James1979
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8 weekends to go and the days get shorter again, meanwhile, relentless cloud and cool carp once again today, just once this year has it felt warm and even then it was windy. Heating on again, even wearing a hat earlier. Yawn. Yes April can be cold as can any month but enough is enough, this is relentless sheet. Don't worry though in 12 weeks it will flip to 42c in the shade for 3 days before back to semi-perma autumn grey lids begin again.
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lassie23 Christmas is usually milder.
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Another grey lid day to add to the previous 1000's, cold, windy and occasionally spitting with rain, what a steaming pile our climate has become. Barring a couple of storms, this year is the most boring yet too and there is quite some competition there in recent times. SAD from Oct - May these days and seems to be extended each year.
Sunlight, warmth and stormy breakdowns soon please weather Gods before I go insane.
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3 x hail showers and downpours since this mornings bonus storm, proper weather!
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Incredible storm, tons of lightning and cg, remarkable! Will edit vids later as have to log on for work but got some shots I think.
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Storm 2 of the year right above, decent lightning too, fab start to the year!
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Hazy sun most of day, warm but windy, not bad, back to thick cloud now and the grim grey lid perma autumn is back. This country really sucks.
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cyclonic happiness it's getting worse each year, most of today's hazy cloud is contrails pegging back the sun/warmth and I'm sure it impacts storm developments too. Horrible stuff.
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And now one of the heaviest downpours I've ever had!! What a storm.
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OK not so tame now, some isntaneous thunder with lightning a couple of times and cranking up. Oo er.
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In the firing line for a change, coming right at me! Lovely surprise storm albeit fairly tame but some big flashes and booms in there, i'll take that! Please 2024 be decent for once, great start!
Dami and st neots... shocker isn't it... excuse the pun.
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1987, plenty of snow, thunder, wind and some heat at times. The year that started my interest in weather.
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39.1c cambridge, 27th July.
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raz.org.rain it has been thus for 15 years. All addictions are hard to conquer.
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56 minutes ago, minus10 said:
Interesting that the London area , parts of central and eastern areas only left out of the amber...what is it about this part of the country that would result in the winds being somewhat less strong given that parts of cambridgeshire are in the amber. .also given the large population of the London area and home counties which is as i understand is taken into account for the warnings...
St neots is nearly always on the edge of every warning, fully expected that! Bizarre though given the forecasts, I'd have thought a blanket amber was appropriate. ..
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23 minutes ago, lassie23 said:
British winters have become so tedious I now dread them because you know it will be months of rain gloom, cloud, and mild temperatures, basically one long autumn and not winter.
3 months Summer, 9 months grey lids. The new seasons.
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4 hours ago, WYorksWeather said:
And is continuing to change, of course. Can't be that long before we see 20C in January.
Totally agree, I'd say within a decade. 40c as an annual max seemed miles off not so long ago yet I recorded that here just 2 years ago. It's changing fast.
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5 hours ago, WYorksWeather said:
There's been plenty of ramping for cold and snow, which admittedly even I got a bit caught up in when the modelling looked promising (though I never bought into the deep freeze some were suggesting). Ironically, it now looks like very few areas will see snow. Additionally, any that does settle won't stick around very long as the warmup is coming next weekend. To top it all off, in addition we have exceptionally mild scenarios building support in the ensembles for the tail end of the month as I've said over on the model thread. Even the ensemble means deliver widespread double-digit maxima, and some of the more extreme scenarios deliver 15C. You really couldn't make it up!
You could definitely make it up, it happens every year for at least the last 15 years. Its regular as clockwork. The climate has changed a while back now and mild/warm will always be the form horse. Thankfully I stopped getting led up the garden path and crushed by the usual model failure (or reality) for snow a long time back. Far easier to expect mild or dry cold these days and very rarely a snowy blip will materialise. Less stress...
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1 hour ago, Metwatch said:
The excuse that rain lovers use, are keep things 'green' and 'reservoirs need to be topped up'
People need an excuse to like a type of weather? Wow,the things you learn on here.
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Just now, baddie said:
Would you rather go 4 days without any sunshine and then have a wall-to-wall sunny day, or have microscopic amounts of sunshine each day
4 days. Here it's 4 weeks... seems like it anyway!
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4 minutes ago, Summer8906 said:
Another zero-sunshine day today, it seems. Already the next load of Atlantic clag is piling in, cutting off the sun before it even rose. Blue skies were visible to the north for a time.
Wonder if we'll even get a further hour of sun before the year is out? And I suspect the last two weeks of Dec 2023 will be even duller than the last two of Dec 22, which featured bright days on Dec 26th and 29th.
As I said yesterday, I do wonder whether any stations, particularly in the southwest which seems to have bore the brunt of the gloom of the latter half of the year, could be on course for their dullest month of any name on record? We do have the also exceedingly dull Dec 2021 to beat, of course.
Yep, wall to wall sunshine here, miraculous, the nuclear winter pauses for a few hours, yippee. Same every year, grey lid for months occasionally punctured. Disgusting climate these days.
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Just now, Chasbrown said:
I understand your feelings and frustrations completely and you're not the only person feeling disappointed I imagine. The weather will do what it will and nothing we can do will change it. Looking at the model thread is enjoyable but time consuming, it seems late nights everyone is happy but depressed 6 hours later. Maybe do what I intend to do and give the model thread a swerve for a week or so?
Ah it's ok, appreciate your reply, I only go in there occasionally to get a feel for a general trend. Go back 10 years or more and i was hanging on to every run and word with huge let downs every time!! Gave that all up way back. Still find it frustrating that what used to be an enjoyable hobby is mostly boring to ne now. It feels like things have changed so much since when i first got into the weather in the 80s.
Bring back knockers short term forecasts where we had reliability around what the weather was actually going to bring in the next few days...
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Days of cold and gloom, 0c all day yesterday followed by cold rain, not even a flake can be produced. Same hype as last 20 years in the model thread, Thursday snow turns to Friday, turns to Saturday, blah, blah. Reality is 9 times out of 10, dry, cold, grey borefest with a wet fart of a breakdown (imby). Utter dog dirt. Used to be enjoyable variety of weather in this country but now its no storms in summer, no snow in winter, no wind storms, etc.
Can't stand the cold these days (used to love it when younger) anyway but if it has to be endured, at least give us some snow. Bring on the mild!
Oh and just 10 quid a day gas to get through this epic cold spell. Zzzz.
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Storms and Convective discussion - May 2024
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Seen some decent strikes on this... won't be seeing anything in this neck of the woods sadly!