Joy in Cornwall

The min here close to Bodmin last night was 18.4c after a max of 29.4c yesterday. Yesterdays 09:00 BST temp was 23.3c, today's was 25.4c, so my first 30c + looks on the cards this afternoon. Joy

This goes from the sublime to the rediculous. What criteria are they using for this one? 5 pensioners per 0.5c below average perhaps. Maybe they could create an age/illness index, which we could all use in conjunction with the forecast. Then you never know, a few enterprising firms may wish to offer a spread bet. 8 perishing pensioners pr hr x 24 = 192 192 x 31 days in Jan = 5952 There you go: 5900 to sell - 6000 to buy, where's yer money. Madness, utter madness! :huh: Joy

Close comparison of the SST anomoly charts below shows the cold pool around the Iceland/Greenland area is slowly but surely starting to weaken and erode from the north, much as The Enforcer suggested it would earlier this week. Also a very slight increase in warming is evident between SW Greenland and Labrador, with a more significant warming very obvious off the NE coast of America. Rather disappointing to say the least and with warm air set to pump north this weekend there appears little sign of this trend reversing in the foreseeable future. http://weather.unisys.com/archive/sst/sst_anom-051009.gif http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.html Joy

Ooooh Agh DL you saucy thing, wish I hadn't asked now :lol: Though the cold pooling still appears to be growing I'm concerned that the pesky warmth due to be pumped north over the weekend and into next week might start to undo all the good work from Sept and early Oct. As for the article, sounds like a typical bit of crap journalism to me - The Sun by any chance? . They could and should have said that whilst some people were sunbathing across Central England yesterday snow was falling in Central Scotland. Joy

Thanx for the welcome SP, Yes the folks on here do seem very nice (also very intelligent) and although I still find it quite daunting posting up a comment, no one has made me feel like an idiot yet, which is nice :lol: However, there's plenty of time. Joy PS: How do I get one of those SACRA numbers and has 69 gone???

Enforcer Thanx you for your excellent and thankfully not to baffling graphical and textural explanation. However, like some others I'm not convinced that just because this has happened in the past it's nesscessarily going to happen again, there are too many variables at work here IMO - some we understand and perhaps also some we are yet to get to grips with. This having been said, if I was being forced to come down on one side of fence or the other right now I'd not be calling for a particularly cold winter, at least not through the first half. This is no more than a gut feeling mind you and I'd love to be proven incorrect - in fact the more incorrect the better Joy

24.4mm here in the 24hrs to 09:00hrs. Wet yes, but certainly not as wet as other parts of the UK - still raining though . Joy

The Enforcer Can you please explain why the bit of dark green between the dark blue core areas needs to be watched? Also I notice whilst the sst anomoly is -ve to the north and east of Icleand it is still very much +ve to the south and west, particularly around Southern Greenland. Is this not likely to aid cyclogenisis in this region, with the cold anomoly to the northeast then sending topplers southeast over us. Very new to this, so apologies if I sound a bit "blond" Joy

This is my first post on this forum, so I'd like to take the opportunity to say hi to everyone. Currently here in Mid-Cornwall conditions are as follows-: Temp - 17.0c Wind - Vrb, mainly N 3kts Cloud - 1/8 Cu @ around 4000ft The lack of wind combined with the still reasonably strong sunshine is making it feel quite warm and this is a pleasant change from the last 3 days of predominately anticyclonic gloom. Joy