 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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davidof, Nasty - very frightening. We had our own minor problems in Somerset but not due to meltwater! Its all this additional energy in the atmosphere
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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More energy = more evaporation from the oceans = more cloud = less sunlight getting though and increased albido = earth cools down and new ice age 
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Cool pics.
They need some global warming to dry it out a bit.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I thought this was about torrential rain, not meltwater? I also thought that most snow evaporates, rather than melts.
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I wonder what my kayaking friends will make of this, they're off in a couple of weeks 
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pam w, still an awful lot of snow lying on the tops though, and being washed down by the rain.
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Helen Beaumont, no doubt they will have, the ones I know are very experienced and I'm sure they'll find other stuff to do if the rivers are a no go.
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Swirly, some guys on there from the area post regularly. I have posted a couple of times in the last couple of days after emails from kayakers looking for alternative accommodation to their washed-out campsite.
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Martin Nicholas, it's not meltwater, it's constant p!ssing rain. 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Hopefully the sun will come out soon.
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forecasts for our area of the Alps are for heavy rain as far as the eye can see. Our lodger just got back, muddy and fed up, from the flooded Sunrise festival in Somerset - and her son who works in Hong Kong says it's pouring down there, too. I blame Gordon Brown, personally.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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pam w, Gordon Brown is personally responsible for everything wrong with the modern world.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Meanwhile, here in Scotland it's been a notably, extremely dry month. My weather station has recorded just 5.5 mm of rain in Moffat for the whole month of May and the rivers and burns are running as low as I've ever seen them.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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moffatross, you mean I've moved all the way to the Alps only to have Scotland's rain follow me here? That's just rude.
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Friends have just turned up in Val Cenis to find that the hotel they're supposed to be running is under five feet of water.
What's going on?
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We were sat in the garden yesterday afternoon with glorious sunshine and temps in the mid 80´s. A few hours later we had very heavy rain / hail. Maybe the weather machine needs a service.
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| moffatross wrote: |
| Meanwhile, here in Scotland it's been a notably, extremely dry month. My weather station has recorded just 5.5 mm of rain in Moffat for the whole month of May and the rivers and burns are running as low as I've ever seen them. |
I've just returned home from a week walking in the Fort William/Glencoe area. I struggled to find burns that had enough water for me to safely drink from...a problem I've not come across there before.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Makes our downpours here look positively benign!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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And now ...... the sun's out!
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Lizzard, not for long, rain due to start in about ooooo 10 secs!
our whole valley is still on red allert. I drove past serre poncon last week before going to england for a few days. There were no beaches and the whole thing is just an awesome sight.
the rivers are still closed and there is not much hope of them opening for a while.
met a kayaker on the plane. WE gave him a lift here to meet his friends. lucky we did really as they're not here and he has no where to stay. Good job he met me cos he's got a bed for the night now. Hes hoping ther rivers will be open soon.
this is not without its tragedies. WE have lost 2 locals in the rivers. One, an expert kayaker who was pursuaded by another kayaker to take him in. They both died. the other local, my sons best friends dad, went to take photo's last monday of the river. They found him in Guillestre on saturday. Truely a very very sad time here.
RIP to all three of them
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You know it makes sense.
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oh quelle surpise................
thunder, lightening and tons and tons of rain!
here we go again
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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snowangel., sounds like it is more dangerous out there in the summer than the winter
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Poster: A snowHead
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snowangel., what sad news to hear. Hope no more fatalities occur.
Hope the bad weather and river levels subside soon.
Are many properties at risk of flooding?
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.... No, no, not rude at all. It's maybe a little 'rough justice' meted out against youse fondu-chomping yodelers by the Scottish weather gods in envy of the Alpine snow record. Maybe in fact, as someone mentioned earlier, Gordon Brown is to blame. He was born in Govan and might just be a deity in disguise ? 
