snow what!?

Brigitte · Post by **Brigitte** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 8:05 am

Sitting here and working away and outside it is so heavy raining, snowing and hailing... I cannot believe it and it is not even winter, yet!

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 8:35 am

Yes, there are areas here also that had no autumn - just went straight into winter. A strange year for weather.

djm

Henke · Post by **Henke** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:06 am

We had the first snow of the year in my parts of sweden today. It was snowing heavily this morning, then the temperature went above zero so most of it melted, and now it's below zero again so it's icy everywhere. You have to watch your steps.

avanutria · Post by **avanutria** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:18 am

We used to get that in NY in the late 80s. One year we had multiple layers of snow and thin ice, so if you tried to walk in it you would kind of shift down each level as the thin ice layers broke.

It was fun. But by about 1991 it wasn't happening anymore.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:42 pm

At no time this autumn has the temperature dipped below 5°C, 41°F in Bude, day or night, until this evening. Somebody up there has realised it's November. We have had a freakishly warm September and October (record-book stuff) on top of a hot summer. Summat's going on all right.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:53 pm

Henke wrote:We had the first snow of the year in my parts of sweden today. It was snowing heavily this morning, then the temperature went above zero so most of it melted, and now it's below zero again so it's icy everywhere. You have to watch your steps.

Um. Sorry Henke but freezing is 32 degrees not zero.

Just kidding.

We had real early snow in the beginning of October but haven't had any since.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:26 pm

Flyingcursor wrote:
Henke wrote:We had the first snow of the year in my parts of sweden today. It was snowing heavily this morning, then the temperature went above zero so most of it melted, and now it's below zero again so it's icy everywhere. You have to watch your steps.
Um. Sorry Henke but freezing is 32 degrees not zero.

Just kidding.

We've had the ludicrous situation for decades in the UK of having both °F and °C scales in use. The BBC weather forecasters always rattle off the predicted values in both units. Daft or what. That cold air over Sweden has finally flooded over the UK today, Henke, but because of the good ol' North Sea we're still getting at least 10°C. Nice weather, too, except down the east coast. Brrr. It's what makes all them Geordies and Aberdonians such hard men and so unappreciative of my funny Prague pics.

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:08 pm

We had a cool June, a half-cool July, then a monstrous heat wave in late-July. Back to a cooler-than-normal August. An almost-normal September, now an overly-cool October with only a few warm days and one rainfall. Last night, it was more like December.

At least the kiddies weren't hot in their costumes, the way they usually are here..

chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 4:25 pm

SteveShaw wrote:Nice weather, too, except down the east coast. Brrr. It's what makes all them Geordies and Aberdonians such hard men

The only thing hard about me just now are the icicles forming on my nose. It's frickin freezing up here just now!

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 5:35 pm

No snow here, doesn't look as though there will be any again this year... sigh... that just, like, totally sucks.

WhistlingArmadillo · Post by **WhistlingArmadillo** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 5:43 pm

I hope I get to wear my coat this year.

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 5:50 pm

Joseph E. Smith wrote:No snow here, doesn't look as though there will be any again this year... sigh... that just, like, totally sucks.

Aww... who knew you did pitiful so well?

Makes me want to take up a collection and send the Smiths a dump truck full o' snow.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 5:57 pm

chrisoff wrote:
SteveShaw wrote:Nice weather, too, except down the east coast. Brrr. It's what makes all them Geordies and Aberdonians such hard men
The only thing hard about me just now are the icicles forming on my nose. It's frickin freezing up here just now!

Billy Connolly once said that if you so much as think about swimming in the North Sea your willy automatically disappears in on itself. Even worse than the usual cold weather "acorn atop a walnut" syndrome. So that's another thing not hard about you Aberdonians in winter.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:40 am

scottielvr wrote:
Joseph E. Smith wrote:No snow here, doesn't look as though there will be any again this year... sigh... that just, like, totally sucks.
Aww... who knew you did pitiful so well?

Makes me want to take up a collection and send the Smiths a dump truck full o' snow.

Cool, but it wouldn't be snow any more when it got here.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:49 am

In England the May-October six months period was the hottest six months in recorded history, which goes back in the records (Central England Temperature series) to 1659.