cyclonic happiness
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i think we are both getting the last dreggs of moderate precipitaion that this system has to offer as it's snowing heavily here too, who knows though the radar is really inaccurate as far as snow is concerned
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Snow coming down quite nicely here, still looks like it will be around for another hour or so, and as the temps have now dropped below freezing its building up again
I hope the low for sat helps bring snow nationwide, even if it does turn to rain, as even though weve had a decent amount its been at a very slow rate, a cm an hour on average. wouldnt mind seeing 5cm in 1 hour before turning to rain on sat
know what you mean snowtornado, we've currantly got 4" at best and it's taken all day, i remeber getting snow in the eighties that could do that in an hour!! but, as you said, it usually turned to rain shortly afterwards. but looking at the currant charts, it seems a good bet that this cold snap could just well turn into a cold spell!! it really has an old fashioned feel about it!
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Just got back from a 5 mile walk with one of the dogs, the yorkie is too small and wouldn't be able to see over the snow lol!! enjoy!!!!!!
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latest back garden.
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Got a good 2" now and still moderate snow! Here's a picture of the Witchazel just outside my front window.
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Looks like snow will be of the 'wet' type sticking to everything, as temps and dew points will be close to freezing with a fair bit of moisture arriving in from the Atlantic aloft, the 'dry' type of powder snow which brought the infamous wrong type of snow in Feb 1991 for the then Birtish Rail - is usually the reserve of very cold Easterlies with temperatures and dew points well below freezing.
thanks for the reply mate :-) well, if it's that sort of snow, i'd like to know if we all have our candles ready and some water on standby???? as we all know that the authorities and electricity companies are far less well equiped than they used to be!!!!!
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what type of snow is this going to be i wonder??? i'm thinking back to the great blizzard of 1990 that brought down powerlines and left us without water and electric for 4 days!!! the temperatures make it look like it's gonna be the sticky type??? any thoughts?
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Woke up this morning and its -7.6°C.
WHHHHOOOOOOOTTTTTT!!!!!!!! the bbc midlands weather just said snow thurs' fri AND saturday and temps' of just 3'c!!!!!!! yet the meto said it'll get milder at the weekend?? oh well, i know which one i'm going to cling to whilst at work today lol!! and i'm not gonna listen to another forecast today either.......PROLONG THE DREAM!!!!!! :-)
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Sorry to say i couldn't get a photo of that most amazing sunset today, as it was full of Lenticular cloud and was in shades of the deepest red and orange and pure blue and green!!! I was wondering whether anyone else on here managed to get any photos of it??
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Hi Carinthian, thanks for that.
Now that would be good, but as you say very difficult to predict their path.
It’s many years since a Polar Low made any impact here in the Midlands or anywhere in mainland UK for that matter, but I do remember one, which struck long ago during early spring in the 70s, I think it was early April 1973. It was an amazing snow event for so late in the season.
Wet snow set in around 10pm, just before I went to bed, I remember not think to much of it at the time, with winter being over, but the most amazing site was to greet me when I opened the curtains in the morning, there must have been a level foot of dry powder snow, the sky was deep and the sun was already up, I went outside to check the temperature and I was amazed to record –9c at 07:30am.
Later when I listened to the 7:55am forecast on Radio 4, the presenter mentioned a Polar low was responsible for the snow over northern and central areas of the country.
Almost unbelievable really for us here in Burton, as we never get much snow on northerly as a rule, but it just goes to show that a Polar low can produce heavy snowfall in areas normally well sheltered.
this could have been the chart
Paul
WOW!! doesn't that bear an uncanny "air" of the current charts???? mmmmmm?
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Had a soft hail shower at work at about 12.30pm today just over 500ft asl.
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i wonder what's next.....? Mercury??? these people really mustn't have alot to do at the moment, lol! i think they should state whether a planet is so, or merely a 'rock in space', by sending an astronaut there and if he cannot see the curvature of the planet/rock by eye whilst standing on it's highest point, THEN it can be classified as a rock!!!! but until that day comes that a man can stand upon another world, judgement should be reserved.
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Just had that 'Warwickshire' storm pass directly over Bedworth. very gusty winds, some hail lots and lots of thunder and lightening and torrential rain. It droped over 1 1/2" in just half an hour!!!! The best this year, by far
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I do believe that we have made a minor,(very minor) impact on the earth. However, i also believe that anything man does on this planet will be corrected by the earth itself. All this rubbish about 'saving the planet', is really mankind shouting about saving itself, the earth is quite safe whether we are here or not! But, being at the top of the food chain we naturally should worry, as a species, about climate change in terms of food production and we all know that there won't be enough sustainable food produced in the coming years, decades to keep the whole population of the earth fed. But, as a species we will survive, we have done for three million or so years!! and that's without the benefits of technology, farming, (a relatively recent introduction),etc. Okay, you may say that millions will die, billions possibly, but we will just have to get on with it, make as many changes as possible to make sure the species survives, (in a 'token', 'green' way). Take energy. The main obstruction we have to a limitless supply of energy, are our own governments and culture, who are obsessed with money and profit!! I mean, for goodness sake, we sit on a ball of molten lava and fire just a few miles below our feet. You cannot tell me that 'they' can't devise a way to drill down into the mantle and harness the heat to make steam and drive generators!!!! 'It's too expensive', they say! but it could be done, and that would keep us going for long enough for us to advance technology sufficiently to solve the problems of the 'excess' population. We will survive this by adaptation, after all, necessity is the mother of all invention!
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this is my dog, sable
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No.2 . After a thunderstorm in the morning, a nice end to the day:
here's one of bedworth ,warwickshire!
here's one i took of witherley in north warks, i love the two people looking into the river, underneath the church tower! enjoy!
Snow & Cold Spell General Chat Part 10
in Spring Weather Discussion
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where's that Baddesley ensor?? how much did you get up there as you are quite high up there?