SnowJoke

The old Lampton Worm, was a a giant eel that lived down some well wasn't it? When the locals came to get water it used to eat them!

Hmmm global warming. lol When it comes to weather nobody seems to follow einsteins theory of relitivity. For every reaction, theres an equal and opposite reaction. Therefore if it's getting warmer, at some point it must get or become colder. :lol:

I'm just hoping to get some decent depth of snow to I have a problem about in. haven't seen it for so long now. Get the little nephew up on the top of the downs at dunstable making snow angels. Probably scare myself whitless flying down that huge hill @ 50mph on the old sledge too, nearly crashed through the fence and off the 60 foot cliff the last time i went sledging up there. lmao

Would be awesome if it came off though, my god it'd be chaos. The whole of the midlands would grind to a halt. I didn't notice the -10'c forcast for saturday night either. lol That would be the coldest night since 1995/1996 or even back into the 80's for this location.

OMG, would you look at that weather prediction on the BBC weather website for Milton Keynes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=2679 I have never seen it show 3 days of consecutive snowfall

My head hurts trying to get around what the hell is happenning with the different models. IMHO the GFS has gone ga-ga, and currently looks like finishing the race to the looney bin in 1st place. I'm more inclined to follow the UKMO and fax charts on this cold spell, even the weather forcasts on the BBC this evening have started to mention a major snow event, or looking extremely wintry for the midlands on thursday. After all the METO have alot more information avaliable than us tortured GFS watchers. lol

I'm still very optimistic most places are going to see some snowfall from this upcoming event. The models, in particular the GFS is not handling the situation very well and is having difficulty in taking into consideration a few points. 1) The scandinavian high is holding steady, if not building in height slowly. This will help to keep the cold pool running and get some colder air accross the UK. 2) The 528 DAM is still moving southwards at the minute and has not reached a far south on the models as i personally fell it's going to come down too. 3) The lows currently tracking along the channel, are going to increasingly drag in cold air from the east / south east ahead of any precipitation. I think nearly everyone is going to see some worth while snowfall this time, maybe the very south of england along the coast may miss out as they'll be nearer to the low pressure centers and thier warmer pools of air. I still think things are looking good, and don't take every model run like it's the truth. Models have been very wrong on numerous occasions! :lol: snowjoke.

As i keep saying, winters gonna arrive with a late suprise. I've been saying to look forward to upgrades from the models all last week, and to expect the beast from the east when I made my february CET prediction of 3.6'c. It's also worth noteing that the frosts are going to get much more widespread and lower temps before any snow starts falling, which is also a good thing as this will cool the ground and stop any melt from underneath occuring, and lower the overall surface temperatures. Those old daffodils are gonna wish they'd stayed in bed by the end of the week

Looking good, a nice upgrade as i predicted earlier on. I cannot see why so many people are still disheartened here? Things are looking better and better with every run for snowfall potential, what we are seeing develop here is something rare and quite special. All the major snowfall events in the past that i remember from cold or very cold winters have arisen from synoptic setups like this. All the very heavy snowfall in this area has occoured when a strong scandinavian high draws in the cold from the east and commences battle with the incoming atlantic fronts. I have been saying this is going to be something special in terms of wintry weather / snowfall. You've just got to wait for future upgrades, i'm pretty sure they will follow with consecutive runs and most of us will be looking at some decent snowfall at the end of next week

Hmmm i'm nicely suprised that things are falling into line now, my feb 2007 CET prediction of 3.6'c may well be bang on. I'm also watching the high pressure out over scandinavia building with every model output run, roberts predictions of widespread snowfall around the 10th of february are looking more and more likely IMO, i'm just hoping my prediction of the scandi high bringing the beast from the east in comes true also. Going to be an intense few days of model watching, but i feel were only only going to see further upgrades on consecutie model runs from now on. Still is a bit patchy at the minute, as the models are trying to cope with a cold scenario. We all no proper cold events don't happen that often, and this is what is leading to all the model uncertainty. I'll just sit back, grab a hot chocolate and wait for a proper wintry spell to start!

Sorry about that, forgot to post my CET prediction. lol I'm going for this february's to be CET: 3.6

I'm going for a much lower than expected february CET, it's simply been mild for to long. Old mother nature is gonna bite back hard! I'm currently typing this with 5-6cms of fresh snowfall outside, quite unusual for these parts, we normally miss the snows every time. They either go east or to the west of here, normally by only 50-60miles or so. :lol: I think we are going to see the high in the atlantic causing the current block to move closer towards greenland, at the same time i got this suspision we'll see a nice big old scandi high pressure building towards the end of the first week in feb 2007. This will lead to T.E.I.T.S beast from the east arriving with vengeance, and also fall into line with roberts unprecidented weather event on the 10th february '07. If my gut feeling is right, we'll be measuring snowfall in feet this time not cms, or inches. :lol:

Moderate snowfall now coming down in milton keynes. about 0.5cm has fallen and frozen to the ground in the last 10mins or so, looks like loads more to come as the heaviest band of precipitation is still to my north and moving very slowly. I'd guess were probably looking at totals of 10Cms here or more if this keeps up I'm glad i'm not at work in the morning, it's going to be absolute chaos in the city, I haven't seen 1 gritter out tonight and it's laying on the cities major grid roads no trouble at all as the temperature is currently -2'c!