cheeky_monkey

umm..2005/6?..not so long ago

is it going 2 be on twice a week like corrie or benders???..if so i think the characters need some fleshing out..and the plot line seems a little linear...how about throwing in some car chases..or a bit of eye candy. ps..was that copies of bobby robsons autobiography on the table..or next weeks script??

is always thought a blizzard was a period of prolonged modarate/heavy snowfall combined with a gale force 8 wind....but then you can have blizzard like conditons in squally snow showers..although not a blizzard as it is not continous.

i dont understand your graph with reference to jan as plotted in blue...shows it flatlined around the 350year mean value..which isnt right???

judging by the temp range there shows tht tottenham at that time must have been still a fairly rural location...29c max followed by 6c low..wouldnt see that today in tottenham

how many times??..didnt you used to post in the past few years each year about the north atlantic drift shutting down and expect a really bad winter like those of the little ice age if not this one then in the next couple of years. now it is becuase the sun is has gone into a quiet phase we get the same old forecast its like talking about tomorrow..because tomorrow never comes and yesterday has always been!

im no expert by any means..i would expect the southern half of the uk to become drier and milder..with winters equal to those of 74-75, 75-76 & 89-90 but any rain to be light and patchy..or heavy and intense as fronts meander and are slow to clear..to be interspersed by long drier spells of bartlett high pressure influenced weather?

and the purple is an occlusion or occluded front..where the cold front has caught up with the warm front forming an occluded front...usually show with red semi circles and blue trianlges together

still..there are no fronts drawn....warm fronts are a black line with red semi circles..and cold fronts are black line with blue triangles

there are no fronts drawn oh these charts..jus shows isobars...and pressure values

i never said it was a stupid q?...im just learning..it is the learning area after all..so i thought i would ask the q?

this may be a strange q?..but if you have been a member of this forum for 5 yrs and are part of the moderators..how is it that you do not know any of this?

and you work in the construction industry do you?

no similarity to the weather...2000 was the wettest autumn on record

sorry..but it wasnt extreme cold that stop the german advance on antwerp..the germans litterally ran out of fuel...the allies were dogged by low cloud and snow at the start of the offensive which aided the germans as the allies had overwhelming air superiorty..when the weather cleared the allied airforces devasted the german armour and their supply columns...the offensive was sheer folley on the part of Hitler and probably shortened the war by six months.

i remember 2 things about dec 91...first it was very cold and frosty in essex in the run up to chrimbo..night time temps got down to -10c..the weather man saying about as cold as it gets with no snow cover?..also playing football on a frozen pitch..and scoring probably the best goal ive ever scored in a 4-1 home defeat.

pity the poor man caught wearing blue fancy socks

think this has been discussed in the weather history section

i think jan 85 is largely forgotten because it came in the middle of that 10 year spell of cold snowy winters..also although fairly snowy and cold..nothing spectular in terms of cold or snowfall..but i agree much better than jan 87..and probably only coming second to jan 79..as far as januaries i can remember..with regards to snowfall just ahead of jan 82...if it had come in the last 15 yrs would be top of lots of peoples lists me thinks!

now for me you must pick months or years you actually experienced yourself 1st hand..none of this id like jan 1740 followed by feb 1895 nonsense personsally i would go with the 1st 2weeks of dec 81 followed by the last 2 weeks of dec 78...followed by jan 79...followed by the 1st 2 weeks of feb 78 finishing with the last 2 weeks of feb 86....honourable mentions go to jan 82...feb 79,91..im not big fan of jan 87..yes extremely cold..but short lived...after 1991..nothing has been cold enough or snowy enough to have registered in my brain.

erm...why??...dont see that small area of minor marginally below sst will effect the jet stream

wow..that must be a lot of effort on your part to find articles, scan them, then post them...anyway if any other members who dont have mr datas library and dedication like me..should join the times online archive...fabulous source of articles on any topic.

am i reading it right?...is he infering that because more gas and oil are burnt in winter it is raising temperatures..kinda like a heat island effect rather than co2 emmissions? by the way i assume mr data that you source your information from the times online archive???

i wish they could invent a time machine..then i could go back in time and not read this thread!

lets be fair the met office have been pretty good with their winter forcasts over the last few years...so cant sit on the fence if they are right every time!