[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

I know it’s difficult to believe, but it’s actually raining!

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Where’s this random 3 hour 45 minute warning for this evening sprung up from?

[Storms and Convective discussion - November 2023 onwards]

Same - pokey hail shower too here - much more impressive than it looks on the radar

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

 *Stormforce~beka* should’ve been!

(actually none here tbf but nearly…)

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

It’s got a wake-up-to-surprise-snow vibe about it tonight 

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

a few flakes here amongst the rain/hail mix

dropped from 10 to 5 in the shower and 4c at top of t’hill

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

 jtay concentrating on our 4th place finish now

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Was up in London last night and today. Still defrosting.

[Model Output Discussion - Spring Has Sprung]

 feb1991blizzard this will verify as I fly to Edinburgh that day (in theory)

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Not sure about the weather but it’s getting hot in here

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Crazy mild and humid again. 
 

just done some emergency work on the little brook next to our garden as last night’s rain managed to overflow a culvert and created a mini tributary across very edge of our grass and back into the ditch via a new wee sinkhole (literally looks like a plug hole)

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Had lunch outside in a t shirt. Madness. Had the occasional day like this in February in the past, but there’s a pattern here somewhere…

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

No card here but ******* **** **** and ******** ****** *********! (first time ever!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literally just made that up with some stars but it should keep beka guessing

[Model banter and emotions]

from the less well-known “st Coolio flying from LHR” model:

- has only occurred three times in the last decade
-  but each time resulted in disruptive snowfall and a long delay for de-icing
- flights booked for 7-10 March this year
- snow inevitable

- place your bets. Free money.

 

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

Yeh lovely sunset but cba with a picture

[South West and Central Southern England Discussion - Dec 2023 onwards]

  @*Stormforce~beka* just walked back from the pub. Had to put on some sunscreen.

[Record Breaking / Abnormal Weather Events Globally]

28c in Valencia today according to the BBC news 

£30 return flights right now for ibiza… tempting

(Was hoping to post image of forecast but it’s stuck on “loading” —- it looks nice )

 

 

[Storm Isha, Amber ⚠️]

2 hours ago, Man With Beard said:

In very slight defence, they did put the Amber warning on a trajectory that meant it could turn red. But the public probably would not have been away of this. 

Is there a case for putting somewhere on a "red watch", a bit like a hurricane watch in the Caribbean? In other words "There's the chance the warning may be upgraded to red". That way, no overcommital from the Met Office, and people get adequate notice.

would double like this if it were possible

some sort of simplification that doesn't directly combine risk and impact but instead describes the two things simultaneously in the communication to the public   

[Storm Isha, Amber ⚠️]

Looks like fr509 eventually got down at Belfast international on north south runway. That’d have been a nasty one.

[Storm Isha, Amber ⚠️]

1 minute ago, mountain shadow said:

I just mentioned that.  Trying to find a safe alternate will be difficult. 

Exactly what happened to me in storm ulli, same kind of storm too

[Storm Isha, Amber ⚠️]

Looks like that Ryanair bristol-Dublin flight is going to end up in Scotland somewhere 

edit: or trying Belfast, wouldn’t fancy that myself

[Storm Isha, Amber ⚠️]

2 minutes ago, stripeyfox said:

saw one earlier from Stansted to Dublin which circled for a bit and then diverted to Manchester!

 

Yeh this is what I was posting about earlier though our pilot decided to plonk us down. That was right at the start of jan 2012, when they put the warnings up to red really really late and the metoffice got absolutely slated for it

[Storm Isha, Amber ⚠️]

Can’t post the image but be thankful you’re not on FR509 bristol to Dublin. 
 

circled for ages then a go around.

[Storm Isha, Amber ⚠️]

2 hours ago, *Stormforce~beka* said:

Why not back to Southampton it's closer ...

Think the storm had already moved into Southampton.

 

lashing it down now in the test valley. For some reason, I wasn’t expecting such heavy rain. Probably wasn’t paying attention.

[Storm Isha, Amber ⚠️]

4 minutes ago, Bats32 said:

Some of these landings on Bigjet look "fun". Been on a plane landing in a storm before and and you could feel the pilot fighting against the wind.

I once had a prop plane flight Southampton to Dublin, circled around above the Irish Sea for 30 mins waiting to see if the winds over the airfield dropped enough to within tolerances. Eventually the pilot told us we were going in anyway as the option of returning to bristol, cardiff, whatever was no longer viable because of winds increasing there.

so we plopped down onto the runway, perfect landing, hardly a bump… but couldn’t get onto the stand and when we got off via the steps you could hardly stand up in the strength of the wind.

I talked to the crew and apparently the wind had veered a bit so it was less of a crosswind, otherwise we’d been off to amsterdam or Newcastle or something.