Mr_Pessimistic

plenty of towering cumulus popping up here.. pessamistic though (as always)! (anvil in the far distance also!)

if only we had this setup when we had the cold uppers a few weeks back, most places would of seen easily over a foot of snow with 6 foot drifts,, typical! arrrgh!

could the radar be picking up low cloud instead of ppn over norfolk/suffolk? thanks..

hi, no chance of the snow being as far east as mid south norfolk i suppose? also, does anyone know whats up with the radar lying? thanks..

hi, did anyone happen to see he countryfile forecast? thanks..

well im pretty happy now, an unexpected 5" here in snowless mid south norfolk! the 20 year 2" record broken! at last!

jst went for walk, about 2" here with 4" drifts, nearly all over now though looking at radar for this area

i rekon my guess of about 2" here in the east will be about right.. heavy band is narrowing all the while.. about half inch here so far, just small flakes, heavy ppn looks like going south of here, just., as always. looks nice though!

2 inches tops i rekon for the east of the regoin.

its looking like norfolk/suffolk will get the leist judging by the radar, looks like its intensifying more to the south of the country (buienradar)

OMG! its actually started to snow just now, tiny flakes! At last! will it break the all time record of 2 inches!?

nothing here as ever :-(

i see looking at the radar, the usual split in ppn is happening along the norfolk/suffolk border! come on!!,, ive been waiting years for this.. shall be going for a fun drive in the morning i think!

im expecting snow around 10pm here due to the front slowing and breaking up (as it always does). my guess is about 2 inches here in the east with just light/moderate falls, maybee more further north/west, as this is usually the case. IF i get more than 2 inches, it will be the first time for more than 20 years! i also expect a splitting of the ppn, giving the norfolk/suffolk border area very little, as this Always happens. i hope im wrong though.

Still looking cold and dry for us on the ECM tonite, front probably not even making it to us as expected, but you never know though, we might end up with it stalling, then pushing back! Then if we were really lucky, a northerly shift of the scandi high, (with a nice little low popping up over france), giving us the proper snowy eastily we should of had this week!, then a shift of the high to greenland leeving us in a potent NE flow and huge dumping of snow from the north sea with plenty of Thunder snow, and the additiion of one or two polar lows developing in the flow from the arctic, 10 foot drifts and the week off work! - now that would be more like what we deserve.... i can only dream..

Oh well, another winter, another dissapointment., each day, less and less chance of seeing any snow showers, pressure looks like being too high, even with nice cold uppers. The front pushing in at the weekend will almost certainly fizzle out as it reaches us due to pressure being too high again. Background signals promote blocking moving to greenland area, which im pretty sure will be the case, but by the time it gets here, mid feb onwards, the sun will be powering up, making it likely to be marginal, and anyway, you can bet that the greenie high moves into such a position that will just offer the U.K a more Northwesterly airflow, keeping us here just dry and cold till the atlantic returns eventually. Just my pessamistic take on things,, but i bet it turns out very much like that!

yes, indeed you are very lucky.. no more than 2-3 inches here at any one time for over 20 years now (and im not kidding!) Im not expecting any more than a light dusting, if that, here from the next couple of days, and none at the weekend due to the front never making it this far east.

even with theese truly amazing charts, im very skeptical with reguards to getting any more than a couple of inches imby after the massive let down over the last four years, i expect all the snow to be north of the wash, south of ipswich or west of say bury area, as it always seems to be for some unfortunate reason.. pessamistic i know, but probably quite realistic. i really hope im wrong this year though.

i was reading the strat thread last nite, and choino's educated guesstimate was around 60% 70% (if i remember correctly) of a SSW occurring later this winter, which is good enough for me. could i ask if anyone has any reason to believe that thurs nite's LOW will travel further south than currently predicted? thanks guys..

if norfolk is not favoured in an easterly, can i ask what setup would norfolk actually be favoured in??

well, i for one dont need to read any long range forcasts as i know exectly how much snow i will get here in central-east east anglia, same as the last 25 years.. NONE! or very little. EA being the kind of place you would expect to get proper hammered in an easterly or northerly, well every year i read the same posts from people in central and western eareas saying they wont get any, itll all be reserved for the east etc, and in the end, its everywhere else that gets pummeled, whilst we stay bone dry, like the last two winters. i got soooo fed up last year, thinking 'surly it cant happen three years in a row' - but it did! so this year i really am not expecting any again, itll all go north, east, south or west of here. i prey that i am wrong.

oh well, the cool 'ish'weather was nice while it lasted here in the east. i for one am not looking forward to a return of dry hot dust bowl conditions returning, which is what the majority of the year has been so far in ea.

sorry if this has been mentioned within this thread already as ive not read all the pages.. this has all been discussed many times in the solar and arora chat thread if one wants to read more.. but if i remember correctly, it is thought that the decrease in sunspots would in theory only lead in a global temp reduction of about 0.1-0.3 degrees, but those that say that often tend to forget to mention that actually, indirectly, this could be more sever than this. there is much evidence that sunspots relate to the position of the jet stream, and from our point of view here in the u.k, this is great news if you like cold and snow. (i.e years of low sunspot activity = southerly tracking jet trend) scientists 'livingstone and penn' predicted the vanashing of sunspots by around 2014 a few years back and to be honest ive been harping on about it since! i for one am looking forward to the next few decades just to see what happens.

Yes, there is much evidence in the form of various artifacts found over the years pointing to ancient lost civilisations, and these dont just date as recent as the last 10,000 years, many are indeed found whithin mined rock dating back millions of years, and in some cases prehistoric (yes, that wasn't a typo).Unfortunately, these artifacts are pushed to one side by the science/archeology community simply because they do not fit in with modern day teachings, or due to loosing funding/ridicule etc. instead of being properly investigated. there are a few people that have dedicated there lives into investigating such artifacts, and they really do exist, so if you are interested in the subject, a good place to start would be a chap called Brad Steiger (he covers many such topics).. i somewhat expect we know as little about ancient history of this planet as we do about the depths of the oceans.

i suggest those skeptics out there may want to watch this well made documentary on the subject: (please watch it ALL before commenting) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5545276251937701731# If you still think we are being visited 'by accident' or the like, then i would suggest that you are simply being deliberately arrogant.. You decide..