On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:52:26 +0000, Frank Erskine wrote:
My mistake. Yes. less than 2"

Whatever's happened to the good old inch? Weather people never ever
refer to it nowadays, even though It's a much more practical unit for
snow depth.

It's alive and well this side of the Pond :-)

On 21 Dec 2010 14:09:22 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:52:26 +0000, Frank Erskine wrote:

On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:10:48 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

Andy Champ wrote:
On 20/12/2010 12:40, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Roads round here (East Anglia) are usable with care. Only 20-40cm of
snow.

"Only"? Sure you don't mean mm?


My mistake. Yes. less than 2"

Whatever's happened to the good old inch? Weather people never ever
refer to it nowadays, even though It's a much more practical unit for
snow depth.

Beside, cm aren't SI units and are to be deprecated.

We should use nanoparsecs... 30mm or so.

1 Parsec = 3.08568025 × 10**16 metres, ITYM attoparsecs?



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On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:54:00 +0000, pete wrote:

On 21 Dec 2010 14:09:22 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:52:26 +0000, Frank Erskine wrote:

On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:10:48 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

Andy Champ wrote:
On 20/12/2010 12:40, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Roads round here (East Anglia) are usable with care. Only 20-40cm
of snow.

"Only"? Sure you don't mean mm?


My mistake. Yes. less than 2"

Whatever's happened to the good old inch? Weather people never ever
refer to it nowadays, even though It's a much more practical unit for
snow depth.

Beside, cm aren't SI units and are to be deprecated.

We should use nanoparsecs... 30mm or so.

1 Parsec = 3.08568025 × 10**16 metres, ITYM attoparsecs?


I just re-read that and of course I meant attoparsecs...just scrolled
down to see if anyone had noticed before I posted a correction!


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Bob Eager wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:54:00 +0000, pete wrote:

On 21 Dec 2010 14:09:22 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:52:26 +0000, Frank Erskine wrote:

On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:10:48 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

Andy Champ wrote:
On 20/12/2010 12:40, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Roads round here (East Anglia) are usable with care. Only 20-40cm
of snow.

"Only"? Sure you don't mean mm?

My mistake. Yes. less than 2"
Whatever's happened to the good old inch? Weather people never ever
refer to it nowadays, even though It's a much more practical unit for
snow depth.

Beside, cm aren't SI units and are to be deprecated.
We should use nanoparsecs... 30mm or so.

1 Parsec = 3.08568025 × 10**16 metres, ITYM attoparsecs?


I just re-read that and of course I meant attoparsecs...just scrolled
down to see if anyone had noticed before I posted a correction!


mm is shorter than attoparsec.

On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:33:22 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Bob Eager wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:54:00 +0000, pete wrote:

On 21 Dec 2010 14:09:22 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:52:26 +0000, Frank Erskine wrote:

On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:10:48 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

Andy Champ wrote:
On 20/12/2010 12:40, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Roads round here (East Anglia) are usable with care. Only 20-40cm
of snow.

"Only"? Sure you don't mean mm?

My mistake. Yes. less than 2"
Whatever's happened to the good old inch? Weather people never ever
refer to it nowadays, even though It's a much more practical unit
for snow depth.

Beside, cm aren't SI units and are to be deprecated.
We should use nanoparsecs... 30mm or so.

1 Parsec = 3.08568025 × 10**16 metres, ITYM attoparsecs?


I just re-read that and of course I meant attoparsecs...just scrolled
down to see if anyone had noticed before I posted a correction!


mm is shorter than attoparsec.

But not as much fun.


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Liquorice writes
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:37:02 +0000, chris French wrote:

Out of interest, me and the eldest daughter (9) were pondering in the
car today about hoar frost all over the grass, trees etc. which we had
today. We were wondering about the conditions required to produce it.

Was it foggy last night? Freezing fog will encase things in thick
layer of hoar frost:


It was foggy in the morning, so I imagine it was at night,so could be.
We wondered if that was the reason.

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Bob Eager wrote:
Beside, cm aren't SI units and are to be deprecated.
We should use nanoparsecs... 30mm or so.

Just over a milli-furlong

JGH

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On 20 Dec,
"Dave Liquorice" wrote:

On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:10:13 GMT, wrote:

Now (in my area at least) it seems to be a M-F 8-4 operation. Certainly
very little done on weekends.

24/7 operation available here. Mind you they have to if it starts to
drift in any sort of meaningful manner otherwise it'll build up so
the ploughs can't get through, even with the pointy plough rather
than the shove to the side type.

When it's drifting badly they just keep driving around and around
trying to keep some semblance of a route open. They'll come past us
about every hour but by the time they are due to pass again you'd
hardly be able to tell they had been through just an hour before as
the previous track would be filled back in. We are talking 2' or more
depths as well.

Yes, I know your area well from the 70s when your TV relay started. The
local
council is an urban area so they think. Next door in N yorks they do
actually
plough the roads. locally they only seem to grit most of the time, even
with
plough equipped lorries, despite having some rural black (or is it white)
spots.

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I think this is actually kinda gross.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "dennis@home"
saying something like:

I find it hard to imagine how many get stuck as I have never got stuck on
the roads and I never drive a 4x4.

But Dennis, you are just A Helluva Guy.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Ala"
saying something like:

locally they only seem to grit most of the time, even
with
plough equipped lorries, despite having some rural black (or is it white)
spots.



I think this is actually kinda gross.

I assume you're a Septic?

"Black Spot" in the UK, refers to a place where traffic collisions
regularly happen. The "white spot" of the OP is a pun on snow.

HTH, HAND, ********, etc.

On 21/12/2010 00:00, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:12:30 +0000, Andy Champ wrote:

Roads round here (East Anglia) are usable with care.
Only 20-40cm of snow.

"Only"? Sure you don't mean mm?

40 mm is just a heavy frost. B-) Shouldn't stop any vehicle, that
has decent "all season" tyres. Slow 'em down certainly as stopping
distances will be some what longer but not stop.

40cm will stop most vehicles; the ground clearance on a discovery is
only 24cm, and I suspect it would struggle with 40cm, even with 4wd and
proper tyres.

A lot depends on the snow. I flumphed through several drifts around
100cm the other day but that was fresh, dry powder, very light and
flows almost like water.

Conversely I have been stopped by just an inch or so of firm snow on
the central hump catching the bottom of the front valance. That is
higher than the bottom of the diff housings which is what the quoted
ground clearance measures to. The diffs can be can be pushed through
snow but not rocks... Disco II (permenant 4WD) with winter tyres.


I just went and measured. 20cm is enough that the splitter will be
scraping the top off and feeding it to the radiator - unless of course
the wheels are riding over it, and lifting the car up. 40cm would
completely bury the radiator. 100cm is somewhere up in the glass - I'd
go _under_ that 100cm fluffy drift, not over. And then stop shortly
afterwards with an overheating engine owing to no airflow!

My tyres are intended for higher temperatures and higher speeds. They
aren't ideal for this weather. RWD, no LSD, too much power... and the
biggest problem I've had with our 40mm has been the stuck vehicle at the
front of the queue.

Andy

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:38:44 +0000, Andy Champ wrote:
100cm is somewhere up in the glass - I'd
go _under_ that 100cm fluffy drift, not over. And then stop shortly
afterwards with an overheating engine owing to no airflow!

Bah, what are you on about? Your engine would stay cool due to all the
snow packed around it in the engine bay... ;-)

On 22/12/2010 22:55, Jules Richardson wrote:
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:38:44 +0000, Andy Champ wrote:
100cm is somewhere up in the glass - I'd
go _under_ that 100cm fluffy drift, not over. And then stop shortly
afterwards with an overheating engine owing to no airflow!

Bah, what are you on about? Your engine would stay cool due to all the
snow packed around it in the engine bay... ;-)


The engine bay is at the other end of the car. (This is an old model
MR2, not a Ferrari or something so it's not worth breaking into my house
for the keys).

However I don't think much snow would get through the radiator of a
conventional front engine car. The bit next to the radiator would then
melt, leaving a blocked grill and a gap before the radiator.

Andy

"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
...
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Ala"
saying something like:

locally they only seem to grit most of the time, even
with
plough equipped lorries, despite having some rural black (or is it
white)
spots.



I think this is actually kinda gross.

I assume you're a Septic?

"Black Spot" in the UK, refers to a place where traffic collisions
regularly happen. The "white spot" of the OP is a pun on snow.

HTH, HAND, ********, etc.

I assume you're a boy. All boys think grit and mud and such is cool.
Gurlz do not

Not gross but still involving rocks and dirt:
Number 2.

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"Jules Richardson" wrote in message
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On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:21:39 -0800, Andy Dingley wrote:
Roads round here (East Anglia) are usable with care. Only 20-40cm of
snow.

"Only"? Sure you don't mean mm?

My mistake. Yes. less than 2"

Still a real problem when you're trying to bring the ant herd in for
milking.

At least you can find them by listening for the little ant bells that
they wear around their necks.

it's not like they play fiddles the way crickets do

"BartC" wrote in message
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"dennis@home" wrote in message
...

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...

It isn't quite 1962-3 yet, and its earlier, but we spent three months
adapting to that one..lots of disruption, places completely cut off for
weeks on end. Heavy loss of livestock outside, or starving inside with
no feed.

I had little trouble driving to work then.
It took two days to dig through the snow drift outside my house to get to
the main road but once that was done it was OK.
Its OK out there now, but only because so many have decided to stay at
home, if they were out there getting stuck it would be grid lock, again!
I find it hard to imagine how many get stuck as I have never got stuck on
the roads and I never drive a 4x4.

I find that traffic is the best way of keeping roads clear (that's why
main roads are much easier to drive on).

So we have to thank all those who ignored the advice to stay home,

I know you are there!

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Ala"
saying something like:

I assume you're a boy.

I assume you're off your bleedin' head.

"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
...
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Ala"
saying something like:

I assume you're a boy.

I assume you're off your bleedin' head.

I assumed the same thing abou the moon once upon a time, but neiher of us
have hematoma