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Old 03-01-2008, 07:08 PM
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Snow!

It is snowing here now, first snow of the year. Not very hard at the moment but laying and the salt spreaders have been up the street.
Last year we only had one day of snow and that was 8th February, but three years back we had loads in March, which lasted for three weeks, we were upto our knees in it. The Dutch love snow and take it all in their stride and are usually well prepared.
I saw in a post that today Ericrovve woke up this morning to snow and bird prints (nice picture). Will this be the start of a few months of snow in your part of France?
So how are the rest of you faring?
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Old 03-01-2008, 07:28 PM
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In South Yorkshire we woke up to light snow which looked as if it would set in but it just faded away and tomorrow is set to be sunny and 'warm'(). To the north of us the snow was said to be in blizzards. It's interesting to know where this snow is coming from - Eric's is presumably down from the Alps but NW Europe ought to be getting it straight from Siberia - so why is it missing most of England but landing in the Netherlands? Are you purloing ours?

It is a sure sign of enhanced climate change that our (current) part of the world was notorious for grinding to a halt every winter and this was one of our reasons for moving here .... yet in the ten or more years that we've lived here we've only had one decent load of snow (sufficient for a toboggan run on the local golf course) and that only lasted one day. It stayed longer up on the moors but really snow has now become as rare here as it was in London (where I had one serious, extended period of snow over twenty years).

Enjoy it while you have it!
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It is snowing here now, first snow of the year. Not very hard at the moment but laying and the salt spreaders have been up the street.
Last year we only had one day of snow and that was 8th February, but three years back we had loads in March, which lasted for three weeks, we were upto our knees in it. The Dutch love snow and take it all in their stride and are usually well prepared.
I saw in a post that today Ericrovve woke up this morning to snow and bird prints (nice picture). Will this be the start of a few months of snow in your part of France?
So how are the rest of you faring?
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Old 03-01-2008, 09:47 PM
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Down in Dorset we had a pathetic amount of snow! It started around midday but there were so few flakes, looking out the window I was seeing roughly 1 flake every 5 seconds. Hopefully we'll see a bit more this winter.
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Old 04-01-2008, 12:11 PM
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No snow here yet either.
It's very cold though, yesterday evening on my way home my ears felt like they had frozen solid!! I can't remember when it was quite as cold as that ....( Luckily they are fine this morning, nice and pink ... just incase you were wondering. )
We never really get any decent snow here though as we live on a peninsular but there were cars in town this morning with snow on them so it can't be far away!
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Old 04-01-2008, 12:50 PM
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Had about an Inch yesterday. But rained over night so its all melted now. I got stuck in the middle of a heavy snow storm whilst up in the woods.
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Old 19-02-2008, 03:29 PM
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Negligible snow this winter. Indeed, for most of this month, have had bright sunny days if rather cold nights - down to -8C a day back - but then, you'd expect that up here.

What I wouldn't expect is heavy blizzards in Greece and Turkey: BBC News | EUROPE | Passengers rescued from Greek train
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Locals here seem convinced that we'll have snow at the end of this month (October!). I hope not but shall buy a new snow shovel, just in case....

There seems to have been plenty of snow in central Europe already e.g. Welcome to Facebook - Log In, Sign Up or Learn More
There even seem to be people looking forward to it!
I can think of more things to look forward to ....
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You will be pleased to know this was taken on Tuesday of the peak above a ski resort it was 27 degrees at that height I was burnt






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Old 13-10-2011, 06:39 PM
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Always expecting to hear about your snow but glad it's holding off for the time being. Also hope you didn't get third degree burns or whatever - so easy to foirget the strength of the sun at this time of year.
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Hi Paul

The burns were I think due to the High U.V me being a blond and with thin hair should have know better the link shows how high I was to the left if you zoom in is normal ground level, also left to right over the ridge is the main bird spring/autumn migratory route through the western Pyrenees

http://http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=968717c0-a4ba-4c81-9cc7-282673f5134c&m=false&i=0:0:0&c=0:0:0&z=3784.367583 96793&d=-0.887900745251175:-1.573677597771:-1.61372148103941&p=0:0&t=False
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