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  1. Bishop Brennan
    Thank you for your contributions to this thread Shuttler, very much appreciated. An encouraging update from a cold perspective - patience is the key, plus a bit of luck of course. Bish
  2. Bishop Brennan
    Great pictures, thanks for sharing! Bish
  3. Bishop Brennan
    And we are also 99.999999999% uncertain as to how the strat warming(s) will influence the weather patterns in our little part of the world, and we will remain uncertain for several more days or even weeks. Always worth pointing this out before folk hang all their winter hopes & dreams on this event, as tantalising as it looks. Bish
  4. Bishop Brennan
    Apologies if this is a dumb question Chio, but how are the Strat temperatures measured? Weather balloons? Bish
  5. Bishop Brennan
    I think I'm right in saying that the date of the forecasted SSW has actually moved forward somewhat, from Jan 10th to Jan 5th or thereabouts. Bish
  6. Bishop Brennan
    Hi Andrej, for the uninitiated (i.e. myself!), what do the final two graphs show? A split vortex from around Jan 10th? Bish
  7. Bishop Brennan
    Yep, it's been coming down increasingly heavily for the past couple of hours. 10.00mm for the day so far, but most of that has fallen since nine this morning. Drive carefully, Tony. Bish
  8. Bishop Brennan
    Yep, it's really intensified to our south & west and is now moving across us. Yet another stormy tonight beckons by the looks of things. Bish
  9. Bishop Brennan
    We got down to a very respectable -7.6C by half past five this morning. It was still below minus six when I first tried (unsuccessfully!) to get into my car a couple of hours later. Can I ask everyone what exactly constitutes an ice day? Is it an entire day whereby the temperature doesn't exceed 0.0C or does it only apply to daylight hours? Elsewhere on the forum some people are celebrating an ice day even though there are still several hours to go? Bish
  10. Bishop Brennan
    -6.1C at half past midnight. Coldest it's been here since we dropped to -8.4C on the morning of February 11th this year. Bish
  11. Bishop Brennan
    Really? Wow I'm surprised. For the period 1997-2006 I might as well have been living in the Nevada Desert from a snow perspective. I can only remember two snow events during that period, both of which were notable for their timing rather than depths: Late December 2000, when between Christmas and New Year we had a modest but very seasonal fall. And we had a very unexpected April snowfall early in the decade, but I can't be sure which year - 2001 perhaps. Bish
  12. Bishop Brennan
    But it's only December 12th! We just need to be patient. I must admit the outlook for the next week or so is not too great from a snow perspective, but that will change eventually. Remember: many of the epic snow events of the past didn't get underway until well after the start of January....... Bish
  13. Bishop Brennan
    Just picking up on the previous conversation - in my opinion "proper" cold and snow are far more commonplace now than during the dismal 1997-2006 period, when I can only really recall one or two reasonably noteworthy snowfalls. A very chilly -4.1C here in Knowle, with lots of dense freezing fog. Looks like I chose a good couple of days to use up some annual leave. Bish
  14. Bishop Brennan
    Well the fog never really cleared here today, once it had rolled in after nine this morning. If anything it got heavier as the day progressed. The temperature did fleetingly manage to reach the giddy heights of 2.5C around mid-afternoon, but it has fallen back below zero again now - currently -0.3C Bish
  15. Bishop Brennan
    Good grief that sounds terrifying. Thank goodness you're okay! Bish
  16. Bishop Brennan
    I'll believe it when I see it falling from the sky! If it does indeed snow, I can only assume it'll be very light and brief. Still, something is better than nothing I guess. Bish
  17. Bishop Brennan
    lol when I wrote my first post there were brilliant blue skies outside. Since then a very heavy fog has descended, in fact I can't even see the tree tops anymore. Currently -2.4C, with a minimum of -3.0C at 7:33 am Bish
  18. Bishop Brennan
    No fog here at the moment, although a very sharp frost. Sounds like there could be a wider risk of disruptive fog tomorrow morning for the West Midlands however. Has anybody seen the news re the latest ECM 32 day forecast? A very big turnaround from previous updates - it now seems that the rest of December may well be dull, wet, and windy. Northern blocking is still extensive, but has shifted slightly further north than was previously anticpated, leaving us in the Atlantic firing line for the time being Bish
  19. Bishop Brennan
    The turnaround has been pretty horrible to watch unfold, hasn't it? A real kick in the wotsits. What frustrates me is that we're actually going to end up with pretty much the total opposite of what the models were hinting at, i.e. strong Atlantic LP's rather than a significant easterly influence. I wouldn't even mind so much if we were at least looking at a snowy breakdown, which of course now seems unlikely as well. Bish
  20. Bishop Brennan
    The week ahead forecast on the BBC Midlands News this morning showed heavy rain for Friday - a sad case of what might have been Bish
  21. Bishop Brennan
    True, but extreme caution is advised! The fiasco of the past few days has served as a sobering reminder that we mustn't get too drawn into what the models are showing until a reliable timeframe is reached, and once cross-model agreement is achieved. But a tentative step in the right direction nonetheless. Bish
  22. Bishop Brennan
    RIP Sir Patrick - thanks for the memories. Bish
  23. Bishop Brennan
    Sheffield Wednesday I presume? Bish
  24. Bishop Brennan
    Other names spring to mind, but I doubt I'd get them past the forum profanity filter. Bish
  25. Bishop Brennan
    Aaaarrgghhhhh!!!! But it's always only ever in FI!!!!! Bish
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