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Will be interesting to see the country file forecast and see whether it's any different from the country tracks one this morning. I've seen that before where there have been developments during the day and this has been reflected in the evening broadcast. If the meto are still running with the general consensus then i'll be content.

Unfortunately though there is quite a reduction in the perennial ice compared both to 2009 and 2010 which is a worry. Edit: I suppose the perennial ice is actually in the middle and so pretty solid. The ice reduction around the edges can probably be put down to seasonal variation and current weather patterns. Quite easily rectified under the right conditions at this time of year.

Peeing it down here and i'm a bit peed off myself as confirmed final plans to play golf based on the BBC late night forecast that the rain wouldn't get her to early afternoon and guess what? Suprise suprise it arrives 4 hours (at least) earlier. This ia backed up by the fact that the televised tennis today had also been brought forward to 12 noon. Even with all this modern ere technology the met office still can't forecast a mere 6 hours in advance.

Country Tracks mentioned at the end of the forecast 'mild week ahead, but getting much colder the week after'. I found that a bit bizarre to make such broad sweeping statement 10+ days in advance however with this confidence i can only assume that the Met have seen or are expecting changes in the up stream patterns. So maybe we can expect height rises to our north/east, it's just a question of postioning and the small little matter of trigger/sliding lows to enable us to tap into that cold pool.

Absolutely stunning. I never realised we have such beautiful landscape in the United Kingdom. I really do need to get out more. At first glance you could be forgiven for thinking that was the med. or even the carribean (snowy pics aside).

Is that you?....If so you better get your bum in gear as your on air in half hour. :smiliz19:

Michael Fish does and he still does the odd televised broadcast for the BBC. You never know, as the old saying goes 'no cheek no chance'.

Maybe the Net Weather team could contact him and see if he's interested in contributing to the site. He'll be a fantastic addition, warmly welcomed and greatly appreciated.

Hello Matt Thanks for the reply. The reports concentrate on individual rooms within a property so the pictures for each room will need to be at the end of that section and as oppossed to generating a separte contact sheet. Some rooms may only have 1 or 2 pics and would look silly on a separate page on there own. Does photoshop provide for that if this makes sense? Also i am a complete notice when it comes photography so excuse my ignorance but could you explain what 'Shoot in raw' and 'use lightroom' means? Many Thanks

Hello Guys I need some advice and after drawing a blank at various retail outlets i'm hoping one of my fellow weather watchers can help. I produce property reports for clients and use word 2007. These reports have many pictures attached (anywhere from 10-40 pics) and at the moment it is taken me longer to attach these pics to the document than it does to get the report typed up! I'm currently copying and pasting each pic separately from microsoft office picture manager to my report then clicking on the corners of the individual pics to shrink them into the template so they fit the required size. Picture manager is fine for multiple resizing (of file), renaming, brightening etc, but doesn't have an option to for example highlight multiple pictures and copy/paste them direct onto the reports. Picture Manager does allow for custom resizing however the quality of the printed pictures (especially the smaller ones) is poor/blurry unless the one of the pre set resizing options are used. I've tried using 'irfanview' software which provides for this facility in theory accept that the quality of the minimised pictures on the printed report again is very poor. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Is there any software that would make ny life easier? I appreciate that this might sound a bit confusing so if necessary i can email a sample for your information. Many Thanks in advance. Spencer

65 recent quakes at yellowstone....if she blows we'll be in a permenant state of freeze http://www.seis.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/Maps/Yellowstone.html

I'd take a camera...

Compared to Joe laminate floori Rob looks positively tame .... although i prefer to think of him as more charasmatic than eccentric but horses for courses i suppose. Didn't realise about the Sky news team, i'm more of a cold weather fan so my interest only really peps up around about this time of year.

Absolutely ridiculous. Rob is head and shoulders above the other presenters. His enthusiasm and the way he signs off always hinting at what is just outside of the reliable timeframe is really captivating. The 10 o'clk weather presented by Rob is the only forecast i go out of my way to watch. He'll probably end up on Sky news with Francis Wilson...what a team

I would fly now but only if Lord Adonis was on the plane as well!

woke up at 6am and it was raining at a temp of 2.8C now at 8:45 temp has dropped to - 0.4C and its snowing heavily. Nice big fluffy flakes. Didn't expect this at all, however long it lasts. Not quite sure why temps have dropped off so much because precipitation hasn't been heavy. Any suggestions?

Make that a flurry that last about 60 seconds.

Well, just set a first here for me..... Current Temp: 5.7C Dew Point: I don't know And it's Snowing! I can only think dew points must be extremely low to counteract the high temp. Never actually witnessed this before in England. Many times in continental Europe but never here.

I don't see what's so wrong with that? Plenty of heights to our north and even if that chart verified who's to say that once that low pressure pushes through (and probably on a more southerly track) that those heights don't fall in nicely behind.

T96 is about as far as we can realistically look and up to that point not bad. What ever the 12z run shows i think that the low in the atlantic at T96 will track south east, the Greenland high will strengthen and the cold pool up north will flood south leaving us in a North/North Easterly veering Easterly by the weekend. The jet stream also backs this up. Thats my take on it as things stand looking only up to T96.

At the most. T72 i feel is more realistic. After that there are just to many variables and the slightist change in allignment or pressure has massive implications down stream...in fact they determine the outcome of the whole run. Just look at the atlantic and scandi lows, the slighest change in trajectory to a more SE'ly direction and it's game on. I notice also that within T72 the Artic high makes an appearance and the Greenland High is starting to build...from little acorns.... :lol:

Absolutely agree with that. By this time next week (if not before) it'll be another cold spell that we're talking about. The signals might not be there at the moment but they can change at the drop of a hat and with so many variables its not worth worrying about. Even in 78/79 there was a period of average temps, followed by a thaw and flooding that lasted for about 15 days before the next cold spell set in at the end of Jan. In my eyes we've still got over 2 months of proper winter left and with Feb traditionally a more blocked winter month all is still to play for. There is a lot of bottled up cold to our North and East which wouldn't take much to tap into. This is just my opinion but i think the Siberian High will be more of an influence than the models let on. This dense pool of cold air will not be easily pushed aside.

A good informative post as always but not quite sure i agree with your assessment. Since last Sundays countryfile all talk was off scattered snow showers throughout the week, heavy in places with a significant snow event for this weekend - Sat/Sun/Mon brought about by Easterly winds. This weekend event was forecast to effect all regions from the midlands south starting in the East and spreading West with substantial accumulations in parts. Throughout the week all forecasts have continued with this theme although weakening the precipitation as we’ve got closer to the event. Even last night both BBC and SKY were forecasting a front approaching from the East bringing persistent light/medium snow to effect all southern regions which would produce significant accumulations throughout Sunday into Monday. This morning, 8 hours later and we’ve got a totally different picture. Now, the forecast is for light patchy snow flurries that seem to be petering out to nothing in most parts with positive temp values and a slight thaw. I’m sure some have received significant snow and are still in negative temp territory but the ‘event’ was always forecast to effect a vast area of England and Wales, not just sporadic pockets. From a generalised point of view the Mid week snow seems to have been the more significant producing snow with this weekends pretty much a non event.

Jay wynne on BBC 24 just said when asked how long this cold spell is going to go on for.....Quote I don't have enough fingers on my hands unquote.

Same here.