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Or Scotland. Midge bites are way worse than mosquito bites
in my experience
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23 minutes ago, titchjuicy said:
God I'm glad we have a moaning thread.
I love snow, I mean I adore it, am fascinated by it and if it was feasible would put myself in Siberia and leave myself there.
However, I have the worst luck when it comes to getting some.
I live in South East London. The Thames Streamer of 2009 which dumped enough snow on my locale to stop all buses and trains, meaning I wouldn't have been able to get to work, happened when I was travelling back from an area of Germany that usually has loads of snow (it had none). So not only did I miss the fun, I was travelling back from Stansted that evening, heavily delayed because of the weather.
My locale seems to be the only one that missed out in March 2013.
This weekends PM from the North West happens a few days before I head to Cumbria. The forecast for when i'm there is dry at the moment. But of course there are now possibilities of a blinkin easterly, which could well affect my locale, when i'm not there. Because i'll be in Cumbria, where they'd have had snow the week before I go!!!!!!!!!
I'm going mountain walking in the Cairngorms on the last weekend of January. If there isn't snow there/then, i'm making that move to Siberia.
I have been to Siberia in summer, very nice (Baikal) I recommend the place on the south eastern shore near the hot springs, as the temperature is moderated by the lake water and never gets too extreme, plus you get to rest your chilly limbs in the nice hot water from underground. You have to like eating lots of dried fish though.
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Haha, love the "you get what you asked for" Brexit snow map above. I was sad when I looked out of the window and saw the short term models were right about the frost going and the rain coming, boo hiss, but if you need a bit of schadenfreude to make you feel better, pity the poor Californians who have longed for rain for so long, but are now going to drown or have their lovely hillside mansions wash away.... Santa Cruz, Ca rainfall forecast for this Sunday:
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1 minute ago, 78/79 said:
It's certainly not much fun trying to play Bass in finger less gloves outside in temps of 0 /-1 as I found out just before Christmas
I seriously have upped my donations to any busker this Christmas who is playing a stringed instrument, singers and their cosy pockets are fine, but I've tried busking with a fiddle sub zero and it hurts, until it is numb....
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Just remembered a funny anecdote about why severe cold can be a pain in the backside - my hubby was touring with his band in Europe in 2010 when it was super cold (-22 degrees, I seem to recall) and their tour-bus toilets froze solid, so even though they were on a supposedly la di dah, all modcons deluxe sleeper bus, they were having to stop at rancid cafés and lay-bys just to go to the loo. So for rock and roll guys everywhere, I guess a mildish winter touring season is preferable.
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Has anyone analysed the periodicity of "cold forecasts going wrong" and "snow-is-coming" waves? Perhaps we could use the number of depressed comments on the MOD thread to predict the next big freeze....
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I would happily settle for a longish period of cold, enough to freeze Port Meadow so we can go ice skating there. Better than nothing, even if we have to wait until 3010 for sledging
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Nice video Weather History, big buildup and then, sploosh!
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(next verse:)
"My guess is it's highly likely,
It won't snow before February,
Let's just hope it'll trend negatively,
NAO, NAO, NAO"
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1 hour ago, Roadrunner said:Gutted to hear of the passing of Ian M. I hope the mods will allow me to post this memorable forecast in memoriam to the great man.
I remember this well.
RIP Ian McCaskill, we loved his weather forecasts, especially when they brought our most memorable winter weather, and our igloo.
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Karlos - the bowl of petunias thing, it's from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, poor thing keeps being reincarnated over and over again.(From the Model thread, but not really going to post it there....)
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Hello Snow Queen one, thanks for the number, I would bet on the little one arriving about a week late though, so lets hope the snow comes on 23rd at the earliest. Or preferably in January when we haven't all got to be driving about to see the relatives.
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Please can I ask a question about the relationship between low pressure systems and earthquakes. My sister was visiting Sicily in October just at the same time as there was a tropical cyclone and an earthquake in central Italy, and now the combination of Hurricane Otto and an earthquake in Central America made me think there was a link: are storms able to make earthquakes more likely to trigger? Many thanks
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Please can I join in? and here are my igloo credentials: we built this when we were young and our school was closed due to snowy weather. Beautiful memories.
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Yes please, it sounds fun. I use an old iPhone, lets see if it works on that.
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7 hours ago, Recretos said:
My test graphics showing GEFS U-wind forecast relative to the Climatology.
And zonal mean cross sections from ECM compared to GFS.
Does that bottom chart show easterly winds starting to show up over the North Pole?
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My hometown of Diss, before my time. I was lucky enough to step into the Mere when it was slightly frozen one winter, but am very envious of people who got to skate on it years ago :-)
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I need a snorkel that reaches far west, and a bathtub of ice.
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Goodbye hideous sticky heat, please don't come back soon. I need to be able to breathe and walk.
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I'm leaving my curtains open tonight just in case any more turns up, it is still v warm outside, always hopeful!
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41 minutes ago, Frosty hollows said:
Yeah,I got a huge flash to my west,but that was it.As per,rain looks like it's intensifying as it crosses the Thames and hits the Chilterns.Maybe they'll have more luck in the Wycombe /Beaconsfield area
I think it's all over, oh well...
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Woo hoo, we seem to have got our own personal mini thunderstorm starting somewhere nearby...
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5 hours ago, rosieposey said:
Hi, i was watching this thread a little yesterday as we had the mother of all Thunderstorms here ( i am on the Leicestershire/Rutland border ) and wanted to ask if anyone knew the answer to a strange thing that happened half an hour before?
I was at my riding stables about 20 mins from where i live and very near Leicester and a few of us outside noticed that the sky was getting dark and i saw some mammals clouds in the distance which after spending a couple of years on here i knew meant possible thunderstorms ( apologies but i am still learning all the terminology) I also noticed that everybody's hair was standing on end! This was for about five minutes and there were a couple of rumbles quite close by.
Anyway i suppose what i am asking is, is it dangerous to be outside when your hair ( and everyone else's ) goes static for no reason? I did mention this to the lady who owned the place and she just pooh - poohed it and said that the forecast had given rain but nothing else ( i could clearly see that there was a huge storm about to hit ) - i would love to know if i was right to leg it to the car with my son and come home?! I think i might have got this idea from a famous photo of two boys who had their hair on end and then were struck by lightning shortly afterward.
When we got home i had planned on going out and going a bit further south to 'chase' the storm ( towards Northampton and Corby way ) as i was using Blitzortung and i love a good storm but luckily for me it was pretty epic where i lived. I don't think i have ever heard such loud thunder in my life, I went to the shops in Oakham mid-storm and there was some really severe flash flooding. That really was one of the best storms i have ever seen in the UK but i have never ever seen anyones hair stand on end beforehand!?
We were in the Blue Ridge mountains, Appalachians, USA when I was little, summer 1980, I think. We were up near a lookout point, a kind of little metal balcony built into the rock where a man and his wife were taking each other's photo. I remember one of them was laughing at the other one because their hair was standing on end. Then I remember my grandpa telling us all we had to go back down the trail to the car, because there was a storm coming. I cannot remember if we ever found out if the place was struck after we left, but I definitely recall how worried the grown ups were and it made a big impression on me.
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48 minutes ago, dave48 said:
Wow, had a great chase today near Oxford, managed to capture a large funnel, possible tornado, pics to come in a new thread shortly.
Some amazing storms for sure.
I am so excited to hear that, we watched something developing right overhead in Wootton, I recognised what was happening as I saw a similar thing years ago when there was a tornado passing through Eynsham going NE, very quiet, rotating clouds pulling in bits from either side, warm air around us and gusty but definitely air going upwards rather than sideways.
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I loved the sunshine today, looking forward to more frosty days on the way. Nothing to moan about at all except the amount of coughing I am doing, and the way cough mixture doesn't seem to work.