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We had lying snow in Liverpool in late Feb 94.
I had just passed my driving test and got a car... but was having trouble driving in the snow!
The snow in Feb 96 was heavier though.
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i thought parker did the driving dear lady p. LS
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I remember Dec 1981/Jan 1982 vividly even though I was only 10 yrs old.
The feature of the cold spell that I remember wasn't just the snowfall but the very low temps. Dec 14th 1981 the Max never reached any higher than around -14C in some area of England aswell as Scotland and the following Min temp dropped to -26C in Shawbury Shropshire!
I remember going outside in the freezing fog and my hair used to turn white
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I recorded -23.2C in my back garden in oxfordshire. it was the best weather i can remember. my village became an alpine wonderland. i was only a kid but nothing has surpassed it since
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Is it the "majority of newsworthy events occur there" or "the majority of newsreaders/journalists live there".
Nothing like a blinkered soft southerner to say it like he wishes it is!!!
If you and your south-eastern friends are so important you should have the UK's nuclear arsenal stored beside you, you should have the oil rigs in your region, you should have all the cows/sheep/crops where all your food is produced or the ports where all your cheap imports are offloaded from in your region.
The wealth of London which you allude to would not have been possible without the coal mines of the north during the last 150 years, ot the shipbuilding capabilities of "Northern" areas like Clydeside or Tyneside.
The "majority" of news worthy events do not occur in London or the surrounding area. News is proportional to the effect it has on one particular area, combined with the proximity of those who decide to report it. In that respect it is so obvious that London news gets over reported, obvious to anyone who isn't so introverted that (to quote Jade Goody) they think that "East Angular is abroad".
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i work for the media, and in london, and believe you me it is so depressing how the "if it doesnt happen on my back door, it hasnt happend" mentality prevails. the classic for me was jan 28 2004 when london had a freakish thundersnowstorm at 5ish pm. this represents deadline for many national papers, and it created mayhem on many newsdesks. v amusing
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They frequently give barometer checks on local BBC weather forecasts
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do they? i dont listen to bbc london
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well done itv weather. they did a barometer check tonight. something the beeb used to do. but now that the beeb have decided that we dont need to know what the synoptic situation is, they dont bother with this sort of thing.
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Liverpool 6.30pm.
Cloudy (after a sunny day).
Temperature 19.3c
Humidity 55%
Pressure 1016 (falling)
Wind SW 20mph
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clear sunny and calm, after a sunnyish day
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Interesting you mention that Shuggs... If you look at my post in the Autumn thread you MAY not have much longer to wait to see those artic winds digging in bring Cold snowy weather...
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i cant find that steve. can you point me in the right direction? cheers LS
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Well Todays Breakfast forecast was delayed slightly due to viewers been treated too watching someone washing a dog. Now thats really important isn't it.
Come on BBC fixed time please and stop wasting time on things like Big Brother and Dog washing.
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dog washing. now that made me laugh
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Those '68 charts, with 1045mbs over to the North and West illustrate the achilles heal of the even larger teapot - how not having a stable, strong Greenland High leaves us with little more than SW'ly and W'ly zonality.
Anyone remember those pesky little 'Channel Lows' or an equivalent say across the Midlands - introducing an artic or E'ly blast behind as they move off into the Low Countries?
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i remember them well shugs
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Liverpool, 11pm (nearly)
Cloudy.
Temperature 14.6c
Humidity 77%
Pressure 1020 (rising)
Wind W 7mph.
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in london, stats aside, it is just dull
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19C (rdiculous for the time of morning), and warm humid muggy unsleepable in reality?
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i have ceiling fans here so the sofa is better than the bedroom
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I have seen pressure charts but only a couple of times, i nearly died from shock when i saw a temperature chart, IN ACTUAL COLOUR :lol:
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hi sir seany, i dont if you remember me from slow watch. i still dont understand the bbc's rationale about minimalising exposure to pressure charts. its baffling
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I have seen the odd pressure chart, but surely that's a better starting point than any other??
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I'd much rather go back to where we were ie pre 3D. but yes if we are to compromise pressure charts would give me a smile
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I've been converted, the only thing with the website is that the nearest weather symbols to me are Belfast and Edinburgh (at times). Since I live near Glasgow, they're not much use to me!!!
But the changes are getting better, slowly, but surely!
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i gather pressure charts are due to make a comeback, which can only be a good thing
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At one stage around mid-day a small amount of blue sky appeared but it was a false dawn and it has now been raining non-stop since 7 am,temperature 12.1c,humidity 98%,wind moderate Northerly,barometer 1007 mb and rising slowly--oh the joys of living near the east coast!
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Hi Graupel/Rollo. Just wanted to say hello, in the haven of sanity that is net weather. what a dreary week its been down in londinium. at least now we've the olympics it looks like we might get a bit of sun. i notice it started raining in paris almost exactly the time of the announcement! cheers LS
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Liverpool 9.15pm
Clear skies after another warm and sunny day.
Temperature 14.9c
Humidity 57%
Pressure 1020 hPa (falling)
NW wind 8 mph
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good to hear from you lady p!
calm clear and warm in london tonight. LS
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just had a thunderstorm in london, torrential rain, lightning, hail, and what looked like sleet on the windscreen of my car...! clear and cold now
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just had a thunderstorm in london, torrential rain, lightning, hail, and what looked like sleet on the windscreen of my car...! clear and cold now
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absolute torrential rain here in north london, cant leave for work !
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frequent lightning, blizzards, and now the mobile networks have gone down here in london
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thunder in north london. whats happening?!!!!!!!!!!!
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its started raining in london. very windy all of a sudden
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just started raining in north london. great
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bit of a wintry mess now in central and north london. settling snow in hampstead (high ground) apparently
February 1994
in Historic Weather
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hi graupel, yes its a shame slow watch died a death. i have stopped go on pretty much completely. farkin still spouts antagonishing tosh over there but there hardly anyone to listen to him. god forbid he tries getting on NW. he would be roasted. anyway, am off to cornwall tomorrow. have a good evening. cheers LS