JeffC

Did you get your digger?

Got told off for winding mine up earlier, while singing along... She says she'll never think of hickory dickory dock in the same way again...

Aye he's with special branch...

Conifer? Oh Coniston!! Aye had chippy chips tonight with a nice rare steak. Where's your digger? That predictive text reminded me of the Jeremy Vine show today. Woman called Corina complaining that Android phones changed her name via predictive text to Vagina....worth a listen on iPlayer as long as you've not got a pint in your hand.

Remnants of Christmas sprouts, or has Delhi belly returned?

6.9C and 62 mm please

Aye but it's all relative... ?

Tummy better then?

I'd be happy enough just for it to be dry...so if the output suggests N/NE/E then at least it's better than an Atlantic influenced deluge. From what I've seen up to now, the models are suggesting a less than normal Atlantic driven spell at least for the reliable future...

lol, no...unless that's code for the A593!

is there a link?

sounds like something really got a hold, glad I'm 80 miles away!

Aye, here's hoping!!

Hope you're feeling better! If you've no Imodium in the house have you got any codeine? Excellent for slowing it all down and bunging you up. I can't take it except in extremis because within a few minutes I can feel everything slowing down!! Even sweetcorn!

Late to this particular party but please don't milk the joke, the udders on the forum don't like it. Sorry they maid me do it!

Lucky you we got sod all out of it!!

I think this could be described as "To be confirmed" after Tuesday. Rare to see such a bizarre level of scatter...methinks the models are...struggling somewhat post 168 hrs

we got three parts of fffery little out of the Beast, rain shadow from the Eastern fells and Pennines. although some of the becks were starting to show ice around margins and the edges of rocks, looked very wintry! March 2013 was epic in terms of late season cold and also snow around 22/23rd March. If it happens again I'll be surprised. Lambing Season hereabouts doesn't usually get into full swing until April, the hill farmers are well enough versed in delaying the pregnancy if they can I guess, although I do remember from 2013, the Isle of Man was unusually hard hit regarding lamb and sheep deaths.

Interesting possibilities being thrown up for another chilly spell. I doubt it will be as potent as March 2013 which from my perspective remains the benchmark for late season cold in isolation, i.e. not a continuation of an epic winter like 1947 or 1963. We ended up with 24", that's 60cm in "New speak" on 22nd/23rd....quite impressive for so late in the year....

aye, I drove up to Kirkcaldy and back today, some good snow formations next to North end of M6 and M74. There was even a Samworth Bros Truck in a field just South of Easglesfield!

Yesterday started off cold and dry, rained at about 10:00, turned to sleet, then snow presumably evaporative cooling at work, then back to rain and cleared up. Rest of the day was just... Meh....

apologies - mixed messages. OK I know that the ppn from Storm Emma is frontal, but over last few days, E coast of Ireland has been hit by heavy showers. Where I live in S Cumbria we have been in a quite effective shadow from the Pennines and E Lakes Fells so only have a thick sprinkling. It was interesting (frustrating) to see showers crop up quite soon of the W Cumbrian Coast in the strong Easterly, which then deposited on Ireland. I assume that was lake effect?

OK, do we have a definition for the type of effect that is happening then - just curious if there's a similar effect which isn't true lake effect, sort of pseudo lake effect?

agreed, easterly is cold, Irish Sea relatively warm in comparison?

understood, so why is the easterly blowing over the Irish Sea creating snow shower not lake effect?