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Just ordered myself a snow blower as a treat..cant stomach another round of snow shoveling
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4 hours ago, ManiaMuse said:
The speed at which we gain daylight does start to ramp up pretty quickly from this point. Where I am we go from gaining 90 seconds per day now to gaining 2+ minutes per day just within the next 5 days.
Hopefully we do get some sunnier days with the high pressure to come.
i think the maximum gain and loss here is around the equinox of March and Sept when we gain or lose 6 minutes daily for about 3 weeks.
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27 minutes ago, CryoraptorA303 said:
Lucky, where's our lot
its just a light dusting in my part of the world..
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Looks to me as though there was a distinct drying trend form the early 1970s to the late 1990s and a reversal of that trend since.
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Winter to finally show up in January as El Niño bested by polar vortex - The Weather Network
WWW.THEWEATHERNETWORK.COM
Believe it or not, winter has not been cancelled, despite what transpired in December across Canada. January will look considerably different by comparison as winter finally gets a tighter grip on the...Here it comes
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1 minute ago, Gowon said:
Looking forward to it?
Nope not at all..still i manage to gain an extra 2 months of Autumn i guess
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things set to turn very cold here as the Aleutian low gets replaced by the Alaskan High pushing arctic air south into NA
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On 26/12/2023 at 06:31, stewfox said:
Luton stay up . A cold snowy jan Feb March. Warm spring lovely summer ,heat and sun. Average autumn bit of rain . Cold snowy winter.
All roads clear and I don't breakdown on Christmas day on M40 next year
i remember breaking down on the M40 in 2014 and being stood there like that ..what made it worse it was a brand new car that i had picked up the day before with 200 miles on the clock.
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Autumn 2000 was horrendously wet ..summer 2007 was poor and often very wet but the summers of the 85-88 were worse imo..other than that nothing else really stands out
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here in Edmonton we had 430mm of precip in 2023..350mm of that fell in June July and August ..so only 80mm in the other 9 months of the year.
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looks like my run of mild sunshine and no snow which has prevailed right through November and December (green Xmas and New Year) is about to come to an end
..-30c and snow is on the way bugger
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today is the day we finally turn the corner..sunrise starts getting earlier from now onwards ..catching up to the latest sunset which happened on Dec 13th..so now gaining light mornings and evenings
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On 19/12/2023 at 13:58, Summer8906 said:
Indeed, an epic summer as far as I'm concerned - one of the very best. In my remembered lifetime only 1995 would come close to 1989, indeed dare I say it maybe 1989 even exceeds 1995 a little. I think 1976 would still be the winner for my entire lifetime, but sadly I don't remember it. It's possible that as my very earliest memory (of anything at all, not weather) occurred in 1975, I just perceived 1976 as a normal summer, any poor summers preceding it being before my earliest memory.
I remember June 1989 as being persistently warm and sunny, often hot, from around the 10th (the charts would suggest the 11th, ISTR all four Sundays being sunny, including the 4th even though it was in the cool changeable spell) until Monday 26th when Atlantic cloud encroached in and the rest of the month was briefly unsettled, only for summer to return on July 2nd, continuing the long run of fine Sundays which started back in May.
I also remember the cool and thundery period mid-week around the 6th.
I don't however remember the brief blip on the 22nd at all, maybe it only affected the east (I was in NW Sussex).
Don't specifically recall what happened on Aug 10th but do remember there was another short unsettled, rather drizzly period this week. I do however remember thunderstorms being forecast sometime around Sun 13th which surprised me as it was a non-descript day with stratus cloud, neither warm and thundery nor cool Pm.
August was the least settled of the 3 months but started fine and summer returned perhaps around the 17th, though late Aug was less hot than earlier in the summer.
I missed two weeks from around Sat 22nd July to Sun 6th August, was in central-western France (Limousin, near the Auvergne border, west of Aurillac) but the weather there was much the same (not hotter save for one day which perhaps reached around 35). There were severe thunderstorms twice during this period in France, once on Sun 23rd followed by a cooldown (apparently including a tornado which amazed me at the time - a tornado in Europe? I assumed they were more or less restricted to North America and Asia). and then again towards the end.
So yes, 1989 was far better than many recent hot summers as all three months were good. Only 1976, 1984 and 1995 can equal that (1984 was less brilliantly good, but all three months were good).
July 1990 is another month I consider underrated by many. 1989 and 1990 together were a pair of notably fine summers, but I think in both cases the south had it particularly good. (And it was less wet down here in the intervening winter!)
I'm just old enough to remember the summer of 1976..if I'm ranking summers in my lifetime that i remember whilst living in the UK it would be this:
1. 1995
2. 1976
3. 1983
4. 1989
5. 2003
1984 would be in the top 10 somewhere but doesn't make the top 5
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another +8c day today..feels more like mid Ocotber than Xmas
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1 minute ago, Wynn D Woo said:
Im not bothered with the darker mornings, early light is no use for recreation time.
yes it is lots of people including myself go walking and running early doors..its painful when the mornings are dark until 9am
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4 minutes ago, I remember Atlantic 252 said:
I want light mornings, not until Feb it's lighter at half 6, Spring forward sucks! darker mornings again
doesn't get light here before 8am until end of March
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winter solstice hits at 8.27pm my time this evening..which is 3.27am your time i think
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Just now, Don said:
I haven't but is definitely on my list!
i would like to go to Scandinavia but only in summer or early Autumn..same with Iceland but only in mid June
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1 hour ago, Summer8906 said:
Possible I guess that the heavy snow I remember was Fri 11th and not Tues 8th, just going off the old newspaper forecasts above.
Can't remember the day of week in all honesty, except it was a weekday.
I guess it's conceivable the Fri 11th event produced "wet snow" where I was a little further south and slightly thawed the first round on the 8th.
Looking at the newspaper reports again it looks like the south coast resorts did particularly badly this month for snow, just like they did in the (less severe) December 1995. Repeated partial incursions of milder air (which were then pushed back again) being to blame; looks like northern France would have had a very frustrating time in Dec 1981 often being in the mild air south of the frontal systems.
Would be very interested to hear any reports of the southwestern part of Surrey, northwestern part of Sussex or inland eastern Hampshire in particular.
it was defiently the 8th that the first snow set it..i too was at school ..the Friday was one of those forecast snow event that didnt happen in my area but other parts of the south got a dumping..sunday i remember the snow started early morning and had blizzards well into the afternoon before it turned back to rain..think the cold returned from Tuesday so the mild spell was short lived.
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white xmas days pretty thin on the ground...1981 was white but didn't snow on the day..actual snow on the day would be 1993 (light snow showers) 2000 rain turned to snow in the afternoon ..2004 odd snow shower in the morning and that's it..near misses 1978 snowed quite a bit between 20-22 Dec and again on Dec 31 but rained in between..1995 some snow before Xmas and again after Xmas but not much ..1984 snowed early hours of Boxing day
This will be my first Xmas in Canada without snow if the forecast is right..last year it snowed for 2-3 hrs on Xmas morning here with the temp of -20c..this year forecast is for sunny and +1c
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5 minutes ago, Don said:
. Could that come our way later in the month?!
Nope
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5 minutes ago, LRD said:
I was 13 and sent home from school. Me and a few mates took advantage of the bonus day off and went out and enjoyed it. The spell was severe but not that lengthy. Lasted for about 12 days IIRC
funny i find ..it was a hugely severe spell for the UK but it doesn't tend to linger in the memory like 1978-79 or Feb 1986 because it was short lived.
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15 hours ago, LetItSnow! said:
Surprising given the stats. Late June had highs around 19C and lows below 10C which isn't exactly oppresive but the hot spell around the 22nd of July did look way. That was the only period that had egregious tropical nights like we do now. The mildest minima (again, just this station but indicative of the general area) in June was 15C which to me isn't that bad. From the looks of things I'd much rather an autumn like 1989 than 1995 but I'd much prefer a winter like 1995/1996 than 1989/1990!
stats doing always tell the true story of the feel on the ground so to speak..also local areas have their own micro climates that wont show up in those stats either...dont get me wrong 1989 was a great summer but in my world nothing will ever beat the summer of 1995
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22 minutes ago, Catacol said:
If Nino stays strong under a similarly strong solar umbrella than the outcome could be grim!
100% agree Nino shows no sign of weakening much as we head towards the new year ..hence the reason we have such a massive positive anomaly across the whole of the NA continent..i was expecting a milder than average winter in my location but the run of above temperatures has surpassed anything i would imagine..the next 10 days looks even more ridiculous for warmth ..no snow for xmas and the new year with temps close to double digits when it should be -25c
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Weather for Nordic countries
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i have been out for my morning walk which last 1.5 hrs when it was -46c and a windchill of -53c..not a problem if you are dressed accordingly