NorthernRab

The Day After Tomorrow is probably one of my favourite films. Amazing special affects. It's sort of a dramatic manifestation of our greatest fears and most twisted desires. Also, Twister sticks in my mind as a pretty decent weather film.

Ah I see, but would it surely not still have something of an affect? I'm aware that Antarctica is itself an actual land-based continent (similiar idea to Greenland I suppose), but surely the loss of ice would still boost temperatures in warmer areas of the continent?

I don't think there's any doubt that this winter was a mild one. People would argue that there have been a reasonable (not brilliant of course) number of snow events. However, snow and cold are two different things as we all know; a winter can be a lot colder from generally very low temperatures and no snow than one with average temperatures and a few big snow events. I think the only thing that went wrong is natural variability and global warming. I'm a bit unsure about global warming, and don't know quite where I stand when it comes to this opinion yet. We can hope that winter 2008-09 will be a cold one, but I'm quite disappointed because I'm moving to Glasgow in September. 'Bye-bye my Highland winters! x'

The melting of such a massive stretch of ice would cause warming due to the white reflective ice being replaced by dark blue sea, would it not? Thus excelerating the melt of other glaciers elsewhere?

Ahhh, Inverness cut off from the world by snowfall. Maybe it will happen again one day? (or this Wednesday? lmao)

37'C Inverness, Scotland. Yeh I wish!!! I'm going Tokyo end of July though so I'm not caring lol I reckon 36.5'C in Epson, London. July 20th.

Peel some oranges and then put the skins in the boxes. Cats DETEST the smell of oranges and will stay away from the boxes. Also, hang some tin foil beside the box, as it blows in the wind the sound produced will scare the cats away because their ears are so sensitive to the noise. This won't affect your dogs if you have any so don't worry! :blink: P.S I am actually a cat lover, contrary to what you might think from this post haha

"The US Geological Survey said the earthquake's epicentre was 205km north of London and 80km east of Sheffield." "The quake was the largest to hit Britain since one with a magnitude of 5.4 in 1984." Wow, what an event. Great to hear no-one was fatally injured or killed! I'm always quite worried because I live in Inverness which is on a fault, I know it's only a matter of time before an earthquake affects us again. The last big one was in 1901 but there have been little tremours since. Also. Inverness' Kessock Bridge is the only earthquake proof bridge in the United Kingdom because of this. Fact. lol

Mixture of sleet, very cold light rain and clear sunny weather (which is also very cold). One of those "nice miserable days".

4.2C due to a cold start.

We all know that global cooling is plausible as a result of global warming, so I think it's quite foolish to banish the term 'winter'. Being a northerner and living in Inverness, I'm still very much seeing winter and expect that we will get some more below average winters in the future. Global warming has not warmed our climate enough to scrape out natural variation, so I expect one year we will get another very large snow event. Edit: P.S, if you all think that something serious is happening, you should all get out there and try to do something about it. The average day person will just say "Oh it NEVER snows here, are winter's are rubbish and so are our summers", because they just genuinely like to complain (don't we all? lol).

Isles of Scilly or Penzance...either one. I think it's a nice reflection that although the UK has a climate which is largely the same in all parts, there is a massive difference at times between say Penzanze and Braemar!

True! I guess it's all down to individual opinion, I personally enjoy wintry conditions (I swear if I lived in London and not Inverness I couldn't take the lack of snow and frost lol) so I feel a bit agitated when I see these kind of images. Furthermore, these record highs that SE England have experienced are so much different compared to the NW/NE (what the hell is Inverness? It's so hard to classify) Scotland record highs haha.

I find it sickening that the biggest contributors to global warming by far are still enjoying some comparitively more enjoyable weather conditions!

I think there's potential for perhaps a few more cold spells this winter. For one, the Met Office are even predicting a return to some colder conditions by the 17th of February, encouraging considering that they rarely forecast a drop unless they think it's of genuine probability. Let's hope!

Becoming really cold here in Inverness with heavy snow showers and light snow intervals. At 10:00 it became white-out conditions with very strong winds for perhaps 10 minutes at the retail park. On my thermometer, -3'C and has been gradually falling throughout the day. Ground-temperatures have finally caught up with zero snow melt. Surrounding high ground settlements of Croy, Daviot, Tomatin, Moy and Milton of Leyes have seen extremely heavy snowfall. Services called in for assistance in Croy.

Impossible to tell at this stage. However, in the last 5 years, 3 out of 5 of my birthdays have had snow (March 11th), with one year just missing out due to snowfall during the earlier days of March 2006 I believe? 2nd - 8th I think. I'm optimistic, I believe we will have another heavy snowfall during the second half of February. For all we know, the second half of February could be one of the biggest snow events ever recorded in the history of the United Kingdom, and Northern Scotland in particular...we just really can't tell at this stage. But let's just hope!

Heavy snow in Inverness, temperature plummeted overnight from around 7'C (due to the warm sector I believe) to around 0-1'C. Snow stopped for a time with skies clearing, however darkclouds are moving in once again and any sign of a clear-up is now diminishing. Quite a fierce wind, bitterly cold to be in it.