[kevin James]

talking with custie today about sledging today.... & I realized the last time we had decent snow was '76. And wot followed that? ......

........

THE DROUGHT

So after a lousy winter we may be banned in the summer. Cheerful chappie ain't I?

Might pay to sort system for river filtering?

Kevin.

[[GQC] Tim]

They aren't going to ban us for the simple reason it's a key part of our business.

Last drought the same speculation happened, but nothing came of it.

[Oakley Windows]

talking with custie today about sledging today.... & I realized the last time we had decent snow was '76. And wot followed that? ......

........

THE DROUGHT

So after a lousy winter we may be banned in the summer. Cheerful chappie ain't I?

Might pay to sort system for river filtering?

Kevin.

Next year is when we're going to have water supply problems.

This winter has been very dry.

[LWC]

This winter has been dry?? Which winter you talking about?

[gerard mcmanus]

I read an artical about that some where, but it was allot more to do with bottled water companies and coffee shops, because they leave a well running all day. Something to do with it being cleaner if you leave it running who knows. Anyway there are allot more business that would come underfire if that ever did happen.

[Oakley Windows]

This winter has been dry?? Which winter you talking about?

This one.

Look back through your work records.

For me, days lost through wet weather, November 2, December 0, January 2. Id settle for that as an average ANY year. Its been dry, theres no getting away from it. Normally we ahve a weather dominated by wet/warm atlantic low pressure systems that roll in off the atlanic, by now we're normally sick to the back teeth of them as they ruin your working week; that generally goes on for about 6 weeks and last year was dreadful as the JetStream was about 500 miles further south than it normally is thus bringing those wet weather systems even further south. But this year our winter weather has been dominated by a low pressure that has sat generally somewhere over eastern europe bringing in cold (remember cold means dry in general) but easterly winds from russia, which explains the brief snow period we expereinced about a month ago and the week of freezing temps at night the first week of the new year.

Also the daffs are a month later this year than last, dry/cold winter does that too.

Matt

[gary999]

funny that according to met office we have had an average winter
with rainfall.

no problem for me any way my water comes from wales and its always
chucking it down there

[Oakley Windows]

funny that according to met office we have had an average winter
with rainfall.

no problem for me any way my water comes from wales and its always
chucking it down there

Id be interested to see that, have you got a link?

This is from the BBC website for December

http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/hi/uk_reviews/newsid_7828000/7828819.stm

UK monthly review - December 2008

Maximum temperatures were generally below average and around 1 deg C below average across parts of southern England.

Provisionally, it was the coldest December since 1996 for England and Wales for maximum temperatures. Minimum temperatures were well below normal across almost all of the UK, by as much as 2 deg C in some western areas.

Provisionally, it was the coldest December since 1995 for Northern Ireland, 1999 for Scotland and 2001 for England and Wales.

Rainfall was below or well-below normal in most areas, only around 50% of normal over parts of England and Wales, but locally 150% in eastern Scotland.

Sunshine was above normal virtually everywhere, approaching double the normal amount in some parts of England.

Westleton (Suffolk) recorded a maximum temperature of 14.7 °C on the 20th.

Aviemore (Highland) recorded a minimum temperature of -12.9 °C on the 29th.

Copley (Co. Durham) recorded 21 cm of lying snow at 0900 UTC on the 4th.

[cozy]

This winter has been dry?? Which winter you talking about?

This one.

Look back through your work records.

For me, days lost through wet weather, November 2, December 0, January 2, Feb 1 +6 for snow. Id settle for that as an average ANY year. Its been dry, theres no getting away from it. Normally we ahve a weather dominated by wet/warm atlantic low pressure systems that roll in off the atlanic, by now we're normally sick to the back teeth of them as they ruin your working week; that generally goes on for about 6 weeks and last year was dreadful as the JetStream was about 500 miles further south than it normally is thus bringing those wet weather systems even further south. But this year our winter weather has been dominated by a low pressure that has sat generally somewhere over eastern europe bringing in cold (remember cold means dry in general) but easterly winds from russia, which explains the brief snow period we expereinced about a month ago and the week of freezing temps at night the first week of the new year.

Also the daffs are a month later this year than last, dry/cold winter does that too.

Matt

Matt, are you related to Michael Fish?

[Captain Scarlet]

It has been dry, check out the lakes, resevoirs and rivers, theyre very low here!

[gary999]

your name frasier by any chance(were doomed)
rivers where i fish avon,severn have been running high most of winter also
my local reservoirs are at normal levels

thankyou for your report for december but that doesnt cover the whole
winter

not only does rain contribute to the water table but so does ice and snow
i seem to remember the deluge of rain we had after snow which contributed
to flooding in various areas.

stop worrying about nothing :

next couple of months you will be moaning that its been
raining so much

[gary999]

This winter has been dry?? Which winter you talking about?

This one.

Look back through your work records.

For me, days lost through wet weather, November 2, December 0, January 2, Feb 1 +6 for snow. Id settle for that as an average ANY year. Its been dry, theres no getting away from it. Normally we ahve a weather dominated by wet/warm atlantic low pressure systems that roll in off the atlanic, by now we're normally sick to the back teeth of them as they ruin your working week; that generally goes on for about 6 weeks and last year was dreadful as the JetStream was about 500 miles further south than it normally is thus bringing those wet weather systems even further south. But this year our winter weather has been dominated by a low pressure that has sat generally somewhere over eastern europe bringing in cold (remember cold means dry in general) but easterly winds from russia, which explains the brief snow period we expereinced about a month ago and the week of freezing temps at night the first week of the new year.

Also the daffs are a month later this year than last, dry/cold winter does that too.

Matt

Matt, are you related to Michael Fish?

ueh he was famous for getting it wrong as well

[gary999]

oh well i do apologise i was only on the wind up these negative posts
about the weather always make me laugh its either too dry or wet i dont
know how we make a living

 

[gary999]

just out of interest i checked on the met office site

apparently we had december 63% rainfall to mean average 1971-2000

january we had a whopping 98% to the etc etc etc etc etc

feb 70% etc etc etc etc thats the uk overall

its a MEAN average doesnt mean we havent had figures like this
before and i cant remember a major drought since the one in 76

oh yeah in the midlands where i am we had between 70% and 90%
to mean average..........

oh i cant be bothered far too boring

[[GQC] Tim]

It has been a dry winter? You guys must be having a laugh! 

[Oakley Windows]

It has been a dry winter? You guys must be having a laugh! 

Tim have you seriously lost that many days this winter through wet weather?

[tacky]

3 resivoiurs ( ponds ) up brecon beacons ar well full

[Oakley Windows]

They would be up there, theres lots of hills and mountains. If they werent full then we'd have a problem now, not in the summer 

[bwoofie]

Its been a crap horrible intermittingly wet winter and i cant wait to see the back of it.
If a drought means that it will be dry, arrid, hot and sunny, well bring it b****y on!!!!!!