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2009-02-02 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Global warming Alert: Heaviest UK snow in 18 years
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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-02-02 08:50|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 Yes, snow in the underground. The way the Underground is designed you have several sub-surface lines like the District & Circle and Hammersmith which have large sections above ground. Also, a number of the deep lines like Picadilly and Northern have surface sections. It affects the whole system. Not as bad as wet leaves on the tracks of the passenger rail systems:)
Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back!  2009-02-02 10:38||   2009-02-02 10:38|| Front Page Top

#2 A train should be able to get around in snow, even on above-ground tracks. I have never seen trains stopped from snow unless it is so deep that the locomotive can not push through it. Even when the rails are covered in ice, as soon as the wheel hits, the ice shatters and exposes the bare rail.

I have seen trains moving after an ice storm back East and you can see the ice flying from the first set of wheels.
Posted by crosspatch 2009-02-02 11:49||   2009-02-02 11:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Keep in mind this is like having snow in Columbia, SC, which happened when I got to Ft. Jackson in early 70. Inch or two paralyzed the place. They just don't know how to drive in snow.
Or ice in Dallas. My daughter got a day off because of that last week.
Further north? No biggie, until the lines come down and there's no power and the trees block the roads.
Posted by Richard Aubrey">Richard Aubrey  2009-02-02 12:03||   2009-02-02 12:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Crosspatch:

Its not so much the snow as freezing temperatures. Unless the points (switches) have heaters then you can't switch since they freeze. Also ice on tracks for transit cars is different than ice on the track for a heavy diesel or electric-diesel engine. Snow and freezing temps screw up systems like London's where this is more unusual than usual.
Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back!  2009-02-02 13:18||   2009-02-02 13:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Obviously the Gore Effect is increasing in both power and distance. Is there no way we can stop The Goracle before his cryogenic monsterousness sends us all into the next Ice Age?
Posted by SteveS 2009-02-02 14:00||   2009-02-02 14:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Even better...

UAE mountains covered in snow

In a rare phenomenon, residents of Dubai were pleasantly surprised as heavy snowfall blanketed a mountain region in neighbouring Ras Al Khaimah with many rushing there to witness the dazzling white snow.

Most newspapers carried out front-page photographs of snow fall on the mountains of Ras Al Khaimah on Friday night, leaving the Jebel Jais range covered in a thick white blanket of snow. The government news agency Wam said about 20cm of snow covered the mountains.

"The sight up there this morning was totally unbelievable with the snow-capped mountain and the entire area covered with fresh, dazzling white snow," Major Saeed Rashid Al Yamahi, Manager of the Air Wing of RAK Police, who flew a helicopter to the top of the Jebel Jais mountain said.

"The snowfall started at 3 pm on Friday afternoon and heavy snowfall began at 8 pm and continued till midnight, covering the entire area in a thick blanket of snow," he said.

He told the media that the entire area was covered with 10cm of snow.
This spell of snowfall brought the temperature on top of the mountain cluster, situated at a height of 5,700feet, to as low as -3 degree celsius on Friday night, as the snow blanketed an area extending over 5kms.

Anecdotal evidence suggest this as the second instance of snowfall in the emirate after December 2004.

The temperature on top of the mountain cluster remained extremely cold during the daytime on Saturday with the temperature rising to just 1 degree celsius in the afternoon.
Posted by tu3031 2009-02-02 14:23||   2009-02-02 14:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Chicago has experience the 10 Coldest January in 137 years.
Posted by DK70 the Scantily Clad7177 2009-02-02 15:51||   2009-02-02 15:51|| Front Page Top

#8 A train should be able to get around in snow, even on above-ground tracks.

Hmmm....maybe....not.
Posted by Procopius2k 2009-02-02 17:16||   2009-02-02 17:16|| Front Page Top

#9 P2K---Here's how you do snowclearing right on the railroad.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-02-02 22:57||   2009-02-02 22:57|| Front Page Top

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