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cyclonic happiness

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  1. I hope it isn't as dire for us as last year, even though we had a mass build of snow across NE europe, made no sense :(

    Can't be any worse than last year. We had one snowfall which settled for a round 3 hours and then it melted and was warm in the afternoon. Such a shameful winter. 

     

    Let's all hope we can do much better this winter. And El Nino might be a help, like it was in 2010.

     

    Fingers crossed!!

  2. I've seen a few of them, only ever caught one on camera (see below). Don't be so hard on yourself about the pics, I know how these things tend to pan out with the pic never doing justice to reality, but your first pic of the rainbow is a cracker :D

     

     

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    Aww thanks matey :-)

     

    I like how they don't form a traditional rainbow shape, it's more of a dome really, and they all seem to be double? Maybe the wavelength of light shows up the second bow more? 

  3. you can bet your life tomorrow we'll miss out on the storms due to a great swath of cirro-stratus killing convection, and denying us the warmest temperatures . 

     

    I might even go for a long ride on my bike to try to tempt the heavens into drowning me :-P

  4. What the hell is wrong with the weather when it comes to rain/snow bands??? They ALWAYS split and go either side for the middle part of the Midlands and then reform the other side, before strengthening and dumping all their precipitation. 

     

    And the MET office showed heavy rain, inescapable heavy rain, crossing the whole country. But yet again it's bone dry here!

     

    I'm starting to get really disillusioned with the weather now. It's been boring for over 3 years, literally nothing interesting has happened, not even frost! ><

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  5. The smell of frost this morning was really strong. I didn't even think to cover some of the rarer plants at home and we just got a delivery of poinsettias at work, which will suffer for this cold! (if the met office had warned it might get as cold last night, I could have put the blow heaters on at work) So another time when we were failed to be told about a frost. 

  6. So why hasn't the US for example seen a decline in storm activity?

    Because we're a much smaller area, with much heavier air traffic.   There has been a massive increase in condensation trails over the Midlands and you can physically see storms and convection struggling to get going.

     

    It would be great to find some actual proof, but who's looking?

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  7. I just think that the apparent decrease going by *some* stats is not statistically significant enough, and the change isn't over a long enough time period to be illustrative of a more long term and permanent pattern shift.

    Oh yes, i agree.

     

    The weather changed character completely in the summer of 2007, and it hasn't changed back yet. 

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  8. I blame it on skies full of cirrostratus, caused by thousands of con trails from aeroplanes. 

     

    You just don't seem to be able to get convection like you did in the 80s, it's all stunted by lack of sunshine.

     

    Just another symptom of an over-crowded planet.   

     

    We don't even get clear blue skies in summer now, just hazy sunshine at best.

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  9. Funny, coz we had a tremor in Warwickshire last night at around 11pm.

    A loud noise was heard and books fell off shelves and general shaking.

    I need to get a confirmation though.

    Even in my house books fell off my book shelf.

    It scared the hell out of me.

    Could it be linked with Kent earthquake?

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