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    Coronavirus and the weather

    in Spring Weather Discussion

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    14 minutes ago, Mike Poole said:

    Well now we are going to find out how coronavirus is affected by the weather, as the season changes to autumn in the UK.  

    With the economy partially opened up now, how will things go?

    The optimal temperature for the virus outside the body has been reported to be 4C - so let us hope we don’t get one of those cold rain winters!  A post by @SnowBear in the coronavirus thread suggests it prefers humidity from 40-60%.  I think the worst thing for us is a standard mild wet winter.

    My view is that a harsh cold winter would work to prevent any serious rises in cases, partly by going against the above, but also less frequent mixing of people, naturally, not from some government dictat.  

    Will we get one?  Watch forecasts first for November, I think an early freeze is possible this winter, there are things in favour (solar minimum, likely -IOD, weak La Niña, SSTs( N Atlantic vaguely supportive at times over the summer, not always), but as always nowadays possible conflicting factors, EQBO faltering for example.  We will see...

    As schools go back, how much will the weather affect how this disease spreads?  We don’t know, we watch and wait....

    Interesting thoughts Mike, a nice September with plenty of sun and keep those windows open at home, and way more important .. keep the windows open on public transport, I hope this message gets pushed hard soon.

    Humidity I raised before SnowBear, ,the higher the humidity leads to heavier droplets, so they fall out of the air more quickly, think this has been known for years?

     

    Lets see where low solar combined with week la nina  takes us.

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    South East and East Anglia Weather Discussion Sept 2019 onwards

    in Regional

    Posted · Edited by DAVID SNOW

    8 minutes ago, lottiekent said:

    You mean like this? Still stormless here despite 6 days of plus 30c and awful humidity.

    Lots of convection about 10 miles north of here yesterday and today, and now this...I bet the drizzly part passes over and links up with the towers going up over Ashford to turn into some amazing storm..

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    Hopeful that many of us will get storms soon.

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