Summer of 76
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Fear not Raven, the sausage may come to the rescue followed by a six week easterly.
By the end of Feb we'll be praying for the milder conditions.
Fingers crossed and if it's a frankferter sausage we know it's coming from the east, notice the number of flood warnings are increasing
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seem to remember lots of people saying that about wet wet wet. the 4 weddings theme wasnt it??
(love is all around)
and the snow is in the AIR
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AS, I certainly hope you are correct in that something colder is on the way as reading the model thread it's very difficult to understand what is going on.
You have had a busy day today, up at three in the morning for a couple of rounds and now falling down a hill, suppose you must have had an ASBO placed on you and hence falling down the hill was being bound over to keep the peace.
I must start writing cracker jokes and the rain keeps coming down the wind is blowing at 7.7c
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Sorry Lottie, don't know what came over me, one Stones Ginger Wine too many. Anyone know a good lawyer?
AS
Too soft on people, wifi in the police stations now
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Chris might I just say its Rodney CHARLTON Trotter :-) hence the quote
You may, however I think you may prefer you Audi to the three wheel type of car Del and Rodney drive.
Must admit that it is bit nippy outside tonight once again.
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we might be millionaires :-)
Enjoy yourself everyone.
yes Rodney,
Happy New Year CK
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I wonder if it would be possible to have a snow buddy in Canada or the North USA (seem to remember in the days before the internet I had a pen pal at school) we could then use them to measure snow depths for us and use that in the Snow Depth Cup.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25557032
Anyone know of the Canada weather forum link
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First part of the band has gone through and although heavy rain for a while, not much wind to speak of at the moment.
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As Cakie said not very nice down that way as can be seen from the Plymouth Hoe web cam at the moment
PS A windscreen wiper would be handy on that camera considering all the rain it receives
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Yes it appears we have a completely different weather pattern to what we have been used to and I notice the lack of posts in the model thread from certain members and last night there was heated words about using Stat or Trop in the thread and a few got in a right old Strop
.Just had a heavy shower go through and awaiting the next frontal band which looks pretty heavy if it holds together as it crosses the county, mild this morning at 8.4c.
Keeping the faith in respect of snow, we never had anything here until around the middle of January this year (2013).
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Morning all
damp dark and breezy walk to work along Birdcage this morning. very grey out there but depressingly mild too.anyone else in work today?
Sorry no, although I have sent the wife of to work this morning
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What a strange place this world, after the excitement of this morning and us becoming grand parents at the same time our lovely old next door neighbour passed away, brought us back down to earth with a bump, such a shame as she was healthy and fit, saw her going down the shops just before Christmas, been our neighbour for over 36 years going to be strange, will have a drink tonight in commiserations and celebrations, must admit to sitting here with some tears in my eyes, wife's upset as well.
Lovely clear sky's, plenty of of stars out. Sad but happy night, think I'm confussed of Dartford.
CK congratulations on the new addition to the family and so sorry to hear the news about your next door neighbour and hopefully one of those stars is for her. I always tell my children when walk talk about my nans and uncles who are no longer here that they are waving from the sky. Look I have to get the tissues now
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I might have to amend that to chocolate eclaires in the limited edition tins of Cadbury's heroes which everyone seems to have. See we are not posh enough for those tins north of the Thames apart from the TOD area when they go missing as soon as they appear on the shelves
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Some of these gusts since the front moved through are really powerful. I have just watched my rainfall reading move up whilst the sun is out and now realise that the strength of the wind is causing the pole to vibrate where the rain gauge is attached and this is causing the counter balance to move inside the unit. Maybe if I move it to the roof of the garage that will make the storms go away and bring the winds from the east:)
Hi Tom, yes making sure the Snow Depth spreadsheets are still working an available for the start of winter
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Morning!
I have a theory. All this Winters wet and windy weather seems to arrive on bin day and I think it's all the local councils doing. We pay enough in council tax to have a proper Winter with some snow so I'm going to write in and let them know my displeasure. I've also noticed the bin men are getting slower and they used to be lightning-quick, could they be why we don't get a decent thunderstorm too?
Here comes the next pesky parade:
Agree with that Coast after last weeks effort of paper flying down the road, they are just rubbish nowadays
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The rain has just started here in the past hour (0.9mm)and the wind is just starting to get up a little, just had a gust of 15.9mph
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Well I hope you like it windy. Had non-stop strong to gale force winds all night over in the South West and still wild out there with no let up at the moment
Yes looking at this web cam shows it's not nice on the coast
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and yet another post with accronyms scattered about, PLEASE explain them now and then or give links so folk learning can enjoy the fun?
A few weeks ago when you put your mouse over certain ones it explained what they were, just wondered if this has been switched off or have I done something
Edit: Sorry just noticed its there for the ECM so presume that the others above are not in the look up file.
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Thanks John, i have a feeling that come late January you will be feed up repeating the words "winds from an easterly direction and will it ever change"
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Just walked home from friends and there is frost on the ground a number of puddles were iced up, temperature is rising and will clear before the rain arrives later.
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There is no 'puss3y footing' round this is there!
Anyway back on topic is it true that when the warm front comes through it will get a little moggy
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I would worry more about the flying cats when the front crosses.
Wait for it Christmas Cracker joke.
That will be catastrophic if that happens
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Nope. Never fell below zero. Like BStE, Newmarket is a town...
So basically there is no accurate UK weather record available (apart from your own weather station) unless you live in a town. Great.
The met office can't have recording stations in every place so they go with many major towns although here in Bedford the site is based to the north of the town so the reading is more of the countryside than middle of the town and these are air temperatures not ground so although it say 1c it's probably below on the grass.
Another reasonable site is the Highways Agency where all the road temperatures and weather conditions are reported, you need to check the box 'Adverse Weather Conditions' for them to appear. the link below probably goes to near Cambridge but the map can be moved around.
http://www.trafficengland.co.uk/map.aspx?isTrafficAlert=true&lat=52.224087&lon=-0.167965&ct=true
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Where is it possible to get an accurate local temperature record? I can't afford my own weather station and thermometers seem to be made in China and break after a week.
Accuweather had my location at 6ºC with a low of 5ºC overnight on Friday/Saturday and it was supposed to have rained — BUT we had sunshine all day and the frost was still on the ground when I went for the dog walk yesterday just before sunset!
Same again this morning — there's clearly been an overnight frost, but according to the website's it never went below 1ºC.
I would use the Met Office web site, hopefully this works for your location
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damp dark and breezy walk to work along Birdcage this morning. very grey out there but depressingly mild too.
South East & East Anglia Regional Weather Discussion 31/12/13
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Posted · Edited by chris mantle
Funny how in one part of the country it can be so different to everywhere else and if we didn't have the internet of this forum we would be unaware of what is going on in other areas, We has some rain this morning ast 6am and the wind rose a little however since then we have had blue skys with sunshine and althought he wind is blowing it's nothing to write home about at the moment.
Unless things have changed this morning in the models I have a feeling that we may have to wait a very long time to have the first match in the Snow Depth Cup, hopefully this is not going to be the first winter in a good few years where we don't see any snow only rain and wind