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  1. Hello Cyclonic - where have you been?! I really enjoyed (and, hopefully continue to enjoy?!) your posts - you really keep this thread going. How are things looking now?
  2. Bone dry here in Norwich again - if there was any rain around these parts then it missed my garden (or, rather, my garden is REALLY missing it!). Amazing watching the bands of rain either slide right past us to the west or split apart as they reach us here in Eastern part of East Anglia. And looks like nothing in the pipeline either for us(again this may be literal before too long if this dry weather keeps up!).
  3. Intersting and useful website - not too sure this piece of data from the UK section: 9°C Luton Sea temperature in Luton Average water temperature: 12.1°C I would imagine that'll keep people from flocking to the beautiful sandy beaches of Luton lol! http://nwstatic.co.uk/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif
  4. Those are probably the periods I am thinking of TWS Thanks for that - interesting stuff for us Norvicencians! Bring on a good dump this week then :-)
  5. Thanks for that info TWS - I too live in Norwich and was very frustrated by (non-)events a fortnight or so ago, loving snow as I do If memory serves me correctly, this sort of thing seems to happen a lot here - I have talked to my (offline) friends about there being an apparent snow-shield over central to north-east Norfolk! Over the last few years I've watched likely - sometimes heavy - snow appear to fizzle out on the radar as it approaches Norfolk, whether it be frontal snow or streamers setting up around us. We know that large bodies of water help to modify the atmosphere, to generate or maintain some of this snow for us, due to the lake-effect - as I understand it a body of (relatively) warm water sending up energy and moisture into cold air, condensing out and freezing to then fall back down as snow - sometimes heavy. I believe this is what helps set up streamers. Do you think that it is possible that whilst areas of the North Sea to the North and South East of Norfolk have relatively deep water, for some reason the shallower waters off the Norfolk coast (there are loads of sandbanks and shallow water that stretch well out to sea to the N, NE and E of Norfolk) may mean the waters there are shallower and cooler and therefore creating less convection = less lake effect? Less energy into the air may slightly tip the balance away from snowy towards... nothingness for us here! Looking at the Sea Surface Temperatures in the North Sea, there does appear to be a cooler 'blob' (to use Daniel Corbetts terminology!) in the area I've mentioned. When I have seen apparent precipitation heading our way, it seems to be over this area that it fizzles out. Could be a coincidence I guess, but do you think this is a possible cause of the apparent pattern I believe I have seen over the last few years?
  6. Surely the best weather presenter (and overall presentation) ever has to be Jeremy Paxman for the extremely short duration that Newsnight had weather reports, as shown in this clip from Have I Got News For You... Seriously though, I can't stand bad English on any serious TV presentation. I do hate it when presenters say, as seems to be the vogue on weather reports at the moment, "In the morning hours..." or "As we move towards the evening hours we'll find that...". What on earth is wrong with "In the morning..." or "...in the evening..."?
  7. It's off the website Timmytour - was updated at 9am this morning, only 4 hours ago!
  8. After a bit of drizzle for the last half hour, got darker again here in Norwich and starting to lightly snow - I wonder how long it will take for the precipitation to keep going here. Will it pass over quickly , or will it start sliding up th from SW to NE as the band pulls back South East? Only time will tell!
  9. Well, hopefully not that long, runboy. That band that went over us does look like it is pivoting and going to return pretty quickly - and I suspect it will draw some colder air back over us, so perhaps it could be a bit better on the return soon after lunch! Also, we can have pretty heavy snow in early March - and we have the rest of February to get through yet!. talking of which, it does look like - according to the model and SSW threads - that with the Stratospheric Warming event that has occured this could lead to prolonged high pressure setting up to our North / North West / North East and drag in a prolonged Easterly / Northerly. It's more this wind direction, with the source from very cold that, with a little help of turbulence in the stream, a bit of 'lake effect' from the North Sea and small low pressures sliding down beside us can dump a lot of snow on us lot stuck out into the North Sea! Caveat: I don't have much knowledge on either Statospheric Warming, wind directions, and the effects of either, just passing on my interpretation of what I have picked up in the last few years watching this website! I love to be corrected ( in a nice way)
  10. Well, once again it looks like Norwich area and Eastern Norfolk is going to miss out on this again. Been raining since 9ish and started snowing a little bit at 10. Fairly light but largeish flakes coming down at the moment which admittedly is starting to setttle, amazingly. However it looks like the precipitation band will move away quickly, so what has settled will probably melt :-( Tried to attach pic of my green, green grass but I can't upload phone pics according to the website. And as I type this the snow is stopping* When-oh-when?! I'm off to slit my wrists * has stopped
  11. Looks like some rather uninformed arguments being put forward here. I would recommend the book 'Skeptical Environmentalist', which covers plenty of what is being debated (and not very well, I hasten to add!) - and more besides..! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Skeptical-Environm...1821&sr=8-1 Global Warming is definitely happening, over the long-run. Anthropogenic Global Warming is also happening, but it seems the jury is still very much out on what the actual / real effect of the AGW is - and how best to deal with it. The above book is written by Bjorn Lomborg, who used to be a member of Greenpeace, but left them. He left as he discovered the organisation was being rather choosy about what / how data was represented and interpreted, in much the same way as business / governments do. This in itself came about as, whilst Lomborg was - in his words - an 'old, left-wing style member of Greenpeace', some bloke argued against the doomsday environmental scenarios that were being bandied about. As an old-school style environmentalist - and a rather good statistician - Lomborg got so left trouser leged off about this that he decided to reanalyse the base data that the accumulated propaganda (on both sides of the argument) had built towards to prove this guy wrong. He expected to find that the other guy was twisting data to fit his right-wing capitalist agenda. But what he found was that - although the guy had some errors - a large part of what this other guy was saying was valid and correct. This made Lomborg question more 'accepted' environmental approaches and views and he started to see that the old fashioned environmentalism was as wrong as the arch-capitalist 'finger-in-the-ears-and-la-la-la' approach! Out of this he did more work and - having left Greenpeace, amongst other things wrote the above book to reanalyse what is going on in the world, environmentally. He is not an anti or pro environmentalist. He is not anti or pro GW / AGW. What he is the best type of commentator: not being lazy and looking at and understanding the data and hoping to guide what the best way is to understand the issues, the underlying causes and the best way to act (or not) to come to the best conclusion. Buy it, read it, enjoy it but most of all, GET EDUCATED!
  12. I've been astounded at how little snow we have had here in Norwich. Was watching the radar both last night when bitterly cold easterlies were driving snow off the Wash and the Thames all around us, and through this morning as the wind direction has changed and the orientation of the snow showers and frontal snow has changed - somehow it has all missed us with the lightest of snow with very intermittent moderate snow through today. Thaw has really set in now: roads clear, water dripping off trees which are turning green all around them as the grass shjows through. no more than an inch laying here over the last 30 hours. Blast - I now have to walk into town in mucky slush rather than lovely crisp snow I was expecting. Waahhh!!!
  13. Yep - things are pretty normal in my part of Norfolk. We had much more snow back in November Having said that, been snowing a bit more heavily here in tyhe last 10 minutes, and it seems like it is settling again on the roads and roofs. Thank goodness for that. Just hope it does not turn to sleet. Will be intgersting to see what happens as it gets darker (theoretically colder) but with this wedge of (relatively) warmer air being drawn in around this low pressure as it moves up from the continent. A snowy battle royale hopefully!
  14. Slightly tongue-in-cheek this, but... when did a period of snow or snow storm or snowy / wintry / rainy / story spell become an 'event'?! I know language changes, but I can't stand this phrase used for any slightly-above-average weather - yes, language changes, but this one really is silly! John Humphries chastised one of the forecasters for using this newish (in this context, anyway) word 'event'! If something happening is an event then, well, perhaps event-ually everyone will be using this phrase for everything! On a slightly serious point, I wonder if many the questions relating to "Has the event finished', or "When will the snow event hit me?" would not be being asked if the phrase snowy period was used - it's not a one-off, it's a series of snowfalls (although luckily for those South and apparently West and North of me as well, it's almost non-stop! I blame the dumbing-down forecasters on the telly for this nonsense. Bring back the old charts with isobars and explanations, get rid of the baby-talk on the forecasts! Light snow here in Norwich still with the thaw apparently accelerating - I can actually hear water gurgling down my drainpipes. Harrumph Anyway, I must go as I have a driving event imminent to get to Tesco so I can have a shopping event. If I don't do this, the dining event I am having this evening will not happen! I hope it is an uneventful journey: don't want a car-crash event to put a stop to this eventful day I am having!
  15. Indeed Steve - looks like the precip we do get from the low - if it falls as snow - will pass over us quickly and give brief intense bursts of snow but not amounting to much I would think. I hope I am proved wrong! In the meantime, here's a link to some great photos of Norwich taken this morning - before the thaw set in. The city looks even more beautiful in the snow! And as you can se, Norfolk is not flat either! http://media.edp24.co.uk/Video/09/shared/SnowNorwichFeb2.wmv
  16. Steve - I am afraid David Vine would have to - like your sparrows - surf down on a snowflake from the great big observation post in the sky - he died a couple of weeks ago. Anyway, here in Norwich had very light, very fine snow in the last hour - not accumulating at all in fact a thaw has accelerated. Snow disappearing from roofs and starting to slide down car windows. Starting to become disappointing. Although in the last 5 mins settling has restarted again. Perhaps we will get some of these bands of precipitation heading North and it will be snow not diizzly sleet or rain!
  17. I don;t think you'll have much luck TP with what looks like is on it's way : My friend just got back from New York - landed about an hour and a bit ago - should have landed at Heathrow but was diverted to Manchester with nowhere to go to get back down here! She's considering getting a flight from Manchester back to Norwich but that's at 5.15pm and I suspect Norwich may be experienceing problems by then! No snow here in Norwich for the last 30 mins or so, indeed there has been a slight thaw with the little snow melting off the top of bins out for the bin men. And was brightening up a bit but has got very dark in the last 5 minutes. First bands of precipitation (will it be snow, will it be sleet?) probably starting in the next half hour or so...
  18. You know what? There has been a slight thaw this morning in Norwich - I had a thin covering on my little chairs on the patio but it has melted... never mind, the snow has started here again in the last 20 mins and now starting to get slightly heavier (although not very). I am 100% sure that as it starts to pick up, it will readily settle and we will have some significant accumulations by dark tonight. Pity we did not get much last night to build on!
  19. Don't worry runboy, it most definitely will - just check out the radar (on here or even on met office website) and you can see it heading our way - plus the models have been suggesting this for a few days now. I reckon the main dumping will start around lunchtime for Norfolk. I might nip out later to take some photos. Norwich is beautiful anyway, but in snow it'll look fab - especially around the cathedral!
  20. Not many people posting from Norwich last night and today. I would say the reason is: we've only had about half an inch! Main roads totally clear with a slight covering on the side roads. Does anybody know why Eastern Norfolk is not having snow reach it? There is plenty of North Sea around us (is it that: we stick out into the relatively warm North Sea? Prob not otherwise we would be getting rain). Places just North of us seem to be catching it, places West getting something like a 'Wash Streamer', places South getting what look like good 'lake effect' type showers moving in from the North Sea, and London and S.E. getting battered by the Thames Streamer. But Norwich - the merest hint! We've got loads of distance across the North Sea from Holland / Denmark so why (next to) no snow?! Mind you I suspect that within 5 hours or so we will be catching that blob moving up from France pretty bad! By the way, been a lurker for about 3 years and love this site: learned so much from it. Well done to all experts, mods and support people that run this site!
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