Bumpkin
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Blimey it's quiet on here... Everyone must be bored of winter now! I'm looking forward to this weekend, but a little worried that if it stays dry for the foreseeable (which will be good for flood hit areas) ie a dry spring, that we will go on to have another awful summer. Like last year. Hope not!
Last year we only had one dry spring month, March was lovely. As soon as it turned into April it just piddled down for the rest of the year. Hope this dry spell stays for a while as I am noticing the ground is slowly becoming less squelchy each day. Going to take a few more weeks before I can walk across the fields without the feeling that I am going to sink.
I don't mind the cold, I'm just worried about the windchill. Its quite exposed out here and it is really painful when we get a bitter easterly wind whilst out in the fields. Think I might have to go shopping for long-johns and a balaclava.
Temp down to 1.8c and slowly dropping.
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Another stunningly beautiful day and I've been out soaking up the rays and hoping my happy meter starts going back up. 7.3c but the wind is chilly. I was walking around the fields imagining it was the middle of summer, about 25c, everything lush and green, wildflowers giving some colour, the air vibrant with insects and birds. Oh how i want a good summer this year!
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Morning! Went out just before 7am and had a thin layer of ice on the windscreen, it was foggy but not too thick. The sun is currently trying to peek out from behind the clouds and the temperature is up to 3.4c now.
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Already very thick fog outside! Was a pain trying to drive home a few mins ago!
Just got in from taking my son to work and the 5 mile drive there wasn't too bad but driving back the fog just suddenly dropped down. Not looking forward to about 6.45am when i have to go out again. 1.8c and feeling nippy.
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Some very dense fog likely at dawn tomorrow in inland parts of the South and west;
Visibility below 50m locally.
Oh pooh. My son is doing his first night shift tonight, i'm taking him to work shortly and have to pick him up at 7am. I hate driving in fog. Just had a quick peek in the model forum (I have been generally avoiding it because it makes my head hurt) and it made me chuckle to read of snow forecast south of the M4 corridor, that surely can't have happened very often! Don't worry its in F1.
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Talking on mod thread about 1987 winter, Think we had very cold spell in this area, Must be year the engine of my car froze up and eventually finished up with cracked block,
Was helping out at the old Dorchester football club pitch,,, Remember shovelling snow off pitch,so they could play game, but called off anyway due to everything freezing up solid, Frozen water pipes.no toilets, That was cold spell,but not remember how long lasted [Think have right year]
I remember 87. Myself and my friends went to a hill on the edge of our village and threw ourselves down on tea trays and fertilizer sacks. It was a really steep and vicious hill. One of my friends ended up being taken to hospital with a broken collarbone. We spent the whole day on that hill and went home just before it got dark, wet, frozen, tired and hungry with bent and buckled tea trays much to our Mum's disgust.
As for today, after a murky misty start it cleared to being partly cloudy with sunny spells. So nice to see the sun. Temperature currently 3.2c.
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Misty and murky this morning, temp 5.2c currently. Hoping to see the sun at some point today.
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I saw the yellow orb briefly this morning when it blinded me when driving, my eyes aren't use to it. Its disappeared again.
temp here is 9.5c
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Horrible cold drizzly rain in Street but just driving back I had drops and splats on my windscreen (not of the bird variety) so there is still a bit of winteryness mixed in with the rain.
temp 2.9c dp 2.6c
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After a flurry of light snow and dandruff, the temps did indeed rise as the main band came in and so rain it is.
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Erm.... Where does Taunton stand then?! I believe it's just started raining here, but it's very light...
When I posted the band of rain was just west of Taunton but has obviously now arrived and looks to be just rain for you. We have had light snow and dandruff flurries in a separate little blob ahead of the main band but the temps are starting to go up so expecting rain when that main band reaches here.
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i take it it is raining in Devon? Haven't seen any snow reports from there.
Looking at the netweather extra radar it seems to be rain west of taunton. The main band hasn't reached here yet,
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Just had a dandruff shower down here as well.
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Temperature seems to be dropping quick suddenly its now -1.2c a drop of 0.7c in 20 minutes.
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My step dad is a farmer, and he is worried that as we have had all this rain the past year, that we are going to have a drought this summer. I'm wondering if he might be right. It's got to stop at some point surely?
I don't think it really works like that, although I would love a dry summer this year. We are still trying to harvest last years fodder beet as the ground has been too wet. The fields are absolutely saturated and we need a serious dry spell to get the ground dry enough to work with.
if we do get a really good summer and some 'expert' or politician mentions the word drought I am highly likely to commit murder!!
Anyway temp at this moment is -0.5c dp -2.3c
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we all need to have a good summer down here in Cornwall and I just remember every time we have a mild/warm spring we find our summers are not settled .
I agree with you a little more settled would do bit a heat wave would be better ;-).
Anyway lets have a bit more winter and a good east wind to dry us out! ;-)
Not sure there is any correlation between the 2 seasons. last year it rained here from April onwards, so this year it can be dry from April onwards please!
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Excellent - thats my home village! Have a good game - but go easy on them! My youngest memories of snow come from the early '80s snow in Shrewton, including huge drifts that cut the village off by blocking the A360. They were cut off in Jan this year too, but not for anything like as long...
When i was 16 i went out with a boy from Shrewton. I was mad enough to push my motorbike about 2 miles through snow to get to the A303 and then ride along several miles and turn off to Shrewton. It was painfully cold. I had balaclava on under my helmet and even with bike gloves on, my hands froze to my handlebars and I had trouble unfurling my fingers by the time I reached Shrewton.
Temp is now 2.5c and the dewpoint is -2.2c. brrrr
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Friend in Reading says it's snowing now - nothing on radar, and nothing 5 miles SW, where I am!
Looking on the netweather extra radar there does look to be a few light flurries about in that area.
Here temperature is 2.7c and still grey and cloudy. we have finally had our new patio door fitted so hopefully we can keep more heat in with a new pvc door and not an old rotten wooden one.
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Thanks Gibby, dry sounds so good! Currently here its a cloudy murk but dry and 1.5c with a dewpoint of -0.4c
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Just got home M, there's nowt on the hills although there are tiny flakes floating around in the wind - hubby texted earlier to say it was snowing in Shepton, it hasn't settled
My son went for a driving lesson earlier and said it was snowing in Shepton.
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But I am missing out on something!
Well if you are very lucky you might get the slizzle that I have at the moment! Honestly its nothing exciting.
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Back to slizzle here, temps and dew point just a bit too high for proper snow, perhaps higher elevated areas might do better if snow is what you are looking for.
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Gone from icy rain to very light snow and the temperature has dropped slightly to 2.1c dp 1.1c. Now a bit more sleety.
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Currently 4.3 c with dp of 4c. I wasn't expecting anything wintery in this part of the world but have still found radar watching and the comments on this board interesting today.
South West/Central Southern England Regional Discussion 18/02/13 20z --->
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I hardly did a thing in the garden last year because it was so wet, so I might buy one of those and just set fire to the whole garden
I have been out in the garden this week tidying up and trying to make it look a bit more respectable so hopefully the dry weather will last.