West Cornwall - What cold?

[Graham Easterling]

Well it has been cold, although still no air frost since last March, but today is glorious. Little wind, unbroken sunshine, 9.4C at noon and 'feeling' warmer. Plenty of people sitting out on the prom. News full of health alerts and swim warnings but . . 

Sennen a bit earlier. Lovely for New Years Eve dips here (relatively speaking!) Sea basically flat for the firsts time in weeks. Blocking high where you need depressions to generate a swell.

St Ives

No doubt one day it will be very cold, but certainly not today, it's beautiful out there. Local BBC news full of clips of dangerous rough seas & warnings on the best day for weeks.

Downhill tomorrow, with a NW wind chop on the way.

Graham

Penzance

[Graham Easterling]

Maximum of 9.8C, no doubt helped by a still above normal SST, which also meant the recent easterly wasn't like easterlies used to be when I was young.

Graham

Penzance

[Nick Gardner]

The weather this Xmas & New Year has been rather lovely. In the shelter of the south coast and with that dazzling double-hit sunshine coming in off the sea, it's been one of the best spells of winter weather for a long time. A welcome break from the tropical martime grimness of many a recent winter. And as with you, not that cold with most days the temperature helped by the plentiful sunshine getting up into the high single figures. The lower humidity has also been very welcome with the countryside drying up nicely after the autumn.

Blue skies dominating again today but we did have a light rain shower earlier on.

Just recorded my second sunniest December in my record (2006) with 100.2 hours. A very healthy 40% of the available.

Nick

Otter Valley, Devon

[jack.h...@gmail.com]

There hasn't been a massive amount of snow here but conditions are bitter. I haven't been outside yet this year.

I'll see what it looks like on Saturday but I am fearful of falling on snow as I did two years ago.  I had a very lucky escape then when my head just missed a large stone.

Jack.

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[Graham Easterling]

I am talking about the SW here, not the frozen north where it's completely different..

We have the ridiculous situation of an amber health alert, when there's still been no air frost, not even a ground frost this cold spell. Maximum yemperature hit 9C again yesyerday.  I had expected more of a 'dangler' yesterday, but nothing organised at all, just a couple of brief light showers.   This follows the yellow snow warning in November, when there was nothing apart from a thin covering lasting an hour or so Bodmin /Liskeard area. The press went to town about school closures due to snow, when they closed (withot about 2 exceptions) due to the warning. The kids had no school & no snow. In a desperate search for photos the aftermath of a heavy hail shower at Perranporth ws re-inventd as snow. One day we'll get heavy snow in a decent dangler or gale force easterly, and nobody will take any notice of warnings.

While I'm at it, why can't weather presenters stick to the forecast. I don't need to be told to remember the brolly if it's raining, to be told if it's icy there'll be slippery bits, to watch out for spray in the morinng rush ( whatever that is) that it'll feel colder if you're in the wind (wow, who'd have thought it!) etc. etc. Just forecast and allow people to use their brains before they rot from lack of use.

As it turns out, with the dry weather the beach cafes have done very well. I had expected more of a 'dangler' yesterday, but nothing organised at all, just a couple of brief light showers. Bit of a surprise considering the

  

cold air and still above normal SSTs.

Just off out for a walk, if I don't survive at least it's my own stupidity, I have been warned.

Graham

Penzance