Went out for our regular Tuesday pub walk to a high altitude pub (Warren
House Inn at 400 metres asl), circa 9 miles.
Sleet and snow at the car park this morning which turned to rain below 250
metres but then we climbed and passed the patchy snow line at 350 metres and
then it was continuous moderate sticky snow with temperature 0C to +1C and
visibility around 300 metres. Dried out in the pub and by 1400 the sun was
coming out and could still see a reasonable snow cover on the high moor
above 500 metres.
Rain, sleet and snow here in Haytor where the temperature is now at 1600
+5C.
A lovely winter's walk, if a little wet.

Will
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Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 4:04:02 PM UTC, wrote:
Went out for our regular Tuesday pub walk to a high altitude pub (Warren
House Inn at 400 metres asl), circa 9 miles.
Sleet and snow at the car park this morning which turned to rain below 250
metres but then we climbed and passed the patchy snow line at 350 metres and
then it was continuous moderate sticky snow with temperature 0C to +1C and
visibility around 300 metres. Dried out in the pub and by 1400 the sun was
coming out and could still see a reasonable snow cover on the high moor
above 500 metres.
Rain, sleet and snow here in Haytor where the temperature is now at 1600
+5C.
A lovely winter's walk, if a little wet.

Will
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Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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Wet?? What happened to the 'two weeks of rock solid cold"?? *))

Eskimo Will wrote:

Dried out in the pub and by 1400 the sun was
coming out and could still see a reasonable snow cover on the high moor
above 500 metres.


Hameldown Tor (529m) to the East overlooks Warren House Inn. I've run to
the summit many times from Bovey Castle when I have stayed there.

Unfortunately when I went to the pub there was a coach load of Norwegian
tourists there so there was barely even standing room.


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Brian Wakem
Lower Bourne, Farnham, Surrey
http://www.brianwakem.co.uk/weather

"Brian Wakem" wrote in message
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Eskimo Will wrote:

Dried out in the pub and by 1400 the sun was
coming out and could still see a reasonable snow cover on the high moor
above 500 metres.


Hameldown Tor (529m) to the East overlooks Warren House Inn. I've run to
the summit many times from Bovey Castle when I have stayed there.


You must be super fit!

Unfortunately when I went to the pub there was a coach load of Norwegian
tourists there so there was barely even standing room.


Yes it's a lovely spot in summer. Sit outside the pub viewing the Dartmoor
panorama. The Hameldown ridge is a superb walk, done it many times in all
weathers.

Will
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Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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Eskimo Will wrote:

"Brian Wakem" wrote in message
...
Eskimo Will wrote:

Dried out in the pub and by 1400 the sun was
coming out and could still see a reasonable snow cover on the high moor
above 500 metres.


Hameldown Tor (529m) to the East overlooks Warren House Inn. I've run to
the summit many times from Bovey Castle when I have stayed there.


You must be super fit!

Unfortunately when I went to the pub there was a coach load of Norwegian
tourists there so there was barely even standing room.


Yes it's a lovely spot in summer. Sit outside the pub viewing the
Dartmoor panorama. The Hameldown ridge is a superb walk, done it many
times in all weathers.

Will
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I see the maximum in Plymouth was 9.7C today. Shows what a difference
your altitude makes.
Dave

On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 11:52:20 PM UTC, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Eskimo Will wrote:

"Brian Wakem" wrote in message
...
Eskimo Will wrote:

Dried out in the pub and by 1400 the sun was
coming out and could still see a reasonable snow cover on the high moor
above 500 metres.


Hameldown Tor (529m) to the East overlooks Warren House Inn. I've run to
the summit many times from Bovey Castle when I have stayed there.


You must be super fit!

Unfortunately when I went to the pub there was a coach load of Norwegian
tourists there so there was barely even standing room.


Yes it's a lovely spot in summer. Sit outside the pub viewing the
Dartmoor panorama. The Hameldown ridge is a superb walk, done it many
times in all weathers.

Will
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I see the maximum in Plymouth was 9.7C today. Shows what a difference
your altitude makes.
Dave

9.4C in Penzance, unusual to see Plymouth warmer at this time of year, but we had showers streaming in all day. 15.4mm in the 24 hours to 09:00 today, min of 4.9C last night. It's been a very wet middle third of the month

Out on Scilly the mean temperature (not mean max) is still an above average (even for them) 9.0C. THe SST at Sevenstones is still around 11C, (the norm is around 8.5C) higher than I've ever seen it at this time of year, that is certainly having an effect in both temperature and shower intensity.

Graham
Penzance