Without drawing global warming into it, do you have an impression that
certain weather types, if any, in your area have become less frequent.
Until this week I would have said gales and that probably is still true
to a large extent. The lack of snow showers off the North Sea,
particularly any giving significant falls of snow and perhaps violent
thunderstorms with associated downpours and flash flooding are the most
significant here.

Dave, S.Essex

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
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Without drawing global warming into it, do you have an impression that
certain weather types, if any, in your area have become less frequent.
Until this week I would have said gales and that probably is still true to
a large extent. The lack of snow showers off the North Sea, particularly
any giving significant falls of snow and perhaps violent thunderstorms
with associated downpours and flash flooding are the most significant
here.

Polat lows.
OK, there were never that common, but I'm sure I remember a few here
in the early-mid 90s, but no proper ones since then.
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...

Without drawing global warming into it, do you have an impression that
certain weather types, if any, in your area have become less frequent.
Until this week I would have said gales and that probably is still true to
a large extent. The lack of snow showers off the North Sea, particularly
any giving significant falls of snow and perhaps violent thunderstorms with
associated downpours and flash flooding are the most significant here.

Dave, S.Essex


Down here in Winchester I would say fog is almost non-existent nowadays.

Tony

On Jan 5, 6:03*pm, "Tony Kenyon"
wrote:
"Dave Cornwell" *wrote in message
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Without drawing global warming into it, do you have an impression that
certain weather types, if any, in your area have become less frequent.
Until this week I would have said gales and that probably is still true to
a large extent. The lack of snow showers off the North Sea, particularly
any giving significant falls of snow and perhaps violent thunderstorms with
associated downpours and flash flooding are the most significant here.
Dave, S.Essex

Down here in Winchester I would say *fog is almost non-existent nowadays.

Tony

Large areas of thundery activity moving north overnight in summer. In
the 1980s and 1990s they seemed to be a regular occurrence after a hot
and humid day and used to wake me up in the early hours.

We seem to get very few of those in recent years, but it maybe just
that I remember them being more frequent than they actually were.

On Jan 5, 6:03*pm, "Tony Kenyon"
wrote:
"Dave Cornwell" *wrote in message
...
Without drawing global warming into it, do you have an impression that
certain weather types, if any, in your area have become less frequent.
Until this week I would have said gales and that probably is still true to
a large extent. The lack of snow showers off the North Sea, particularly
any giving significant falls of snow and perhaps violent thunderstorms with
associated downpours and flash flooding are the most significant here.
Dave, S.Essex

Down here in Winchester I would say *fog is almost non-existent nowadays.

Tony

Isn't a lot of the reason for lack of fog due to cleaner air. Even
Chuck Berry knew that when he sang ' No Particulate Place to Go'

In article
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Lawrence13 writes:
Isn't a lot of the reason for lack of fog due to cleaner air. Even
Chuck Berry knew that when he sang ' No Particulate Place to Go'

In urban areas, certainly. But even in rural areas there seems to have
been a reduction, though not so great as in big conurbations.
--
John Hall
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism
by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw

"John Hall" wrote in message
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In article
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Lawrence13 writes:
Isn't a lot of the reason for lack of fog due to cleaner air. Even
Chuck Berry knew that when he sang ' No Particulate Place to Go'

In urban areas, certainly. But even in rural areas there seems to have
been a reduction, though not so great as in big conurbations.

We still get plenty of hill fog John with visibilities less than 10 metres.

Will
--

In article ,
Eskimo Will writes:

"John Hall" wrote in message
.. .
In article
,
Lawrence13 writes:
Isn't a lot of the reason for lack of fog due to cleaner air. Even
Chuck Berry knew that when he sang ' No Particulate Place to Go'

In urban areas, certainly. But even in rural areas there seems to have
been a reduction, though not so great as in big conurbations.

We still get plenty of hill fog John with visibilities less than 10 metres.

Will

Yes, but hill fog is a very different animal from radiation fog, which
is by far the commonest form of fog in low-lying areas away from the
coast and what I was thinking of (but failed to specify).
--
John Hall
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism
by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw

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On Jan 5, 6:03 pm, "Tony Kenyon"
wrote:
"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
Without drawing global warming into it, do you have an impression that
certain weather types, if any, in your area have become less frequent.
Until this week I would have said gales and that probably is still true
to
a large extent. The lack of snow showers off the North Sea, particularly
any giving significant falls of snow and perhaps violent thunderstorms
with
associated downpours and flash flooding are the most significant here.
Dave, S.Essex

Down here in Winchester I would say fog is almost non-existent nowadays.

Tony

Isn't a lot of the reason for lack of fog due to cleaner air. Even
Chuck Berry knew that when he sang ' No Particulate Place to Go'

Very good Lawrence although I am talking about post the clean air act.

Tony

Hoar frost with freezing fog that would last for days on end. All the
trees, telephone wires, grass etc would be covered in a thick layer of
frost that would get thicker and thicker as the days went on. I just
remember it being magical from my childhood in the mid to late 70s,
especially around Xmas time.

Haven't seen anything like that for over 20 years, though I suspect
living here near the south coast in Devon, it is always a rare prospect.

--
Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk