So Andrew Bond is actually controlling our weather?
Does that mean we can sue him for damages if we do get snow and ice and have
an accident? After all it was all his fault!






"LightningPants" wrote in message
oups.com...
don't mean to be rude, but if you want to keep hold of sanity don't
read TWO forums

i'm reading stuff like

"thanks to metcheck, it's looking good for the end of next week?"

crystal ball time again eh?
or maybe Bond makes our weather, is really a God of some description

there's just no educating some people

1) no-one really knows what it'll be doing by the end of next week

2) that is like thanking the lottery company for the win you've yet to
have

Bah, fiddlesticks, had enough of this utter rubbish

What i always say, if people start getting excited about what weather
model+2 or 3 weeks show then
i predict it'll end in tears most of the time

I realise what we have right now is boring to some people, just that i
think some people do not keep their feet on terra firma

I must admit I am very disallusioned as far as snow in this country is
concerned. Nothing in the models has given me any confidence that we
will get any this year once again. Winter now consists of a frost down
here in southeast and if it sleets it's a siberian winter. I've nearly
lost hope.


Keith (Southend)

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http://www.southendweather.net

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:59:38 GMT, "Dave.C"
wrote:


"Gavin Staples" wrote in message
...
There is a bit of snow ramping going on by the independents. I am not
getting drawn into it. No, its not because I am stand offish. It is because
everytime someone gets over excited by cold weather we all get disappointed.

.... plus if you remember, earlier in the winter you said you didn't like
cold weather because of the cost of heating oil.;-(

Dave

"Keith (Southend)" wrote in message
...
I must admit I am very disallusioned as far as snow in this country is
concerned. Nothing in the models has given me any confidence that we
will get any this year once again. Winter now consists of a frost down
here in southeast and if it sleets it's a siberian winter. I've nearly
lost hope.


But you are in coastal South East England.
From what I understand of the British climate, lowland Southern England
*never* got reliable snowfall in winter, though the odd severe easterly
blizzard always occurred when the conditions were right.
Today of course the chances of this 'perfect storm' seem to be receding
ever more year on year but I don't think there was ever a 'golden age' of
British snowfall. Well not in the last 100 years at least.......

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

Trouble is, 1963 was just so good down in these parts. When you're 13 and
you jump into a drift that covers your head you tend to remember it!

Dave

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I was 11 in 1963 and in Manchester we had hardly any snow, being well sheltered
from the east. My best snow memory was in Dec 1981 driving back home through 30
cm of snow on the M4 around Heathrow after doing a night shift at London Weather
Centre! And of course the very brief Haytor blizzard of March 11th 2003 :-)

Will.
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"Dave.C" wrote in message
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Trouble is, 1963 was just so good down in these parts. When you're 13 and
you jump into a drift that covers your head you tend to remember it!

Dave

In article ,
"Keith (Southend)" writes:
I must admit I am very disallusioned as far as snow in this country is
concerned. Nothing in the models has given me any confidence that we
will get any this year once again. Winter now consists of a frost down
here in southeast and if it sleets it's a siberian winter. I've nearly
lost hope.

Well, we had sleet one day in November this year in my part of Surrey.
If we can have sleet in November, then clearly snow in January is still
quite possible. So don't give up hope.
--
John Hall "[It was] so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps,
like a person breaking into giggles or hiccups, and then resumed
its sober climb, until it had another fit of steps."
Ursula K Le Guin "The Beginning Place"

Will you must remember Victor or just Vic, who worked on the public shop
desk so to speak.




"Will Hand" wrote in message
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I was 11 in 1963 and in Manchester we had hardly any snow, being well
sheltered
from the east. My best snow memory was in Dec 1981 driving back home
through 30
cm of snow on the M4 around Heathrow after doing a night shift at London
Weather
Centre! And of course the very brief Haytor blizzard of March 11th 2003
:-)

Will.
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http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...met_office.htm "
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"Dave.C" wrote in message
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Trouble is, 1963 was just so good down in these parts. When you're 13 and
you jump into a drift that covers your head you tend to remember it!

Dave

! was 3, so son't remember it. !

Keith (Southend)

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 09:21:09 -0000, "Will Hand"
wrote:


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I was 11 in 1963 and in Manchester we had hardly any snow, being well sheltered
from the east. My best snow memory was in Dec 1981 driving back home through 30
cm of snow on the M4 around Heathrow after doing a night shift at London Weather
Centre! And of course the very brief Haytor blizzard of March 11th 2003 :-)

Will.


Keith (Southend)

***********************
Weather Home & Abroad
http://www.southendweather.net

"Lawrence" wrote in message
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Will you must remember Victor or just Vic, who worked on the public shop
desk so to speak.



Lawrence, I sure do. Great guy, he'd sell you anything meteorological, even
snowflakes grin.
I also worked with Jack Scott, Mike Fish, Jim Bacon, Ian McCaskill, Bill Giles,
Vic Walters, Bob Pritchard, John Sherwood, Anne Purvis, Mike Shaw, Martin
Morris, David Lee,
Brian Gaze's dad and Andrew Bond's uncle !

Will.
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"Will Hand" wrote in message
...

"Lawrence" wrote in message
...
Will you must remember Victor or just Vic, who worked on the public shop
desk so to speak.



Lawrence, I sure do. Great guy, he'd sell you anything meteorological,
even
snowflakes grin.
I also worked with Jack Scott, Mike Fish, Jim Bacon, Ian McCaskill, Bill
Giles,
Vic Walters, Bob Pritchard, John Sherwood, Anne Purvis, Mike Shaw, Martin
Morris, David Lee,
Brian Gaze's dad and Andrew Bond's uncle !


You name dropper, Will. :-)

Victor