Oxenhope 15-02-2009
Altocumulus lenticularis (c) 2009
Massive Thaw Overnight (c) 2009
Residual Snow Behind the Walls (c) 2009
Water still 100% Deep Frozen (c) 2009
1430 - 1630hr
W F3, 7degC, 30km, QNH 1025 steady.
Conditions much improved after lunch with low cloud lifting, rain ceasing and temperature continuing to rise.
First day the moors free of snow. Access possible on foot up to the watchpoint today..... access road still ice bound.... water still 100% frozen but massive thaw overnight and through Sunday.
Golden Plover calls heard from the moor and in-bye but none seen. Gulls still coming in to roost but many not staying and flying on high south and south west. No passerines at all on our moors.
No moving birds.
Dave
Massive Thaw Overnight (c) 2009
Residual Snow Behind the Walls (c) 2009
Water still 100% Deep Frozen (c) 2009
1430 - 1630hr
W F3, 7degC, 30km, QNH 1025 steady.
Conditions much improved after lunch with low cloud lifting, rain ceasing and temperature continuing to rise.
First day the moors free of snow. Access possible on foot up to the watchpoint today..... access road still ice bound.... water still 100% frozen but massive thaw overnight and through Sunday.
Golden Plover calls heard from the moor and in-bye but none seen. Gulls still coming in to roost but many not staying and flying on high south and south west. No passerines at all on our moors.
No moving birds.
Dave
posted by Dave Barker at
2/15/2009 08:46:00 pm
2 Comments:
Looks like the times we had frozen digestive biscuits Dave.
Yes Brian..... those were good old days.....here are some more memories from past discussions!
""Also in January the first leg of the PFG return is the very essence of vis, on the right days with multiple exceptionally high skeins > NW in what we call the 11 o'clock rush, with the timing due to multiple dawn departures from Norfolk...... exciting stuff when you know they will be coming! Its February that I'm not too keen on here..... the deepest of deep cold! You are right Brian the "ten coat" Mitchelin Man mornings with double Damart under garments as well, are nearly upon us. Ice rind round the coffee cups, rock hard chocolate / biscuits, broken teeth, frozen notebook pages, dead pens, dew drenched optics, snow bound cars, drift bound ice covered deckchairs, wind toppled trypods, frosted hair, frequent deckchair recovery from the water, frost bitten fingers, stiffened bodies, slurred speach, ultimate hypothermia and what ever other hardships winter brings to the vis watcher in the hills (a good subject here for a little storey) are almost reallity now. Just try drinking coffee with little shelter in a F7 gale, in fact all fluids go the same way here, ending up at Spurn!"""
Dave
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