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    Wales - Weather Chat

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    Posted

    Please no Spring yet. It's way too early for my liking, the Spring and Summer months are endless these days. I hate the light mornings and light nights, sunshine puts me in such a bad mood. Give me rain, clouds, cold, storms, anything except warm sun please. 😊

     

    Yep Clair I agree 100 percent.

     

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    Wales - Weather Chat

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    Posted · Edited by worldairgroup

    An expedition you say?

     

    I'm going to the Himalayas (well, South Asia in general: India, Nepal, Tibet including Everest Base Camp, and Bangladesh) in October/November and Papua New Guinea in 2016.

     

    It sounds like you have my dream job!

     

    Excellent, we recently did some back up flights for Everest base camp, although I did not actually go - I am just providing the flights to Canada with helicopter backup. But I am tagging along to make sure everything works out right (and cause I love the cold and snow LOL)

     

    EDIT: Its an expedition documentary being made for Discovery channel cannot say too much because its not going to air until end of summer. But I surely will be posting photos and videos and hope I can witness Northern Lights Aurora again - amazing.

    Wales - Weather Chat

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    You looking forward to spring and summer, WAG?

     

    I think it's fair to say that despite the mediocrity of our recent winters, the last two summers and most recent springs have seen long spells of sunny, hot/warm weather. Indeed, I remember May, June and July last year being warm if not hot pretty much all the way through.

     

    Oh gosh nope! I am not a summer person at all. I travel abroad quite a lot so get my fair bit of sunny weather. I have got a flight booked from a client (expedition documentary) for end of February in the North Pole, Yellowknife, which I am really looking forward to. I was last there in 1997 and amazing place. SO I think that will be my fair share of cold and snow for this year LOL.

    Wales - Weather Chat

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    Posted · Edited by worldairgroup

    South Wales was forecast snow overnight and parts of it were under a warning.

     

    Monday's low now looks like staying out in the Atlantic so yet another missed opportunity for us. With the breakdown of the "cold" spell looking like next weekend and no sign of snow before that - the week ahead looks bone dry for most areas - it's looking like February and therefore the winter could pass by without any major snow events.

     

    Bar the modest fall in January 2013, we haven't seen anything significant since December 2010. Even the winters of the late 90s and 2000s were better than this.

     

    Absolutely Jack as I told you we have seen no significant snowfall ourselves since 2010. Yesterday we did have about 15 minutes of heavy snow but that did not settle and dwindled away to nothing! Hopefully METO will forecast a drought tomorrow and get it totally wrong - and we get blizzards LOL ;)

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    Wales - Weather Chat

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    Don't expect much snow unless you live in northern England, Ireland or Scotland according to this mornings bbc forecast.

     

    think if you lived in those places jay you would rapidly realise your in the wrong regional thread LOL

    Wales - Weather Chat

    in Regional

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    euro 4 tends to "underplay" the potential - so for me that looks a good bet for a good part of Wales

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    and the latest ecm run takes us now to the end of next week with the cold with further snowy reloads - even Derek mentioned the cold would be around "well into next week"

     

    yeah but come on andy we know your excited because its 99 percent certain your going to see the white stuff (and I dont mean in wetherspoons in Pontypridd) LOL

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    Wales - Weather Chat

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    Posted · Edited by worldairgroup

    Don't worry as in 2010 he said it'll be mostly dry in the south east of Wales and I awoke to a few inches of snow and this continued for the following 6 hours. I can't see it raining in the west tomorrow night surely with cold uppers and all conditions look decent.

     

    yep i agree derek likes his rain and sun more than snow so take it with a pinch of salt!

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    Wales - Weather Chat

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    I've paid for the netweather radar -£3.49 for a month it's really good. You can zoom right into your postcode. Other than that you could try rain today, that's one I used a while ago. On another note lets see what Derek has to say regarding tomorrow night's snow.

     

    thanks. we pay METO for their radar for aviation purposes, but because its a 1 user licence I cant login from home as need to leave it for the ops guys to have direct access to 24/7. but yes will have a look at the ones you have suggested.

    Wales - Weather Chat

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    Wouldn't trust them automated forecasts, just look at the radar tomorrow night. I remember before they had us down for heavy snow and there wasn't any ppn. Also look at the probability of ppn for that time and it shows 50% I think.

     

    In your opinions guys which is the best radar to look at? If you could send some links it would be appreciated, thanks and good luck all. Let it snow!! LOL

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    Wales - Weather Chat

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    snowy fun just 54hrs away - don't be getting despondent - wind chill alone will make most precip snow in wales

     

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    Quote - Teits - Derbyshire tend to do well in these situations as does Wales.

     

     

    chance of upgrade on the 6zs

     

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    then someone downgraded TEITS quote on MOD thread LOL. Damn it.

    Wales - Weather Chat

    in Regional

    Posted

    Of course I will share! Nothing worse than watching someone else getting snow! All eyes on countryfile,what times it on? Good luck and cross everything!

     

    countryfile is on 6:30pm but dont know if your aware, watch BBC NEWS24 at 9.55pm each night and they give a long range forecast for next 7 days which is quite useful.

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    Wales - Weather Chat

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    I really don't like to be a party pooper but given our past experiences (last week being the most recent example) of being sorely disappointed, I'm finding it hard to get too excited about this potential cold spell. Charts showed blizzard and TV forecasts talked of several Atlantic assaults on the "stagnant cold air" with excitement which never materialised, and it eventually got so watered down that most of us struggled to see sleet.

     

    If this happens then great, fantastic, it'll make the winter for me, but if it doesn't then I'm largely beyond caring. The two months with the fewest hours of daylight are behind us: once February gets started the increasing strength of the sun will see the back of any lying snow within a day or two. All I'm saying is don't be surprised if this turns into another three day cool spell with temperatures of 3-7C, culminating in a cold rain and sleet breakdown event, with any snow in the usual places.

     

    All this said, I'm starting to question my interest in British weather. Why do we settle for the measly leftovers, the dribs and drabs? Even our greatest, most fondly remembered snow events are not a patch on nor as frequent as those seen elsewhere. The same can be said of our storms, heat, cold, gales and even rain. It really is the height of mediocrity and stinks of desperation on our behalf.

     

    As you can tell I'm feeling rather jaded with the whole rollercoaster ride of UK weather watching where disappointments are commonplace and positive outcomes are rare and vastly overshadowed by events elsewhere in the world.

     

    Climate change is accelerating at such a pace that it makes further severe events less and less likely as time goes on.

     

    Sorry.

     

    jack get a grip its coming. LOL :)

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