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19 minutes ago, Mattwolves said:
I think overall.... Not good enough.... Upper air temps of around 0c at day 9....bag of spanners....
The end kind of ties in with exeters thought, high pressure to the NW bringing better conditions there.. Overall upper air temps are about as good as you would Expect in winter.... Even my patient head is being done in now.
I find it absolutely amazing that the green/blue blob perches itself consistently directly over the UK only, as if it somehow "knows" we are there, or someone just drew it on because they don't like us.
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'fraid I am, very much jealous of the Netherlands right now. 27 degrees!
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Just now, Mapantz said:
18°C here.
Phwoar.
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1 minute ago, Mapantz said:
Meanwhile..
Looks nice til you realise it's 13°C.
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Curtains drawn, heating pumped up, lights on, I'm good to go for summer 2019.
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That radar pic is simply showing your usual frontal pap spinning around the semi-permanent British trough.
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Om, wot?
12.9°C to the 12th? It's mean to be June, not October. I'm fairly sure the GFS under predicts temps, so I'd expect the reality to be rather higher than this.
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4 minutes ago, Ed Stone said:
I can see the logic behind the a/c question: if you have a million air-conditioned buildings, the unwanted heat must be dumped into the wider environment...isn't that how the refrigeration-cycle works?
But, is it significant?
That's correct - AC units are basically massive building-scale refrigerators, so they expel very hot air out into the environment in order to keep the interior cool.
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Just keep the Dallas, New Orleans, Chicago and St.Louis earthcam sites on your bookmarks and you'll be seeing dozens of storms this summer.
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Well along with northern Derbyshire where I've lived before, South Yorkshire must be the "thunderstorm-free-zone" of England. My God never seen something so pathetic. I am saving up my money to go live in Berkshire again when at least I might see a storm.
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Well that was a nice two second warm blip. I think I saw more sunshine in Iceland last October. Temps barely skirted 20 degrees locally, with 14 degree dewpoints. Rather like a cooler day in a Florida winter. Drizzle, wind and other rubbish intermittently on both days this weekend too. At least I watched a massive thunderstorm on the St. Louis, Missouri webcam last night. Intense with CG's every 2-3 seconds. Of course no lightning anywhere to be seen in western Europe/UK as the breakdown from already sub-par weather to totally unsettled weather arrives.
I think my favourite description of British summer weather is by legendary travel writer Bill Bryson, when he says:
"In Britain it had been a year without summer. Wet spring had merged imperceptibly into bleak autumn. For months the sky had remained a depthless grey. Sometimes it rained, but mostly it was just dull, a land without shadows. It is like living inside Tupperware."
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18 minutes ago, johnholmes said:
It is not a cold front bringing the rain but a warm front. The decrease in temperature is due to the cloud covering the sun?
The first few spots of rain here after a lovely morning, although a breeze came along in spite of the high of 18.1 C now down to 12.5 with a dewpoint of 9 C
Well, wasn't really looking at the charts recently, but it seemed like a very fast temp drop. But now the dew point has started going up. And yeah it is raining now, just went outside and didn't realise because it is barely visible to the human eye.
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A vile day here; after the temperature plummeted down to a dismal 5°C overnight, the day began to show promise with sunny intervals and 15°C being reached at noon. However, a cold front quickly arrived and the temperature has now dropped to 10°C by 4PM, unbelievably, rendering the day largely useless and colder feeling than half of February. The only thing I haven't seen is rain so far, unless it is that fine drizzle that is invisible to the human eye but thoroughly drenching when one makes the mistake of heading out into it.
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51 minutes ago, markyo said:
I agree.my tolerance is low but that is due to my job,8hrs plus in a non ventilated room at 35c plus,90 percent humid plus is a norm. The hotter the weather the more i suffer work wise. Sorry i could have put it better,i apologies. But what that does mean is that what is cold for most folk is still shorts and T shirt weather for me! Worked this whole winter in shorts due to the mild conditions. I don't ramp up the winter weather also,i know and fully understand that many hate the cold,it can be very difficult for so many,just as prolonged heat can be. Sorry if i've offended in any way,not my intention at all.
I also say I have a bit of a poor cold tolerance, but cope with warmer conditions than most on the other hand, so the UK really isn't the best climate for me! I still find snowy weather interesting though, so I still like at least one proper snowfall in winter, as long as it isn't all winter. Last winter where I live had no snow at all virtually, probably less than 1cm which even I'd say is pathetically bad. I may talk up warm weather a lot but not to annoy anybody, more like because only a few days a year are approaching my favourite kind of summer weather. I don't like droughts either, my ideal set up is a thundery southerly set up with low pressure to the west and convective rainfall being regular.
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14.3°C, 65mm.
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Night time thunderstorms seem to be rather more common in the South East of England but I don't count on seeing one in South Yorkshire, in fact last time was probably 2015.
When i lived in Berkshire we had a beast of a storm on 3rd July 1999 with constant flickering lightning, continuous thunder and squalls of wind and rain for two hours. Dramatic as anything except most of the lightning was in the clouds and not CG so it wasn't very loud.
But that year I went to France in August and we had a terrifying thunderstorm at night with regular CG lightning at close range which blew everything up. Intense loud thunder, so bad it shook the building, had to put fingers in ears, and even a lamp blew up, the light bulb went flying across the room. Power blown up for miles around. Never seen that in the UK or anything close.
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Best summers: 2013, 2018. There haven't been many good ones, to say the least, since I started recording weather statistics in 2007.
Worst summers: 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017
Best winters: 2018/2019.
Worst winters: 2010/2011, that's about it.
Now for individual months, Best/Worst:
Jan: 2013 because it was interesting and had a mix of mild, deep snow and even a thunderstorm. Worst, not sure.
Feb: 2019/2013
Mar: 2012/2013
Apr: 2011/2012
May: 2018/2015
Jun: 2018/2012
Jul: 2018/2012
Aug: 2018/2014
Sep: 2016/2017
Oct: 2011/2012
Nov: 2015/2010
Dec: 2015/2010
The worst consecutive 12 month period was easily June 2012-2013. So many stinkers in that period. Terrible summer of 2012, then the cold boring autumn, nondescript winter and record cold spring in 2013.
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33 minutes ago, Zesyph said:
Main difference is that we rarely get prolonged cold whereas heat is always guaranteed in the summer be it 2 weeks or 2 months long. Coldies aren't as greedy imo a short lived easterly satisfies everyone. I dont understand why anyone would want months on end of high 20s to low 30s like last summer.
That's a matter of what you'd consider "heat". Where I live averages a max of 20°C in summer - which is cool personally. We have very cool summers. I consider averages of 20°C at night to be good summer weather, with highs of 32-35°C. Of course, that can never happen in the UK's climate, and nor do I expect it to, but to me most of the UK summer is very poor and cool indeed and I'm not greedy for looking forward to the few days (and yes, it's very few) of actually very warm or hot weather that the climate can offer.
I wonder if wanting snow in October through til May is not greedy either then is it?
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14 minutes ago, markyo said:
A repeat of 2018 would be very hard for many to take i'm afraid, also extremely hard for wildlife and farming. I know folk on here seem to wish for conditions like we had last summer but a normal UK summer would be by fat a better out come. Ramping up the heat,as many do in my view just antagonises the folk who suffered last year. Sleepless nights,fatigue for those who can't tolerate heat well is not something to be taken lightly. I agree,its a sad demise of a once great site.
I don't agree, this site is going to have people who like cold in winter and heat in summer. If anybody gets antagonised by the fact someone has a different preference, that's their problem. The cold ramping in winter is massively greater than the reverse too. You also have an unusually low threshold of heat tolerance, that most people do not share, so please bare in mind that what is too hot for you is quite comfortable for most people.
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Cooled down to 18°C now after hitting 20 but rapidly went overcast like someone turned on a switch.
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Thunderstorms have dwindled in frequency/intensity beyond all comprehension in my neck of the woods. I honestly don't know what it's like to experience one here any more. I take to watching thunderstorms on webcams in the USA (sadly many don't have sound though) but this area is utterly, pathetically useless for thunder, you'd have more chance of hearing it in the Atacama desert, in all seriousness. Maybe one storm every 5 years, if you're lucky.
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My summer predictions for South Yorkshire, England:
June: 9-17°C, 170 sun hours, 70mm rain
July: 11-19°C, 160 sun hours, 100mm rain
August: 12-20°C, 155 sun hours, 120mm rain
I'm thinking a cool start to summer, a cool July, and August being the mildest of the three (but still ordinary) but also the wettest.
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Everything looking lush and green here. If we get any rain I'll take thunderstorms please, not boring frontal rubbish.
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Storms and Convective Discussion - 20th April 2019 onwards
in Storms & Severe Weather
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Moderate showers here but no T&L observed.