Baldy Snowman
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1 minute ago, Jonathan Rhodri Roberts said:
Oh no my mam's literally just left Porthcawl to go and visit her brother in Maesteg
looking outside i think she'll be OK. seems to be thawing a bit out there. sun is trying to poke through. dont know what the main roads are like though, but i dont think they're as bad as last time.
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2 minutes ago, welshwizard said:
I just looked at radar, and from metro and rain today radar( free ones) snow passing by Newport Cardiff Bridgend etc within an hour. I myself hope so as work later and need to get car out. Are these radars correct?
heavier band of snow stretching from mid wales down to plymouth seemingly ready to pounce on us all
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showing a small clear patch over Maesteg on v7, but still snowing lightly. can see patches of blue sky. lying snow SEEMS to be thawing slightly too. wet patches now visible.
however this plays out now, i'm happy
two mini 82 type events, in two weeks? nice. thought i'd never see drifting snow ever again.
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sun TRYING to poke it's nose into our fun here in Maesteg
i'm noticing each model run the precipitation has been pushed further and further north, and now it's still very close to us even into tonight and the early hours of tomorrow. one more tiny push north and we got snow all day and night
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11 hours ago, andymusic said:
full on blizzard here in Maesteg, but we're right on the edge of the precipitation according to v7
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i have a sneaky feeling this event may be a bit better for the valleys slightly further west than the event two weeks ago.
heavy snow shower here in Maesteg now, and it is drifting, on the roads and off the roofs of the cars too
two weeks back the marginality meant it was melting on the roads, until it really got going, and when it was ending too. this SEEMS more promising, but we'll see
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53 minutes ago, thetipster said:
looking like a snow event starting from Saturday 22:00hrs until sunday midday
yeah, and every run seems to slightly upgrade it too? maybe room for another slight upgrade?
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1 minute ago, Missdolly said:
So glad I did the food shop today , plenty of bread , milk and potatoes here now ?!
Wonder if the stampede has began ??
i think lots of people would have felt a bit foolish after clearing out all the shops after the last one, only for you to be able to do a good shop the next couple of days after it
given the fact this one's a bit more marginal, and less intense, at least that's the way i see it, i think calmer heads will prevail this time. i wonder how much perishable food wasted after that last one?
maybe i'm wrong though. maybe polar bears will be tearing at our back doors in the next few weeks....
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Just now, andymusic said:
long weekend - snow day Monday me-thinks
could be, especially for you, but those maps you posted above look a bit marginal for lots of us. is there any chance of an upgrade? could that low not sink south so rapidly? if memory serves right in 82 the low misbehaved, dumping a load on us. I know forecasting and modelling has come on leaps and bounds since, so it's unlikely, but maybe.....? lol
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1 minute ago, RhysWales said:
Somewhere in between, but pretty good! Valleys generally 10-15cm I reckon. Heads of the valleys and Beacons maybe 25cm!
Just don't look at the main BBC TV weather graphics- they're beyond confusing. No snow for Wales from 4am Sunday... :s
gonna be a fun day. should still be able to work on Monday, if it blows about in the way it did two weeks ago,
those images andy just posted making me think twice about this event
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i think it is going to be blowing around, a LOT looking at the easterly winds predicted
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wasn't expecting to be back on this forum this year. where did THIS come from?
so, how are the valleys looking THIS time? snowmageddon, or pretty little swirls on the road?
Sunday looks like fun, whatever. at least most of us are not working THIS time.
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That's me done then. Next time you'll see the little fella to the left will be when there's another 'beast' coming.
Was excellent for some, but not for all, so it doesn't make the EPIC list. Sorry 2018, you had your chance, and blew it. Although, no, you didn't blow it half well enough, to join 47, 63, 78 and 82. Must try harder. It's the end of the season now, very few opportunities left to redeem yourself!, so you've only got the start of next season to play for! Get on that training pitch, and practise your defence, cos the way that mild attack went past you, you should be ashamed of yourself! Now get down and give me 50 press ups!!
Oh well done on beating Cardiff though! That was a really good performance! OK, make it 25 press ups!
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9 minutes ago, thetipster said:
got to keep an look out for Saturday night 22:00hrs
i am dubious about the models/charts
they haven't even got the positioning of this low correct. i'm watching that closely now.
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Just now, snowy36 said:
Derek , more snow on it for tonight and tomorrow.
got a link?
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2 minutes ago, snowy36 said:
I think he's changed his weather chart , more snow on it for tonight and tomorrow.
who?
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i don't know any more. To me the nne movement of that low is CLEAR on v7. centre of it now must be at least 80 miles from where it is supposed to be at midnight according to 12z GFS
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to be fair, this has been a good event for some. had the potential to be one of the classics, but because only a small area really speaking got hammered, and the majority didn't really, it can't be mentioned in the same breath as 82, 78, 63 etc
first time in 36 years i saw sustained drifting though, and for that i'll remember it
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1 minute ago, snowy36 said:
I dont think its moved east much but its moving quicker.
it hasn't moved much, 60 miles or so, but as you said, it's sped up a bit and also tightened up. what if it develops further?
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so, the beast slinks away, retracts it's claws, and purrs gently in it's garish, scatter cushion strewn cave?
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Just now, Stratocumulus perlucidus said:
I wouldnt worry about it too much.
not worried, just posing a question. do you agree that small low is further east?
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between midnight and 3am, this small low is supposed to be 'cannibalised', ,for want of better terminology, by the bigger low to the south in the bay of Biscay, but if it is 60 miles further east, and seemingly moving slowly north, away from where it was 'supposed' to be when that is due to occur,, does this change things? anyone have opinions on this? could the pot get stirred a bit here?
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7 minutes ago, Jayfromcardiff said:
That ppn is rotating towards us? How can the BBC and met office get it so wrong? That's obviously if it happens.
the low is further east than predicted, clearly. by about 60 miles or so. the following is where it should have been at 9pm..
but this is where it was, centred directly south of Plymouth..
question is, is this slight positional change anything significant?
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2 minutes ago, snowy36 said:
Could u pay using paypal!!!
not sure. i paid by card. doesnt say on registration page.
Wales/Cymru Regional Weather Discussion
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it's March, and we've had two events making us temporarily look like Siberia, even if it is only for a couple of hours. the sun is getting stronger and stronger day by day, so a thaw is inevitable. it's even having an effect through the clouds here.
we may even have ANOTHER event looking at the charts, in the next couple of weeks, so yeah, this year could well be looked upon with the same nostalgia as 82 and 78, if not having the same severity as those events
see you when the next event hits.