cheeky_monkey

wild swings in temps continue here..now out of the -40c cold and heading rapidly to +10 to +12c by the weekend

the same happened in 2010 was a quick flip to LaNina..summer was really stormy here that year dont know what it was like in the UK?

im done with cold By Xmas for obvious reasons

as a complete neutral (no feelings either way if its cold or not in the UK) IMO the only real problem here is the huge bias towards looking for cold and snow..hence many posters are blinded by that fact and don't give a balanced view of the models which in turn to leads to massive over expectation by others who may not understand what the whole output is showing and thus massive disappointment ensues and finger pointing starts when things don't turn out the way they wanted or expected. Its always been that way and unfortunately anyone who does give a fully balanced viewed will be swamped by hope casting in the winter months.

i will take a May 2023 again please..it was the warmest month of the year with an average daily high of 24.5c ..sunny dry and very warm from start to finish

i do its been close to -50c here recently

snow typically stays on the ground here from around mid October to mid April

no where in the PNW seaboard saw highs in excess of 45c with the exception of Portland which is further south and had historic highs above 42c previously ..Vancouver topped out at 32c in that hot spell of 2021 ..Prince George interior BC and i was there in that spell reached 42c ...Lytton is in a deep valley in the Rockies so is a well known heat trap ..so i would say PG is a more applicable location to compare places in France etc

BC climate is only comparable to the UK along the coast ..interior BC has a totally different climate as it is set within the Rocky Mountains ..places like Lytton Kelowna and Kamloops have a hot almost arid type climate in summer

the darkest part of the year ..mid Nov - mid Jan has now passed... that's another tick in the box on the way to summer

i find this and the MAD thread very entertaining through the winter for obvious reasons...keep it up

almost all of NA covered in snow right down to the gulf of Mexico

used to play a lot of football in Southend..is the pier still there?

some of these stories wouldn't be out of place of the stories told on these forums about Dec 1981..100 years later..i wonder if any of us will still be around in 2072 to recount Dec 1981 like the last quote from 1972 about Jan 1881

snowing this morning on the flip side its 25c warmer than yesterday feels like summer

i left Essex for good in 1992..Feb 1991 was very cold and snowy as was Dec 1990 somewhat..still had friends and relatives there well into the 2000s.. Dec 1995 and Dec 1996 had cold snowy spells

as someone who grew up in Essex in the 70s and 80s into the 90s ..snow fall and overnight lows of -6c happened pretty much every single winter when i lived there ..only very occasional years there would be little in the way of snow or cold but others there would be bucket loads of the stuff and temps down to -15c and no higher than -5c ..im pretty sure since the early 1990s that has happened maybe once or twice in Essex. Summers are hotter and winters are milder ..even though i now live in Canada i can see that my old stomping ground doesn't get the snow and cold it used to.

good news..today marks the start of the NH march into summer as the hemisphere has reached its coldest point of the year and will now warm until July 14th

coming off the back of one of the coldest weekends on record here and the coldest weather i have ever experienced..got mighty close to -60c Windchill's on Saturday morning..its a balmy -38c this morning

a mere dusting

5cm of disruptive snow

which is another weather urban myth

-45c here forecast for -50c on Saturday night

the coldest temp on record for my location is in danger tomorrow night -49.4c is the record from 1880s ..Saturday night low is forecast for -50c

be no fun for the Dolphins coming from Miami