Summer of 76
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Good evening everyone,
I have had a break from posting for about a week and still the rain appears to want to fall from the sky, although today has not been too bad apart from the wind now increasing.
I loved the posting from Tamara about last years snow in March, as that bought back memories of when my father was in hospital for a serious operation and had his bed on the fifth floor of Bedford hospital. It was so cold up there due to the wind we had to take him extra blankets and cover the window early in the evenings whilst watching the snow float past the window.
Well back to the current weather and it's 7.4c with a very gusty wind although I am sure it will move up a few notches later this evening. I just hope we have a break from the rain as I notice the River Ouse from the EA web site has filled up the wetlands designed for flooding, therefore anymore rain will go straight in to the river. a lot of work has been done since the Easter floods of 98, however with the increased building of homes on the fields used for flood near the river I can see one day a major flooding event happening in Bedford, St Neots and Huntingdon.
Chris
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Just to put things in perspective - I've just had a trawl of all the deleted posts in the last week and can only find 3 or 4 posts from this thread which have been removed - so when you consider the number and diversity of posts in that time, it really is a tiny number. So there really is no need to worry about posts being gratuitously removed just because they aren't strictly weather related
Paul,
I think you have proved the point that this group needs very little moderation when you consider other threads on the forum and what has upset me today is the way everyone seems to be painted with the same brush. If I was in the office I would call the person or persons causing the problem to one side and have a quiet word and hence my point earlier that the PM system should be used or the points warning system.
So where do we draw the line about where they aren't strictly weather related as we seem to be getting mixed messages. I really don't want to post in the Lounge area or the chat room with people from all over the country, maybe we need to consider a lounge area for just this region?
There are some very good and considerate people in this thread which should be carefully considered when moderators drop in to give us their wise words.
Chris
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I think we all like reading your contributions to the regional thread CK, it's nothing personal against you or anyone else but there have been quite a few posts deleted or pruned in here recently which were not suitable or relevant to this thread at all - there is always the lounge area for less weather related stuff, in fact the very under used banter thread has the opposite rules to here, if you mention anything weather related in there you get time out on the naughty step
You may feel it's a bit harsh but it’s in the interests of keeping the thread running smoothly, as I've said it's nothing personal we just need to try and make sure everybody can enjoy using Netweather without undue spam/off topic posting/aggressive posting/offensive posting or in this case some posts starting to drift too far away from weather and region based discussion.
The team are all in pretty much in agreement with the fact that this regional thread is going to be more chatty and sociable, if you look at any of the other regional’s then you will see that this one tends to be more ‘off topic’ than any of the others which is something we are all guilty of at times and is mostly fine as long as it's not drowning out any informative posts, I think we are a great bunch who all enjoy the happy atmosphere in here and I certainly don't want to see that change
Sorry I disagree and it's probably time for me to take a rest from this forum.
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Morning all,
I'm feeling rather bright and breezy here this morning a bit like the weather - full of energy and ready to face the week ahead (it must have been Mr P's beef stew and dumplings yesterday that did it)
Hope those with the lurgy recover soon - I'm going to bounce off to the shops this morning before it rains - TTFN
Before I go out can we try to remember these regional threads were set up to talk about local conditions and your thoughts on how things are panning out over the days ahead so can we try to keep things vaguely on topic please, basically as someone pointed out and I said in my opening post on this thread if you mention the weather somewhere in your post you normally get away with it... but just post an 'emoticon' (especially one of these
) or something that really adds nothing to our friendly chats (which I have no problem with) and discussions and I'll set AJ on you with his pruning shears! ta - Ali xMaybe it would be easier if when this happens a quick PM is sent to the people responsible, a similiar thing should have happend a week ago. I think we are all grown up people in this area and sometimes it does feel like being at school.
Sorry Ali, not in a good mood this morning.
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Maybe I should add you have to have known Bill Farkin, bit of a leg end
He was a legend in his own posting time
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Was that snow watch
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Probably about 11 months
plus there is a waiting list
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It's fair and very clear today, but we haven't had one winter yet....
Maybe there are like buses and will all turn up at once, although around here they are probably like winter turn up late and half empty
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Lovely and sunny in MK but we can't go out as still waiting for a freezer to be delivered - dinner is cooking itself though (well there is a beef casserole in the oven )
Feels spring like here too :-)
If that freezer is coming in a van from an easterly direction, it could possibly arrive next winter
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With everyone having the lurgy I have just made sure that my computer virus checker is up-to-date
On a serious note the Snow Board of the Snow Depth Cup meet yesterday to discuss trading. The directors were all present, Sir Thomas of Croydon, Junior Apprentice Chris and our top legal advisor Mr AS of the south (no job too big unless it's cutting the grass on a Sunday).
The auditors 'Rain Bucket and Storm' advised that they had no reason for us to call in the receivers 'Weather from the West incorporating Jet Stream PV' as based on having no snow stock this year to melt there is no chance of any liquidation.
i would get my coat however I have put it away due to the mild weather
Sun is out here and reading 8.7c with the wind moving the trees.
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Thanks Weather -history, I am crying in my cornflakes
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now heres the serious bit
tuesday late night
winds increasing on a strong south westerly
during wednesday morning
winds veering westerly
and could potentially see storm force for us here
the rain will be heavy for a little while but not sustained
expect thunder hail etc
i would see winds 80 mph at present
its all subject to change at present
serious watch needed on this now
John,
Don't like the look of that one and hopefully it adjusts south otherwise I can see a lot of disruption with that low especially as it's during the working day.
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OMG Those awful floods.
That door is doing well considering the force of water although it needs the key in the door.
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I must admit that this is a very interesting site, such a shame we don't have any cameras over this side of the country.
http://www.farsondigitalwatercams.com/
Some of the river levels are amazing, I keep looking at this camera and don't think many people will be using the locks for a few days
http://www.farsondigitalwatercams.com/live-webcams/central/Severn/Diglis-Lock/
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You have to question some people's intelligence, as David Attenborough said a few months ago...we are now devolving!
If people move signs then they should be made to pay for the cost of all those involved in rescuing them from the water as there were there for a reason.
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Think everyone is starting to posting in the wrong thread, I need to close at 7.10pm to get down the MK snow dome for a fix of winter
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Out of our area but if you want to see the river levels on the River Seven, this is a very good sight.
http://www.farsondigitalwatercams.com/live-webcams/central/Severn/Bewdley
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Just a thought, I woke up to wet snow Thursday morning, just on the car, not much but it was there, does that count?
We would need to send one our an inspector around, he can come a week Thursday as he is in the USA at the moment, is that OK
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Yes wind increasing here too, time for a wind gust cup me thinks
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Just looking at some photos of my old home town and this one caught my eye ......
.....there is no date for it but I'm guessing early 1900's ?
just trying to work out which town that was, they seem to have cleared the paths better than the road although I suppose when that picture was taken the paths were used more than the roads.
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This 'winter' epitomises for me everything that can make it the very worst season of all if it doesn't produce snowy weather, or in the absence of that just calm, crisp, frosty and sunny days with blue skies and red sunsets fading gently into sparkly starry nights.
There has been none of the former and barely been a day, let alone a spell of the latter either this winter so far - poor beyond recognition
Little point in moaning on an individual basis because we are all pretty much totally fed up with it. However it looks like next week it could, if it is at all possible, get even worse with some very ominous secondary low pressure systems swinging up from the south west to return the risk of severe gales once more as we saw in the festive season..to add to the almost daily rain fest of this appalling winter.
I know many of us have been on snow search, and of course *ideally* such a change in pattern would be welcome and also reward Tomasino and Chris for their hard work in organising the Snow cup, but with no sign of anything snowy or seasonal in sight, and no respite from the downpours and gales then it is making for a very bleak opening for February to carry on from much of December and all of January
.I admit on this basis I can't wait till winter IS over...good riddance - trouble is, there is no end whatsoever to this hideous atlantic pattern and later next week looks increasingly worrying as a very deep upper low sits just to our west and north west in the atlantic and feeds some rapidly deepening secondary lows which could pack some very strong winds indeed on the southern and south eastern eastern flanks of them. We look in our region, along with others in the south west at present to be placed very unfavourably for the track of these and they need to be watched over the weekend and into next week. The one tightening up here in the south western approaches on this mornings ECM is just one case in point
Best try and ignore the next batch of rain arriving later today and make the most of the dry few hours ahead. For me that means some bedroom clearance and a visit to the local tip. How I like to live on the edge on a Friday !
Thanks Tamara, I was looking at the sledge in the shed last weekend and it bought back memories of last year, suppose there is always next year
I wonder if we could allocate everyone an enviorment agency guage on a certain river and replace that with snow depth, although I think we would need to handicap a few people who get certain rivers.
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There is a shadow in the back garden.
Oi, Hank, get off my land!
AS
Beware AS as any tidal surge could make a cliff also appear in your garden, then you would need a Summer Holiday.
Ps Very dark here and the rain has stopped
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Hi MS,
Welcome to the forum. You can claim Remote County Membership as we are a friendly bunch so pop in anytime.
I seem to remember that Rushden does very well in snowy weather so we may have to check any application to join the snow depth thread although at the moment I don't think we have anything to worry about
On a weather note
I have a temperature of 2.3c and it's too dark to see if anything wintry could be falling from the sky, I may just have to go and look in the freezer to remember what ice looks like.-
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hi chris
does the lamp post patrol come out as well?
Only when they have seen the light, feeling colder her tonight
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) or something that really adds nothing to our friendly chats (which I have no problem with) and discussions and I'll set AJ on you with his pruning shears!
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South East England/East Anglia Regional Weather Discussion 07/02/14
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I just went to Sky News and on the right and advert for wellington boots appeared, clever these folk.