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    Storm naming - should the Met Office have named yesterday's low?

    in Storms & Severe Weather

    Posted

    In the future, people will remember this as one period of bad weather.   Some were affected on Sunday, some on Monday.    Most people will be unaware even at the time that two seperate cyclonic systems were responsible.

    So why not just use Angus for the period of stormy weather with gales, heavy rain and floods that occurred over the period 20-22 Nov?  

    I dont see how using 2 names would help in any way at all?

    The changing daylight hours thread

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Ed Stone said:

    So, if it 'doesn't have that much of an impact' (save for kids leaving school in pitch blackness and having to deal with tired drivers who are forever adjusting to decreasing light-levels) why bother? It's not as if anyone gains an hour's daylight, either?

    We're putting it back to the proper time.   The question is why do we change it in March?     What is the benefit in starting the day an hour after midnight?   Given the prime meridian actually runs right through Britain!

    And if we do persist in changing it in March, we should put it back to proper time at the end of September

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    Met office Contingency planners forecasts

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    22 hours ago, johnholmes said:

    At first reading the contingency planning forecast October-December seems at odds with their other seasonal outlooks, see link below

    http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/seasonal-to-decadal/gpc-outlooks/glob-seas-prob

    So not sure why there is a difference (slight) in emphasis bewteen the two outputs?

    "Raw data are displayed for use by international meteorological centres. This does not constitute a seasonal forecast for a given location." 

    The Contingency Planners takes GloSea4 output into account, but is based on human interpretation of that and much other data.   You should know that :p   

    Also worth noting that the CP suggests an overall average O-N-D but with a warm Oct balanced by colder Nov/Dec.  

    Its why journalists should never ever be allowed anywhere near GloSea4 output!

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    The Midlands - Weather Chat

    in Regional

    Posted

    As long as Warwickshire isn't the ONLY part of the Midlands with no snow, I won't be too fussed. However, if Warwickshire is the only area without snow, I will sure be bloody peed off with this erratic weather.

    Don't worry - however much snow you get it will be a lot more than Evesham.  

    (Which isn't to say you'll get any, of course!)

     

    The changing daylight hours thread

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    Am sure there is a reason but it is strange that the solstice is only 7 weeks after the clocks go back which gives the same amount of time into the new year as February 10th but NO we have to wait a further 7 weeks before the eventual change.Looks like they have a better system in Canada,by changing at the end of February would certainly make more sence .

    Changing back at the end of Sept would make more sense IMO.   Changing back at then end of Oct brings no benefits (its still dark in the morning ...) and suddenly introduces sunset during the evening commute.

    Climate Change Denial To Be A Crime?

    in Climate Change

    Posted

    I find the word "denier" offensive and counter productive to any reasonable dialogue between both camps, just what are they denying other than the magnitude of warming being proposed. As for the headline, well its nonsense really as any such laws would never make it past the first hurdle gladly.

    No, a denier is one who denies that human activity is/will cause global warming or other climate change. 

    Anyway, I'm not sure what is more silly:

    1) the person who made the silly comment about making climate science denial a crime

    2) the media for their misleading sensationalist headlines implying that it is a serious proposal

    or

    3) the so-called sceptics who are up in arms/panicking because they thnk everyone who accepts climate science wants to see them arrested and locked up for life ....

    It's not a new Monty Python sketch is it?

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    Winter 2015/16

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    If i were a coldie, I'd be reasonably satisfied with an average winter. An average winter in the UK is characterised by mixed mild and cold spells - a bit like 2000-01 and last winter, which had some decent cold spells despite the marginality for snow.

    An "average" winter would seem like an Ice Age round here compared with last winter!  

    Anyway, a week of decent frosts and at least one snowfall giving day-long cover and I'll be happy.    Get that and who knows, we might even get a thunderstorm in 2016 as well!  :o 

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