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Last Winter - Dare We Hope For A Repeat ?

Started by Pennine Ten Foot Drifts, Jul 28 2010 21:50

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#1 Pennine Ten Foot Drifts

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Posted 28 July 2010 - 21:50

As we head into the second half of summer, my mind started wandering to the onset of winter 2010-11, and whether it would hold the same levels of 'coldie' excitement. So I started looking through the pics from last winter again, and it reminded me just how good it had been. So here's a selection of my favourite pics.

20th December - the first proper fall
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21st December - a good day for pics
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25th December - a proper white Xmas !!!
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A bit of a thaw over New Year, then the main event !

4th January - getting colder
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9th January - another good day
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11th January - very cold, the best day of all
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The main road out of the village was totally blocked, and practically disappeared !:
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A good depth by then:
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Deepest snow depth - 14.5" (37 cms), 11th January 2010..........&..............Deepest drift - 5' 6", 24th February 2005

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so still 4' 6" to go !!!

#2 BornFromTheVoid

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Posted 28 July 2010 - 23:12

Great pics! Hoping for a bit more snow next winter myself, while it was very cold in Ireland, many places had below average snowfall.
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Air Frosts - 0
Ice Days - 0
Days with sleet/snow falling - 5
Days with snow lying - 0

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#3 Nick L

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Posted 29 July 2010 - 08:45

It seems so far away now. I miss it! Come on winter, hurry up!
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Posted 29 July 2010 - 11:50

Excellent pics, PTFD! The icicle ones especially. Haven't seen the like since January 1982 :yahoo:

As for a repeat... Maybe? Or at least I hope so after what has been something of a misnomer stormwise so far in 'Summer' 2010.

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Posted 29 July 2010 - 12:15

Winter like this year would nice once every 10 years not a repeat and I fully expect it not to be repeated for a while. February wasn't excessively cold in the far south overall and there was only a few days of falling snow.
February to the 4th
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Mean Min -4.5c (-6.5c)
Mean -0.9c (+(-6.1c)

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Posted 29 July 2010 - 12:52

I admit, it was nice. Even if it did cost me new brakes for the motorbike.

Round here I saw sights not seen since the early 90's. Icicles, roof snow avalances and Deep sludge on the main roads, all road users - even the snobby drivers were very careful and showed courtesy not seen on our roads for decades.
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#7 SteveB

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Posted 30 July 2010 - 07:08

Bring it on I say, would be such a let down if we return to boring zonality again. Though we do need the rain.
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#8 Pennine Ten Foot Drifts

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Posted 30 July 2010 - 08:46

View PostSteveB, on 30 July 2010 - 07:08 , said:

Bring it on I say, would be such a let down if we return to boring zonality again. Though we do need the rain.

I think we'll get ample precipitation of one sort or another ! I'm just hoping it'll generally be of the frozen variety !
Deepest snow depth - 14.5" (37 cms), 11th January 2010..........&..............Deepest drift - 5' 6", 24th February 2005

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so still 4' 6" to go !!!

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Posted 06 August 2010 - 18:01

My side of the hill this time Pennine!!!

I reckon we're in for another bad 'un/good'un but with a nice bit of slow moving/stalled frontal snow and 3ft falls..........back to my dreaming!

(I hope they've got a handle on the grit situation this year too!)
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