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    Best storm you've ever seen in the UK

    in Storms & Severe Weather

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    One in Ibiza in Sept 96 was that bad (constant lightning and thunder) that there is an article about it..which I can't post for some reason.

    But, although living in Leighton Buzzard, my parents live in Poole, so was visiting on the 3/4 July 2015 weekend - lucky me! that storm was incredible and was up here with the Ibiza storm. My mate was also over from Arizona and he agreed that it was up to 'US standards'. I noticed how incredibly muggy it was around 6pm - then by 11pm - it just went nuts. Non stop lightning and a constant roar of thunder. Unreal.

     

     

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    SE & East Anglia Regional Weather Discussion 23/04/2017 onwards

    in Regional

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    5 minutes ago, PurpleButterfly said:

    I'm having the same problems with the lightning map! 

    Get an error message saying something when wrong check your Java settings :wallbash:

    Also no new strikes showing on the netweather storm app, but I can clearly see and hear close strikes.

    Can only hear rumbles now, our two or three really close CG"s were between 10 and 10.30..really loud house shakers LOL. Not as good as the Bournemouth cell in July 15 when I was down visiting my folks. That was unreal!

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    North American Weather (U.S.A & Canada)

    in Weather Around The World

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    On ‎14‎/‎03‎/‎2017 at 18:13, KeithinCali said:

    Really, most of Europe and North Africa have well above what would be expected temperature wise for the given latitudes.  You have to go east to the steppes of Ukraine/Russia to get a more latitude appropriate climate. Without the jet the Scandinavian countries would consist of denuded tundra rather than coniferous forests.  No more English gardens and London would be more like Reykjavik.  Which is funny because growing up I always strongly associated London with snow.  It must have been all those versions of a Christmas Carol.  I assume snow in London was a far more regular occurrence during the Victorian age. 

     

    Well I think though there is a correlation at times there's not always a causation link to go with it.  This winter has been a year of record breaking warmth for much of the eastern 2/3rds of North America yet from what I've been seeing the UK has still been pretty wet.  Also the eastern seaboard of the US, including the boroughs of NYC, saw record smashing blizzard dumps in the winter of 2010-2011, the very same winter that was such a boon on your end.  So it's not always the case that a winter favorable for snow for one precludes the same for the other.  Although the jet and blocking events are often linked.  But there are more variables.

    I think the UK needs a northerly plunge like occurred in Nov/Dec 2010.  So it's got be the right blocking set up.  The easterlies are always going to have the chance to disappoint if their advance is halted by the Atlantic flow or if there's not enough moisture to generate decent snows. The best thing of course would be to get a good run of years like you had.  Get a more favorable trend or cycle situated rather than just having one boom and a whole lotta bust to follow.

    Yes the snow in the UK was he 'little ice age' that was going on when Dickens was a kid (I think) so we have to put up with the snowy myth every year!

    Yes Dec 10 was great - also Dec09 was good too (or at least winter 09/10). Folllowing that 8-10 inches on the Sunday night in London, we had about 5 inches on the Weds night and 6 inches the following night - it was crazy. The influence of the Gulf stream is ridiculous - stories of the sea steaming in the Norwegian fjords etc etc. The have been documentaries about the slowing of the gulf stream, icebergs in the English channel etc..

    North American Weather (U.S.A & Canada)

    in Weather Around The World

    Posted · Edited by Buzzard

    10 hours ago, KeithinCali said:

     

    So far south?  lol.  Relative to where you are maybe.  But remember you are the outlier not NYC.  The fact that your location doesn't receive more snow than it does given your latitude is more surprising.  NYC is further north than Beijing and Seoul.  It has got a pretty expected climate given it's latitude and continental location (west to east flow).

    Speaking for myself I'm not quite as jealous of a mid march blizzard in the eastern cities.  The snow all comes at once and it will probably all be long gone next week.  Chicago is better.  They tend to accumulate their snow in smaller to medium sized events and it's more likely to stick around in March than on the eastern seaboard.  Anyway it's a bit amusing they're still getting this type of event out east after such a historically mild winter.

    The UK is due for a cold/snowy winter.  It's been what 6 or 7 years?  It's going to happen sooner rather than later. Even the stubborn California drought had to release it's grip eventually.

    Yeah been a while now - where I am in Bedfordshire, just north of London, our last decent snow was 10-11..the snow came down really intensely on a Saturday afternoon. The new kept showing a Virgin plane stuck at Heathrow with the pilot waving out of the window! We had a little run from 2007-2011, but now it's back to the usual. Interesting points regarding New York, I didn't realise it was further north than the cities you mentioned, and being on the eastern side etc etc. We are a ridiculous outlier thanks to the Gulf stream and being on the western flank of Europe. We had a virtual ring of snow around us this year, from Iceland, round to Scandinavia, down through Europe, Greece and Cyprus for a while, and France and Spain.

    The problem is that the snow in the NE of the USA boosts up the dreaded Jet Stream - that sends god-awful wet and windy crap to us. Can't stand it!

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