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Good explanation John, one mistake though. In diagram 3 you say that when the DALR line crosses the 900mb line the temperature is 11c, it is actually 17c, a drop of 3c not 9c. Also could you post a chart with the potential for t-storms? Thanks, AM

Overnight low of -0.4c. Currently 9.9c with mostly blue skies, some altocumulus and cirrus. Pressure steady at 1007mb.

Clear overnight, low of -1.8c Currently cloudless, 9.8c Pressure steady at 1016mb

Overnight low of 4.8c. Rain showers. Currently 7.4c Pressure 1009mb and rising Total cloud cover (stratus)

Overnight low of -1.5c Currently 9.4c No precipitation Pressure 1000mb and rising Mostly blue sky, some cirrus and cumulus clouds

Cloudy, cloudy and cloudy for the past 4 days. Overnight 'low' of 10.4c, currently 13.6c. Pressure rising at 1005mb.

Breezy here. Overnight low of 10.9c. Currently 13.2c, pressure dropping slightly at 997mb.

Temperature has dropped here from 9.1c at 11.48am to 2.9c currently. That'll be the cold weather then!

I have to say that I would rather it was really cold than really snowy, I think that feels more like winter to me. Another memory I have regarding the cold is from either early 86 or 87, given the CET records I will assume it's Feb 86. There wasn't much in the way of snow but it was very cold indeed. There was a stream down the hill from our house, not a wide one, only about 5 or 6 feet, but it had frozen. Now this was a fairly regular thing as I remember often skating on it. This time me and my friends took it upon ourselves to see if we could break the ice. It took a lot of time and effort but we finally managed it. When we did we saw that the ice was around 5cm thick. Now to a group of young boys this is fairly impressive but the best was yet to come. Having broken the ice we expected water to come up through the gap but none did. Upon closer inspection we realised that there was no water at all beneath the ice and we could see the bottom of the stream, about 2 feet below us. I assume that the source of the stream had frozen and the water below the ice had simply flowed away. I also remember making my own skating track by throwing jugs of water onto the pavement outside my house. The water froze in less than a minute! While I love snow, next winter I would prefer a really cold spell of a week or more where the temperature never gets above freezing and drops to about -20c. Brilliant!

I don't know what made me think of this but the chart below is from my most memorable weather event. I remember it clearly because I was out in it! Picture the scene, it is 22.15 on a Sunday and I am waiting outside the sports centre in Perth waiting to get picked up by my stepfather to go home and I am standing out in the wildest blizzard I have ever experienced. He was supposed to pick me up at 22.00 and I didn't get picked up until 22.30, by which time the predetermined pick up point is under a snowdrift of about 4 feet (I had retreated to a bus shelter). It then took us 90 minutes to drive the 8 miles to our house, which as luck would have it was way out in the boonies. It snowed for another 36 hours or so and at the end of it we could open the back door and see nothing but a wall of white. We had an oil boiler, unfortunately the pipeline from the tank to the house froze. The high winds cut off our power. Our house clings to the side of a steep hill overlooking the A9 a few miles outside of Perth so there was no way we could go anywhere except on foot. That said, the nearest shop was 2 miles away. We were stranded with no electricity or heat. I had a blast!! I would be interested to know what other peoples most memorable events are.

Now some of you may know of this already but I'll put it in in case some of the newer members don't know about it. I was trawling through the internet last night and found this amazing site that has details of the history of British weather going back to B.C. Obviously the history is more detailed the closer you get to the present time but it is a bloody intersting read. The address is: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather...histclimat.htm Enjoy!

Coming down heavily here. Started about 15 minutes ago and I estimate that 2cm has fallen in that time.

Don't know what time it came, btu sometime overnight we got 3cm of snow. Starting to melt away already though

Snow fall overnight gave about 3cm. Heavy showers on and off since 8am.

The snow showers overnight have combined to give 4cm.

Middlesbrough 14cm this morning. Probably gone down a little.

Got up to an astonishing 13cm this morning and it's STILL coming down

Snow showers here since 4pm. Nothing laying yet. Crystal clear at the mo.

The local forecast reckoned it would be a minimum of 2c tonight, yet it's already down to 0.7c. Max today of 7.3c

Can anyone else remember when you could see icicles hanging down from guttering, off bus stops, shop signs, etc? I think the last time I saw this must have been 1987. Will it ever happen again? Will it ever snow on top of old snow? Will we have a sustained period of cold lasting more than 3 days? The answers to these questions and more will be available over the coming years! regards, AM

Partial cloud when I got up (8.10) and 2.9c. Now 5.7c and cloudy, pressure 1025mB and steady. Low overnight of 0.6c

Sunny here all day. Max temp 7.7c. Currently clear, temp 3.3c, pressure 1022mB and steady.

Dry, sunny, temp 2.1c. Frosty last night and as I look out my window I can see steam rising off my garden fence where the sun is melting the frost. Very cool. regards, AM

Current temp 1.7c. Pressure 1024mB. Max temp today 2.9c. Lots of rain, sleet and hail but not one flake of snow. Very frustrating. regards, AM

And now it's snowing. Not very heavy mind but it's a start. regards, AM