Dawlish wrote:
On Jan 1, 3:11 pm, "Keith(Southend)"
wrote:
Col wrote:
"Will Hand" wrote in message
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Happy New year to you as well Paul!
The odds are increasing I'd say for the cold to last until the end of
February.
Welcome to 1963
Seriously, I don't think anybody expects a repeat of
that fabled winter but I do wonder if 2009/10 might be
*the one* that delivers a winter that many on this ng
have been spending years dreaming about, if 62/63 is
impossible, how about a 78/79?
A long long way to go yet COL and really at this early stage it's been
more like a winter from the 80's. The last 15 years the winters have
been so mild we've forgotten what they were like. I still also feel our
warming planet may take most of the edge off it, even given the right
synoptics over the next two months, which is probably why I get so
frustrated as this *may* be the last real opportunity for *real* winter
down south. Only time will tell.

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Keith (Southend)http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

A difficult one Keith. If, as recent research is hinting at, the
winter polar vortex is actually showing more signs of shifting, or
splitting with changes in ice cover, it could, amazingly paradoxically
though it seems, be that a warming planet could allow colder winters
in the UK albeit for a short period of time. See what the analysis of
this winter, should it prove cold, shows.

Also, it is worth noting that just because we, in the UK, are cold,
this cold does not extend to the whole of Europe. A poster from Greece
posted this today on TWO:

"Today the temperature in the village of Vrysses, in Crete, reached
30.4C at eleven 11 a.m.!!!This is a new European record of high
temperature for January!

http://penteli.meteo.gr/stations/vrysses/

Also we had records in many places in Greece, included Athens,where
the highest temperature ever recorded for the new Year's eve (since
1897 that we have records) reached 21.6C! "

I'll bet Joe (silly) B doesn't mention that particular European record
in his next missive!


Exactly, things balance out around the world and whether the *mean* will
be up globally, as I'd expect, we shall have to wait and see. I had to
check a couple of times some of the temperatures in Sardinia and Sicily
as both have hit the magic 27°C in last few days. It makes a change that
Greece are missing out on the cold, but it proves we sit on the other
side of the game to them ~ "tweedle dee and tweedle dum", or something
like that :-)

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Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net