Lazarus42
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Lyminge currently... with a blob on the way!
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7 hours ago, Snipper said:
UK energy demand getting up to the red.
http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
Turn your heating off and put a pullover on?That's a brilliant site! Thank you! Love the old Smith's dials.
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2 minutes ago, Snipper said:
UK energy demand getting up to the red.
http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
Turn your heating off and put a pullover on?That's a brilliant site! Thank you! Love the old Smith's dials.
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Hahaha! Went to bed thinking I'd be stuck in between those two streamers with just a smattering and woke up to this! (Anyone know why that helicopter was hovering above Capel hill this morning?)
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Just a dusting in Lyminge, currently -3C. But it's the snow type! Ok, I spent up until the turn of the century in Torbay so wasn't really conducive for snow but I've never seen snow like this before! It just puffs away if you blow it, looks artificial almost, out of a can.
I guess this is powder snow but in all my 50 odd years it's a first for me!
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Not just us with out of the ordinary temps. The Arctic is positively balmy! Is this the result of the polar vortex split / SSW giving us our snow event and an early spring at the pole?
http://sites.uci.edu/zlabe/arctic-temperatures/
(Wow! Coldest of the year so far. -4C here now!)
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First flakes in Lyminge! Fine, floaty... If we get lots of this stuff, on this cold ground, it'll drift like anything!
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2 minutes ago, bobbydog said:
who switched the snow machine off???
It'll be back next update... He said hopefully!
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1 minute ago, Ali2017 said:
We both know those will lose their energy by the time they hit the shore.
I bet you're a hoot at parties! ;o)
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Just now, Steve Murr said:
Update !!
Home and dry not for android sadly...
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2 minutes ago, lottiekent said:
Still -0.4c with a DP of -6c in Hawkinge
Some thin high cloud here now too. The moon had a halo,last time I looked and you could only see a couple of the brightest stars. And the wind has dropped a bit at last!
Yup, it's a pretty night out there. Bone dry and fresh with that gorgeous half moon. Almost a mackerel sky with that high, thin cloud sheet.
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2 minutes ago, Marie said:
Can we post some temps and dew points please ? Just to see where we are at ?
-2C in Lyminge...
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Just now, lottiekent said:
Only 3 miles across the fields from me!
-2C and things on a knife edge for us! Keep warm and keep yer sledge waxed!
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Heh... I'm in Kent. I know my place!
(Nod to John Cleese & the two Ronnies)
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35 minutes ago, pages said:
I can't understand why the BBC are paying Metogroup or any supplier for that matter.
I know they didn't renew met office contract to save money, which makes sense.
But as licence payers what we should be asking is why do they need contract with anyone, they already have forecasters/presenters which are paid for a couple of minute recording why not just employ presenters/forecasters and ask them to use the free charts on Meteociel to make basis of their forecast I am sure they have the IT staff/capability to change free charts into graphics. If the forecasters aren't clever enough to do that get new ones.
Its not like the meteogroup actually have better models as they don't have access to MOGREPS, and BBC only need to forecast 3 days ahead so the free GFS/UKMO charts ain't going to be wrong at that range anyway. Its just waste of money and they make themselves look stupid doing a 7 day ahead forecast which is obviously going to be very different come day 5 let alone 7.
One of the main reasons I cancelled my TV licence.
Love the storm glass pics! Have been looking for a good one. Can anyone name the one shown? Such a cool piece of forecasting history...
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Can anyone confirm in my locality (Lyminge, Kent) I've got a new sensor outside currently reading -1C. Is it close?
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2 minutes ago, Retron said:
Nope. Freezing rain is in fact supercooled rain (i.e. still liquid below zero, not having had time to refreeze into an ice pellet). It turns to ice on hitting anything, whether that surface is below zero or not.
Spot on, you beat me to it! Supercooled water droplets just itching to turn to ice if anything disrupts their equilibrium. Hits anything, cold or not, and immediately turns into ice glazing anything and everything. Brings down trees, power cables, encases cars... Dramatic, dangerous and beautiful!
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1 minute ago, Speedbird said:
do you have a radar link, i'm not seeing any showers in The Netherlands at the moment on the Dutch radar . . . plenty coming through W Germany though
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7 minutes ago, Snowy Bob said:
Morning from the Costa Del Folky.
I jest, but I do wonder whether we're going to be as affected down here in South Kent as some of our northern and western cousins?
Looking at the charts for tonight thru to Wednesday - seems to me that its going to be a bun fight to see any significant accumulations south-east of say Ashford and Canterbury.
Have been having the same thoughts here in Lyminge. Although things look like they're starting to head our way!
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4 hours ago, Norfolk Sheep said:
Tescos is full of gardening equipment, not a bag of salt/grit to be seen anywhere....off to Ridgeons tomorrow I think....
Travis Perkins, I got 2x20kg rock salt for about £8. Ordered online and picked it up straight away.
Then Screwfix for a decent snow shovel, crampons from eBay arrived today and B&M do an RAC branded screenwash good for -15C if used neat. Get the pink one, not the blue. The blue is only good for -7C. £1.50 a litre.
Not going to be unprepared this time! Crampons needed as I have two prosthetic legs. Best solution I could think of!
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1 hour ago, Daniel Smith said:
Surprised how quiet it is in here, our region looks likely to take an almost direct hit!
Yup! It's looking pretty dramatic!
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6 hours ago, Kent Blizzard said:
Warning.... Warning!
This forum is about to go into meltdown once people view the FI charts and take them as concrete.
... Looks like you were right Kent old chap!
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33 minutes ago, I remember Atlantic 252 said:
my imagination or is this thing shaped a bit like Australia? at least on rain today, washout for me tomorrow, the 'perth' bit is mine tomorrow all day
Wouldn't the "Perth bit" be Sting Jet / Tornado curl producing territory?
Kent, Home counties and south London general weather discussion 25/02/2018 onwards
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Has anyone got one of these? Temp and humidity seem fine but pressure is way off! It's been set up since 10:00am so it's had time to settle. There's no adjustment possible either...