Took a short stroll today along the Cleveland way from Lord Stones cafe. Lots of powder snow falling and spindrift blowing everywhere, howling gale and temperature falling from around freezing at the start to about -3C later in the afternoon. I just happened to have my anemometer in the rucksack - turned out that the wind was blowing about 35mph, and the windchill was down to -18C, and that was just at the start!! Went over Cringle moor without any difficulty, but as I was going up the aptly named Cold Moor, the wind increased to around 45mph and started blowing me off the path. I didn't measure the windchill at this point as it was just too cold to even think of taking my gloves off . I ducked off the path just short of the top and took shelter in an old building. The walk between the path and the building took me face first into the wind, and it felt like my lips, nose, and cheeks were being scraped off with a cheese grater! Once out the wind I had a quick bite of lunch. My water bottle had started to freeze, and the few drops of hot oxo that got spilt onto the rucksack froze solid very quickly so decided to call it a day. I did the last few feet to the top and then turned back. I took another windchill reading at foot of Cold Moor and it was now down to -20C!! Strange to think that this atrocious weather was only 10 miles as the crow flies from Middlesbrough town centre!!
"Dave McLaughlin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Took a short stroll today along the Cleveland way from Lord Stones cafe. Lots of powder snow falling and spindrift blowing everywhere, howling gale and temperature falling from around freezing at the start to about -3C later in the afternoon.
I hope you enjoyed a scone in the cafe, it sounds like you earned it! That ridge walk seems to catch the weather. I was there at the beginning of February in bitter cold and there was an unusually thick frost, it looked quite strange. As you looked down from the ridge walk near Cold Moor to the track under the escarpment the trees behind, mainly pine and larch, looked quite stunning with a covering of ice. I took some pics and I've uploaded a couple if you're interested. I've put them on the same page as the inscription, again just click on them to enlarge. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/daniel.f/latin.htm I haven't fiddled with them at all, other than 'sharpen' in PS. I love that stretch from Lords Stone to Clay Bank... Huw
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My server doesn't seem to like me altering the page and is declining to load at the moment. I have to go out and don't have time to fiddle with it. Apologies. Huw
"Dave McLaughlin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Took a short stroll today along the Cleveland way from Lord Stones cafe. Lots of powder snow falling and spindrift blowing everywhere, howling gale and temperature falling from around freezing at the start to about -3C later in the afternoon.
I hope you enjoyed a scone in the cafe, it sounds like you earned it! That ridge walk seems to catch the weather. I was there at the beginning of February in bitter cold and there was an unusually thick frost, it looked quite strange. As you looked down from the ridge walk near Cold Moor to the track under the escarpment the trees behind, mainly pine and larch, looked quite stunning with a covering of ice. I took some pics and I've uploaded a couple if you're interested. I've put them on the same page as the inscription, again just click on them to enlarge. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/daniel.f/latin.htm I haven't fiddled with them at all, other than 'sharpen' in PS. I love that stretch from Lords Stone to Clay Bank... Huw
I've just got around to putting a few pics of the walk up at:-
There's another picture of that latin inscription on Cringle - though this time it's partially hidden by snow. Incidentally, that 8ft drop from the footpath down to the inscription was quite literally a 'life-saver'. I was absolutely desperate for a P*** at the time, and there was absolutely no way I was opening my trousers in a -18 windchill! Once out of the wind it was all relatively pleasant and it was such a great relief to turn the snow yellow without suffering the indignity of a frost bitten appendage :-)
