In article , hebrooks87
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On Jan 13, 7:13 am, "Rich" wrote:
It seems the mid west is in the grip of an ice storm :-

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WEATHER/01/1...x.html?eref=rs...

I recall a similar event in the UK when large icicles were dropping like
spears from buildings and powerlines. Anyone know how frequently this event
occurs in the UK ?

Richhttp://www.richdavies.com/weather.htm

There was freezing drizzle here on 30 Dec '95. Max temp
-0.8°. It was nearly impossible to walk on the pavement without going
a-over-t.
The conditions for freezing rain in Oklahoma at the moment are
perfect, with surface temps about -5° and an enormous inversion
between 2000 and 4000 feet, temps up to +9°. A marked wind shear at
the inversion as well. See:

http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/soun...312&STNM=72357

This is for Norman, OK, at 12Z, 13 Jan.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.



So far, almost all we've gotten in Norman has been 2-3 cm of ice pellets
since yesterday morning. Very little freezing rain here. We've got one
more round overnight and tomorrow. We should get about as much precip
out of this one as we've already had. It may turn into snow at the end.
I haven't been outside, except to pick up the newspaper and post, since
I got home from work and getting kids from school yesterday afternoon.
So far, it hasn't been as bad as it could have been locally, but
basically 95% of flights have been cancelled in to and out of the
Oklahoma City airport. I'm scheduled out on a flight at 10 AM Monday to
go to the American Meteorological Society annual meeting in San Antonio.
We'll see if that happens.

South and east of here, it's been freezing rain. Muskogee, in eastern
Oklahoma, had almost 5 cm of freezing rain. There are about 100,000
people out of power around the state.

Harold


As of 15 UTC (9 AM local) Sunday 14 Jan, we're now having ice pellets
with thunder at my house. There's a very heavy cell passing a few miles
to my west. On TV, we've got live coverage, just like we have for
tornadoes, and they're reporting 1/4 mile visibility. There might be
some hail mixed in with the ice pellets in the cell.

Things are apparently really bad in McAlester in southeastern Oklahoma.
It looks like the whole town (~18000) is out of power.

--
Harold Brooks

In article ,
Alan White writes:
snip
My plate XIII shows belching chimneys (upper) and a wet Manchester
street scene (lower).

Ah, I'd assumed that your "plate 13" would be equivalent to plate XIII,
but now I take it that your edition has one set of plates with Arabic
numerals and one with Roman numerals. Mine only has the latter.

Your plate XIII is my plate VIII.

Thanks very much for copying the text associated with your plate 13.
--
John Hall "He crams with cans of poisoned meat
The subjects of the King,
And when they die by thousands G.K.Chesterton:
Why, he laughs like anything." from "Song Against Grocers"

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 13:51:35 +0000, John Hall
wrote:

Unfortunately in my edition (1962 edition, 5th (1972) impression), plate
XIII shows a Norwegian glacier in retreat (upper) and the Ben Nevis
Snowbed in Observatory Gully (lower).

I'm a bit puzzled by this. According to Marren, 'The New Naturalists',
p.313, there was only one edition of 'Climate and the British Scene' and
the 5th impression was 1971. In my copy, the pictures you describe are
plates XVIIIa and XVIIIb. Is your copy one of the much later reprints
which, I think, omitted the colour plates?

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather
Some walks and treks:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/walks

In article ,
Alan White writes:
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 13:51:35 +0000, John Hall
wrote:

Unfortunately in my edition (1962 edition, 5th (1972) impression), plate
XIII shows a Norwegian glacier in retreat (upper) and the Ben Nevis
Snowbed in Observatory Gully (lower).

I'm a bit puzzled by this. According to Marren, 'The New Naturalists',
p.313, there was only one edition of 'Climate and the British Scene' and
the 5th impression was 1971. In my copy, the pictures you describe are
plates XVIIIa and XVIIIb. Is your copy one of the much later reprints
which, I think, omitted the colour plates?


Certainly there are no colour plates in mine. The publishing information
is as follows:
First published by Collins in The New Naturalist Series 1952
First issued in the Fontana Library 1962
Second Impression October 1968
Third Impression April 1970
Fourth Impression March 1971
Fifth Impression May 1972

Om the cover, as well as the title it has: "The Fontana New Naturalist".
I imagine that Fontana was the paperback imprint of Collins. Presumably
all the Fontana impressions omitted the colour plates to keep the cost
down. My copy cost 75p, which I think for a substantial paperback was
pretty reasonable for 1972.
--
John Hall "He crams with cans of poisoned meat
The subjects of the King,
And when they die by thousands G.K.Chesterton:
Why, he laughs like anything." from "Song Against Grocers"

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:08:53 +0000, John Hall
wrote:

Om the cover, as well as the title it has: "The Fontana New Naturalist".
I imagine that Fontana was the paperback imprint of Collins. Presumably
all the Fontana impressions omitted the colour plates to keep the cost
down. My copy cost 75p, which I think for a substantial paperback was
pretty reasonable for 1972.

Yes, Marren lists the Fontana paperback as 1962 and, as you know, the
colour plates were omitted.

You're right about the numerals. The colour plates were 'Arabic' and the
black and white plates were 'Roman'. Just to confuse things, the
Bloomsbury reprints, which don't include 'Climate and the British Scene'
reproduce the colour plates in B & W all numbered in 'Arabic'.

Still raining.

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather
Some walks and treks:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/walks