Fitzwis

Morning all...pleased to say we escaped the worst of the winds last night so business as usual today....

Just been outside for a cigarette in my garden. The garden faces East but I have a North and South view with the North view incorporating the local incinerator tower. It is virtually calm in the garden but I noticed the smoke coming from the incinerator was blowing due West and virtually horizontal. The tower is approximately 200ft tall but even when I went out the front into the main part of the estate that faces West, the wind is still very light...totally bizarre... :lol:

Just trying to find Cognac on the google map ...the fact that we have had a deluge of rain here all day today will make it so much easier for the expected storm to topple trees...just glad most peeps will be tucked up in bed at the time it is expected to hit...

Positively barmy outside at the mo...temperature currently reading 8.4C with a 17kt southerly wind...eerie... gonna see if I can last the other side of midnight...

Check the following station and ship reports, paying particular attention to the third one down: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/rss/ndbc_obs_sear...&lon=5.600W Worrying for those of us in the Channel Islands and Northern France...

Good morning all...local forecast going for a NW severe gale here in the early hours tomorrow with gusts of 70mph...enjoy your snow whilst we enjoy the wind. Just glad the severe gale is forecast for the early hours when most people will be safe in their homes... :o

Regular lightning and thunder observed just to my west. Not surprising considering the echoes currently appearing on the METO radar :blush:

Snow at the moment here in Jersey badboy...we have about 1cm lying islandwide which is rare for us...a great snow day here but more so in Guernsey...

Light snow beginning to fall here in Jersey... :o

Lovely streamer developing in the English Channel just to my North...looks like Guernsey could be getting pasted right now...nothing here ...YET... :unsure:

For those who grew up during the late 70's and early to mid 80's, may I suggest you dig out your Blue Peter sledge instructions and get building...the day after tomorrow is coming, look out, there's a falling helicopter from the blizzard of fury. Get yourself down the supermarket lads and lasses and get stocked up on beans, soup and teabags coz its gonna be a lock and load winter of old right through to March, when snow showers will fall into April. Hats are you ready!? Scarves are you ready!? Snow chains are you ready!? 3...........2...........1...........Dusty Bin is back in town... :lol: Warning: GFS and ECMWF may be harmful to those who witnessed old skool winters, especially those who have been deprived for almost 20 years and are longing to feed the global warming scare mongerers to the dogs.

An interesting forecast today. Becoming a little milder by Thursday before "changes start taking place"...I got the impression they are not sure what is going to happen after Thursday with the positioning of the omega set up and how much it will influence the passage of the cold outbreak from the North ie if it will end up flooding across the UK or the Atlantic...still all to play for at this stage me thinks...

Just had a heavy snow shower here in Jersey! Some of it settled briefly in fields etc but not on the roads. Jersey Airport currently recording a temperature of 0.3C. With more showers forecast, it could be an interesting night for us Channel Islanders...

Sleet has just turned to wet snow here in Jersey! I noticed that the temperature at Jersey Airport dropped from 5.0C to 0.8C in a matter of minutes...nothing settling here though...but I guess you can't have it all