With high pressure holding over Scandinavia here a few maximum temps
from the area for today 20th January. This is crutial if a NE wind
decides to head our way.

Oslo -8.6°c
Bergen -2.0°c
Sundsvall -10.1°c
Stockholm -3.9°c
Helsinki -8.5°c
Copenhagen +0.5°c

Keith (Southend)

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"Keith (Southend)" wrote in message
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With high pressure holding over Scandinavia here a few maximum temps
from the area for today 20th January. This is crutial if a NE wind
decides to head our way.

Oslo -8.6°c
Bergen -2.0°c
Sundsvall -10.1°c
Stockholm -3.9°c
Helsinki -8.5°c
Copenhagen +0.5°c


They don't sound that cold (for Scandinavia) to me. Am I wrong?

Victor

Thanks Keith.
I'll have the wind from Sundsvall.
Best regards.
Len. (In Basildon)
"Keith (Southend)" wrote in message
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With high pressure holding over Scandinavia here a few maximum temps
from the area for today 20th January. This is crutial if a NE wind
decides to head our way.

Oslo -8.6°c
Bergen -2.0°c
Sundsvall -10.1°c
Stockholm -3.9°c
Helsinki -8.5°c
Copenhagen +0.5°c

Keith (Southend)

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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:55:07 -0000, "Victor West"
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"Keith (Southend)" wrote in message
.. .
With high pressure holding over Scandinavia here a few maximum temps
from the area for today 20th January. This is crutial if a NE wind
decides to head our way.

Oslo -8.6°c
Bergen -2.0°c
Sundsvall -10.1°c
Stockholm -3.9°c
Helsinki -8.5°c
Copenhagen +0.5°c


They don't sound that cold (for Scandinavia) to me. Am I wrong?

Victor

Approaching -20°C in E.Finland
http://www.tieh.fi/alk/english/frame...rat-frame.html

Regards
Mark Chelsham
Webcam & site North Downs,Surrey 185m asl
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.ch...m/mypage2.html

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:53:02 +0000, Keith (Southend) wrote in


With high pressure holding over Scandinavia here a few maximum temps
from the area for today 20th January. This is crutial if a NE wind
decides to head our way.

Oslo -8.6°c
Bergen -2.0°c
Sundsvall -10.1°c
Stockholm -3.9°c
Helsinki -8.5°c
Copenhagen +0.5°c

For what little it is worth here are some temperatures for the same day in
1963 - taken from the posts I made on that winter.

Maxima: Oslo -6C, Stockholm 2C, Helsinki -1C

Minima Oslo -12C, Stockholm -9C, Helsinki -11C

That was with a high just west of Norway and NNE winds blowing over the
eastern and central parts of Scandinavia.

--
Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 20/01/2004 21:20:50 UTC
Temp +7.9C Pressure 1020mb rising

"Keith (Southend)" wrote in message
...
With high pressure holding over Scandinavia here a few maximum temps
from the area for today 20th January. This is crutial if a NE wind
decides to head our way.

Oslo -8.6°c
Bergen -2.0°c
Sundsvall -10.1°c
Stockholm -3.9°c
Helsinki -8.5°c
Copenhagen +0.5°c

Keith (Southend)

I wouldn't think that those combined with the present SST's in the North Sea
would give much of a bite to a N Easterly by the time it reached the UK.
IIRC, in Jan 1987 just before the real cold hit the UK, the mid day temp in
Helsinki on Fri 9th Jan was around -33C!!. Please correct me someone if I'm
wrong. My actual archived records only go back to 1990 but that was noted
individually at the time because of its severity.

Still, an Arctic blast into Scandi would bring them down pretty suddenly.

"Mike Tullett" wrote in message
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:53:02 +0000, Keith (Southend) wrote in


With high pressure holding over Scandinavia here a few maximum temps
from the area for today 20th January. This is crutial if a NE wind
decides to head our way.

Oslo -8.6°c
Bergen -2.0°c
Sundsvall -10.1°c
Stockholm -3.9°c
Helsinki -8.5°c
Copenhagen +0.5°c

For what little it is worth here are some temperatures for the same day in
1963 - taken from the posts I made on that winter.

Maxima: Oslo -6C, Stockholm 2C, Helsinki -1C

Minima Oslo -12C, Stockholm -9C, Helsinki -11C

That was with a high just west of Norway and NNE winds blowing over the
eastern and central parts of Scandinavia.

--
Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 20/01/2004
21:20:50 UTC
Temp +7.9C Pressure 1020mb rising

For what little its worth, just a thought Mike, by this time of that year,
wasn't the snow and cold ground already well established all over Europe and
the N Sea much colder so there would have been less warming of the surface
layers as the cold air came S Westwards?

--
Pete

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Does that mean there is more potential for heavier showers? (Albeit probably
of sleety stuff if we can't drop the temperatures low enough)...

Paul
"Pete B" wrote in message
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"Keith (Southend)" wrote in message
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With high pressure holding over Scandinavia here a few maximum temps
from the area for today 20th January. This is crutial if a NE wind
decides to head our way.

Oslo -8.6°c
Bergen -2.0°c
Sundsvall -10.1°c
Stockholm -3.9°c
Helsinki -8.5°c
Copenhagen +0.5°c

Keith (Southend)

I wouldn't think that those combined with the present SST's in the North
Sea
would give much of a bite to a N Easterly by the time it reached the UK.
IIRC, in Jan 1987 just before the real cold hit the UK, the mid day temp
in
Helsinki on Fri 9th Jan was around -33C!!. Please correct me someone if
I'm
wrong. My actual archived records only go back to 1990 but that was noted
individually at the time because of its severity.

Still, an Arctic blast into Scandi would bring them down pretty suddenly.

Oh yes, I am aware that this is not particularily cold, but it doesn't
look like any mild air is going to change things, infact I would
expect tomorrows to be a little lower, and so on. When it comes to
snow I won't get optomistic until I see the temperature below 0°c,
here in Southend-on-Sea it's been a long time since the temperature
hasn't gone above freezing during the day.

Interesting the 1963 comparison, thankyou Mike.

My data for Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Lowest Maximum temperatures recorded.

1st January 1997 the my max was -2°c.
31st December 1996 -2°c
26th January 1996 -2°c
2nd January 1993 -1°c
7th February 1991 -4°c

Other notable low maximums.

12th January 1987 -6.5°
1st January 1979 -4.5°c
21st Feb 1986 -3°c
15th February 1979 -2.5°c
31st December 1978 -4°c

** January 2004 -*.*°c (Watch this space :-)

Keith (Southend)

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"Paul Freeman" wrote in message
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Does that mean there is more potential for heavier showers? (Albeit
probably
of sleety stuff if we can't drop the temperatures low enough)...


If the showers are heavy enough they will turn to snow, it even happened
last week in Northamptonshire in a much milder airstream.