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Dull and drizzly here at the Brdige as we catch what is left of the decaying frontal system from the West and 4.2 degrees. On a brighter note, Sainsbury's are selling Piper Heidsieck champagne at £15 a bottle so the fridge is currently on danger money.
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Mary had a little lamb
For its life she feared the worst
Since her lamb had met a shepherd boy
By the name of Damien Hirst
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Or a jizzard maybe
Pornado?
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Jupiter Pluvius here at The Bridge since 5:15, the NNW gusting at 30mph and temps now around 3.5 degrees Celsius.
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hi canalboy
similar to me but was born in camberwell
its the old saying
its not what you know its who you know
your the same age as me as well
I can follow some of the things that you show and I rely on your knowledge. You would make a great teacher if you ever had the chance. One of the things that annoys me about this country is its obsession with cheap modern degrees and the fact that people like you who, like me, grew up in an age when exams were tough are totally ignored. I suspect you are more meteorologically clued up than most of the so called professionals. I did a French degree and came up against a lot of resistance. I shall continue to read your postings with great interest mate.
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hi mate
no but would not mind doing it
need too many o and a and diplomas etc
thanks anyway
http://www.weatherca...e-forecast.html
ecm london ensembles looking good
and some colder runs there as well
Agreed John you would be great at it. I sympathise coming from the East End with no hope for further education available to me being born in Upney in 1966. I remember going to the National Union of Journalists as a callow 18 year old and all the interviewers knew the interviewees. A closed shop.
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You have to ask yourself how many times has the ECM at about 144z-196z been fairly accurate in blocking circumstances and you'd probably find not much, so that's why I'm taking all the recent runs with a dose of salts. It would be a big koo for the model come next monday if we have a slider into the SW and cold advecting west from the continent. But I doubt it.
Looking purely at what the ECM model is showing of course.
A big Koo? That's not the one that Price Andrew courted in the eighties is it?
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Aaarrrrgh it just won't travel that little further north to visit me
(Likewise it's a twopenny (oh all right two pounds thirty without an Oyster card) bus ride to my South too.
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Nothing here at the Bridge in terms of precipitation yet today.
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Febuary 2nd 2009
December 18th 2010
And now January 20th 2013 will now be my memory as one of the great snowfalls that London has had!
Been snowing almost all day, in light and haevy falls, snow flakes turning big at times. Parks and even roads in Central London have been coated with beautiful white snow cover, snow sticking to traffic lights and staues with abitter cold -1c windchill!
Still snowing now in Central London very lightly.
We must have recieved up to 10cm of snow so far and its still rising.
Fridays snowfall pales in comparison.
Best Snow Day EVA!!!
No it isn't. There have been many many days with a lot more in every part of the country.
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Nice! Thats 5cm more than me in Broadstairs.
Good old Broadstairs. I'd love to be in the Tartare Frigate now with a glass of red looking out over the beach. 3.7 inches here at The Bridge and the odd flake still wafting apologetically down. A nice layer in the West End earlier today too.
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Shall ask mon mere if they have our snow yet in somme, france
Ma mere I should hope, mon mere would change her gender altogether
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meteoradar convinced too
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Temperature definitely on the slide here as well, It peaked at 0,8 around midday but is now down to 0.3 with a DP of 1.1
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Less than an inch in Upminster Bridge. i think there was more at St Paul's where I work in The City. Currently 0,4 degrees
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You are obviously not looking at the same chart as me. Daytime maxima below zero are unusual in this country, so yes it is hard to get them.
Certainly in January 1987 and February 1991 I remember daytime maxima of -5 in central London and icicles the size of kitchen knives hanging off the black cabs. The Continent was ,however, considerably colder and we had straight Easterlies for the majority of those two cold events.
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and me (shhhh)
Was talking to my Dad this evening about 78/79 in Bristol when I was 13 and being asked by my late mother to go into the garden one dark evening with a torch and take the washing in, and (as she knew) finding it was all frozen hard. And ice on the inside of bedroom windows in the morning due to the heating being run off the Parkray fire which was only lit in the day. Paraffin heaters everywhere and, significantly, stalling fronts up against cold blocks.....
AS
Indeed, we had seventeen westerly / southerly days between Dec 21st and March 21st. The cold lingered on sporadically into April and probably did as much as the Unions in bringing down "Sunny" Jim Callaghan's Labour government. Another good reason for loving the cold weather
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what temps & DPs we got out there people-
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Here on the cusp of the Havering / Essex border there has ben a small temperature drop from 2.2 to 1.8 in the last hour. DP 0.7.
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Temp a constant 2.2 here for the last hour or so, although winds have veered from a straight westerly flow to a more straight north westerly and increased in speed
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Temp at the Bridge has risen from 1.4 to 2.2 degrees in the twinkling of an eye. Straight westerly flow.
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Are all the Londoners here from West/South-west? No East Londoners?
I'm from Upney originally but now of Upminster Bridge so definitely East London.
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Chlamydia in Codicote..........................
oh wait, sorry.
You've "gone down" in my estimation
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Trying my new idea of getting my location seen, has it worked
It has
Nice hyphenated surname there Mr Mantle-Bedford. I wish I was brought up posh like!
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As is Brentwood!!
And Upminster Bridge!
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South East and East Anglia Regional Discussion 8th February 2013>
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Good for you BlizzardBelle. All it needs now is for my chili to simmer for three hours.