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    Convective / Storm Chat And Discussion

    in Storms & Severe Weather

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    The storm near Salisbury looks pretty epic on the radar! Any updates from that area?

    Here's a useful lightning detector site that gets data from the Met Office... someone posted it on here a few days ago:

    http://andvari.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/i_dag_na.html?

    I'm about 10 miles east of Salisbury and not seen a thing here but a lot of activity south of the IOW. There's a couple of NW members in Winchester and Andover area who may post earlier reports of any activity than me

    Convective / Storm Chat And Discussion

    in Storms & Severe Weather

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    Random question in the middle of a busy thread but we do have the facility to allow users to upload their weather webcam streams to netweather and stream it on here, if you have a webcam would this interest you?

    Let me know - paul[at]netweather.tv if so and I'll look into the logistics of sorting it..

    great idea, save trying to get 3rd party sites to load

    Central Southern England - Cold Spell Discussion Part 7

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    what a day! drove from Amesbury to Southampton via Salisbury and back through Romsey, Stockbridge and Grateley and think it is probably the most mixed and difficult conditions I've ever driven in.

    Amesbury to Salisbury wasn't too bad, wet snow, heavy in places with some settling but no real travel issues, it was only as I left Salisbury and headed down the A36 that the snow became a real issue and I considered turning back, but traffic was nose to tail and crawling. Langford was the worst area on this road with deep slush and snow on the road, a car had managed to flip and land in a hedge near here too.

    Almost at the M27 and it was clearly raining heavily instead of snowing, surface water became the issue and the B&Q car park was a mix of slush over ice, difficult to drive on and even harder to stand up on.

    As the A36 had been so bad I came back via Romsey / Stockbridge. Not the best idea, these roads were quieter and also the temps were lower on this route so snow was sticking to the roads and becoming compacted.

    Stockbridge to Grateley and on out the the A303 was a slow crawl on packed ice and snow and the slippest driving of the whole journey, at one point gravity took hold while stationary and the car went sideways without me having any say in it. Thankfully an oncoming motorist spotted me slowly sliding sideways and waited until I managed to move forward and rejoin my side of the road.

    All in all one heck of a day and to top it all I need to make a similar journey tomorrow, only Westward instead.

    South West England Cold Spell Discussion

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    Ok, here's Tuesdays battle of the fronts (battle of the Atlantic)..... any thoughts anyone?

    The following probably goes a long way in answering the above:

    quote from

    John Holme's

    from the Model Forum thread

    His thought's

    what you say about 'not as cold Mushy' is essentially correct-there is no way the intense cold of the past 4-5 days could be carried on even without the probable effect of the low to the SW.

    However, its very very complex-and a situation not seen for many years, not this side of the millennium for sure.

    When was the last time that ALL parts of the UK had 5 days cold or very cold air sat over it. That is just for the more SW'ern areas-move North and east and, especially for parts of central Scotland and the higher areas of England that 5 days is almost 5 weeks!

    Mild Atlantic air will of course win-but whether its this week or next month is the crunch. A forecasters nightmare as I keep repeating.

    At the moment I would think that away from the SW and some western coastal areas the following 2-3 days MIGHT see an almost forgotten classic frontal snow belt, with probable blizzards over some of the higher areas, even in the south. Watch the radar over Europe, see how heavy the precip is, watch the 925mb temperatures as much as the 850mb ones. The higher end of the atmosphere, 700mb upwards is not of any direct concern although obviously it is part of the overall attempt by the milder Atlantic air to push the frigid air east and north.

    A week of fascination to weather watchers.

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