woody_woodson

I wouldnt know about the pm thing, new to nw cos i got annoyed at beeb prats in their forums, still post occasionally over there though. I think im a colde and warm ramper, love extremes of each, hate general mildness though, it should either be warm or cold, not anywhere in between. I.E. today would be classed as a crap day, no cold or no warm

What are your opposing views then???

The problem here, or shall I say the fact here is that a prolonged spell nearly always follows a wet spell, whereas in Canada you can potentially have a warmer dry spell and then a cold spell with less moisture. In such that it takes less energy to freeze all the soil moisture tht is present. I cant help but feel here that the larger amounts of moisture in our generally porous soils results in a much greater volume of water to freeze and an increased release of latent heat to combat the maybe -4 celcius temperatures that we reach in extreme cases is southern england. So whereas the top surface A0 horizon may freeze, the b's and the c's will remain liquid for a long time before freezing. Then you have to consider that the long time before freezing is less likely, because a new depression or front will track across the country before the lack of radiation heat from the ground, begins to cool the air. The biggest spell of frozen ground I can remember is the winer of 1998. had some snow and frozen ground foe about a week