have to have the eye equivalent of a stent in my tear duct. How long will my snow loving last? I've seen others waver with age. Dave I wavered when I was 17. *That was in the dim and distant '70s. T Possibly a little later, say 21, when I'd left University and had to get from A to B to get to a job or for a social life (i.e. pulling birds, not that I was terribly good at it). These things are actually more important than the weather. I'll say that again. These things are actually more important than the weather. Ask a keen cricketer what he thinks of rain even if he has measured it meticulously for years. You don't have to like everything about the weather to be keenly interested in it. To talk of "wavering" is the language of religion and implies that only the truly devout are real weather enthusiasts. This is nonsense - I first kept records when I was 11, 58 years ago, and still do, as keenly as ever if not more so. Snow is very interesting, spectacular even, but once the boyish thrill has worn off (rather quickly) it's simply a pain. As Philip Larkin might have said "They f*** you up, snow and ice." Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey |
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On 06/12/2011 00:50, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Eskimo Will wrote: "Dave Cornwell" wrote in message ... Lawrence13 wrote: On Dec 5, 5:24 pm, "Eskimo Will" wrote: Interesting looking at the MetO ensemble output today (not publicly available) and the 12Z runs. Deep and stubborn very cold air over Greenland continues to leak south reinforcing the jet and low-level baroclinic zone maintaining the cold westerly type with a north-south gradient in temperature. Already sleet has reached high ground in the SW with snow in Wales. Over the next few days it looks like we will get some milder interludes in the south as deep lows spin up in mid-Atlantic and buckle the flow. Also the baroclinicity sinks south putting the UK bang in the firing line for some rapid deepeners later on with cold air entrained, which will be quite exciting! Only a small chance now of high pressure establishing over UK or near continent. The picture is one of continuing cold zonality with increased high potential vorticity (energy) in the flow. http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl) --------------------------------------------- Well I have to say Will just been out for my walk and it was bitter which took me aback seeing how much of the Atlantic this air has been over before it got here. Truly Taters in Sydenahm with a cold bitter wind whistling through Pound Land in the High Street. Better watch out for the Donar Kebabs tonight -they good congeal very quickly and root people to bus stops and the like. ---------------- Worryingly, I'm finding this cold going right through me. I'm going to have to start wearing old peoples clothes to combat this now I've turned 61. Also my eyes won't stop watering, even when I get indoors. This could also be a "getting old" thing as the doctor says your tears don't drain away so well and I might have to have the eye equivalent of a stent in my tear duct. How long will my snow loving last? I've seen others waver with age. Dave Well my new sledge is in the garage waiting for my 59.5 year old body to get on it and go careering down the hills. Hopefully Father Christmas will being me some new walking shoes as well so I can go yomping in the Dartmoor snow in the New Year. I want to be buried in a snow tomb when I finally go, hopefully in a couple of decades or so yet, LOL :-) Your'e as young as the woman you feel Dave! :-) http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl) --------------------------------------------- The secret if you want to walk pain free is don't play knee damaging competitive sport till your 50! But I enjoyed it! I'm a por man's Ledley King :-( I started playing cricket in my 49th year. It was the umpiring which was doing in the knees! Even after abusing the knees by diving on them - and occasionally stopping the ball with them instead of the preferred method (hands) - they are in better shape now than at the end of 30 years of standing around umpiring. -- - Yokel - Yokel posts via a spam-trap account which is not read. |
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On Dec 5, 5:24*pm, "Eskimo Will" wrote:
Interesting looking at the MetO ensemble output today (not publicly available) and the 12Z runs. Deep and stubborn very cold air over Greenland continues to leak south reinforcing the jet and low-level baroclinic zone maintaining the cold westerly type with a north-south gradient in temperature. Already sleet has reached high ground in the SW with snow in Wales. Over the next few days it looks like we will get some milder interludes in the south as deep lows spin up in mid-Atlantic and buckle the flow. Also the baroclinicity sinks south putting the UK bang in the firing line for some rapid deepeners later on with cold air entrained, which will be quite exciting! Only a small chance now of high pressure establishing over UK or near continent. The picture is one of continuing cold zonality with increased high potential vorticity (energy) in the flow. http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl) --------------------------------------------- Just to illustrate my point that we have *not* had a "cold westerly" across the UK for the last 10 days; the first 5 days of December, in the CET region, had a temperature a smidgeon above average for early December and we all know that November was the second coldest on record in the UK and in the CET region the second warmest November in 353 years. The last week did very little to reduce the CET. This talk of a cold westerly has been fantasy, up to 2 days ago for much of the UK and a little longer in Scotland. Now, the situation is more akin to what Will has been wanting us to think it has been since the last week of November. I really am fed up with the exaggerration for effect and to back up a post where a "cold westerly" was apparently established a few days before almost UK record temperatures in Aberdeen at 15.7C on 26th Nov. We have had zonal weather since about 24/11/2011; it was well flagged by the models and gave me 2 correct forecasts on the 27th and 30th Nov. It has actually been warmer than average over the UK, *as a whole*, during the 10-day period from then, up to the 4th. The temperatures don't lie, I'm afraid. |
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LOL!
did the snow, frost, cold wind come up on a mild southwesterley? in DENIAL! KEEP DIGGING! were loving it. On 06/12/2011 9:36 PM, Dawlish wrote: Just to illustrate my point that we have *not* had a "cold westerly" This talk of a cold westerly has been fantasy, |
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On Dec 6, 12:50*am, Dave Cornwell wrote:
The secret if you want to walk pain free is don't play knee damaging competitive sport till your 50! Actually when you reach a "certain age", the stiffness in one's joints becomes a matter of what sort of and how much protein you feed them. A day on plain boiled vegetables will soon sort out a day of overdosing. If you ignore the first warnings of over-indulgence stricter denials may be called for. Also the biblical adage of "small beer" or "little wine" instead of caffeinated beverages will answer for much in a constitution so afflicted. |
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![]() LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ![]() On 06/12/2011 9:36 PM, Dawlish wrote: Just to illustrate my point that we have *not* had a "cold westerly" across the UK for the last 10 days; This talk of a cold westerly has been fantasy, |
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SORRY WHAT WAS THAT?
BACKUP UP YOUR COMMENTS? LOL! On 06/12/2011 9:36 PM, Dawlish wrote: Just to illustrate my point that we have *not* had a "cold westerly" across the UK for the last 10 days; This talk of a cold westerly has been fantasy, |
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