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its peaked at 29.4c here in North London, 50% humidity and cloud cover about 3 oktas
it's not pleasant despite that humidity reading
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7 hours ago, Thundery wintry showers said:
Lincoln has been near the boundary of the NW-SE divide over the last few days, it was very sunny on 12 June, but 10,11 and 13 June had a fair amount of cloud at times. The 10th was the cloudiest day, though the cloud did conveniently break up during the eclipse. Overall though sunshine amounts have felt quite decent, and it's certainly been warm.
I'm going to visit Lincoln for the first time this weekend but the forecast looks a bit dodgy; how do you think it will pan out?
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51 minutes ago, Scorcher said:
London is one of the drier places in the country though and is actually drier than a lot of major cities on the continent.
The Woodford figure is certainly representative of good portion of Greater Manchester (mostly flat apart from the northern and Eastern parts) with places like Rochdale higher up and close to the slopes of the Pennines.
By international standards I don't think 867mm is that wet at all if you're taking it at face value. Obviously it's important to look at the number of rainy days as well.
For example New York is considerably wetter than Manchester annually but the rain falls on fewer days overall.
You’re right about London and comparisons to major cities on the continent, Rome being wetter than London is one of those cities which people find unbelievable. However, I’d be amazed if that were still true - in the last 7/8yrs London seems to have got a lot wetter, I’d obviously need to look at some charts to confirm this.
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Lovely as this sunshine & dry weather maybe, where are the April showers that used to be almost guaranteed every year? I fear this prolonged dry spell will eventually reverse (and balance itself out) and we'll be stuck in a 6-7 week-long trough at some point this year.
There seems to be no balance in our weather anymore, well not in the South East at least.
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I'd hope / expect that a good amount of snow patches would survive this year because of favourable conditions that stretch back to December, with only a few very brief milder interludes in that time.
From what I've seen the freezing level in the Central / Northern Munros has been stuck around 400m all winter
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So it looks like yet another BBC forecast for the SE from last night is completely wrong, patchy rain moving east fizzling out as it does so is what they said, well it’s steady rain now with some dark echos on the radar in the region, all heading up from France and not the from the west!
Since their tie in with Meteogroup they’ve become very unreliable. Their graphics always seem to overemphasise snowfall too.
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Temps rose to 1.8 this morning but fell quite rapidly to 0c around lunchtime and have been there ever since.
There might not be much snow lying on the ground here anymore but with the windchill added this is proper cold for North London.
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Temperatures at 1.7 now after an overnight low of -1.1. Just had a decent 20min flurry which was unexpected, so that’s 4 days on the trot where it has snowed here, I’ll take it even though it’s not what I had hoped for in terms of depth & severity.
Ps it’s positively brilliant when compared to the mild wet dross of the previous 2 winters.
Enjoy your streamers you lucky people
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Started coming down heavier now with temps dropping from 1.4 to 0.7
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Temps climbing rapidly here now, up to a balmy 0.6c, not sure why as it’s still overcast. It stayed at 0c & below all day yesterday but the wind was from the NE, today it’s more Easterly
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More of the same so far today with persistent light snow falling with a bit more intensity from time to time. Hopefully this streamer continues all day. Probably about 3cm lying on the grass...
Temps at 0c exactly, a rise of 0.4 since 8am.
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Finally some intensity with big flakes falling at last - temp just dropped to 0.2 to -0.2 in this heavy flurry
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Just now, Stabilo19 said:
Radar looking a bit sad at the moment but there are more opportunities being modelled for later this evening and tomorrow. Potential for a Thames streamer but it'll be hit and miss.
Arpege tomorrow morn:
The Central Belt in Scotland looks the place to be looking at that!
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Overcast with intermittent snow flurries here in N20, probably a 1cm still lying from last night. It's -0.4 now after a low of -1.6 overnight, hope it stays sub zero all day, that is such a rarity
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Sleet in Barnet, temps creeping down very slowly, 3.5c now
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Temp has dropped from 1.3 to 1.1 in this heavy snow
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Beautiful, hope it pivots right on top of us today
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First few flakes in North London, it got down to -0.3 overnight, it’s 1.3 now
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If this was a band of rain that was heading in tomorrow you could bet your bottom dollar that it would rain north & south of the M4
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Temperatures continued to rise to 2.9 overnight but at 6am they had fallen to 2.1 with heavy snow falling
45 mins later they’ve dropped to 1.6
first proper snow I’ve seen since 2015
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Well those inner city temps look a bit on the low side to me - I’m out in zone 4/5 and it’s definitely above freezing here. There maybe a few frost hollows nearby where it could be zero or a bit below I guess
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Temperature dropped to 1.8 earlier but has risen to 2.2 now thanks to increasing cloud cover.
Chances are it will be over 3c by the time the front arrives in 5/6 hrs, that will be mostly rain or sleet I think -
Just watched the nationwide bbc weather after the 10pm news and their graphics showed widespread snow earlier today - all over the east & south east of England. The temperature at that time in my part of Hertfordshire was 5.1c and it rained all day.
Ever since MeteoGroup took over the BBC weather forecasts, ‘a daily express effect’ has been evident in their predictions / observations no matter what time of year it is, their forecasts are the least accurate out there from what I can see.
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Some brief light rain in Barnet, Temp is 3c so anything heavy should turn more wintry
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I agree, I've been thinking about this for a while too. Its yet more evidence that temperatures are trending upward; I also wouldn't be surprised if that 20c UK Feb figure will become more common over the coming years.