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    C.E.T. forecasts for December 2015 (start of 2015-16 competition year)

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~brugge/CURR.html

     

    There are places on the south coast of England which are averaging 11c minimums so far this month? That's outrageous. I spent the first 18 years of my life in Derbyshire, granted at a high altitude, and hitting a 10c maximum just once in a winter month would be noteworthy. 

     

    (The quote system seems to be bugged since the forum upgrade and I can't delete below without deleting my entire cache. Are there plans to change this?)

    9 hours ago, BornFromTheVoid said:

    9.8C to the 24th (7.8: +3.1)

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    Alps & Pyrenees Snow Thread 2015/16

    in Spring Weather Discussion

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    15 hours ago, Ravelin said:

    I'll admit that the situation looks rather dire at the moment and I've resigned myself to take whatever there currently is when I go to Austria on Boxing Day. Best we can maybe hope for is a cool down to allow the snow cannons to keep working. 

    Another issue is that the extremely dry summer and autumn has left water levels low. Snowmaking, even if it's cold enough, is looking tough.

    Alps & Pyrenees Snow Thread 2015/16

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    53 minutes ago, Daniel* said:

    In the Vancouver Winter Olympics a few years back now they had to transport and dump tons and tons of snow due to the excessive mildness via trucks/airlifting due to the lack of snow is that conceivable for some of the snow parched resorts? Eastern Europe has some snow Russia is full to the brim lol! I suppose not..would be incredibly expensive and probably the money spent on it would melt away by how crazy mild it is..

    Transporting snow from the inland BC to Cypress Mountain for a few runs was one thing and very impressive. Moving snow thousands of km to cover huge pistes is pure fantasy.

     

    I'm going in a few weeks, I'm just glad I didn't choose to work a season this year like I'd been considering as it's around now that layoffs for the season start to happen. 

    Atlantic Storm #4 Desmond

    in Storms & Severe Weather

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    19 hours ago, keithlucky said:

    Plenty of studies over the years Extract from watkins studyimage This study has demonstrated the value of historical sources in supplementing data derived from scientific techniques such as lichenometry and radiocarbon dating. For Cumbria it was possible to identify 34 extreme floods which affected upland catchments since AD1600. The evidence supports the information derived from geomorphological approaches indicating that there have been marked changes in the frequency of such floods in the last 400 years, but that the frequency of such floods in the last three decades is not unusual and has fallen markedly from the mid-twentieth century. The occurrence of extreme flood events in upland areas appears to be linked closely with negative NAO values. http://www.mangeogsoc.org.uk/pdfs/watkins_whyte.pdf

    You seemed initially to be contesting John Curtice's claim that 352mm at Honister is a 24 hour record? This has nothing to do with rain guage measurements at an individual location?

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    Scotland Weather Discussion - 20th November 2015 and Onwards...

    in Regional

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    4 hours ago, CatchMyDrift said:

    There should be plenty via the Met-O under historic station data:

    http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/climate-historic/#?tab=climateHistoric

    Try this too, it gives an idea of the split across the country (e.g. it was wet in the east of Scotland, but not the 2nd wettest November on record)

    http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/summaries/datasets

    Also try this for mapped data:

    http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/summaries/anomacts

    Thanks! I was wondering in particular whether some West Highland glen had managed 500-600m+. It seems as though even parts of Galloway and Ayrshire managed that. 

    This first week of December looks to be even wetter than any November week, if it keeps up like this then December too could break some records. 

    Past winters discussion

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    December 2010, Oh the joys. As you can see in the 1st pic of my driveway.. The 2nd the Duke of York on the A515 just up the road and the last one with the gritter was March 2013.

    I will never forget travelling from Glasgow to Derbyshire 4-5 days after the event. There was barely anything in Manchester and nothing at all in Glasgow and not even that much on high parts of the M74/M6 (I believe the seriously heavy falls were further west in Cumbria and SW Scotland), so I didn't expect the Peak District to be a different world. The wind had died down allowing the A515 (along which the Duke of York in the second image is located) beyond Buxton to be re-opened in the form of a tunnel with several metres of snow banked up on either side. There were at least a dozen stranded lorries that had managed to blend well into the landscape as they were partially buried in snowdrifts - this vehicle graveyard that lined the road was quite spooky!

    The most cut off man on earth

    in Archived non-weather Photography

    Posted

    Not for everyone, But that jobs certainly up my street.

    You might be interested in the film 'How I Ended This Summer'. It's basically an identical setting and an identical function to the gallery (semi-abandoned meteorological station filmed on the north coast of Russia) and plot makes use of it really well. Beautiful landscapes too. 

     

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    Winter 2015/16

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Harve

    not this part of midlands! Not a covering 2 winters in a row

    You mean the West Midlands didn't have any covering at all in 2013-2014 while not too far away, in Derbyshire, there were scenes like these?

     

    edit: ignore me. This was obviously 2012-2013. 2013-2014 was of course snowless for low altitudes but I didn't spend any of 2014-2015 in England. I'm surprised the past winter was completely snowless. 

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    France weather

    in Weather Around The World

    Posted · Edited by Harve

    Belgium is forecast similar night-time temperatures with maximum temperatures in the east and south as low as 3c, which is really cold given the time of year and that nowhere in Belgium is above 700m. 

     

    In keeping with the title, the closest major French town to me is Charleville and it looks to be getting maxes around 7-9c, so not quite as impressive. 

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