A.J

'the law of averages'...hmm....in that case I think you're leading yourself totally up the garden path, as based on 'the law of averages' we have had pretty much 5 poor summers on the bounce for heat and storms therefore the 'law of averages' would surely dictate that we are due a damned good summer, or is it simply a case of you just having a moan to get it off your chest??

based on what exactly??

been watching those cells in a line.....thought I heard a faint rumble, but the damn things have missed me by about 5 miles as I'm just to the west of them

Thanks for the 'heads up'....yep some nice convective activity building up over the north midlands, all drifting slowly SSE.....could be an interesting afternoon for some

Yep, had about 20-30 mins of wet snow, quite heavy, Mark had wet snow just up the road in stafford ....The band does look to be fragmenting and weakening as it moves SSE, but the heavier ppn is on its western flank, so with your added altitude (I'm 100m asl) you should see some wintry ppn within the hour

and back to sleet/rain as the back edge clearance approaches from the north west

morning from Penkridge, where it is snowing heavily !!!

I'm not greedy......I just want MMMOOOORRRRRRREEE!.... :w00t:

Good year?...blimey I wish it was....we had the monster on May 9th, then pretty much diddly squat for the rest of the year......Mind you, that May 9th storm probably used up my storm entitlement for the next decade!

nasty cell has just passed through here, penny sized hail for over a minute then pea sized hail, am surprised not to see lightning

some decent looking showers brewing up now near the welsh borders....a quite potent looking cell not too far away from me drifting slowly eastwards

yep, mist has never really lifted from here today..Chilly & dank sums it up for today

Still a little bit of interest for wintry weather fans persists in the outputs with both GFS & ECM going for a smallish chance of some wintry weather on sunday...all depends on the track on a secondary feature expected to develop and move ENE across central southern UK overnight saturday into sunday...ECM updates in the next couple of hours. Certainly worth keeping an eye on outputs over the next couple or so days

lovely and sunny now and quite warm to boot...this is more like it!

Dear Mr High Pressure, You can take your cloud and shove it where the sun doesn't shine.....bugger, you have, you've shoved it over the midlands!

Fair play to Eugene, he's called it right today....it's stayed quite gloomy all day with just the odd chink of blue during this afternoon..Certainly not an unpleasant day, but not as good as was initially forecasted by the media

Did you? ...no mention of warnings in this thread

Cloudy start to the day with uniform slate grey skies....hoping it will break up later on to allow a bit of sunshine and warmth

A beautiful day, wall to wall sunshine pretty much from the get go, and warm to boot...looking good for the next few days with the warmth increasing....happy days!

Yep, Ian Brown said so, widespread heavy outbreaks of typhoon fighters for all of the west midlands.....apart from Stafford & Stoke....lol ....and today, miserable out there, showery rain, overcast & chilly...still, should brighten up this afternoon

Your talents are wasted on here, why aren't you employed by NOAA & the Met Office to replace their supercomputers for weather modelling?....Your sweeping statement infers that your brain is far more superior to weather modelling than the aforementioned supercomputers, or is it possible that you're just being a miserable so & so always looking at model output with 'glass half empty' eyes? :winky: .....I mean, there are several who frequent the forum boards who could look at model outputs showing wall to wall sunshine with night time thunderstorms for weeks on end in the summer, and yet they'd then all change your tune, and say that they'd never verify.....

Mind you, Crewe isn't all that far away and would be flattened as well, mind you, there are plenty, probably including the almighty himself who think that leveling Crewe and starting again might be not such a bad thing http://cdn.nwstatic.co.uk/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png

An air burst from a 60m wide asteroid would produce the equivalent of a 4.6 megaton nuclear explosion....I wouldn't want to be within 100+ miles of that!

Just for reference, your post is very misinformed....a 60m asteroid with the potential for impact is very concerning...Should it hypothetically impact in a populated area, say Liverpool for example, then you should be very concerned, not that you'd live long enough for that concern to bother you...hmm..lets, see, everything in a 20 mile radius vapourized instantly, so that's you 'gone for a burton' in a flash, and it would be pretty unpleasant living anywhere in the UK on that day....If it impacts in the Irish Sea, then if I were you, I'd seriously check your home contents insurance for flood damage, or get your surf board out of the garage in preparation for the surf of a lifetime as the tsunami crashes into the shoreline near you.....On that note, it's purely hypothetical, and....sleep well! http://cdn.nwstatic.co.uk/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png

A very wintry flavour to the rain here.....more sleet than rain....am just hoping it might change completely over to snow before it clears from the west