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It would be much better to get hold of a normal alloy scaffolding pole and somehow attach it to the wall with spacing if need be to clear guttering etc. Such a set up is relatively easy to 'walk' up and down for maintenance which could be needed more or less annually. The roof ridge line has a significant speeding up effect similar to aircraft wing. It would be way too easy to do minor but expensive damage to the roof mucking about round there too. The only safe way to be on a roof is with proper roof ladder secured in place.

Worth noting the true solstice is about 4am tomorrow, in fact the 22nd will be a massive 1 second shorter than today. By Christmas you can just about notice the extra five minutes or so before sunset. The short days and general gloom are the worst thing about winter in the UK, but through January the return of light starts to accelerate quite rapidly By February given a calm sunny day it suddenly becomes noticeable the power is returning.

Probably a good 4-6" over the moors and it was blowing about quite a bit most of the day. At the top of the dale you could see it moving across the plateau and showering out into the valley when the sun backlit the area. Just a couple of inches here and though it was a couple of degrees above freezing ground temperatures stayed so low it only thawed very slowly.

Nenthead is still moe snowy than I expected, here we had a few flakes in the morning but the heavier precip mid-afternoon on was sleety rain. Webcam WWW.CYBERMOOR.ORG

Light snow on the wind here at the moment, it's not accumulating it's about +1.5C

Quite an interesting daiy graph, but very little rain here.

I suspect it may have been the highest at the time. Probably some payage autoroutes in Central France or Spain are higher now.

This is like a typical big snow event here. Kind of wet, heavy and difficult to plough out

I was surprised on Friday the Derwent at Malton is fairly normal for the time of year. This is at Old Malton which often has problems partly because a small tributary backs up if the main river is high for too long. It has been up to the base of the flood bank a week or so back. Pump (not running) sends water over the embankment as required. It draws from this sump-like area which drains naturally to the river when the level is below yellow paint - above that they close the sluice gate and start the pump if it stays higher for long. The pub and houses across the road are considerably lower than near the camera, and very vulnerable.

105mm here but I suspect the second half will be more normal and we won't reach more than 150% of the usual 100mm or so . November is the wettest here by some margin, perhaps surprisingly August is runner up with mean of 84mm

It was sleeting here about midnight but only counted less than 1mm - expected a dusting of white higher up this morning but couldn't see any without going up there.

More than 25mm since it stated and at least another 3 or 4 hours to go. Never very heavy but so persistent - hardly even eased off but sometimes heavier than others. I get the impression there's been much less even a little further north? Another striking feature is the gradual cooling at about 0.2C per hour, it was 8C when it started but 3.8C now, would have been very grim if not almost calm. There must be some wet snow in it above about 1000 feet I think.

27th October last year here.

I'd say some of the higher fellsides have better than 50-50 chance of a brief snow cover through October, Leyburn itself is reasonably high up too. More realistically it would be surprising if one or two mornings didn't have a touch of frost. Here on the moors the average 'days with snow falling' this month is probably about 2, with light snow cover expected perhaps slightly less than one day on average. Having said that Leyburn on Met Office site shows around 10-12C most days with cloud and light rain at times so you are out of luck, the final week this year looks more promising at the moment. Hawes further up the dale is degree or two cooler with minimums of 3 or 4C some days - that's low enough for sleet over some of the higher passes like Buttertubs.

It's the short days and low light levels through at least 3 months which get me, especially being interested in photo and video. Good light for that plunges to almost nothing for several weeks, or rather the short periods which are usable you are at work or should be doing something more important.

Global land change from 1982 to 2016 WWW.NATURE.COM Satellite data for the period 1982–2016 reveal changes in land use and land cover at global and regional scales that reflect...

You do sometimes get these raggy bits of cloud which may or may not be rotating, to be honest the shots aren't very conclusive. When a definite funnel forms it's quite a tight structure, the edges look darker and more sharply defined. A strong one will often develop into an almost implausible rope-like structure before dissipating. From a decent elevated vantage point small funnels are relatively common and can form below quite innocuous looking clouds which aren't even producing rain let alone electrical activity.

Over the moors it seemed to have gone by about 11am but the afternoon has been more rain on and off, hardly moving - which wasn't supposed to happen. Still *only* 15mm but it's getting waterlogged with events like this every couple of days. Next week looks more mobile and breezy so ought to dry up a bit.

Maybe someone will invent waterproof clothing one day.

Dropped to -0.3C just after sunrise, having been very close on and off for a couple of hours before that.

The lights were visible here at times on Saturday evening, rather low in the sky though. There was some high cloud overhead which was reflecting it, making it curiously bright for a moonless night.

They do regular snowploughing routinely too, and get paid to be on standby even when it isn't snowing. It's the carting away of piles from in town - to release parking areas or whatever - that is quite unusual in England anyway.

It seems like a complicated way to do the same job as a snow blower. In 2009 and 2010 the local agricultural contactors who couldn't do much else during the prolonged snowy spell trailered away many loads that had been piled up in some of the more congested villages round here, they just used conventional JCB style loading shovels though

And also, why is it equinox when here Sunrise is 06:50 and sunset 19:01