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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) --------------------------------------------- |
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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) --------------------------------------------- |
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![]() "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 -- |
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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... |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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![]() "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 -- |
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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?? |
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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 |
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