"Paul C" wrote in message
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On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 10:56:21 +0100, "Rob Overfield"
wrote:

Ah Schiehallion. Theres a name to bring back memories. I once lost a camera
up there when I was 13, on the final day of a holiday...

It was from observations of Schiehallion that Maskelyne measured the
mass of the earth .....erm don't ask me how!

Hey, I remember my Grandpa telling me about this!

It was something to do with the fact that Schiehallion is a very symetrical
mountain and consistent gravity measurements could be made around it.

OK, I'm intrigued now and just Googled it:

http://www.jmt.org/cons/sch/sch_ref_maskel.html

Col
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Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.
http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co.uk

Didn't snow fall in East Anglia in early October 1974, the earliest in
the last fifty years?

wasn't this the same 'winter' that produced the legendary June 02
snowfall over similar areas in Suffolk and Essex!

In article ,
Screenfly writes:
Didn't snow fall in East Anglia in early October 1974, the earliest in
the last fifty years?

I remember that October, 1974 was exceptionally cold. It was then
followed by a very mild winter.

wasn't this the same 'winter' that produced the legendary June 02
snowfall over similar areas in Suffolk and Essex!

Yes. I'm not sure that any actually lay in that area, but there were a
couple of inches on the ground in Buxton in Derbyshire. But within a
week or so the weather had turned very warm, and it was a very good
summer.
--
John Hall

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
Oscar Wilde

When I referred to snow in October I was citing examples of snow actually
lying. In October 1974 snow did not lie in southern England and it really
was in the form of sleety showers reported from places such as Brentwood and
Stanstead on the 7th. However October1974 was indeed a cold month and in
some places the mean was lower than the following December.

Ian Currie-Coulsdon
www.Frostedearth.com



"Screenfly" wrote in message
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Didn't snow fall in East Anglia in early October 1974, the earliest in
the last fifty years?

wasn't this the same 'winter' that produced the legendary June 02
snowfall over similar areas in Suffolk and Essex!