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9 hours ago, Terminal Moraine said:
Not a single day with thunder heard here this year which makes it the longest period on record ( since 1977), from the start of a year, with no thunder. The previous record was in 2007 when the first thunder of the year was on June 13th. 1980 was also notable with the first thunder heard on June 3rd.
I don't recall ever going this late in the year before hearing thunder either. A few recent years when none has been heard in the 2nd half of the year though ..... -
Still here and likely to remain so for some time by the looks of things .....
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Nothing here yet this year ...... not even a distant faint rumble. I am hoping that will change tonight!
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2003 was pretty poor. 2006 not much better.
Recent years have been pretty good though. Except for lizards
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Dear J aged 43
Sorry, we are all out of snow
Will some clag and cold, damp, drizzly stuff do instead?
Yours sincerely
the weather gods-
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Overnight temps are the lowest since earlier this week. Daytime temps the coldest since January 2017.
Snow is as heavy as it was last July.
What cold spell?
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17 hours ago, Matthew Wilson said:
Just been reading Two's Jan CET page 12 and somebody gives a interesting theory to possibly why the CET hasn't been updated. Hope there wrong!http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twocommunity/default.aspx?g=posts&t=17221&p=12
That letter does at least satisfy a question I have had for a while now. I had always assumed that "Pershore" was the station that reports as "Pershore" and is actually sited at Throckmorton airfield - and often records lower temps than anywhere else in the area. I felt that Pershore Colvege was a far more representative site.
It is indeed Pershore College - not Pershore. So any estimates based on the (more widely available) data for Pershore are erroneous.-
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Basically, the higher the number the higher the pressure (and the more settled the weather is - in theory drier and warmer in summer, colder in winter). The current pressure is indicated by the large black pointer. This moves as the pressure changes. You may sometimes need to "tap" it to make it move. The other pointer can be moved using the dial on the front of the case. You move this to the current pressure reading indicated by the black pointer and can then see next day whether the pressure has increased or decreased
We normally measure pressure in millibars (mb) or hectoPascals (hPa). The numbers for these are both the same (1mb = 1hPa) However your barometers shows Torrs around the outside (the larger numbers) and "centibars" (the smaller numbers - note that this is not a standard measurement and I havent seen a barometer show these before). At present you are recording approx 104.3 centibars / 78.2 Torrs. This is equivalent to 1043mb/hPa.
I would ignore the outer number and simply use the smaller number and multiply the figure by 100 to convert to mb/hPa. ie 104.3 x 100 = 1043
Hope that helps - and welcome to Netwx
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Jan 2013 here - and that was pretty slushy and didnt produce full ground cover in my garden .... There was partial ground cover of even wetter slush after a whole day of "snow" in March 2013 which is best forgotten!
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7 minutes ago, Ian Ballinger said:
Perhaps that's why
True, but some forecasts - including screen shots I have seen from the BBC - show snow up as far as Birmingham tomorrow afternoon.
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56 minutes ago, Fozfoster said:
I agree,but been kicked in the snow balls to many times.
Aye, I am niot actually expecting anything more than a few flakes amid the rain here in Evesham tomorrow. Maybe a slight dusting Friday morning.
But its still the best outlook since 2013!
Only time since then I have seen snow on the ground here was at 1.30am one morrning in 2015 when we had ground cover that had all gone by 6am ..... So most folk missed it.
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38 minutes ago, Sky Full said:
Fascinating to see how all three main models draw chilly air right down into the eastern Mediterranean - even Cyprus will be cold - but we can expect air brought to us from the northern Sahara.
Good! They just had snow in the Sahara!
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On 13/12/2016 at 17:39, Snipper said:
Anyone know if they get it right with their scatter gun reporting?
A broken clock is right twice a day. Rao and his "experts" have a long, long way to go to reach anything like that level of accuracy
(Although Corbyn does claim higher much accuracy since be beleives that any time between 01.30 and 04.30 is the same as 03.00 ....)-
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43 minutes ago, Summer Sun said:
09/10 and 10/11 were the peak in recent years can't really remember much since (away from Scotland)
No snow here in winter 09/10 until Jan, no snow in 10/11 after Dec. So, more specifically - here anyway - 2010.
As an aside, excluding Dec 2010, I experience more snow in April than I do in December .....-
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Don't forget that models are only representations of what could happen. Not what will happen ....
And only a complete fool uses one run from one model to state what will happen for the next 4 weeks
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4 hours ago, Osbourne One-Nil said:
Wettest place in the UK had 70.4mm? I had 21mm more than that. I know I'm not official but that's a very low total for the wettest place.
That was the highest one day rainfall
Although I thought it was 71.8 (at Chillington on the 22nd)
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Aye, I have a feeling it wont be a good season for snow and ski-ing in Scotland. The opposite perhaps of the very mild winter of 2013-14 that nonetheless produced record snow in the Highlands (at higher levels). Hope I am wrong
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Dropped to -5.9c in my garden in Evesham
Thats the lowest temp - and the first time I have seen to get below -5c - here since February 2012. -
18 minutes ago, March said:
But our average winter temps are relatively mild. You need an anomaly of around -5C to even start to get near what coldies want.
That's because coldies want 47 and 63 combined and absolutely nothing less will do
Personally, I would be very happy with a few good frosts and risk of some snow, albeit fairly transient. More than we normally get these days! I know 2010 was most likely a one-off in my lifetime
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1 hour ago, mountain shadow said:
Met office sitting on the fence there, no indication whether that's rainy wet or snowy wet or indeed both!
No, but "It is likely to be rather a cold period, with temperatures below average for the time of year."
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44 minutes ago, Nick L said:
I don't really care either way, but the problem with this storm naming malarkey is that it's so inconsistent.
I agree
But to be fair to the MetO and Met Eireann, they are trying out a system on an experimental basisi to see if it works, and teaking it as they go along (hence the decision this year to include rain and snow events in addition to wind storms - how this will work in practice remains to be seen)
I suppose they could have tried it out in private before going public. but what are the odds on the media getting wind of it and misrepresenting it anyway? And how the media (and public) react is, I supose, part of the trial -
And meantime we shouldn't forget the poor old Irish who had no strong winds and barely any rain from Angus or whatever it was that followed!
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3 hours ago, Paul said:
Tis a fair point, but I suppose my answer to that is, why are they bothering to name storms at all, if it's not to separate them out and make people more aware of different systems, different timings and different effects from those systems?
The next problem will be if (when?) we have a period of several days of heavy, disruptive, snow that isn't actually associated with any specific cyclonic system. Maybe an easterly bringing a week of 'lake effect' snow? Or just a wavering front stuck across the west of the country running back and forth into cold air?
Of course, some of us would just call it wintry weather
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1 hour ago, More Snow said:
i want a 2012/13 winter again...
I would rather another 15/16 than the useless slushfess that was 2013
A bit like a heatwave summer when the temp doesnt get above 25c
IMBY .....
Convective / Storm Discussion Thread - 31st May 2017 onwards
in Storms & Severe Weather
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Not this part of the Midlands - I am fully expecting my 2017 TS drought to continue.