Lauren
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The missus is from here.
Cold, wet and windy is one way to sum it up! It's an island that gets plenty of rain, not too disimular to the UK really (much less people though the city of St Johns is quite busy, people are generally nice most of them originate from Ireland and the South West the accent is almost Irish) in some respects though experiences colder and snowier winters.
Apparently was a November record, 29cm:
http://www.vocm.com/...=18796&latest=1
I can see why the locals get sick of snow though, probably spent 2-3 hours yesterday digging out the drive and paths, the plow had been along early morning to clear the streets and shoved another line of snow about 2 feet high in front of the driveway which had to be shifted before you can get out. Can imagine it gets pretty bad when you get a few bad storms in the space of a few weeks, they run out of places to put the snow, when it gets too bad the council come along and load alot of it onto waggons with big snow blowers and dump it in the sea.
What's summer like? How hot does it get and does it have similar seasons to the UK?
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I love the old weather graphics. I used to get very excited when i saw the lightning one.
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It was reading 1C (although now up to 9C) this morning. had to use the ice scraper on my windscreen for the first time this winter.
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Going on absolutely nothing but guessing and gut feeling I think winter for the SE will look like this:
The relatively mild weather will continue until early December. This will be followed by a rapid cool down. We shall see a relatively large amount of precipitation in the early part of December, this will be rain. There will then be a slight warm up in temperature followed by some snowfall around the 20th December onwards. This will leave only a couple of inches with the occasional flurry to top it up, but it shall melt again before Xmas.
Xmas will be bitterly cold but conditions won't be right for snow. However by early January the snow will fall thick and fast and we shall see similar conditions to last year, but it will not be as deep. Snow will be on the ground and topped up by regular showers until at least mid January. Heavy rain showers will melt the snow quickly and by 21st January it will all be melted. We shall see a few flurries up until the end of January, but these will barely lay. February will be more mild with the normal amount of rainfall we would expect for the month. From that point the warm up to Spring starts.
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I went to uni with a big European Storm Chaser and he would always go to the North of the Pyrenees and then up through Massife-Central. It helped that he had a house in MC though!
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I think we will all forever be frustrated and hopelessly let down by wheelie bin day.
I can't tell you the amount of times I've gotten my hopes up only to realise what day it is.
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If I see one more OMGZ EVERYBODY PANIC!!!111!!! headline from the Express I may stab myself through the face with the nearest sharp object.
Everybody keeps saying 'ooooh I read in the paper it's going to snow this week'. Yes dear, they say that every week.
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Something's not quite right, the biggest gust recorded here has been 10mph in the last 24hours.
Definately wrong.
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I was a bit too young to remeber it but I've seen pictures of our garden that summer and despite my parent's best watering efforts it was all yellow!
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Very windy overnight, so much so our very heavy outside bin has been thrown to the other side of the garden :o
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Very windy last night, could have sworn it rained lot's as well, but the rain gauge this morning only say 0.5 mm
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which date/month is the latest that your location has ever received? May (not sure which year, the earley 2000's I believe)
which date/month on average has the last snowfall? End of January/beginning of February, can't say an exact month.
which date/month is the earliest that your location has ever received? End of October (late 90's)
which date/month on average has the first snowfall? December
which month is the snowiest when it comes to snow lying? January
which month is the snowiest when it comes to snow falling? January
which month is your snowiest (lying and falling, and depth) in your records? 26 inches December 2010/January 1992
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I will! I know how you feel, even when we had the cold December last year, my part of Glos missed out on all the fun with little more than 2 or 3 inches. I would say this is the most snow I have ever seen, I was around in the late 70's early 80's but too young to remember the snowfall back then. Where I am doesn't quite get the bitter very cold sustained very cold temps that they do on the continent but is a good location for lots of storms, still early in the season really though today was not that normal for here at this time of year.
What's it like living over there?
Why did you move there, if you don't mind me asking?
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Thanks for those Coast, that's interesting.
The rain guage I have has made me much more aware of how much or little it really does rain. It's surprising how innacurate our memory is when it comes to that sort of thing. One of my neighbours was saying how much it had rained in October, when in fact my rainguage had only totalled about 4mm for the whole month.
Looking at those CPC charts it talks about there being a thick and thin line for accumulated and normal, but they both look the same thickness to me
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Thanks for your answers.
So as i understand it, the fog is formed by the warmer air mositure cooling . Usually the sun and wind would break through this in the morning, but due to a lack of sun and wind, it remains.
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I know why fog forms, but what's the reason for it lingering pretty much all day for the last week or so?
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If it's a proper thunderstorm ! Yes Lauren.
I expect you have more chance than me. Let's say. about half hours worth, but I guess that's very rare. :lol:Ok so a few flashes and rumbles don't count then. We had about 5 minutes of intense thundersnow last year, but i'm not sure I'd couint that as a storm.
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Will thundersnow count as a storm?
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Here we go, a nice little video explaining the operation of tornado probes here:
Thanks Coast, I'll have a watch of that later.
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I've remembered another one. I have kept thunderstorm diaries since I was 7 years as they have always fascinated me (I blame my parent's fascination!). I used to record the ones on holiday too. I dragged them out the other day.
It was August 1997 in Bulgaria. This was 2 weeks after a huge MCS had hit SE England and lasted all night, the account of which I have written earlier in this thread. We were in the mountains and at that time of year thunderstorms are common. We had opted to go on a walking tour that lasted half a day and we saw some great scebery and wildlife, including a few bears. Our guide was almost psychic, he was that good at telling the weather. We'd reached a peak of a mountain and he was surveying the horizon. It was quite obvious that in the distance a big storm was building, you could literally see the anvils rising and it looked bad.
He told us we had to make our way back quickly to the hotel as 'this is a big one'. He told us it would reach the hotel in about 30 minutes and if we went back now we'd get back just in time. We were all disappointed as we were enjoying the hike but he was adamant tis was not a safe storm to be in. We were all compliant and made a hurried return. I remember talking to him on the way down and he was saying up there storms can develop within minutes with no warning or indication whatsoever. When we were about 5 minutes from the hotel we could hear huge booms approaching. We got back to our hotel room and stood out on the balcony overlooking the mountains and sure enough to the exact minute the storm hit. First came a strong wind, then heavy rain and huge hail. Thunder boomed around the mountain valleys so loud we had to shout to be heard and lightning was forking everywhere and was non stop. There was a tower on one of the mountain peaks which was an observation tower as well as a transmission tower and it got hit several times. My Mum grabbed the camera and just clicked randomnly to try and get a photo. Somehow she did get one hitting this tower and I will try and find it.
The storm was so strong we could see tree branches breaking. We just stood on the balcony fascinated by this storm and glad we had got back in time. It carried on until dinnertime (about 3 hours) although the first half hour was the most intense. After the storm we walked outside and a few trees had fallen and branches were strewn all over the place. There were concerns for people who had been hiking in the mountains, but they had sheltered in a cafe at the top of the mountain.
It was very eerie afterwards, dead still. We crossed paths with our guide later that evening and he told us it was a supercell (in far more words than that) and we were very lucky to have got back in time. I don't think there was a tornado but there was definite rotation and the tree damage would suggest so as well as the hail and 'feel' of the storm. It was one of those times when the enormity of the storm makes you feel so insignificant.
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I have browsed the internet and can't seem to find a simple answer.
They send probes into tornadoes to learn about how they work and what happens inside of one as well as collecting various other data.
But how does this information help them with tornado warnings? Sure I can see how seeing how a tornado forms would do this, but they don't actually put the probe in during it's formation do they?
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I think you're correct in terms of there being less thunderstorms, most certainly there have been. I am absolutely certain of that. Looking back thorugh my storm diaries we had them in abundance in the 90's, a decline but still a respectable amount up till 2005 and since 2005 we've been lucky to get one a year.
But I disagree with everything else, we've had very hot summers, lots of snow in winter (here at least anyway). If I recall there was an article in April about how the BBC were going to investigate the sharp decline in storms.
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Didn't know it was so well known!
I've had a look back at some of my thunderstorm diaries from when i was a kid and they match pretty closely with his stuff.
As I've said it is painfully apparent that thunderstorms have become more of a rariety over the past decade.
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I expect you have more chance than me. Let's say. about half hours worth, but I guess that's very rare. :lol:
Earthquake Swarms
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I don't know if this counts as a swarm but look at the activity around the Virgin islands on the 20th!
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html