cyclonic happiness
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Ziltch here, even though we were getting the showers, I guess it was just too wet.
Well, I wonder what weird and imaginative ways the snow will find to miss us next week? :-D
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Someone said thundersnow in Nuneaton??
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Snowed heavily but didn't settle, too wet, looking at the next band it's 100% snow and not sleet, so it should do the business.
And seeing how the blob over Coventry just developed on the spot, I'm hopeful of a good covering by morning :-)
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Heavy snow here and blustery winds, not settling as it's very, very wet snow
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Oh no... I've been downgraded.... just a smidgen around 7pm tomorrow now....
*sobs*
It'll move about all over the place like Boxing day's did. Just watch the radar and lamp posts tomorrow.
It'll probably end up giving the damn south east a ton and we stay in the dry spot again! lol
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Heavy, heavy rain forecast through the region today....*builds ark*
yes, the front with a good squall on it is almost here.
Fun times ahead this week. Looks like the weather might actually do something interesting for once.
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Tuesday and Wednesday now snowless according to MetO forecast. Disaster
The NW snow risk maps are still showing plenty of scope for snow, not much has changed. Don't worry until the day :-)
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I hope this comes off, images like these are really starting to peeve me off :-(
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Sat 27th upto new years eve was decent for that, was a decent spell, which makes this winter better than last, all last year I had around 2cms of wet snow on Feb 11th, which thawed near enough straight away
Had an hour of sleety snow which covered for around 30 minutes then melted, whereas 40 miles north had brilliant snow (27th dec 2014)
Here was the other period of snow on feb the 11th last year, this didn't stick either :-(
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As it is, we could get a covering of snow that sticks on wednesday and then melts on thursday?
The thought of a whole day where we can play and walk and photograph in the snow, fills me with the most amazing sense of joy imaginable after what we've all been through the past 2 years :-D
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The greatest rain shadow effect at least in the UK would be that of the Scottish Highlands, some of the wettest months on record have produced almost 1000mm over the mountains and below 25mm on the east coast! Conversely when easterlies dominate the east coast can be wetter than inland, occasionally Warwickshire has wetter months than here due to easterlies predominating.
Everyone is missing my point. When you watch the precipitation maps of Europe, fronts, showers, troughs, all have no problem moving across the continent , whereas the precipitation hits the low mountains of Wales here and died at the Welsh border, and forget northerlies for this area.
So are the computers programmed with greater accuracy around the British isles , or are the Midlands just in the most unfortunate place in Europe?
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Last night was actually 'interesting' in as much as I enjoyed the temps shooting up to almost 16'c, made me long form the summer and spring all the more.
The latest models do not show anything for my area of note, even the snow isn't 'safe snow' (snow that doesn't melt a few hours later) I'd rather not bother at all, it just makes me sad watching what might have been.
Still, we have 1.5 months left of winter and 1947 was very late and that was preceded by a stupidly warm spell.
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17.2 is the record for Jan 9th, at Aber in 1971- wonder whet those N Wales coast stations are on? Wouldnt be surprised to see an 18 somewhere at this rate, it is just ridiculously mild out there.
just seen your signature and folk think that the Midlands doesn't get the most boring weather in the whole country!
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Nice to see Jordan and Israel are doing much better for snow than 1000 miles north in the Midlands.
I seriously think I'm starting to go mad!! ><
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Welcome to physics, you can't opt out.
So you're saying lower mountain ranges on an island surrounded by a sea, have greater rain shadow than a continent with mountains 3 times higher?
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The other thing I can't get my head around is how, if you watch the precipitation maps on meteociel or whoever, the centre of England is in the biggest rain shadow in Europe.
It's like the fack that countries either side of the 10,000+ Alps are getting plenty of precipitation and yet we, the wettest part of Europe as an island, are in the most effective rain shadow of the 2,500ft Cambrian mountains.
So, when a front approaches us bearing snow, it all gets dumped over Wales and fizzles out over the Midlands, then goes over the channel to France and peps up again, then crosses the Alps and is absolutely fine dumping tons of snow over the Eastern Block.
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If you want more interesting weather then move to the coast, preferably a west or north facing one. I'm not quite sure what your moan is about, it's not like we can do anything directly to promote more thunderstorms or tornadoes or blizzards.... Most of the weather is always going to be boring, if we had snow every day then you'd quickly get used to it and it would become normal. People in India don't find the monsoon all that amazing as it happens every year and it's just normal, but if you or I were to go there we'd find it amazing.
The moan is about the fact that I used to love the severity and variability of the weather in the 80s and 90s which is lacking now, also this is a moaning thread and I need to let off steam every now and then (who knows, might lead to convection and then thunderstorms and snow) :-D
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But there were damaging winds in the Midlands and Warwickshire last Winter too..why even a possible tornado just up the road from you!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-25908932
I'll admit, the only weather of note are thunderstorms, but we only had I think two the whole of last year. There was a summer in around 2000 where we must have had at least 20. You do see alot of tornado activity around here during storms, I've got photos of 3 myself, and Nuneaton area always seems to get tornadoes lol. But that doesn't excuse the 95% of the rest of the year where the mono-weather happens.
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The West Country is not the Midlands.
I said in my comment before that it was in my area of the UK not the whole UK quote "where I live you'd marvel at the lack of weather".
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Hi Cyclonic Happiness, I am 33 and I remember what you are talking about with the telephone wires and the noise they made....But one good reason we don't hear that now is that most telephone wires are underground now
Plus I remember the wind rattling the windows too but now most people ahve double glazinf and good insulation in and around their houses that maybe why we don't hear it is as much as back then.
We have sash windows and telegraph wires too. The resonance would not have changed so much in 30 years that it would prevent the wires howling, the whole road is 130 years old and on top of a hill, so that wouldn't have changed that much.
Nope, the weather just is less violent than it used to be HERE.
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Whilst showing admiral restraint in not making any inane sarcastic comments I'm somewhat intrigued by the highlighted above considering that down here in the west county we suffered millions of pounds worth of damage during last winters storms. This included the uprooting of the railway at Dawlish for the first time since the middle of the 19th century. The fact that you appear to live in a spot that is exempt from the weather that affects others doesn't add validity to generalised comments concerning trends in UK weather..
The West Country is not the Midlands.
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Were you out of the UK from December 2013-Feb 2014? We had shedloads of wind (I live on the North Wales coast) and people living on the coast were constantly subject to flood warnings. At the end of 2012 we had severe flooding in St Asaph. So from my point of view the weather has been quite violent over the last couple of years.
A simple explanation for the telephone wires not screaming anymore is that you might have moved somewhere where the telephone wires are more sheltered by trees, buildings or terrain. It could be that trees have grown and sheltered the wires if you live in the same place. It could be that a small change in direction means that the wires are in the shadow of a building. Either way the sound that telephone wires make in one street is not really the most reliable of observations. People's hearing also deteriorates as they get older.
All the evidence would appear to point towards weather actually getting more violent in the UK. That railway line at Dawlish has stood there for rather a long time and it got smashed to bits last year. The flooding on the Somerset levels was hardly gentle weather either. Everyone has their favourite sort of weather, I like snow in the winter, crisp dry spings, cool summers with rain and the odd clear day with temps in the low 20's and Autumn's that are cool with a bit of wind. Sadly it's very seldom that I get my sort of weather all year round.
If you find the weather here boring then you should move to where I grew up which is Perth in Western Australia. In the summer it's just varying degrees of the same thing and how baked you get depends on whether the trough is off the coast or inland and because it's such a big landmass with no real mountain ranges, the weather is boringly consistent.
IMHO we're blood lucky in the UK to have such changeable and interesting weather with the potential for a bit of everything.
So basically you're saying that everywhere else has more violent and interesting weather than the most central town in the country?
North Wales, Somerset, Dawlish are all on the coast, you move 20 miles inland and the wind will go from 90mph to 50mph, then go 100 miles inland, it'll be 30mph
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There have been many past Winters in my lifetime which offered little in the way of deep cold and snow that's for sure.
Just from memory I recall a run of poor Winters in the early 70,s and many between 88 and 2000.
I appreciate many younger members would have no experience of many of those and maybe more recent Winters have raised expectations.
I know it,s no comfort to cold seekers but the pattern we see now is our more typical Winter setup.
Ok, a good example.
When I was young in the 80s and 90s there were some really vicious wind storms about, the kind where you had to hang on to things like fences and had a genuine fear of being blown away or into the road etc.
But the main thing I remember is the noise, I'd open the front door and the telegraph wires would be almost screaming in the wind. This happened ever year at least once or twice.
I've not heard that noise since around the early 90s in this street or any one around here, which suggests that the weather is less violent, less varied and just less damn interesting than it was back then.
It's not about hot and cold, it's about variety and extremes, and our weather is the least extreme it's been here for as long as I can remember (38 years old).
That is what is frustrating me, not the lack of cold. I'd sell my granny for a spell of normal 'exciting' weather :-P
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Indeed, the rain for the wetter than average year we just had (including Bedworth) must have come from some kind of atmospheric processes..
Nothing of note.
When I first got really into weather in the late 80s/early 90s, there was just more action here. The weather has been getting more and more dull as the years go on here.
I used to go to the library ever few days and cart 8-10 books back about meteorology and was fascinated about the workings of fronts and snowflakes and low pressure systems etc and everything seemed to fit into the perimeters of what was written. It was almost like the weather was made just for my amusement.
wind it on 27 years and the weather doesn't do what it used to here.
Yes I'm aware that things change, (without the need of sarcastic inane comments, which I'm sure will go un-moderated as always by certain 'privileged' folk, ofc this one will magically disappear, lest not to rock the inner circle's boat etc), but there is less weather than there was, no doubt about it!
Look at the falling snow and lying snow stats....less, look at the thunderstorm data, less, look at the heatwave data for the last 10 years, surely less. Even the air itself is different looking, no clear blue skies, only a milky blue at best.
when was the last time this part of the Midlands got a trough from a northerly, followed by the clear Arctic air which lead to crystal clear visions for dozens of miles?
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The Midlands - Weather Chat
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Don't worry, you can't call snow 3 hours away, let alone 3 days, it will not be bone dry.