Lazarus

Hardly any left and my canal is defrosting!

I just spent all day making hedgehog / duckling ramps for the Royal Military Canal in Hythe so they have a way to climb out where the canal is bounded by concrete walls.

The GFS has us in the freezer 'till Sunday Midday!

Have been working outdoors in Hythe all day and there has been no ppn of any type at all!

Dutch snow radar show something different again! http://winter.buienradar.nl/sneeuwradar.aspx

Seconded!

The Moon People just called... They want their night time temps back!

Hehehhe... i've deffo had the liquid phase of that!

Sublimation is when the solid phase of a substance goes straight to the gaseous phase without passing through its liquid phase. Solid CO2 (dry ice) is maybe the best example.

Best pop over to uk.sci.weather and ask him!

I'm sure lots of us know of Will Hand (Eskimo Will) of uk.sci.weather fame. Met Office bod down in Devon.. Anyway, here is his latest summing up cut and pasted from Usenet. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is the way I see it with no reference to models etc. Extremely cold boundary layer air is flooding into the SE now with dewpoints falling to -15C in places later. Very dry air and clearing away the fog and cloud, lowering the wet-bulb and will preserve remaining snow cover. One or two snow showers possible. In the next two days this air will spread quite quickly west and north covering the whole of England And Wales (even Cornwall). Then it gets interesting later in the week and next weekend as at least two upper trough disruptions take place to our west. There will be a strong and warm conveyor in the SW'lies probably bringing a lot of rain to Ireland and Scotland, especially the west, despite high pressure. As the troughs disrupt this front will edge SE'wards and on its forward edge there will be freezing rain leading to widespread ice. Clearly the location is uncertain and my best guess will be SW England to Midlands to NE England. Mixed in will also be sleet and snow but main emphasis initially will be on liquid precipitation. As the weekend progresses it is all likely to get very messy with cold and warm air entrained producing a mixture of rain, sleet and snow. The SE could stay dry and in the cold air. Then early next week we get a change of type as this messy mix comes south as a cold front bringing in some sort of N or NW'ly with pressure re-building in mid-Atlantic. It could end up as a benign anticyclonic NW'ly or go the whole hog and build pressure over Iceland putting us into a snowy Ne'ly! I guess the answer lies in between somewhere? We shall see. ---------------------------------------------------------------

This stuff http://winter.buienradar.nl/sneeuwradar.aspx off the Dutch coast seems worth keeping an eye on!

Devil Doll 1964...

This might help http://winter.buienradar.nl/sneeuwradar.aspx

By the look of that shift in wind direction I have my hopes up for Folkestone! Langdon Bay now reporting 0C