{WR} Haytor 18/01/08 (Grim, awful, foul, yuck)
 

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The worst sort of winter weather.
Continuous drizzle. Exceptionally mild for time of day at 11.0C. F4 WSW.
Occasional fog.

It's not just me either, the locals are fed up with mild southwesterly weather,
everybody I have spoken to wants cold and snow! The local pub gets visitors from
overseas and while they know that Devon is a mild place they see photos of
Dartmoor ponies walking through snow and ask, where is it? Well this time last
week it was sleeting and last saturday morning I did see a pony walking through
patchy snow, so I'll hold that thought through the day!

:-(

PS this will be the last report till Sunday as the weather won't change here
much. It might get a tad warmer and the drizzle might get heavier. Perhaps on
Sunday the sun will come out and we will hit 15C!

Will.
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{WR} Haytor 18/01/08 (Grit, carful, fowl, duck)
 

The worst sort of winter weather.

Oh come off it Will, it could always be a lot worse, I think.

Did get a brief bit of brightness here, not enough to add anything to the
sunshine recorder but definitely a few seconds of sun. Now, despite the fact
the sunshine recorder did not register our brief moment of dazzling glory,
do I enter 'Trace' or leave it as 0.00 hours.....

Now back to grey skies, a bit o' drizzle here and there but at least we had
warm gravel for breakfast.

Currently (09:45), 12.4C, RH 85%, DP 9.0C, 1010.2 hPa (S), Wind 7 mph SW.
Sunshine: Trace.
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Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

{WR} Haytor 18/01/08 (Grit, carful, fowl, duck)
 

"Nick Gardner" wrote in message
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The worst sort of winter weather.

Oh come off it Will, it could always be a lot worse, I think.


I don't think so.

Heavy rain would be better.
Thunder would be better.
-10C would be better.
Snow would obviously be better.
A temperature below 10C would be better.
Sun would be better.
Gales would be better

Nope, worse sort of winter weather for me. Boring, damp, very mild.

Will
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{WR} Haytor 18/01/08 (Grit, carful, fowl, duck)
 

I don't think so.

But surely it could even damper, drizzlier, darker, gloomier, more
depressing, more miserable and November. At least Spring isn't too far away
now, the days are getting noticeably longer as well.

Temperature now 13.8C.
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Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

{WR} Haytor 18/01/08 (Grit, carful, fowl, duck)
 

"Nick Gardner" wrote in message
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I don't think so.

But surely it could even damper, drizzlier, darker, gloomier, more
depressing, more miserable and November. At least Spring isn't too far away
now, the days are getting noticeably longer as well.


You do have a point with lengthening days.
In November I look forward to winter, and as I have said before February is my
favourite winter month, followed by March, so yes, the best bit of winter is yet
to come.

Will
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{WR} Haytor 18/01/08 (Grit, carful, fowl, duck)
 

I
You do have a point with lengthening days.
In November I look forward to winter, and as I have said before February is my
favourite winter month, followed by March, so yes, the best bit of
winter is yet
to come.

I'm afraid I don't look forward to Winter anymore Will, a few years ago
I did but not now it's just the same old crap year after year, you know
what's coming.
I really don't understand Piers, all he has to do in November is
forecast the following 3 months to be mild or very mild and he's on a
sure winner every time!

Will I remember 1989/90 when we had an average December followed by a
very mild January they were in turn followed by my warmest February on
record (until 1998) and second warmest March, so don't expect too much!

Roll on April:)

From a warm & damp Weston Coyney, 11.7c and rising:)

Monthly mean should be approaching record values by Monday:)
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Graham

{WR} Haytor 18/01/08 (Grit, carful, fowl, duck)
 

Graham wrote:

I really don't understand Piers, all he has to do in November is
forecast the following 3 months to be mild or very mild and he's on a
sure winner every time!

That's what I did at the end of May for my Winter forecast but I also said
it would be drier that average in the south. Oops!

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