Well, if you want/need rain in the east and south the word is dire.

High pressure looks like dominating for quite a while, as indeed it has all
winter really. The Azores high has never been far off the scene, even when
Mr Russia exerted his influence, Mr Azores was still there complicating
things in the west, preventing a full blow easterly with high pressure
extending to Iceland. Charts show a blocked pattern once again but with the
location of high pressure uncertain. Increasing signal that, as Atlantic
trough disruptions take place next week pressure will build either over us
or to our east. Any easterly is unlikely to be really cold though, probably
almost spring-like but with night frosts. But as I have said if you need
appreciable rain in the forseeable future, forget it, that will be reserved
for the north and west.
Rain dance anyone? I can do snow dances but not rain :-)

http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
---------------------------------------------

Thanks for that Will ,I hope any rain dance you can organise will be more
succesful than your snow efforts this winter ,strikes me there's been a
dearth of the white stuff in the southwest generally and Dartmoor in
particular .
Come east young man , 6"of snow one day and 18C the next and all in one
month ,you should never have left Bracknell !

RonB




"Eskimo Will" wrote in message
...
Well, if you want/need rain in the east and south the word is dire.

High pressure looks like dominating for quite a while, as indeed it has
all winter really. The Azores high has never been far off the scene, even
when Mr Russia exerted his influence, Mr Azores was still there
complicating things in the west, preventing a full blow easterly with high
pressure extending to Iceland. Charts show a blocked pattern once again
but with the location of high pressure uncertain. Increasing signal that,
as Atlantic trough disruptions take place next week pressure will build
either over us or to our east. Any easterly is unlikely to be really cold
though, probably almost spring-like but with night frosts. But as I have
said if you need appreciable rain in the forseeable future, forget it,
that will be reserved for the north and west.
Rain dance anyone? I can do snow dances but not rain :-)

http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
---------------------------------------------

"ronbutton" wrote in message
...
Thanks for that Will ,I hope any rain dance you can organise will be more
succesful than your snow efforts this winter ,strikes me there's been a
dearth of the white stuff in the southwest generally and Dartmoor in
particular .
Come east young man , 6"of snow one day and 18C the next and all in one
month ,you should never have left Bracknell !

RonB


LOL

When I lived in the Bracknell area, winters were dire, especially in the
1990s, sometimes you'd go a whole winter and not see a single flake of snow.
At least that doesn't happen on Dartmoor! I know what is going to happen, in
a few years I'll move back up north and then the SW will be hit by the
"blizzard of the century" I can see it now. :-)

I'll try the same rain dance I did in the "Crowthorne desert" days, um ah
omni pom, um ah omni pom, actually I'd better be careful, don't need any
more rain on dartmoor :-)

Will
--

On Feb 24, 9:12*am, "Eskimo Will" wrote:
Well, if you want/need rain in the east and south the word is dire.

High pressure looks like dominating for quite a while, as indeed it has all
winter really. The Azores high has never been far off the scene, even when
Mr Russia exerted his influence, Mr Azores was still there complicating
things in the west, preventing a full blow easterly with high pressure
extending to Iceland. Charts show a blocked pattern once again but with the
location of high pressure uncertain. Increasing signal that, as Atlantic
trough disruptions take place next week pressure will build either over us
or to our east. Any easterly is unlikely to be really cold though, probably
almost spring-like but with night frosts. But as I have said if you need
appreciable rain in the forseeable future, forget it, that will be reserved
for the north and west.
Rain dance anyone? I can do snow dances but not rain :-)

http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
---------------------------------------------

That makes grim reading for anyone heading out to the south-east Alps
in March. Having just returned last week I was struck by how low the
snowfall has been around the south side of the range this season.
While there has been record snowfall to the north and north-west, with
average to good snowfall around the west, the south, around the
Italian side will be struggling soon with the increasing intensity of
the sun. The situation has not been helped with the near total absence
of any 'Genoa lows' this winter that dump all their moisture on the
south side...

On 24/02/2012 17:17, Scott W wrote:
On Feb 24, 9:12 am, "Eskimo wrote:
Well, if you want/need rain in the east and south the word is dire.

High pressure looks like dominating for quite a while, as indeed it has all
winter really. The Azores high has never been far off the scene, even when
Mr Russia exerted his influence, Mr Azores was still there complicating
things in the west, preventing a full blow easterly with high pressure
extending to Iceland. Charts show a blocked pattern once again but with the
location of high pressure uncertain. Increasing signal that, as Atlantic
trough disruptions take place next week pressure will build either over us
or to our east. Any easterly is unlikely to be really cold though, probably
almost spring-like but with night frosts. But as I have said if you need
appreciable rain in the forseeable future, forget it, that will be reserved
for the north and west.
Rain dance anyone? I can do snow dances but not rain :-)

http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
---------------------------------------------

That makes grim reading for anyone heading out to the south-east Alps
in March. Having just returned last week I was struck by how low the
snowfall has been around the south side of the range this season.
While there has been record snowfall to the north and north-west, with
average to good snowfall around the west, the south, around the
Italian side will be struggling soon with the increasing intensity of
the sun. The situation has not been helped with the near total absence
of any 'Genoa lows' this winter that dump all their moisture on the
south side...

I was in Gressoney at the New Year and although we had one "dump" of
about 30cm and there has been a few attempts at topping up the depth
since then, there's still very little snow either in the valleys or on
the pistes.

We snow shoe rather than ski and this year, we were able to get up to
some of the higher passes - Unheard of in previous years.

Below about 1400m, the grass was green! :-(

Yesterday, the valley temperature reached 11 DegC so what snow is there
is melting fairly rapidly, I would think.

On 24/02/2012 10:18, ronbutton wrote:
Thanks for that Will ,I hope any rain dance you can organise will be more
succesful than your snow efforts this winter ,strikes me there's been a
dearth of the white stuff in the southwest generally and Dartmoor in
particular .

No snow here (last snow seen falling was the 20th Dec 2010) this winter,
and personally I think that's been fantastic.

This winter will end up being warmer, drier and sunnier than normal -
brilliant, I couldn't have asked for more.

--
Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:06:50 -0000, "Eskimo Will"
wrote:


, in
a few years I'll move back up north

To Flash?

R

"Robin Nicholson" ,uk wrote in
message ...
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:06:50 -0000, "Eskimo Will"
wrote:


, in
a few years I'll move back up north

To Flash?

R


Copley :-)

Will
--

On Feb 24, 9:12*am, "Eskimo Will" wrote:
Well, if you want/need rain in the east and south the word is dire.

High pressure looks like dominating for quite a while, as indeed it has all
winter really. The Azores high has never been far off the scene, even when
Mr Russia exerted his influence, Mr Azores was still there complicating
things in the west, preventing a full blow easterly with high pressure
extending to Iceland. Charts show a blocked pattern once again but with the
location of high pressure uncertain. Increasing signal that, as Atlantic
trough disruptions take place next week pressure will build either over us
or to our east. Any easterly is unlikely to be really cold though, probably
almost spring-like but with night frosts. But as I have said if you need
appreciable rain in the forseeable future, forget it, that will be reserved
for the north and west.
Rain dance anyone? I can do snow dances but not rain :-)

http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
---------------------------------------------



Is this happening? Dry yes, but the blocking does not appear to be
developing. Personally, I never saw an "increasing signal", I saw a
few runs, but there is no time limit on this "assessment" so it'll
probably happen at some time and when it does, the "asessment" will
then have been proven correct.

Did "high pressure dominate all winter"? Really??

Eskimo Will" wrote in message ...

"Robin Nicholson" ,uk wrote in
message ...
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:06:50 -0000, "Eskimo Will"
wrote:


, in
a few years I'll move back up north

To Flash?

R


Copley :-)

Will

Hi, Will,
Just seen this! LOL!
I'm away to watch grandson's Middlesbrough Academy boys v Man. U Academy
boys now. I think I'll need a calculator!!!
A tad bland here today 10:40Z WSW 12KT(Bft 4) vis 10 miles+ broken clouds
temp 6C dew 5C 1027 steady. Just a slight ground frost overnight.
Ken
Copley, Teesdale