9-10 inches of snow where I am!
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Heavy snow here overnight but feeling less cold now that the wind has dropped. A day to stop indoors."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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York has (so far) escaped the snow: just the odd snowflake (not of the university student variety
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Cold though: the lake is frozen, as was the water in the bowl we have out front for passing dogs on their walks/runs the last few mornings, and, I imagine, tomorrow, as our forecast seems to be for -5C tonight.Comment
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostYork has (so far) escaped the snow: just the odd snowflake (not of the university student variety) drifting by the window.
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Amazing! At six this morning it was raining heavily; at nine a couple of centimetres of snow had settled on all surfaces apart from the road, which presumably got salted last night. Since when there has been sleet and snow in alternation, with the temperature hovering around or just above freezing point. What effectively has happened is that the forecast has turned out just about as predicted, but the line of demarcation between windy, mild and wet and more-or-less calm and snowy, indicated on the chart kindly provided by Caliban, has lain just dozen miles or so further south than we predicted at this time yesterday, so that Bbm has been in the warm sector - though by now he will find if he ventures outside that he has joined us lot a short distance further north. Just to give an indication of the narrowness of the divide, at one point, around 2 pm this afternoon, Southampton was experiencing a temperature of 1 degree C, while at Fawley, just miles to the south, it was 10 C!
I had a nasty experience just after lunch when intending to empty my waste bin I found the path too slushy to navigate in my usual trainers. Unless I don my uncomfortable snow boots I can't even get to the garage, where I keep a shovel and stiff broom for the purpose of snow clearance!
As to the low causing all this, instead of crossing northern France as many predicted, with a central pressure level equivalent to some of the worst hurricanes to have formed in the Caribbean this summer, it came along the so-called "M4 Corridor" - my barometer registered 970 mb just before midday, which was way off to the left on the dial - and is now probably off the Belgian coast, with the strongest of the winds on its western flank waiting to come inland, probably later on this evening and through tomorrow: I hear it's been blowing pretty strongly across Wales and the SW already today.Comment
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we have snow! Good grief!Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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We have no snow!Originally posted by Joseph K View PostDon’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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On the Ribble Estuary it's a lovely cold, crisp, fairly icy day with lots of sun.Comment
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Well, Earth standing truly as hard as iron this a.m.. Hard, bright sun, frost that looks like a layer of snow, and now three days old. But winter light is wonderfully brutal!Comment
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I'll say! The Conuses (?Coni? - Dogwoods ... or Dogswood?) are glowing in this light. Very chilly today, but beautiful to look at from the warm indoors.Originally posted by DracoM View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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... if as I suspect your conus is a cornus, as might be cornus mas, then the etymology takes us back to the Latin cornu - fourth declension, so plural cornua...Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
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Fifteen minutes of snow here just now re-whitened the grassed areas around the block earlier cleared by continuous moderate rain, albeit with the temperature barely above freezing. Hindhead, at 900 feet above sea level, on the Surrey/Hants/Sussex borders, really seems to be getting clobbered right now, with the now tunnelled A3 apparently blocked at the entrances, all local schools closed, and parents and carers required to take time off from work in consequence. Ridiculous.
Tonight will present challenges, with skies clearing and temperatures expected to fall way below freezing, even in the centre of Town. Why aren't the gritters out? - and why isn't anybody asking, apparently?? Admittedly the salt does a lot of damage, to road surfaces, surrounding vegetations and creepy-crawlies; recalling my year in Switzerland in the 1960s, where snow on roads and walkways was quickly kept under control by various-sized mechanical means for the duration of any fall, rather than post factum, I just don't understand the argument always proffered that local authorities can't afford to have snow clearance equipment which is only going to be used on the rare occasions the UK, lowland England at any rate, experiences severe conditions. They never said that about the Green Goddesses, kept in waiting years for any expected industrial action by ambulance drivers, did they!
Here's an opposing view:
Beyond a chilly day tomorrow, it's all set to warm up to seasonally average temperatures and the usual rainly run of westerlies until Friday, when the winds once more veer northerly, but with less cold than at present experienced, the air source apparently being from less far north. It's still too far ahead to predict for Christmas.Comment
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... if as I suspect your conus is a cornus, as might be cornus mas, then the etymology takes us back to the Latin cornu - fourth declension, so plural cornua...
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That's the one! (Conus was a composer, wasn't he?)
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