Nick L

TA, I think that may be a tad optimistic! Even +2.3c is pushing it these days

I'm sure the content is great but the video player is abysmal for me. The buttons at the bottom are almost like "just for show" they are so useless, I try to rewind/pause/play and it never does what I want it to. As a result I get a very stuttery, unwatchable video which I cannot pause to allow it to buffer. I hope this doesn't continue for other videos Edit: Things seemed to have improved, it must be my appalling internet connection quality. Bit irritating though because I have a ton of maths homework to do for tomorrow so I don't really have time to watch it!

I think it's just because my internet connection is shockingly bad. That's BT for you I guess.

I think it's just going to be same old again. Coolish December, horribly mild January and an OK-ish February.

Argh it gets to 4 seconds and stops

A good, well needed post here. I saw yesterday several people posting "blizzards" for short, moderate-heavy showers of snow, which were most probably not blizzards.

Give us a 4.5c please.

Sounds reasonable to me and realistic, a fairly typical winter IMO.

A nice, sunny, cold start to the day. Typical northerly weather. Current weather... Temperature...4.7c Barometer...1017.3mb (rising slowly) Humidity...61% Dew Point...-2.2c Day Rain...0.0mm Storm Rain...2.3mm Month Rain...59.4mm Year Rain...750.8mm Observations were taken at 10:34 on 22/11/2008

To be honest I do see where stewfox is coming from. He isn't having a go at Stuart or the idea of the Xmas forecasts. I agree with the question why is there a 100% snow option on the map, surely it is impossible to 100% predict any form of weather, as there is always the outside chance of something else happening. I will soon start taking note of the Christmas forecasts though.

Thanks Sammie I knew it was SOMETHING to do with the Jet Stream but some of the explanations on the internet were way over my head. Thanks again!

My Geography teacher has challenged me (as he knows I am a weather nut) to find out what a Rossby Wave is. Many of the explanations I have found online are long winded and quite technical. Could anybody give me a simple yet informative guide as to what they are and how they can affect our weather? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

Well Countryfile looked nice and warm for Friday! 3c for the North Midlands

Yes I saw that, I was very impressed. And he didn't do it in the "public are thickos" style either. More of the same please BBC! Not only are they forecasting weather, they are teaching it too!

You never know, it might be true, look what flew past my window earlier:

Snow?! In January?! Has the world gone mad!

He better not, or else you are going to have a gap of knowledge on the exam! But if he does, I am sure we will be able to give you the info here on Net-Weather, I have learnt more about weather on here than through school anyway.

They are only for a bit of fun I think. I will only start to take any notice of them at the start of December at the very earliest, and only if they are consistent, because every single one out there contradicts the others at the moment.

It will be snowy, windy, rainy, sunny, cold and mild. There we go.

The massive question is though, will it continue to hug the average line when we head into the melt season?

Have you taken GCSE Geography Snow-Storm? As most of the courses do contain an element of weather (moreso than the AS Level course I am taking ). Although most of the work we did is more or less completely covered in this thread and on the Met Office website.

I think he means public holidays/celebrations, I wouldn't call remembrance day a holiday or celebration.

How is the drought situation at the moment? When I went in summer I remember it being really quite serious. And don't worry about your English, it's much better than my Spanish!

Oops, yes I missed the occluded front, thanks for that.

Those charts only show pressure - higher pressure prevents evaporation and convection so we get little or no rainfall. Lower air pressure means that evaporation and convection is much easier, allowing more rainfall. Take this for example from the Met Office. This shows (roughly anyway) where the boundaries of cooler and warmer air masses are. That blue line with triangles over the UK is a cold front which brings cloud and rain, followed by cooler conditions. If that were a warm front, warmer conditions would follow. Hope this helps (and please somebody point out if I make a mistake, so I can blame my Geography teacher who calls me Victor Meldrew =])