Weather warnings...

[knobpolisher]

Whistler has an average annual snowfall of 30 feet according to the website. I have been checking the resort where I am going skiing and they had a light dusting of snow the other day - 4 inches. A light dusting , that would have brought this country to a halt.

[communistworkethic]

Whistler has an average annual snowfall of 30 feet according to the website. I have been checking the resort where I am going skiing and they had a light dusting of snow the other day - 4 inches. A light dusting , that would have brought this country to a halt.

Yeah I got an email of my mate in Quebec and he was saying that he hopes that by the time I get there in March the snow will have improved!! Maybe it's just too cold to snow?

[TANGODANCER]

Whistler has an average annual snowfall of 30 feet according to the website. I have been checking the resort where I am going skiing and they had a light dusting of snow the other day - 4 inches. A light dusting , that would have brought this country to a halt.

Yeah, these days four inchess of snow is the equivalent of an avalanche.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Whistler has an average annual snowfall of 30 feet according to the website. I have been checking the resort where I am going skiing and they had a light dusting of snow the other day - 4 inches. A light dusting , that would have brought this country to a halt.

Yeah I got an email of my mate in Quebec and he was saying that he hopes that by the time I get there in March the snow will have improved!! Maybe it's just too cold to snow?

There hasn't been a lot of snow this year here, I'm afraid commie. We had a green Christmas in the city and only one major fall. Of course it will be better in the mountains and they do have snow making equipment in extremis.

[bobo the clown]

Maybe it's just too cold to snow?

Always loved that statement.

Like it's too wet to rain, or too sunny to be warm.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Whistler has an average annual snowfall of 30 feet according to the website. I have been checking the resort where I am going skiing and they had a light dusting of snow the other day - 4 inches. A light dusting , that would have brought this country to a halt.

According to Stats Canada (allegedly) the greatest average annual snowfall in Canada is 1433 cm at Glacier National Park in BC. This is about 47 feet. I was having trouble renconciling the data because the site I originally looked at claimed Environment Canada stated it was 1433 mm! On reflection even Montreal has more than 1433 mm! Apologies for any confusion - 30-40 feet is fairly normal in the Rockies and Kootenays.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Maybe it's just too cold to snow?

Always loved that statement.

Like it's too wet to rain, or too sunny to be warm.

Except unlike your examples it happens to be true. Artic air generally means the bluest of skies and the brightest of sunshine - it needs to get warmer to snow. Really.

Or put more scientifically:

One phrase that is heard from time to time is that, "it is too cold to snow today". In actuality, earth's troposphere is not too cold to snow but rather it is "too dynamically stable to snow". Dynamic stability may be present due to low-level cold air advection, a lack of upper level divergence, and/or a lack of low level convergence. Also, if dynamic lifting does occur it may not produce precipitation that reaches the surface due to low relative humidity values in the lower troposphere.

The ingredients for snow are: (1) a temperature profile that allows snow to reach the surface, (2) saturated air, and (3) enough lifting of that saturated air to allow snow to develop aloft and fall to reach the surface. In a situation when it is said "it is too cold to snow" there is in reality not enough lifting of air that causes snow to reach the surface.

[Zulus Thousand of em]

I had a meeting set up in Folkestone tomorrow. Booked for weeks, postponed in seconds when I saw the weather warning!

[Batman]

Sky in Preston is white as HRG's legs.

[walkingdownthemannyroad]

Everton Fox

He is a bit of a babe isn't he?

You would not think it, listening to him on the radio.

[communistworkethic]

Maybe it's just too cold to snow?

Always loved that statement.

Like it's too wet to rain, or too sunny to be warm.

Except unlike your examples it happens to be true. Artic air generally means the bluest of skies and the brightest of sunshine - it needs to get warmer to snow. Really.

Or put more scientifically:

One phrase that is heard from time to time is that, "it is too cold to snow today". In actuality, earth's troposphere is not too cold to snow but rather it is "too dynamically stable to snow". Dynamic stability may be present due to low-level cold air advection, a lack of upper level divergence, and/or a lack of low level convergence. Also, if dynamic lifting does occur it may not produce precipitation that reaches the surface due to low relative humidity values in the lower troposphere.

The ingredients for snow are: (1) a temperature profile that allows snow to reach the surface, (2) saturated air, and (3) enough lifting of that saturated air to allow snow to develop aloft and fall to reach the surface. In a situation when it is said "it is too cold to snow" there is in reality not enough lifting of air that causes snow to reach the surface.

which is all well and good but the clouds that form the precipitous environment are not formed in the area where they actually "snow", rather they are created elsewhere - as with all clouds, and wind blows them to the place they snow.IIRC

[walkingdownthemannyroad]

On "Five Live",earlier today,Everton Fox said that up to five inches of snow will fall on Thursday,but he said it will be mainly across mid Wales,central and southern England.

Serves um right!!

Everton have a talking fox???

What's so unusual about that?

Have you never seen Basil Brush????

[communistworkethic]

Yeah - they kidnapped him, thieving scouse bastards.

[walkingdownthemannyroad]

Ah,that's what happened to the little furry b&st&rd.....................I have often wondered.


These things tend to trouble one,once one has driven too far down,Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds St,things tend to get a little confused

[Luna]

up in newc overnight tonight

really dont wanna be stuick here for longer than i need to be

now i know why people bang on about all this bad weather, back in the day i used to pray for snow! get you out of school etc

Snow is fine on Christmas cards and in Eskimo movies. Not much use for anything else.

SKIING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bolton is home too many well known Ski resorts.

[Montreal Wanderer]

up in newc overnight tonight

really dont wanna be stuick here for longer than i need to be

now i know why people bang on about all this bad weather, back in the day i used to pray for snow! get you out of school etc

Snow is fine on Christmas cards and in Eskimo movies. Not much use for anything else.

SKIING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bolton is home too many well known Ski resorts.

Well there is such a thing as cross-country skiing - no ski-lifts or big hills required.

[enfieldwhite]

up in newc overnight tonight

really dont wanna be stuick here for longer than i need to be

now i know why people bang on about all this bad weather, back in the day i used to pray for snow! get you out of school etc

Snow is fine on Christmas cards and in Eskimo movies. Not much use for anything else.

SKIING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bolton is home too many well known Ski resorts.

Well there is such a thing as cross-country skiing - no ski-lifts or big hills required.

Also, in a recent Bolton trivia list it stated that Bolton has the busiest Mountain Rescue team in the country.

[communistworkethic]

That's only because of the charlies that get lost in high heels while dogging round Jumbles

[CAPSLOCK]

That's only because of the charlies that get lost in high heels while dogging round Jumbles

And thats just you n Bruce

[communistworkethic]

That's only because of the charlies that get lost in high heels while dogging round Jumbles

And thats just you n Bruce

well you've come along to watch enough times!