is here

http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/...ummer/0011889/


--
George in Swanston, Edinburgh, 575'asl
www.swanstonweather.co.uk
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk

On Friday, November 21, 2014 3:48:13 PM UTC, George Booth wrote:
is here

http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/...ummer/0011889/


--
George in Swanston, Edinburgh, 575'asl
www.swanstonweather.co.uk
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk

Thanks George.
Most interesting.
One of those weird and wonderful pastimes.
That's where the term 'anoraks' has come from.

A similar study could be done on Dartmoor.
Seeing how long snow patches survive after a given winter.
There's something for Will to do.
I know he is twiddling his fingers these days now he is retired.

Len
Wembury

In message , George Booth
writes
is here

http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/...ummer/0011889/



Thanks. I always look forward to the annual article in "Weather" on the
previous year's snow patches that have survived the summer, but that
normally isn't published till about the following July.
--
John Hall "Never play cards with a man called Doc.
Never eat at a place called Mom's.
Never sleep with a woman whose troubles
are worse than your own." Nelson Algren

On Friday, 21 November 2014 16:50:53 UTC, Len Wood wrote:
On Friday, November 21, 2014 3:48:13 PM UTC, George Booth wrote:
is here

http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/...ummer/0011889/


--
George in Swanston, Edinburgh, 575'asl
www.swanstonweather.co.uk
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk

Thanks George.
Most interesting.
One of those weird and wonderful pastimes.
That's where the term 'anoraks' has come from.

A similar study could be done on Dartmoor.
Seeing how long snow patches survive after a given winter.
There's something for Will to do.
I know he is twiddling his fingers these days now he is retired.

Len
Wembury

Will could come back and sort our union out!

Ben

Len Wood wrote:

On Friday, November 21, 2014 3:48:13 PM UTC, George Booth wrote:
is here

http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/...ummer/0011889/


--
George in Swanston, Edinburgh, 575'asl
www.swanstonweather.co.uk
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk

Thanks George.
Most interesting.
One of those weird and wonderful pastimes.
That's where the term 'anoraks' has come from.

A similar study could be done on Dartmoor.
Seeing how long snow patches survive after a given winter.
There's something for Will to do.
I know he is twiddling his fingers these days now he is retired.

Len
Wembury

I think it was P.C. Spink who did a report on Scottish snow survivals every
year for many years. His reports were published in "Weather".

I read somewhere that in the climate of the mid-20th century, glaciers could
have existed on mountains over 5000 ft high in Scotland, had there been any
that high.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org

On Friday, 21 November 2014 17:12:19 UTC, Norman wrote:

I think it was P.C. Spink who did a report on Scottish snow survivals every
year for many years. His reports were published in "Weather".

I read somewhere that in the climate of the mid-20th century, glaciers could
have existed on mountains over 5000 ft high in Scotland, had there been any
that high.

Hi, Norman,
Indeed it was P.(Paul?)C. Spink.
I think the text to which you refer is the one and only Climate and the British Scene (1952) where Manley wrote that the snowline in the Ben Nevis region would be 5,300ft, in the Lake District 5,900ft and 6,300ft in the Snowdon region.
Ken
Copley
Teesdale

On 21/11/2014 17:24, Ken Cook wrote:
On Friday, 21 November 2014 17:12:19 UTC, Norman wrote:

I think it was P.C. Spink who did a report on Scottish snow
survivals every year for many years. His reports were published in
"Weather".

I read somewhere that in the climate of the mid-20th century,
glaciers could have existed on mountains over 5000 ft high in
Scotland, had there been any that high.

Hi, Norman, Indeed it was P.(Paul?)C. Spink. I think the text to
which you refer is the one and only Climate and the British Scene
(1952) where Manley wrote that the snowline in the Ben Nevis region
would be 5,300ft, in the Lake District 5,900ft and 6,300ft in the
Snowdon region.

Must dig out my copy...



--

Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

In message , Norman
writes
I read somewhere that in the climate of the mid-20th century, glaciers
could have existed on mountains over 5000 ft high in Scotland, had
there been any that high.

During the Little Ice Age there must have been periods when glaciers
weren't far off being created in the Highlands.
--
John Hall "Never play cards with a man called Doc.
Never eat at a place called Mom's.
Never sleep with a woman whose troubles
are worse than your own." Nelson Algren

"Len Wood" wrote in message
...
On Friday, November 21, 2014 3:48:13 PM UTC, George Booth wrote:
is here

http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/...ummer/0011889/


--
George in Swanston, Edinburgh, 575'asl
www.swanstonweather.co.uk
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk

Thanks George.
Most interesting.
One of those weird and wonderful pastimes.
That's where the term 'anoraks' has come from.

A similar study could be done on Dartmoor.
Seeing how long snow patches survive after a given winter.
There's something for Will to do.
I know he is twiddling his fingers these days now he is retired.


LOL, yeah plenty of time, not.

Latest I have seen an old snow patch on Dartmoor was in May. I believe in
1963 some patches survived until July. In 2010 snow patches survived two
weeks after the thaw on the north side of Hay Tor, depends on drifting.
Recent snows have seen very little drifting. Also tends to hang around in
Fernworthy forest due to lack of insolation and the woods seem to break up
the mild snow eating SW'lies. And that is the trouble with Dartmoor, thaws
come with a vengeance with warm SW'lies bringing heavy rain and wet-bulbs
around 9C. Unless the snow has gone through a number of thaw/freeze cycles
it soon goes. As you know SW'ern snow does not often go through more than a
couple of those.

Will
--
http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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wrote in message
...
On Friday, 21 November 2014 16:50:53 UTC, Len Wood wrote:
On Friday, November 21, 2014 3:48:13 PM UTC, George Booth wrote:
is here

http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/...ummer/0011889/


--
George in Swanston, Edinburgh, 575'asl
www.swanstonweather.co.uk
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk

Thanks George.
Most interesting.
One of those weird and wonderful pastimes.
That's where the term 'anoraks' has come from.

A similar study could be done on Dartmoor.
Seeing how long snow patches survive after a given winter.
There's something for Will to do.
I know he is twiddling his fingers these days now he is retired.

Len
Wembury

Will could come back and sort our union out!

Ben

Hi Ben, I'd love to drag you lot out on a strike! But go for it, nothing to
lose except a day's pay, and don't buy into all that mushy loyalty and we
mustn't hurt the business crap. You are being paid peanuts for what they get
out of you, about time the worm turned. But easy for me to say I know.

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