How can a winter season kick off on November 15? For me winter doesn't start till mid December really. There have been various posts saying colder conditions are expected over the next week or so over Scandinavia and Russia. I'm sure people will be keeping an eye on them.
Does anyone know where I can find average temperature records for each month? It'll be usual so I can have an idea of how cold or warm temperatures this winter will be in relation to previous years. Thanks in advance.
That's a very good point. There's more commuters than there were 50 years ago (I should know this living in a commuter town), and there's also the factor of a lot of workplaces being for example on out of town industrial estates and business parks and the like. Thus you need to have a car, and so if there's a run on petrol the consequences don't bear thinking about.
I noticed on the link to the SST temps site at the top of this page (I think it was a US Navy Weather site? :o ) that there are negative anomalies to our north and positive anomalies to our west. Last year meanwhile it appeared there were positive anomalies to our north and negative anomalies to our west (on the two charts given anyway). Are the two linked in some way? Does -ve anomalies to our north mean +ve to our west generally or what?
Thanks Steve, that will be very useful, particularly stuff like dewpoints (which I didn't know a thing about), marginal 850Hpa temperatures, and how to convert 850Hpa temperatures into possible surface temperatures.
Yeh definitely, with Rob McElwee if snow's a week away, he'll always give a hint and say "and things could get interesting by next week" leaving you on tenterhooks!
Well anything beyond 5-6 days is still very difficult to forecast of course. Last Sunday on Countryfile they were talking about snow across the Scottish mountains this weekend. They've now gone very quiet on that.