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Thanks for your reply John, Expanding a bit on the "forecasters of those days", I might be wrong but in times gone by you were a meteorologist who became a TV weather presenter. While there are the same today I feel that many of today's presenters are just that, they present the weather, rather then being a meteorologist.

Thanks for the reply. Playing devils advocate here. Dont you think that the models seem to have been very inconsistent in recent times. Also do you think there is possibly to much info available with ridiculous future timescales being forecasted. When in fact it is more or less only a less than 50% chance of them being right even with a 10 day or less timescale.

Proper forecasters in those days.... Having said that I pose a serious question. I wonder how those guys from those days would fair with today's technology.

Didn't I read on here earlier this week not to take any notice of these, due to major westerlies somewhere, that has produced an inflated reaction. Having seen this quoted all this winter, most of it never came true. Surely its all model based and if anything to go by the state of the model runs at the moment ( and the last few months) I think we should go back to the1960's style weather forecasting...... It cant be any worse.

Is it just me or do the models seem to have been very disorganized for say the 5-10 day period. Its always highlighted more when you have 500 people plus hanging on every model run. But when you only have a few it gets missed. They seen to be coming out with several different ideas. Again today the GFS and ECM are totally different around the 8 day mark. We have had mentioned very warm such as 18c to fresh easterlies at 5c and possibly sleet. Also much has been mentioned that pressure will be much higher than average to Atlantic taking over esp the more north you are. Reading Frosties regular run down, its amazing in just a few days how different his run down analysis is. The only thing we haven't had is a raging south westerly. Is there a particular driving force that is causing this more so at the moment.

Like others lovely sunny day here, 12c, fresh breeze, still cool though. Garden starting to dry out nicely now.

It sure doesn't, I like my boots empty of water, thank you. Bring on the drier warmer weather. Its getting time for garden jobs and planting.

Plenty of weather coming up surprised its so quiet in here.

WHat a lovely day... CLoudy, temps around 7c, fresh ssw wind, dull rubbish day...

Very much agree, once March comes along I dont want to feel the icy wind, you start to think of lovely spring warmth. Much as I love the snow, thats for winter months ending in Feb.

Now forget snow and stars, the aurora is worth more than anything.

Text in bold, pretty much sums up this winter overall. Lets hope the models carry on showing some calmer options, esp as march starts, time to feel springlike. Not to early to hot otherwise the GW brigade will start appearing in the tabloids.

I have sunshine today so far, wont last long. I wonder what facts and worries we will learn of today.

Any winter compared to last year will feel like being in a desert lol..

They are just the normal big spring tides you get at this time of the year. Peaking at 6.3m at Southend on 20/22nd Feb. Not sure where you get the biggest tides in decades from. To be honest I dont think it matters what the height of the tide is, if you get that deep low in the right place in the North Sea, its brown pants for many. For the south and west coasts I am not informed, apart from the windier it is the worse it is..

Gloomy start, dont you mean the gloomy start to another gloomy day. :wallbash: Think for once I will take a rainy day cause after the rain comes the sun. Crosses fingers hands bodies......

IF we had half the snow and cold, that they have had over there, this country would be paralised for weeks. The economy would be in tatters, lol.. According to WSI yet more snow and severe cold showing.

There are some seriously long south westerlies ish, starting from the bottom left (mid south west Atlantic) of the charts and riding over our high to the north west/north of us and still going of the top right of the charts, more westerly, being shown from many charts in 7/14 days. I have notice several of these showing up, however it well away from us as we talk now.

More days like today please...

That's a much better overall view compared to others. Thanks. Also shows a large area of warmer water north of the Norwegian Coast as well.

Apart from the fact that most of the Atlantic is showing a colder anomaly.

Dam long reading link Knocker gave lol.. I also note that its ten years old, due to timing of last survey, its cyclical it seems like most things in nature. It was more not so much in the far north east, but it starts virtually from the Florida coastline and runs up the whole coastline.

A quick question if you dont mind, what is causing the higher temps (anomalies) of the north east coast of the US, Canada and even Greenland, esp as they have had some pretty cold weather this winter.

Have to say once this time of the year comes alone, longer days, light till 5 ish, just cant wait for those early warm spring days. Really nothing worse than a dragging winter. Ok when its proper cold, but most of the time it never is.

When you think about it. Record ish 2012 with heat. Record ish 2013 with cold. Record wet 2014 with rain. Quite impressive febuary/march really.