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Just now, Ed Stone said:
You guys might be better-off moaning in the moaning thread? Not that I never make off-topic posts. Far from it!
its easy to get the 2 confused; lots of ramping in here after all if we're splitting hairs.
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1 minute ago, Alderc said:
This is a weather forum last time I checked, in the depths of winter you’d get nailed on here for bigging up charts that showed average maxes. While I’m sure it’ll be ok, there’s no there’s going to be a lot of cloud so I’m still not sure it’s going to be even as very averagely good as some of the charts are indicating.
not going to be a hypocrite; the winter hardcore are just as bad if not worse.
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1 hour ago, Djdazzle said:
GFS 12z, apart from a few days from Thu, is a very good run all the way to end of FI. Temps still low 20s in south even on Friday. How some can say that’s poor is beyond me.
because people on here aren't happy unless we're dripping like a pot roast.
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1 hour ago, MP-R said:
One is not immune from low pressure...
Perhaps that should read "safer". no matter the synoptics, I'm clearly doomed to misery.
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11 minutes ago, markyo said:
The end is in sight,comfort awaits,,,,won't get any lighter earlier in the mornings from now on in my area. Love this turning point,might get a full nights sleep soon!
5 days to our first milestone back to sanity. Next is the equinox in september. Better times await once this god awful season is over. If its not heat, its pollen. Doesn't agree with me at all.
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On 14/06/2018 at 06:58, knocker said:
Just a glance at the gfs next week as it has the Azores briefly becoming influential.
suffering suckertage, a layer of Sc at 3,000ft
not that brief. Even so, the 850 temps being shown on the ECM for tuesday would produce (synoptics permitting) 26-30 no trouble. People wonder why I only feel "safe" with low pressure....
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40 minutes ago, johnholmes said:
I had to smile at that comment, you should spend a week in this part of the world in early summer. Even your good self might get a touch fed up of what we get while western areas see something yellow in the aky. This morning was the first time with a full sunrise, indeed any sunrise for just over a week. It does get tedious believe me.
You'd think so, but no. Getting comfortable conditions this time of year with high pressure is incredibly difficult. I'd take months of grey skies and rain rather than suffer through a heatwave any day of the week.
Take next monday for example; the azores high shows its face for the first time and the models are already taking the mick.
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4 minutes ago, Matthew. said:
West Wales is racing ahead with sunshine at 100hours whereas some parts of the east have had a third of the value to the 10th
Those easterners have had it good over the last few weeks I'd say.
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4 minutes ago, Milhouse said:
Ive got to say the outlook looks very nice indeed with a bit of everything, and certainly not the clickbait 'June Monsoon' headline from a few days ago. Some decent rain forecast to water the garden and a lot of dry and quite warm weather for us easterners. This summer is shaping up nicely!
You've had a "get out of summer free card" over the last month. Should count yourself lucky.
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46 minutes ago, markyo said:
Oh those lovely memories of the Beast from the East,so much better than today's humid muck. At least only 10 days to go before the shortening of the days begins,just got to ride out these next 2 months then Autumn approaches,can't wait
That's the first milestone, yeah. Counting down the days until I'm no longer woken at 3 am by birds.
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1 hour ago, draztik said:
You just can’t please some people! The NW has seen (and is still seeing) a period of fine weather. Temps 19-25, sunny cloudless days ... at least two weeks worth! And you’re moaning about westerlies. Get a grip.
Very true. Having said that, I've seen people in my neck of the woods still in winter coats...
Wish I knew their secret.
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58 minutes ago, weatherguru14 said:
really? take Philip Avery last night. with the comment AT LAST AT LAST AT LAST. we are gonna get a more meaningful jet stream. we have seen once the jet dives south it often stays there for a long time.most people don't want AT LAST AT LAST AT LAST. Lets hope its not the case and our summer doesn't go downhill from now on.. Because seeing our summers have gone over the last decade.. once it turns unsettled we very rarely get out of it
Its no more irritating than weather presenters smiling at the prospects of 18c nights. That makes no sense either.
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1 hour ago, Mokidugway said:
I'm Shure you'll get your wish July and August will be wet cool and miserable
Not my fault that those conditions are so hard to achieve.
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14 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:
Some of the moaning in the MOD thread is getting really tiresome!!
Some of us have had 5 or 6 weeks of wonderful weather!(For a change).
More like 2 weeks. In that I mean that the days were warm, but the nights cooled off. That stopped over a fortnight ago and the nights started getting a lot warmer (not to mention humid). Unless conditions can provide warm days (and by that I mean a max of 24) but cool nights, then I'd rather it rain.
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Anyone know of a doctor that's willing to put me into an induced coma for the next 12-15 weeks?
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3 hours ago, Pixel said:
Apologies if this subject has raised and had it's head cut off in other discussions but I couldn't find a thread that dealt with the disparity between Met office and BBC forecasts. I'm at a loss as to know which to believe since the BBC dis associated itself from the meto. Oh and those percentages (%) for rainfall, toss a coin at 50 % chance for the past hour... sounds like covering ones backside to me.
Presently I'm using Sat24 for live images, rain today or Netweather and some apps. All well and good for NOW but the next three days forecast seem to have become very different and confusing.
This one is great if you want to build an arc: http://mp1.met.psu.edu/~fxg1/SAT_NHEM/animweur.html
Navigating within this page is desperate:
and a crazy alternative to what was presented previously on national TV and tinternet and then there's Meteociel.fr for fun !!
Our national forecast on mainstream media has gone 'breasts pointing upwards' IMHO (in my humble opinion)
As far as the UK is concerned, seaweed and a farmer's almanac are by far the most useful
Seriously though, I find weatherunderground to be pretty accurate for my area at least.
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11 minutes ago, Frosty. said:
The 6z mean was better..I would hang on a bit before you start calling it a trend!
Means are easily skewed by extreme members one way or the other. Even more so in low res.
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Actually had a rumble of thunder before! Lasted for about 3 seconds.
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2 hours ago, stevofunnelcl said:
why do the met office keep mentioning severe storms today. i think the amber warning was over the top
it's not as bad as Saturday evening / night
i know they are concerned about the slow moving showers and storms
they don't mean 'severe' as in USA Plain's style supercells
radar or lightning maps, don't look that impressive to me
i guess, the Uk version of severe storm, is standard but slow moving storms, dumping a lot of rain, and causing flash flooding
Many places are of course, missing them completely
Simple really: if they made little of it and places flooded, their heads would be on pikes. They're basically covering their backsides.
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1 minute ago, Had Worse said:
Beeb weather app says thunder for Manchester in the early hours of Friday morning.
Talk about carrot, only to be downgraded on the next update
the closest you'll get to thunder in the nw is if a neighbour knocks their bins over all at once.
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9 hours ago, Mr Bartlettazores said:
I don’t often post on here but Ice Man 85, I have to seriously challenge your views on people’s love for ‘extreme weather’. I haven’t read of anyone excited that floods, extreme high or low temperatures could result in death or even life consequences. No one wants anything like that! As for anything ‘extreme’ with our weather more recently, the temperatures cumulatively are higher and there have been a few storms with big rainfall totals, but hardly the extremes other warmer countries can have in such conditions.
We are actually lucky to live in a country that our extremes are less so really compared to many others! Where are the hurricanes and extreme droughts that other countries suffer? Just look at the lightning storms that have killed dozens in India very recently!
If anything, people such as the many homeless can get killed from a few cold nights below zero which is hardly extreme as one example! A first warm spell of the year as another can and does often result in tragic consequences when people take a plunge in cold waters!
I’d also challenge your views in that it’s the same fanatics of more extreme weather that are the first in warning and raising awareness of any danger to those less informed and more vulnerable. As noted, I very rarely post but your views although with a good underlying sentiment, in my personal view (and others it seems), are without doubt misplaced at best.
You're twisting my words. I never said that they were excited at the "life and death" of people. I said I didn't understand how they got excited at *conditions* that can and have led to that. Those are two different things. To me at least.
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48 minutes ago, cheese said:
You don't need to understand - you just need to stop going on about it all the time like a broken record. Can you do that?
you're the one who jumped in and started this "argument" my friend. And ironically I wasn't the one to bring up the rains in the first place.
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Each to their own if that's how you get your jollies, but I don't understand how anyone can find excitement or joy in something that harms other people. These floods and storms have claimed lives just as they did during the easterly in february.
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33 minutes ago, cheese said:
Yeah - so it's a little strange that the same people who kicked off that 'brawl' last time by attempting to guilt trip other users for having the nerve to enjoy severe weather on a weather forum, are back again making the same stupid/inflammatory comments - but instead of snow, it's thunderstorms. I mean, crikey - what next? Will we get told off for liking sunshine because some people get skin cancer? Am I selfish for not caring about that? Maybe the only appropriate weather is mild and dull - can't imagine anyone dying from that!
Anyone would think that they enjoy starting arguments..
Well tell that to the people who've been flooded out of their homes. Be thankful you're not one of them.
Going to leave it at that before the mods have a tizzy.
Northwest England regional thread 3 /3 onwards
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Have to say I've enjoyed this week. A welcome reprieve from that vile May I had to suffer through.
ECM going for round 2 though pretty soon. heat and drought in July if it verifies. Christ help the NHS if its anything like 5 years ago.