Les Penniston
-
Posts
99 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Forums
Blogs
Gallery
Events
Learn About Weather and Meteorology
Community guides
Posts posted by Les Penniston
-
-
Still have the majority of the snow here, temp at -1 not gone above 0 all day so no thaw other than on some roads
Looking forward to the rest of the week!Hopefully getting more this week.
-
Nothing in south Lincs at the moment
-
snowing nicely now at Thurlby near Bourne, see how it is later when i travel back to Boston
-
The blizzard of mid February 1979 was the most severe I've experienced and rivalled those of February and March 1947 according to my parents, who experienced both.
I remember coming downstairs into the kitchen to get ready for work only to find a drift of snow stretching from the rather ill fitting kitchen door in an arc halfway across the kitchen floor. Having shovelled it into a bucket, and disposed of it in the sink, I opened the kitchen door to be confronted with a wall of snow from top to bottom.
I decided to make an attempt to get to work, 16 miles away, and walked a couple of miles to a point where I normally got a lift. We made it for about 5 miles along the valley road in constant blowing snow before admitting defeat when confronted with drifts 5-6 feet deep with a couple of large lorries partially buried in them.
The blizzard continued all that day and the following night before easing. By that time even the low level roads were filled up to 7 feet deep in places and in a nearby village with narrow roads running between high banks there were drifts up to about 18 feet deep. At this place a Hi-Mac was sent out to dig out the road but became stuck itself when the arm holding the bucket, fully extended, could not reach the bottom of the snow to lift the machine out of the drift it had become stuck in; it remained there for over a week until other machines managed to dig it out.
The fine and powdery nature of the snow allowed it to penetrate the finest cracks in doors and windows and a good deal of tissue paper was employed in blocking gaps and key holes.
Unlike February/March 1947 this was the only major blizzard of the month, I can hardly imagine a month with several like it.
You would of had alot more snow than us but we did have two days off school, i just wished i had took photos of the event but unfortunately didnt bother. Shame we didnt have the videos on mobile phones then it would have been great to look back at.
Regards
Les
-
I think we may squeeze in another hour looking at the radar
Hope so we have already had a really good covering and with temps to stay below freezing tonight hopefully no melt.
-
still snowing heavy with the wind blowing it around into small drifts, its been like this for the last 4 1/2 hours, not sure how much more to come.
-
tiny flakes here in Skeg I'm hoping that if you guys in Boston have it we wont be far behind
i see you had a good bit yesterday morning, hope it stays as snow for you being on the coast.
-
Two people from boston, im just down the road in Kirton.
Ryan.
coming down really fast now must be the same in Kirton
-
Quite heavy here in Boston from when it started 30 mins ago
looks good and snowing heavy
-
.
When I was young the weather was oh so different.
Always at least one period of snow in the winter, long cold frosty nights (days when the frost never lifted) and you could put water out on the path and it would freeze within a few minutes. Even when it did rain, it was nearly always preceded by snow in the winter.
As for summers, always 3 or 4 weeks of sunny warm weather and a few thunderstorms.
None of this seemingly endless wet and windy weather with constant rain. .
All I'd like is a return to the climate of my childhood, not this miserable one.
In my opinion, the UK's weather has changed in the last 40-50 years.
I quite agree everything seemed different when we was younger we only remember the time we want to ?
I wouldnt have said the summers have been too bad although 2007 was a wet one.
Endless wet and windy weather again i dont think so we are in a drought here so no constant rain.
Whats happened in the past has gone and the weather in our part of the world will change over the years.
Regards
Les
-
Gavin thing could still change fast i seen that happening so media could be worng
This is what can make our weather so interesting how it can change so quick but i dont think that will be the case this week.
-
And yet he still claims to have forecast it correctly lol , if he came out and admitted that things haven't exactly according to plan for December like Piers for example with the cold arriving later than he initially expected at some point next month(something that neither he or us can be sure of one way or another) then I wouldbe able to at least gain a tiny little bit more respect for him but no typically he decides to gloss over all that.
And don't even get me started on his Xmas forecast.
It does take a brave call to deliver a forecast something that i think is pure luck if you get it right and thats why i dont predict a coming winter or summer.
-
I agree ! He must literally be going with the complete opposite of what the models are saying, i would say there is a 5% chance he is right
But he has got a reaction from some even if we know its wrong.
Les
-
Indeed some members have done well but then their are members like myself who haven't even seen one single snowflake fall this Dec. Also his forecast was predicting a deeply negative NAO/AO which has not been the case. Finally its looking likely that the CET for this month will be above average.
On a different note I made a comment on his youtube video but surprise, surprise, comments require approval!
The same for us we have had nothing but it does depend where you live and it sounds like A Winters Tale as done well, but when you look back at what was forecasted this winter like i did back in September and October its been nothing like.
I know The Eye in the Sky posted in another discussion thread how quickly models can change out of nothing and over the years on here that has been the case, unfortunately as i mentioned before i think this January and February will be similar to what we had this year so its not looking good.
Regards
Les
-
No snow for us yet may need to wait until January, and my lad is asking questions why we had snow early last year and not this year.
Regards
Les
-
So places like Finland, Norway etc countries covered by snow for most of the winter they have a white christmas every year even if snow doesent fall on the day itself.
I wouldnt class a single flake on the big day a white christmas, but snow on the ground then yes.
Regards
Les
-
Do you mean Jan and Feb of 2010? If so that was a snowy and cold period for us at times but the snow didn't last all that long as the sun soon melted it.
Gavin
Sorry getting my dates mixed up i was looking at Jan and Feb of this year which after the cold start of November and December 2010 we had absolutely nothing and thats why i can see Jan and Feb 2012 being similar.
Les
-
Why do bookies slash the odds for a white Christmas because it is snowing two weeks before the day? Someone should look at the models, a white Christmas looks a low probability now.
It just goes to show how they make it a big deal of it as the topic of the weather is the main talking point everyday, and then they say theres more to come always makes me laugh, i would say next week will be similar to this but with a milder few days.
With regards to a big freeze there needs to be a drastic change but my gut feeling we will have a January and February similar to last year.
Regards
Les
-
'WEATHER BOMB' BLASTS BRITAIN WITH WORST GALES FOR 20 YEARS
Daily Express
http://www.express.c...es-for-20-years
SMASHED BY WEATHER BOMB
Daily Star
http://www.dailystar...y-weather-bomb/
70,000 left without power and five walkers missing after 165mph winds batter Britain... Now get ready for snow and bitterly cold temperatures
Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz1g2IVHCu5
165mph storm wrecks a wind turbine
The Sun
Thats why we love the weather, may not all be true but its never dull
Les
-
A streamer is a line of showers that develops over the sea or on the coast and heads inland, or over any body of water. This is a constantly repeated occurence when the conditions are right for development (normally under LOW pressure with wind blowing from water to land). Generally they develop due to the difference in temperature between the sea and the land.
They are very regular through the Cheshire Gap, from the Bristol Channel and, in cold Easterly set ups, from the North Sea and River Thames.
I believe it was a streamer that cancelled the Lincoln christmas market last year, they can be hit and miss because unfortunately it missed us.
Les
-
We could have a winter in a reverse of last year, i always think its best to get December here first for the proper cold and snow, January and February could be bad but to be honest i think we have been spoilt over the last couple of winters and my feeling that this will be more mild but i hope im wrong because the more mild the more i loose out money wise,
Regards
Les
-
Sometimes the winters you remember well have all had very mild days.Looked at old records
Today it was 17.4c in Pomont
Record for November is 20c:
November 20.2 °C 7 November 2003 Lochcarron (Ross & Cromarty)
-
With talk of a notably cold period about to attack us for the time of year, my thoughts have been turning back to Dec 81 and whether we could see a repeat performance this year of cold conditions on a par with that particular month.
However, Dec 81, started off on a mild note, the cold didn't arrive until the 8th, this year Dec looks like starting off on a much colder note. One similiar comparison with what is being progged for later next week and patterns in dec 81 was the robust greenland high. Dec 81 saw much more of a northerly airstream taking hold and heights ridged far into the mid atlantic and less of a NE/E airstream. It was a particularly severe month in Scotland which saw a relentless arctic attack.
I think also the run up to christmas the weathermaen predicting a knife edge battle between mild and cold with the cold hanging on longer than forcasted.
Regards
Les
-
Christmas day weather will probably be wet, dry and fine sunny all over, with a possibility of a little bit of snow.
Regards Les
Looking forward to the rest of the week!
Yorkshire & Lincolnshire Regional Discussion 15/01/13 18z------>
in Regional
Posted
Theres more in Boston than there is in Thurlby [near Bourne] where our depot is.