abruzzi spur
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Here in Reigate - sunny early, high level cloud after midday and into the afternoon and then warm sun later. Max of about 22.5c. Warmer tomorrow I reckon. -
Yes, thanks Sky Full. This old, big, but maybe a bit basic house is where my father in law was born and brought up, in St Dogmaels. Poppit is just down the road and is our go to beach. Newport (Pembs) we love, Parrog would be a dream place to buy, the Golden Lion in Newport is great. Pwllgwaelod and Cwm Yr Eglwys are beautiful, Abermawr, Porth Gain. The Preselis, Myndd Carningli, Narberth, the Nevern Estuary, artists' places, cheese from Cenarth and mackerel pate from our neighbour. Across the border north into Ceredigion is Mwnt, stunning, then Penbryn, Llangranog, Cwmtydu. I love it here, we're down for a week this time with the kids who are getting on a bit now, 15, 17, 21, and they love it as much as my wife and I do. Decades coming here for me, more decades for my wife, I will hate it when this house is no longer sustainable but we'll find a way to keep coming here. On a weather note, dry and mild with the joy of the extra daylight from being so far west.
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That's good to hear as we'll be down in North Pembrokeshire from tomorrow on one of our 3-4 visits per year. Can't wait.
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Model output discussion - after the beast, what next?
abruzzi spur replied to Paul's topic in Forecast Model Discussion
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Model output discussion - after the beast, what next?
abruzzi spur replied to Paul's topic in Forecast Model Discussion
That's easy for you to say, if not for some of us to understand. -
Blimey! We just give them jobs to do otherwise the agency that sends them get upset.
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Are any of the Reigate posters able to update on conditions back home please? Thanks.
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View from the flat in Brighton just now, pretty unusual sight
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the good thing is that after 22 years at least it no longer bothers you
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Just been out along the sea front in Brighton for the last dog walk of the day. Cold and breezy, the tiniest dusting of sugary snow on cars. Despite the wind the sea is flat and still. Normally here in the flat we get the wind off the sea, steaming in from roughly WSW, picking up rain and throwing it against the old sash windows. If we are lucky it's the drama of hail stones Tonight, with the wind from the east, it's quieter but colder, so without the usual WSW gale we can properly hear the traffic on the coast road as the tide ebbs. Rather lovely.
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Hi Dubmuffin, sure does, whether that world is snowy or not. Still a 'not' down here in Brighton. Taking the dog out soon. He seems keen to go clubbing and is at the moment applying some make up and costume so as to transform himself from a Cocker into something more suitable for a Saturday night in this city.
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Quick update from Brighton, here in the shared flat down towards the marina end of town. Dry and windy, chilly, Light silly snow earlier that did nothing other than wet the ground. Been out and about most of the day, walking both in town and out on the Downs, then a good Italian lunch that was immune to the weather, so for me it's not really about what's on the radar, what's on the charts, when a breakdown might occur, how long the cold will last, who has 1cm and who has 2cm, or whether snow has 'shifted' north or south. I'm still not sure how weather can 'shift' anyway, it's done what it was always going to do. People arguing about where, when, why, how much; blimey - what on earth is all that about?
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I agree, we will probably all get our just desserts
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In Brighton for a couple of days. 3.1c, dewpoint 1c, dry. Strong Easterly wind as I walked the dog along the seafront at 7:30am.
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Down in Brighton for the weekend in the seafront flat. Just been out with the dog. Pretty mild still. Accdg to local wundergrourd it's 7.1c, feels about right. Back home in Reigate it's a slightly more chilly 5.6c. Saw mention of very cold temps in Farnham, and Wunderground supports it being notably colder there: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=IENGLAND143 Here until Sunday or, if the snow on the route home is bad, Monday.
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Light snow in Reigate since about 1:30pm. Readily settling on the icy surfaces.
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Very light snow in Reigate, in place of ice pellets falling recently. Pretty slippery out, -1.9c
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Looks like tiny ice pellets falling in Reigate now.
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No increase in snow level overnight in Reigate, all looking a bit sorry for itself now. I saw fizzly light snow for an hour or 2 before midnight but barely worth mentioning. Not as cold this morning but still currently below freezing at -1.7c with the dewpoint at -4c. Grey and to be honest rather boring.
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Ok, you've gone a little off plan there, but I remain deeply sceptical that Brighton will get 5-10cm tonight. If central London has more snow than Reigate then great, happy days, I'm 52 years old and am very pleased that although I love the drama of snow I don't give a monkey's about where it falls as long as it doesn't make peoples' lives a misery.
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Dead easy for us bunch of amateurs to moan about the met office given their responsibility to the whole country. Easy, but unfair. If there is a clear screw up that was obvious at the time the forecast was made then fair enough to criticise. Otherwise, not. It's the weather.
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Thanks D.C., not a surprise to see that update given the feeble snow so far tonight!
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I'd be amazed Daniel. Who's briefed that? My in-laws have lived there for decades, I've been going there for slightly fewer decades but still lots of decades and I've never seen more than about 2cm on the coast (even that is staggeringly rare) maybe 5cm a mile or so inland in exceptional circumstances, more of course up on the South Downs. So much unrealistic expectation on here, we are 110m above sea level here in Reigate town and there's about 2 cm max, of lying snow a tiny dusty top up tonight, despite low temperatures well below freezing. In daylight I can see up to the top of the north downs at 230m and there isn't that much snow. Clearly some parts have had lots but its unlikely in the extreme that Brighton will get as much snow as you suggest
