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So what were your worst power cuts or issues this fall/winter and spring period? What was your worst issues you faced regarding infrastructure to either your house or things connected including pipes?
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Sorry but the early 20s beat you to the punchline!.....never mind the blog has been scrubbed along with many good websites on search engines. Sites I used to see are gone now. Scary the levels of censorship. I didn't fully believe Google would try it's hand at the 'Ministry of Truth'.
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On 23/11/2020 at 02:25, Arch Stanton said:
Almost every winter throughout the 80's saw my secondary school either close down or shut early to send the kids back home - this was for proper snowfall accumulations of several inches (not
like the dustings that shut schools nowadays). The school catchment area stretched across several valleys and so many school coaches had to travel across the A465 (Heads of the Valleys)
dual carraigeway (highest point 1,350ft asl) which was completely exposed, at that altitude dangerous whiteout conditions for driving occur almost every year.
Light dustings of snow were never enough to shut the schools down back then - the school yard(s) & sports fields stayed open for PE lessons and ,during breaktimes we played on the ice or comapcted snow trying to 'outskid' each other in full view
of the teachers on patrol duty
Feels like some of the Mandel Effecters (I choke trying to call it that as I don't think it has anything to do with Mr Mandela) are right. It really does feel like we lived in an alternate timeline and anybody would laugh at us if we mentioned how society would turn out to be back then and asked us to be voluntary committed!
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On 31/01/2021 at 05:35, A Face like Thunder said:
Today is the 68th anniversary of one of the most noteworthy and devastating weather events of modern history when a severe gale, coastal storm surge and catastrophic flooding resulted in a UK death toll of 307, including 132 who drowned when the ferry Princess Victoria went down in the North Channel on the afternoon of the 31st. The North Sea storm surge amounted to 2.0 - 2.5m between the Humber and Thames estuaries and some 6,500 sq km of land was inundated. Much wind-based structural damage took place in the north and east, including Aberdeen, and on Orkney, a mean wind speed of 90 mph was maintained over five hours, with a maximum gust of 125 mph.
RIP all those who lost their lives, including the many who died in the Low Countries as a result of the storm surge and flooding.
(With acknowledgements to Philip Eden)
I don't get it. Why do some post get insane replies where people like you and me get hardly any? Your thread deserves recognition. I have a question. Was the power outages widespread with that much structure destruction?
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How cold in your area and what type of homes are more likely to have this issue? Does it ever happen to public places too?
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For example northern vs southern UK or even western UK where it's more mild? Which areas are 'tougher' against wintry weather or grind to a halt more easy? I can't imagine most of the UK being as bad as London.
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On 19/02/2020 at 14:29, Penrith Snow said:
Just been watching a Michael Fish forecast from January 1979 during which he states 'it's a lot milder than recently with temperatures in southern areas reaching 5c, not far from normal'
Not far from normal! These days 5c maximum in southern England is an Arctic blast! Lol
Just type 1979 weather forecast into Google and remember better times.
Andy
I dunno what you mean as I get random weather stuff with just the words 1979 when I type that in.
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What parts of the UK are good or bad at handling snow and wintery weather?
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On 24/12/2020 at 04:52, Weather-history said:
This Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxfaQSP3etFGNMG6eL_5f-w has uploaded some real vintage BBC Weather forecasts before the classic magnetic symbols came out in 1975. The symbols they were using, IMO, are horrible, mind you I am comparing it to what followed.
10th December 1973
2nd December 1974
23rd December 1974
I looked or tried to look at the rest of his 'channel' but it's a mess like they just haphazardly threw it all together. Do these people have no concepts of playlists? They throw everything into 'videos' so you have to shuffle thru hundreds of videos. Sadly no one will do it. Do phone people not mind things being done randomly as on a PC it's click scroll click scroll click and scroll or scroll and click.
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On 27/11/2020 at 11:34, Blessed Weather said:
Some wonderful pics of this morning's fog over Norfolk, taken by Chris Bell, Weatherquest, Norwich, using his drone.
Source: Twitter @stormbell
On the third picture why is the fog so dense to the left? Some kind of water source there?
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Do you think it could be where on the high pressure your placed? If your on the north or eastern end of the high would that affect things vs being on the south and west quadrant of the same high?>
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Does UK fog ever get as bad as Tule fog where things shut down when it gets thick enough at the right times?https://www.bakersfield.com/news/whos-calling-the-fog-delays/article_11988c9f-6dd3-56b1-a6c6-edcb1df37363.html
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Here's a snippet:
Weather delays, 2000-01 to present
23 Days of fog delays in greater Bakersfield* area.
102 Delays or closures due to ice, snow or fire in El Tejon School District.
30 Delays or closures for snow and ice in Tehachapi and fog delays in Belridge, both second most after El Tejon.
11 Days of widespread delays in Bakersfield area in 2002-03 alone.
Widespread fog delays by years in greater Bakersfield
3 in 2000-01
2 in 2001-02
11 in 2002-03
2 in 2003-04
2 in 2004-05
2 in 2005-06
0 in 2006-07
1 in 2007-08
(*) Greater Bakersfield includes, in most instances, all Bakersfield-area high schools and elementary school districts; all Shafter, Wasco, Delano and McFarland schools; Lost Hills and Elk Hills schools as well as Richland, Pond, Semitropic and Standard.
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In your part of the UK what causes school closures and is it like the US when it happens or do they do things differently when they do close over there? Also what's the most number of closures in one year?
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1 minute ago, alexisj9 said:
Wait of snow or ice on the power line mostly. Although sometimes it's purely down to supply.
What was your worst scenarios of such a thing? There's a site here and he never has trouble with his power no matter how windy it is. What do you think is so different between him and you?
Latest Diary 2020 at Llansadwrn, Anglesey, Wales
WWW.LLANSADWRN-WX.INFOLlansadwrn weather diary 1998 - 2020 -
On 18/11/2020 at 03:00, Penrith Snow said:
Oh yes this was a great month. I worked near Edgbaston University at the time and remember a surprise late November snowfall, I think it was the 27th. The day had been dry despite the forecast of scattered snow showers and by 3pm with the light fading I was giving up hope. Then I noticed dark clouds gathering in the sky to the north west, within 5 minutes the whole sky had turned that brown threatening colour as the wind picked up. I was due to leave work at 3:30 that day and as I left the office i could see this wall of snow sweeping across the University, seconds later the snow arrived swirling and drifting in the gusty wind.
The journey home was a nightmare with traffic across the south west of Birmingham brought to a crawl as the snow settled instantly on the freezing road surface, snow only fell for an hour but 6cms of dry snow accumulated and the hard frost that followed ensured the snow lay until early December.
Had rainfall radar been available at the time I would have seen this intense snow shower coming, it was a classic Cheshire Gap event with heavy snow showers forming over the Irish Sea then channelled by the North West wind into the west Midlands.
They don't make em like that anymore
Andy
How much of Birmingham shut down? Was it a total cluster trap like Portland after that kind of snow which the news goes to Troutdale to freak everyone out where trucks slide off of a certain I-84 overpass?
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Odd. The PNW had low level cold air that whole month too! One of the coldest modern stretches!
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On 13/11/2020 at 13:04, virtualsphere said:
This made me think - here in SW Wales most of the power network is on overhead cables rather than overground and considering the strength of the winds we get in this area it is remarkably robust. Most of our power cuts haven't been weather related though we used to get them more frequently in cold weather.
Why would cold do it? You don't get as cold as here in Oregon! Wales rarely goes much below 0C.
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On 13/11/2020 at 13:04, virtualsphere said:
This made me think - here in SW Wales most of the power network is on overhead cables rather than overground and considering the strength of the winds we get in this area it is remarkably robust. Most of our power cuts haven't been weather related though we used to get them more frequently in cold weather.
I'm surprised. The winds you get there would cause power outages by the tends of thousands here in the PNW sometimes hundreds if winds are around 50mph though lately they are able to cut the numbers back pretty quickly within the first half hour of the storm and only rural properties remain without power thru the night or next day if the storm is at night. We've in Aumsville never had more then a 3 hour cut storm related. They are pretty quick to get things up here despite our town being small on the map. The news tries to make it sound like our grid is from Africa or some 3rd world country but it's not an issue here!
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What do you think changed in Europe to not be like the PNW mass outages (which is also toned down).
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On 26/10/2020 at 14:21, Weatherman_93 said:
Takes about 20 minutes to get to a comfortable temperature. Heat source is a gas boiler.
Also how do you turn on heat? Is it one of those awful 'smart' heaters or a knob of some sorts? Funny thing the house before ours also had a digital thermostat but it wasn't a smart heater. Digital thermostats started in the early 00s I think as our last house we bought in 2003 in Silverton. Smart heating came along much much later especially here in Oregon! We were the back of the pack.
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On 26/10/2020 at 14:21, Weatherman_93 said:
Takes about 20 minutes to get to a comfortable temperature. Heat source is a gas boiler.
Do people in England have electric wall board heat? A lot of older housess out here in Oregon do especially rentals and they have a hard time keeping up when it goes into the mid 20s..In fact our house in Quincy California had wall board which we knew would be a piece of crap so right away installed propane heat which I explained in my last post and had a map of our old house there. It was a blue color then but now someone painted it a weird yellow!
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On 03/09/2020 at 06:16, MakingAnApp said:
Hi there, I recently graduated and as a project I made a web-app that I hope you might find useful. It shows the hourly weather and rain data provided by the Center for Environmental Data Analysis for MET Office weather stations from 2018 back all the way to 1885.
The website is called weatherhistory.co.uk
There is an easy to use dashboard and some custom searches.
I am still updating it so any feedback would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Despite your website being wonky to use it has a lot of potential! Wunderground only has data back to 1996 and it is hit and miss.. Now more miss with their redesign to be like phones! However your map needs to be allowed to use mice to pan around it. When I try to pan with my mouse it just assumes I want to see the weather stations selected and all I want to do is move around to hover over different weather stations for the day I select! /
Also your website is being ignored and that's because the majority are on phones and from what I've experienced around here phone users don't do 'websites' they just scroll for news and entertainment casually. I can already see your website will not fit the requirements for phones Google made harsh changes in 2013 without telling anybody that your website has to be PHONE ONLY meaning you can only have 3 or less clickables and everything on the top row.etc or they won't list you PERIOD and you won't know your not being listed. The only way TO know is if you put your site thru Google Analytics and see if you pass or don't pass and why it doesn't pass.
Though your website partially fits Google's harsh criteria as your map is not mouse friendly! Too bad. I finally figured out where it is you have to click pan to do it but the pan button is really tiny. A phone user may see it with no trouble but on a PC it sure is really tiny so not user friendly to say the least and when you change the time frame for each day it resets itself and you have to press it manually each time!
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On 23/10/2020 at 12:19, SummerShower said:
Remember this too, and the forecast mentioning 20C in places on that day. Not quite that warm tomorrow but yes a similar feature is possible
1995-1996 was a good snow year for us both in the valleys and especially the mountains. The Feb 1996 floods were exceptional but I wasn't in Oregon then so never got to experience them. Little known fact though before those massive floods there was a brief but fashionable snow and ice storm that then quickly warmed up but not without causing issues of it's own! Hopefully this is an analog! Was it also an election year?
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8 hours ago, Weatherman_93 said:
Didn't quite make it to November. Went on this morning for about half hour.
What was it like to flip the heat on? How long did it take to feel comfortable and what is your heat source?
South East, London and East Anglia regional discussion - 8th February onwards
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Why would they be particulary happy about car damage?