[Winter 2020/21 chat, ramps, moans and banter]

6 minutes ago, Paul_1978 said:

That’s the benchmark for me, I remember it well. The snow event that got me into the weather. Opening the curtains that morning, aged 13, and seeing the complete whiteout outside, 1ft or more of snow, it took my breath away. I hope everyone has that feeling once in their life.... magical!

Yep exactly the same as me. I remember one of the BBC weathermen (was it Bill Giles) going on Going Live the weekend before it arrived and warning of very cold winds coming in from the East next week - but it was likely to just be cold and dry with little snow.  Then I remember the Thursday morning when Francis Wilson on BBC Breakfast projected a foot of snow and an ice day.  School was incredible that day!!  And that was that, weather and snow / easterly hunts were in my veins ever since!

I don't think this will get close to that sadly - just doesn't look to have anywhere near the depth of cold, the long fetch beasterly or duration of either 1991 or 1987 before that.  Let's all hope for a nationwide snow event though this weekend.  Those northerners can surely spare us a few flakes!

[Model output discussion - January cold spell ending, what next?]

30 minutes ago, Tim Bland said:

Finally some eye candy for the South..

How many times have we seen low res week away charts like this over this last month??  Produced about 10 flakes in most parts of the SE...

[Model output discussion 02/02/20]

52 minutes ago, Southender said:

Wow.

If I'm not mistaken that is like the equivalent of an EF1-EF3 tornado hanging around for several hours!

I'm afraid not - that scale is km/h, not mph.