Our weather has been too cold for snow - the warm - relatively speaking - air holds the moisture required for snow, evaporated off the sea - by warmth, again. This morning, with parcels to get to the Post Office I wore a black wool plaid over my long (27inch) cotton kilt with the red/grey/black/white stripes. As there was no overnight frost (for a change) I wore it with a short sleeved top. The temperature was 3 degrees Centigrade, but a wool plaid is more than a match for that.

When we have cold, dry, still air over us the warm damp moving air is pushed to the South or North.

If the warm air is travelling with enough power to push the cold air back over the continent then our weather is briefly damp - maybe a hailstone shower, and then the temperature rises.

Only when things are more evenly balanced, and the warm air rises over the cold, is there snow. Snow is not actually a sign of cold, but of calm warm conditions somewhere 'down weather'.

I would have thought that some enterprising person would have been organising chilled freight trains of snow to ship off to the Winter Olympics.....

Anne the Pleater :ootd: