Weather winter 2010/2011

[ranunculus]

In the case of your example Maureen ... it might just lift the lid on it!

[Anthony Darby]

In the case of your example Maureen ... it might just lift the lid on it!

Thawed as much!

[Anthony Darby]

Digger driver having a break from clearing the snow.

[Maggi Young]

Cute digger driver.... he looks about the same age as a wee lad shown hard at work with a snow shovel on the news yesterday.... in a piece telling us how council workers were battling to clear the roads..... I can't help feeling that these cutbacks we keep hearing aboiut are  being enforced too rigorously.... thisi s surely a blatant attempt to circumvent the regulations for the paying of minimum wage for the under sixes........

[angie]

Digger driver having a break from clearing the snow.

Isn't that cute. He looks exhausted.

Maggi we got our sand delivered by our council yesterday... One heap dumped at the top of our steep hill. I presume we have to take our shovels and scatter it ourselves 

Angie

[Anthony Darby]

I suspect the young gentleman is over 6 as he is in P2! He is out at the crack of dawn and must be worn out by bed time!

[cohan]

We thought it had been a cold month here and now it's confirmed to have been the coldest ever. The main headline in the paper today was that it had been the coldest ever November since records began here in Trondheim in 1788!!!

http://www.adressa.no/vaeret/article1557596.ece (try Google translate)

There's an interesting map showing the temperature deviation from normal on the right hand side for the whole Northern hemisphere. You can click on this map to come to another article explaining that this really is a very local phenomenon and that there are other areas in the arctic much warmer than normal (e.g., Arctic Canada). Here you can see that Mark OnionMan is an area with above average temperatures.

It's forecast to continue for at least another week, although temperature will rise to much more pleasant -10 deg C.

our deep cold eased some days ago, fortunately, though not many on the forum would recognise our current temps as 'warmer'  this week is ranging from just below 0 to -11 days, and nights from -12 to -20; normal is -3/-14 so we are right around normal now, to just a bit below... although we got to -38ish, i doubt we set any 200 year records...

[scatigaz]

     We have about 6 inches of snow here. It has been snowing for the last two hours and is forecast all night. Luckily i have the day off work tomorrow. Not seen any of my snowdrops for 3-4 days now but i am sure they will be snug under the snow.

[Paul T]

Way down here at the other end of the world (snow?  Alien idea at present!!  )  After last weeks gorgeous spring weather of mid to high 20s ('C) we've had lots of rain in the last few days.  Over 100mm at my place so far, which is a LOT of rain compared to our usual rainfalls.  Here at my place we've had nearly 1000mm of rain this year, which is more than double what we've had in the last few years.  Has been wonderful for our catchment dam levels thankfully, as they're almost full (whereas a year ago they were at 40%).  So very nice to have all this rain, but we've actually started to get sick of it now.    You just can't please some people, can you!! 

Commiserations to all of those who are snowed in or snowed under.  We see reports on our news about record minimum temps for November being broken, and how bad it is in places for this time of year.  I hope everyone comes through it OK. 

[ArnoldT]

I'd guess things must be  hovering around absolute zero in Manchester with Man U losing 4-0 to West ham.

[Paul T]

 

[ranunculus]

Most Man' Utd. fans live in Surrey anyway!   It was just a shame it wasn't Bolton popping in those four goals!   

[Tony Willis]

Most Man' Utd. fans live in Surrey anyway!   It was just a shame it wasn't Bolton popping in those four goals!   

Not all of them! Who are Bolton?

No snow in Chorley. Only another day and I bet most people will start blaming the Government for the weather.

[Anthony Darby]

No snow in Chorley. Only another day and I bet most people will start blaming the Government for the weather.

Why not? They're making a hash of everything else!

[ranunculus]

Most Man' Utd. fans live in Surrey anyway!   It was just a shame it wasn't Bolton popping in those four goals!   

Not all of them! Who are Bolton?

1958 Wembley Stadium