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Right let me see if i got this right, I think i recognise the cold and warm fronts also pressure now, Go to here http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=nwdc;sess= click on number 42 and that shows a cold front just entering Ireland, Please can someone tell me if im right
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there are no fronts drawn oh these charts..jus shows isobars...and pressure values
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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?
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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?
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Regardless of whether flooding is more likely in future, building on flood plains is quite clearly insane. There are flood plains around Woking and Godalming that have been designated as such for generations, and we are regularly reminded of why this is the case. The problem is with councils and governments and construction companies who are so obsessed with making money that they say damn the consequences and build in places that our ancestors were bright enough to leave alone!
Greed and stupidity are a great combination...
CB
and you work in the construction industry do you?
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no similarity to the weather...2000 was the wettest autumn on record
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The Battle of the Bulge......the USA's most costly single battle in Europe and yet it was the extreme winter cold that slowed Germany's advance on Antwerp....
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.
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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.
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pity the poor man caught wearing blue fancy socks
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think this has been discussed in the weather history section
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I mentioned in another thread that I've often thought of January 1985 as "the forgotten January" of the 1980s, sandwiched between severe cold and snow from easterlies in 1982 and 1987, and from north-westerlies from the Midlands northwards in 1984- although it has been getting more mentions recently. Taking the country as a whole it was probably the coldest and snowiest of the lot, with frequent easterly and north-easterly outbreaks in the first two-thirds, and then quite a polar W/NW'ly influence at times in the last third with snow in the north.
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!
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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. -
You would think surely that the cold anomoly SST's SW of the UK if it persists would be a barrier to the usual seemingly never-ending conveyer belt of low presure systems sweeping across the UK during the winter months.
We live in hope based on that cold anomoly persisting that the yuck for once is not as long lasting or as intense as it has the last 2 dismal British winters.
erm...why??...dont see that small area of minor marginally below sst will effect the jet stream
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No, that is from Symon's Meteorological Magazine. Numerous volumes of which I have.
Many of the Times articles that I have posted in the past are the Real McCoy.
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.
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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???
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i wish they could invent a time machine..then i could go back in time and not read this thread!
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I am sure they said the exact same things last year in their preliminary Winter forecast. "Average/slightly above average, but not as mild as the previous." It's predictable fence-sitting by the Met Office because truly, they don't really have much of a clue yet.
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!
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august 2003 was the driest month i recorded in exeter between 1995-2007...with just 2 days of recordable rain out of 31...also my garden averaged a mean daily max of 25.85c..only beaten by july 06 with 26.19c..so a very dry and hot month in devon at least..so not confined just to the se.
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what i found strange about the heatwave of august 2003..i went with my wife and kids to the beach because it was so hot mid afternoon..when we got there we dipped our toes in the water..what was weird was that there was no sea breeze at all.. the sea was totally calm with not a breath of wind..and it was just as hot as inland..this was at about 3pm when sea breezes are normally at their peak.
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just looking at the jan 79 chart..if tht was a recent winter..i would have expected to see temps 10-12c with a sw flow like tht..not 3-5c...oh how times have changed!
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i find it difficult remembering 1990..as 89,90 & 91 were all good summers and they have tended ova the years to have got merged into one in my mind...wasnt jun 91 an exceptionally cool month?..i think summer 94 is largely forgotten because it was followed and eclipsed the following year by 1995.
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i was living in essex in 1990..i remember 1989 being a better summer esp june and july..although may 1990 was warm and very sunny i think?..i was in south london in 1994..july 94 was hot in london and the south east.
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Oh dear, yet more spin GW you naughty boy !
The eastern passage opens up fairly often as far as I can see, I have picked one year at random (1995 ) although I haven't done a thorough analysis. see below :
So it's not as though it's always been perennial ice.
dont want 2 rain on your parade but the date you have picked is the 6th sept 1995..not 9th june 1995...americans rite months\and days other way round..lol
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One overlooked point is, can a couple months of warm summer temperatures overcome the many months of extreme cold in the Arctic last Winter. This could well make the argument of old ice or new ice moot. I have done a little reading on this in the last few days and am coming to the conclusion that the temperature in the Winter is the overiding factor in determining the amount of ice.
i was under the impression it was the other way round?...summer temperatures determine the amount of melt..therefore the the extent of ice that survives to the next winter..a run of cooler than normal summers will result in an increasing amount of ice retained each year?
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ive just spent 2 weeks in edmonton alberta and maybe moving from ontario as ive been offered a big money job...very cool and damp during my stay with temperatures a good 3-4 degrees below normal..what a contrast to when i was out there mid may when temps reached 30c...however i missed the big storms that hit southern ontario early last week.
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.
Help To Understand Charts.
in Spring Weather Discussion
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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