In article
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Graham Easterling writes:
On Jan 20, 8:12*pm, John Hall wrote:
In article
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*Fusarium solani writes:

Let's sincerely hope that 2012 is not going to be as boring a year in
southern England as 2011 was.

Spring and autumn were pretty interesting. But of course being
"intermediate" seasons they are never going to be as dramatic as winter
and summer can be.

Spring http://www.sennen-cove.com/ts06.htm (March 10th 2008)
Autumn http://www.turnstone-cottage.co.uk/PzStorm.PDF (Oct 2004)

Pretty dramatic!

You're right of course. The October Storm of 1987 in the SE is another
example, as is the great blizzard in the SW in March, 1891. I was
thinking of temperature when I wrote that, but shouldn't have been so
sweeping.
--
John Hall
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism
by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw

On 20/01/12 19:18, Fusarium solani wrote:
On Jan 20, 2:33 pm, "Tony
wrote:
Having lived in Winchester on and off for about ten years I can confirm
that, meteorologically speaking, it is the most boring place in Britain!

It never gets too hot in summer nor too cold in winter due to its proximity
to the sea. Fronts coming in from the west tend to have lost their vigour by
the time they get here and easterly winds fail to deliver snow showers as
they die out around London.. Thunderstorms no longer seem to come up from
the south and north westerlys are guaranteed to give clear blue skies in
any season rather than the heavy showers experienced elsewhere. Strong winds
are rare due to the shelter of the surrounding downs. To cap it all one
never knows whether to look at the forecast for the SE or SW!

Perhaps this is why so many "normal" people see it as the ideal place?!!

Bored regards

Tony

Guildford seems to share a very similar climate to yours described for
Winchester. A very familiar story - especially with regard to the lack
of thunder in the seasons that have passed for 'summer' in the last
four years. A westerly type winter following a westerly type summer is
not a welcome set-up as such synoptics seldom deliver the goods (heavy
rainfall, heavy showers, snow, thunderstorms etc) in 'central
southern' England (S.E. / S.W.!).

Let's sincerely hope that 2012 is not going to be as boring a year in
southern England as 2011 was.

Guy.
Guildford.

Although didn't Guildford get nearly a foot of snow back in February
2009? It was interesting in that to the south of Newlands Corner
(including where I work at MSSL) there was no more than about four
inches on the ground. Not sure what caused that much snow to fall in
that specific location which doesn't normally receive heavy snow.

"Tony Kenyon" wrote in message
...

Having lived in Winchester on and off for about ten years I can confirm
that, meteorologically speaking, it is the most boring place in Britain!

It never gets too hot in summer nor too cold in winter due to its proximity
to the sea. Fronts coming in from the west tend to have lost their vigour by
the time they get here and easterly winds fail to deliver snow showers as
they die out around London.. Thunderstorms no longer seem to come up from
the south and north westerlys are guaranteed to give clear blue skies in
any season rather than the heavy showers experienced elsewhere. Strong winds
are rare due to the shelter of the surrounding downs. To cap it all one
never knows whether to look at the forecast for the SE or SW!

Perhaps this is why so many "normal" people see it as the ideal place?!!

Bored regards

Tony


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I was living in Whitchurch during the '63 winter, and couldn't get into
Winchester to school for about a week. Nobody there believed me when I said
the main road was under 12 feet of snow (no dual carriageway in those days,
but a single track road in between banks and hedges). It took the army 10
days to break through from Bullington to the village. The top of the double
deck bus was below the top of the snow wall when they got the service
running again. Utter disbelief (from teachers as well as kids) when I took
in the photos a few days later. Winchester itself had about 6 inches of snow
from that fall.

jim, Northampton

On Jan 20, 7:18*pm, Fusarium solani wrote:
On Jan 20, 2:33*pm, "Tony Kenyon"
wrote:





Having lived in Winchester on and off for about ten years I can confirm
that, meteorologically speaking, it is the most boring place in Britain!

It never gets too hot in summer nor too cold in winter due to its proximity
to the sea. Fronts coming in from the west tend to have lost their vigour by
the time they get here and easterly winds fail to deliver snow showers as
they die out around London.. Thunderstorms no longer seem to come up from
the south and north westerlys are *guaranteed to give clear blue skies in
any season rather than the heavy showers experienced elsewhere. Strong winds
are rare due to the shelter of the surrounding downs. To cap it all one
never knows whether to look at the forecast for the SE or SW!

Perhaps this is why so many "normal" people see it as the ideal place?!!

Bored regards

Tony

Guildford seems to share a very similar climate to yours described for
Winchester. A very familiar story - especially with regard to the lack
of thunder in the seasons that have passed for 'summer' in the last
four years. A westerly type winter following a westerly type summer is
not a welcome set-up as such synoptics seldom deliver the goods (heavy
rainfall, heavy showers, snow, thunderstorms etc) in 'central
southern' England (S.E. / S.W.!).

Let's sincerely hope that 2012 is not going to be as boring a year in
southern England as 2011 was.

Guy.
Guildford.- Hide quoted text -

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The lack of thunderstorms is not due to the specific location or
even local area but seems to be a recent and marked anomaly in
southern England that will rectify itself soon. The number of thunder
days in a year is subject to some strong random effects and doesn't
seem to be correlated with the overall weather in a particular year.
In the last 2 years I have had only 9 thunder-days, equal to the
previous lowest for just *one* year, in a 28-year record. The most
thundery, with 31 days, was 2004, a not otherwise remarkable year.
The average for the entire record is 16.
Everybody seems to think thunderstorms are "elsewhere". Well,
they are; "elsewhere" is a much bigger place than your immediate
neighbourhood.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft. TQ 3516 5955