This is depressing. Not only is the weather now in a rut, but I'm starting to get deja vu @ 360+ -- David Mitchell, 70m amsl, Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire.

Just come back from a walk up and around Ryder's hill (south moor) circa 500m asl. Started at 1000 at 270m asl and just started snowing. Reached summit around 1200 with 3 cm powder in continuous snow and slight wind chill with temperature below freezing. On descent snow got heavy with 5cm sized flakes, best snow I have seen for a while! Coming down below 200m it got wetter with little snow lying...

Brussels on Monday 9th January A calm and sunny day - just a few streaks of cirrus. Morning frost but not cold in the afternoon. Brussels Airport 6.2°C - overnight minimum -1.9°C. Brussels Uccle overnight minimum -1.6°C. Graph http://193.190.137.7/~celinair/maps/metevol/metr012.gif

Not the weather this time, just lacking in football knowledge (or geography?). News 24 forecast - "Care needed travelling to matches tomorrow", cue caption - Fulham v Leighton Orient or the Leyton Buzzards as they are more popularly known ;-) Dave

Does anyone know where I can gain access to the full set (since 1659) without having to jump through hoops etc? Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

If nothing else the end of this week will enable us to experience what happens in winter when a setup that would give a 30+C heatwave in summer occurs.... I suspect very different from what could happen in less than four months time, i.e. overcast, quiet weather with temperatures close to normal. Nick

Monday, 09 January 2006 BRACKNELL (TAWFIELD) 0900 E F2 2500 BR 5/ST 7/SC T042D036 RMK: St~008, reasonably thin, coming and going enough to allow sight of the Sc~040, which itself is broken and not too thick. All surfaces damp/wet after the past rain. other data: evening rain, ocnl moderate up to ~21Z, turned 'drizzly' thereafter, and finally ceased around midnight.]=

see for a live report http://www.fnn-news.com/realvideo/bs200601081201_300.ram "MCC" wrote in message ... Have a look here! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4592056.stm -- MCC

9 January 2006 Wokingham 0900z 360 02kt 2500m BR 2St005 5St007 5Sc015 +4.5/+4.3 QFF 1026.1 RMK 8Sc045 also present. Cloud thinning. (09-09) Max 4.5 Min 3.7 Grass min 3.3 Rain 8.0 Sun (00-24) 0.0 --

Chalfont St Giles - Monday 9th January 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------- 0630z NNE F1 3000 BR 8St 03.8/03.1 1025 Norman. (delete "thisbit" twice to e-mail) --

(SAD = seasonal affective disorder) Well, you never know! Using the Heathrow sunshine figures, this month / year so far has seen a grand total of 2.2hr, and seems quite disappointing set against the markedly above average sunshine of November & December just past. (See Philip Eden this newsgroup & he- http://www.climate-uk.com/monthly/0512.htm ) Reminds me that at London Weather Centre...

Temperature Mean Maximum 7.9 Mean Minimum 1.9 Mean 4.9 Highest Maximum 12.5 (16th) Lowest Minimum -5.6 (18th) Lowest Maximum 0.4 (29th) Highest Minimum 8.0 (23rd) Lowest Grass Minimum -7.0 (18th) Number of Air Frosts 14

Good morning, everyone. The start of 2006 has been thundery in areas of Greece, including Athens, and -yet again- snowy in the notorious northwest of the country. The early January mix contained it all, from ice days in western Macedonia to very mild 17C's in the SE Aegean isles. Athens is already counting 2 days with thunderstorm and is getting prepared, along with eastern continental...

I would think this proves the UKMO prediction of a hard winter was correct. Just got the wrong bit of the planet, thats all. John DH "MCC" wrote in message ...

Here is a summary of the latest NWP output for noon on Friday. Issued 0533, 9 Jan 06. The models continue to show changeable weather for the UK. Low pressure looks like remaining near Iceland, with secondary lows caught up in the circulation and weakening troughs crossing the UK. As usual temperatures in such a setup would be average to above average, with the greatest amount of rainfall...

From: http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/record2005.asp Records set in the Atlantic Hurricane Season of 2005: Most tropical storms: 27. Old record: 21 in 1933. Most hurricanes: 14. Old record: 12 in 1969. Most Category 5 hurricanes: 3 (Katrina, Rita, Wilma. Emily may be classified as a Category 5 upon re-analysis.) Old record: 2 in 1960

I seem to have lost Roeders page again ,it is vorboten it says !,anybody seen it ? RonB

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Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Sunday 8th January http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_image/METEOSAT-8-1200-EUR.jpg NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.28 UTC on Sunday 8th January http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/etc08/oa08-1228-d-uk.html Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC...

"MCC" wrote in message ... Have a look here! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4592056.stm -- MCC 08/01/2006 20:07:40 Now what would the met office and the bbc make of that? Hyperbole meltdown predicted :-)