Frost HoIIow
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Must have chucked it down in the night here as I had to tip the garden chairs this morning that were full of water. Not been a bad day today. Very useable pleasantly warm in the sun and walked to Park Bridge with the dogs. Thankfully doesn't look like any more heat on the way, squeaky bum time now for heat lovers.
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Relatively slack flow and chilly upper air into Northern Scotland at the end of the ECM, a sure sign the northern hemisphere is now on it's way to Winter. With the longer nights this is just about enough for ground frosts if not air frosts for the likes of Altnaharra, Loch Glascarnoch & Kinbrace etc.
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31 minutes ago, davehsug said:
Only since mid July. Prior to that the weather was decidedly chilly, quite windy & dull much of the time hereabouts. The opinion of the summer has been skewed by a good last few weeks. Even then, we had a very dull and often wet week after the July heatwave. This last spell has been the only prolonged suuny and dry spell.
Yes I'd rate this summer slightly above normal in terms of what we usually get in our region but it's still no where near 1995. It's the dryness that has stuck out more than anything. We've had a lot of cloudy cool days sandwiched in between just over a week of hot weather (July's couple of very hot days and the more recent full week of hot weather). This has certainly not been 1995 which for me is the benchmark for NW England, from mid June right through to late August it was extraordinary sunny and consistently very warm or hot with Manchester airport recording 29 days at or above 25C and 59 days at or above 20C. No doubt for SE England this summer has been up there with their very best.
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3 hours ago, cheshire snow said:
@Backtrack to much humidity?dont know for your area but the last two hot spells we have had the Humidity here has been low.
Yeah not saying backtracks case is like this as he might not be taking anything but sometimes medications can cause people to feel hot. I'm on one that does as a side effect so rarely feel cold, last time I think I did was the BFTE in 2018 but that's not surprising given wind chills were sub -10C. It's like today a lot of people are back to wearing light jackets/hoodies and trousers out and about, no way I could do that without breaking into a sweat. I'm still in summery gear.
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Gone very dark in Hyde on this camera looking east near B&M garden centre. Looks like it's raining albeit lightly.
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Nice warm day, thankfully the heat has now gone away. Fresh breeze tonight from the NE get those windows open. Could really do with rain though. Ground is cracked and dusty again round here.
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Another fail on the thunderstorm front maybe better tomorrow. Looking great over in Lincolnshire the thunderstorm capital of England.
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11 hours ago, CreweCold said:
The heat is starting to make me feel ill now. Just no escaping it. I think it's the cumulative nature of this wave. Felt OK first few days but I've been having to walk to work during the hottest part of the day for the past 4 days (1.5 mile) and it's catching up with me. Feel hot and drained with a touch of that horrid heat nausea.
To feel a cool breeze on my skin would be something right now. Definitely investing in an air conditioner for next year!
You won't regret getting one mate. Glad we did otherwise it would've been a week of bedroom temps 25C+ and that cannot be healthy. Without one curtains shut makes very little difference to be honest. At least in this house it doesn't. The baking sun on the brick is what does it in this country. That's why in the med they whitewash their houses and have electronic window shutters.
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20.4C outside at the moment and we're surrounded by fields. You can add another 2 or 3C for the more built up parts of Greater Manchester. Looks like it will get off to a warm start if the cloud hangs around all night. But that same cloud might make it a cooler day overall.
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Another hot one, probably a bit cloudier tomorrow might take the edge off the high temps a bit. 29C in the living room.
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1 hour ago, Joe Snow said:
Same here - 33c likely high for Cheshire today pushing 33-34c into the weekend too. It'll be interesting to see long term whether this summer will be like the summer equivalent of Winter 2009/2010 or whether more extreme heat this far north will be a future trend for NW summers - maybe not every year but I certainly think more intense hot spells are likely and with global warming that brings the risk of all sorts of extreme weather events over the course of the year across the NW & the UK wet, dry, winter storms, hot and cold - global warming increases the risk of extreme and unusual weather patterns of all types of weather for example we would no doubt be frigidly cold if we had this kind of blocked setup in Winter with winds coming from the east.
62/63 wasn't too shabby of a winter 12 years old at the time. Remember my late dad shovelling tons of the snow away from the front door so we could get out. That happened more than once that winter. I hear 46/47 was even worse with people in the Oldham area having to climb out of their bedroom windows as the downstairs access was completely buried. This picture was taken in the Diggle area of Oldham in Feb 1947. What do we get nowadays? Hardly anything.
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1 hour ago, iand61 said:
Reached a nice round 30c here although that’s cool compared to the bedroom which was 33c when I got home and opened the blind and windows to let the heat out.
Gonna be fun trying to sleep tonight with the fan blowing warm air at me
Yes experience tells me curtains and blinds shut makes little difference to cooling the room. For here before we got air con I think it actually made it more stuffier shutting them both as the heat seemed to build around the window and it still escaped into the room eventually. I think the sun on brickwork seems to be a big culprit at heating our homes as well. Look at Spain they whitewash their homes as it doesn't attract the sun.
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4 hours ago, Scorcher said:
It's the airmass and not the daylength! I said it on one of the other threads- there were single figure mins in the hot spell of 2018- right at the peak of summer.
The day length or solar radiation hasn't dropped sufficiently yet for this to be the main cause of the cooler nights.
It's a very clear airmass with low dew points and almost windless- right at the centre of a large area of high pressure. We'd get similar mins if we had this setup in early July.
I don't think you quite get what people have been saying and have misinterpreted people. We've lost 2 hours of daylight since the solstice, without a shadow of a doubt that is enough to see a slight difference but it's enough for some relief now. The sun rises later (takes longer to warm up) and sets earlier (cools down a bit quicker). I can see this with the temp sensors in my house. That might be very sad for you but that's the reality of the situation close to mid August. We're approaching Autumn now.
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39 minutes ago, CreweCold said:
19.4 here, fairly rapid temperature drop now, comfortably below 20c before midnight with another 7 hours of cooling to go
Metoffice has us down for 20C at 1am, that's blatantly not going to happen.
Yes these slightly longer nights and shorter days seems to be doing the trick with dropping both the outdoor and indoor temps. Any diurnal heating is now competing with increasing darkness. A month to 6 weeks ago and it would have been absolutely roasting indoors with barely a drop off at this time.
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10 minutes ago, Weather-history said:
What's happened to Matt Hugo on twitter? His twitter account has gone.
Usually offensive tweets gets you thrown off or he's took himself off it and deactivated his account.
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25 minutes ago, Joe Snow said:
London/ the SE & East Anglia are in a real bad way especially if we have a dry autumn - which autumns often are until November down there. Autumn weather proper doesn’t start for southern Britain until post Halloween really like Winter proper doesn’t start till post Xmas for those south of Birmingham.
Don't think it even starts in our region
A morning of slush doesn't qualify really.
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24.6C was the max here, 25C at the airport. 26.8C upstairs. A/C will be switched on later in bedroom.
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Just now, sundog said:
I am worried about the coming winter with regards to energy bills. But still would like at least one decent cold spell. Anger is more my emotion then fear though. Anger at greedy energy companies who think they can hold us all to ransom. How the hell they are getting away with it is beyond me. Blatant robbery.....
Mass disobedience is needed and non payment of bills. People on lower incomes I'd support them if they did that and I'm sure debt collectors would also be sympathetic if the momentum starts going. Only then will the energy companies take notice, problem is most people don't want to go that far. Most of the energy bosses and their stakeholders have likely never worried about paying bills, they live in another world in their ivory towers and flying in private jets.
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Just now, damianslaw said:
Late Nov last year brought our only appreciable snow a paltry 1 inch cover! A shocker for snow last year.. in a run of many shockers recently.
November was the best it got here with that 4 inch fall. Dec, Jan and Feb we had about two sugar dustings and that was it through that entire 12 weeks. Absolutely dreadful. Oddly the best snow was in the Autumn, not many instances of that here.
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4 minutes ago, TheOgre said:
No sorry but cold and snow is far more interesting than mild. I am personally hoping for an autumn/winter like this:
Sunny, hot Sep, very wet Oct/Nov (to ease drought), cold, snowy Dec/Jan, springlike but wet Feb/Mar. This way if it’s dry in the summer again the drought won’t be such a problem.
It can be very wet in September and October for sure as there's little chance of snow. Maybe snow cover in October once every 15-20 years but not worth getting hopes up most years. November though different kettle of fish with a greater chance of cold and snow, had a good 4 inches at the back end of last November so for me episodic spells of deep cold and snow can arrive from November through to about mid March.... I use the word episodic as even in the best of winters we can't expect it lasting right through, this is the UK after all. After which I like a bit of milder weather but still maybe a couple of days late month and April of snow. In between times I'd like to save on the heating bill though. I wouldn't want it cold perpetually.
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2 hours ago, cheshire snow said:
A perfect summer's week coming up
I just hope any twa*s don't start fires on the moors as it's going to be really difficult to extinguish them. There looks to be an easterly component to the wind from Thursday and this seems to aggravate the dryness and makes it worse. It'll be tinder dry in a couple of days if not already.
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36 minutes ago, MP-R said:
This definitely played a part in the very chilly few nights in late September 2003 after that cold front swept through.
September 2005 was colder here. Had 2 air frosts in that month. 2003 got down to 1C one morning late in the month but no air frosts occurred.
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1 hour ago, severe snowstorm said:
A stark contrast across the region in terms of cloud cover today it seems. Mostly sunny all day in this part of the region. A high of 20.1C, perfect conditions. I'm really hoping things don't get too hot next week, but as @Joe Snow says, it could actually feel even more uncomfortable indoors compared to the period of record breaking temperatures a couple of weeks back due to several days of temps potentially getting into the mid to high 20s celcius at least, with warm nights each day so heat build up indoors will be a real issue.
Have air con in the bedroom here but not had it on since the last heatwave a couple of weeks ago. But it's consistently hovers between 21-24C without it which is still a bit warm for my liking but rather than waste energy putting the air con back on I just put up with it. Last time it was 20C or below was probably early June. Much prefer 18-20C in the bedroom and 20-21C in the lounge. Anyway a few well deserved beers tonight as it's been a long day running errands for family.
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1 hour ago, CreweCold said:
They’re grim.
Can’t let them go as the next thing you know they’re chilling on the sofa next to you or running across your bed. No thanks.
I had a huge one crawling up the side of my bed last year, almost filled my pants as I was about 1 foot away from it.
Yeah that's the problem as I'd imagine they can crawl up the legs of the bed and then onto the cover.
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North West Regional Discussion March 2022 onwards
in Northwest Weather Discussion
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Last time we had heat past the 3rd week of September was in 2011 though. September heat whilst can happen is pretty rare the further on you go through the month.