cheeky_monkey

why is sub 2 a gonner in our life time or sub 3 a big ask??? i dont agree at all and i dont see how either?

its not what falls out of the sky that the media should be focusing on..its the amount of water that is wasted through leakage and poor up keep of the system..this country loses up to 6 or 7 times the amount of water through leaks etc than our european neighbours do..yet we have some of the highest bills..surprise surprise...i think that is scandoulous..it is easy for them to blame the weather for their negligence!

not quite the same as 20 indifferent winters?...

i like the letter from the engineer stating all telephone and telegraph cables should be laid underground....something that has been ongoing for the last 20years now...soon over head cables will be a thing of the past..well in a cpl of decades...if only we had listened to him!

maybe you should read my post properly before going off on one!...i wasnt talking about the mildness of winters passed etc...i was talking in reply about the synoptic situation that has jus occured..not winter cets or anything else..just one synoptic set up!!!

almsot in dentical to the phrases and make up of the article from the 1920s printed earlier but using todays dates!

i dont think there has been a decade ever tht has not recorded a winter month with a cet below 3c....so thts is definetly underthreat....also IMHO Feb 1991 was much better than jan 87..not as cold but much snowier

well what about the prolonged significant spell of february 1991?

any one see the joke that is gmtv this morning?....did their usual of going on about snow with reporters in different locations etc...and the guy stood next to a big snow plough in all the get up..saying how to avoid all the choas on the roads...and what a fantastic job theywere doing keeping the roads clear..yet where he was there was no snow..stood like a lemon with this great machine with not a flake of snow to be seen...does make you laugh..just makes you wonder what they would do if it really do snow for real?

i dont disagree with that..im just saying you cant blame this weeks failure of a large high on modern synoptics entirely. also i think this so called even larger teapot is also accompanied by modern weather...in the 1920s the annual cets were lower than now...where as then only winters were markedly milder..today all seasons are warmer.

thts not true...this has happened on many occasions before...just that no one remembers because it wasnt news worthy or nobody cared...but if u trawl through the charts for the last 100 winters the scenario being played out now has happened many times...so its not something that is a result of modern day synoptics.

i remember playing football in the universites league in chelmsford on 6th february 1991 blowing a blizzard...the game was abandoned after 35 mins...howver both teams were decked out in uderrclothes beneath their kits...ive always prided my self on being quite hardy..but even i was wearing gloves..2 shirts and tracksuit bottoms under my shorts...the game it self was tremendously diificulty, not becuase of the snow..but the pitch was frozen solid underneath..it was almost wat i would describe as palying litterally on an ice rink..it was impossible to run or control the ball or do anything...but the worst was normally when your playing sport inthe cold you warm up quickly and forget the weather, but this day no matter what you did there was such a huge windchill with low sub zero temperatures it was all you could do just to try and keep warm. I think the ref realised it was so brutally cold tht he abandoned the game..when we got on the bus and listen to the radio..they gave a current temp in norwich of -7c..plus gale force winds and snow!..ill never forget tht day..or the spell of feb 91...been nothing like it since!

well the last 3 augusts have been 16.2, 16.1 and 15.4...so not difficult at all!

you cant quote 1945 simply because janaury 45 was very cold and snowy..and mar is a spring month..so essentially 2 out of 3 months were well below normal.

Still, anything can happen with the British weather. The winter of 1946/1947 didn't really get going until the last week in January 1947: ive heard this quote every january for as many jans as i can remember....

Now i was out at the retail park yesterday evening..whilst stuck in traffic i noticed daffodils about to come into bloom. i Have never seen this before the new year let alone before chrimbo. It has been very frosty in the last week or so..and much frostier this autumn and early winter than last year any reason for this??

i missed the nov comp cus i was out of the country and had no internet access...but im back for this months punt..lets see strong la nina..minimumsun spot activity...all adds up 2 a mild... 6.2c... looking at past decembers with a similar set up.

if we get cold pooling to our ne we can expect a southerly jet to pull in the beast from the east, but in the even larger teapot this is more likely to collapse from the onslaught of a northely jet set in motion by high sst of the eastern seaboard and cycloniges in the GIN meaning that winter is over but IMO there is still all to play for......How many points plaease?

for me it will be interesting to see how the last 6 months of 2007 compare to the last 6 months of 2006..and the last six months of each year during the last decade..with regard to temps.

you gotta get into canada first

strange how oct 1974 had a similar ending and was followed by the 2nd mildest december of the 20th century only being beaten by dec 1934!...pure coincidence?

looking at the stats there it only proves that the winter 95-96 wasnt all it is cracked up to be...in terms of the 20th century nothing too special no real prolonged cold or widespread snow events...i always think this winter is over hyped in terms of how cold it really was.

yeah i have noticed that januaries were much colder than february in those times!

im leaving the uk and settling in windsor ontario..i will read your site with interest.

yeah me 2 ..i ben away for a long weekend..jus got home..anyways 10.4c please