What did happen to it?

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Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
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In message , Alan White
writes
What did happen to it?

Rickmansworth is only about 4 miles from here but I have to admit that I
have no idea where the famous frost hollow is :-(

Norman.
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Norman Lynagh Weather Consultancy
Chalfont St Giles 85m a.s.l.
England

"Norman Lynagh" wrote in
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In message , Alan White
writes
What did happen to it?

Rickmansworth is only about 4 miles from here but I have to admit that I
have no idea where the famous frost hollow is :-(

Norman.
(delete "thisbit" twice to e-mail)
--
Norman Lynagh Weather Consultancy
Chalfont St Giles 85m a.s.l.
England

I could well be wrong, but wasn't it associated with a very high railway
embankment?

--
David Mitchell, 70m amsl, Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire.

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:14:10 GMT, Norman Lynagh
wrote:

In message , Alan White
writes
What did happen to it?

Rickmansworth is only about 4 miles from here but I have to admit that I
have no idea where the famous frost hollow is :-(

To those of us boaters, Rickmansworth is just 'Rickkie' !
And yes, even down here in Dorset I have often spotted R being the
warmest and, though not often IIRC, the coldest.
Cheers Robin

In article ,
David Mitchell writes:
[re Rickmansworth frost hollow]
I could well be wrong, but wasn't it associated with a very high railway
embankment?

Yes, I recall reading somewhere (Manley?) that the construction of the
railway embankment completed the hollow.
--
John Hall "Never play cards with a man called Doc.
Never eat at a place called Mom's.
Never sleep with a woman whose troubles
are worse than your own." Nelson Algren

"Norman Lynagh"

Rickmansworth is only about 4 miles from here but I have to admit that I
have no idea where the famous frost hollow is :-(

After studying the map, my guess is TQ033960 at the southern edge of the
golf course (Chorleywood Common) and on the northern side of a railway
embankment.

But I will stand corrected.

Jack

"Jack Harrison" wrote in message
.. .

"Norman Lynagh"

Rickmansworth is only about 4 miles from here but I have to admit that I
have no idea where the famous frost hollow is :-(

After studying the map, my guess is TQ033960 at the southern edge of the
golf course (Chorleywood Common) and on the northern side of a railway
embankment.

But I will stand corrected.

Jack
I am fairly sure that it is more into Rickmansworth as that location is in
Chorleywood. There is a road called Valley Road which runs from the
Chorleywood area into Rickmansworth and I am fairly sure that the frost
hollow lies in the vicinity of this feature which is quite steep sided.
Rickmansworth itself is in the valley of the River Colne and from what I can
find out the frost hollow is related to the area where the dry valley and
the river valley join.

I have lived in the vicinity all of my life so it is familiar territory.

Alan

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:12:54 +0000, John Hall
wrote:

Yes, I recall reading somewhere (Manley?) that the construction of the
railway embankment completed the hollow.

I first came across it in 'Climate and the British Scene', Manley, but
it never seems to be mentioned these days.

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow.
Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
Web cam at http://www.ufcnet.net/~alanlesley1/kabcam.htm

Hi

The frost hollow was always said to be Valley Road and once the M25 was
built particularly that bit of VR just south of M25. Valley Road and Met
line run parallel under the M25 en route to Chorleywood.

IIRC (used to live about a mile away from VR) there was another frost hollow
(although not quite so severe) just across the main Rickie to
Chorleywood/Chalfont road.

Peter
--
Peter & Elizabeth Corser
Leighton Buzzard
Beds UK

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Alan Gardiner wrote:
"Jack Harrison" wrote in message
.. .

"Norman Lynagh"

Rickmansworth is only about 4 miles from here but I have to admit
that I have no idea where the famous frost hollow is :-(

After studying the map, my guess is TQ033960 at the southern edge of
the golf course (Chorleywood Common) and on the northern side of a
railway embankment.

But I will stand corrected.

Jack
I am fairly sure that it is more into Rickmansworth as that location
is in Chorleywood. There is a road called Valley Road which runs from
the Chorleywood area into Rickmansworth and I am fairly sure that the
frost hollow lies in the vicinity of this feature which is quite
steep sided. Rickmansworth itself is in the valley of the River Colne
and from what I can find out the frost hollow is related to the area
where the dry valley and the river valley join.

I have lived in the vicinity all of my life so it is familiar
territory.
Alan

From 'The English Climate' by H.H. Lamb

'Among the foothills of the Chiltern Hills between Rickmansworth and
Chorleywood, Herts, is a residential district in a little valley 177 feet
above sea level, with the surrounding hills a hundred feet higher. This is
our best studied frost hollow. The valley runs east-southeast, but turns at
right angles towards south-southwest just below the point where E.L Hawke*
maintained a meteorological station from 1930 to 1942. About 300 yrads below
the bend it is partly blocked by a high railway embankment.'

* Hawke, E.L 'Extreme Diurnal Ranges of Air Temperature in the British
Isles', Quaterly Journal of the Royal Met Soc Vol 59,pp. 261-265, 1933,
and...'Thermal Characteristics of a Hertfordshire Frost Hollow', ibid., Vol
70, pp.23-48, 1944

All the best

--
George in Epping, West Essex (107m asl)
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk