Iceni
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Wow
an even deeper frost than yesterday giving everything an fresh layer of crystals. It's prettier than snow imo.–4.1C and foggy when the fog clears I'm off out to take some more pictures, this doesn't happen very often.
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Was 1.2C and lovely (weak) sunshine, but the temps dropped to 1.0C and it's started snowing again lightly... I thought the pink patch on NWExtra would miss us until I noticed the wind's changed from NN/W last night to EN/E. Excellent! :lol:
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Morning everyone,
Hope all you lucky bandits down south enjoyed your coverings of snow!
Anyway moving on, the question I have today for the good people at Netweather is......
How do you think your vehicle(s) would manage in very snowy conditions; ie: on hilly, winding roads etc?
Personally my Toyota Avensis would probably curl up into a ball and die! lol! However my mums Range Rover was brilliant a couple of years ago whilst I was still in school. Everyone was sliding all over the place and it just cruised through with ease! I was very impressed as I never thought the newer Range Rovers at least were capable of truly handling off road/treacherous conditions. Then again who would want to try it? I mean what is the point in getting a car of that ilk and destroying it off road? Well not unless you are a premiership footballer who could just go and buy another 10 lol!
Anyway, sorry for going off on a bit of a tangent there :lol:
Thought this would be a good bit of banter for us today. Maybe have some stories of how people have fared in the past and also future preparations that you may make!
WX.
We used to have a big Defender (while we were building a house) which I loved (actually felt quite tearful when we sold it to get a camper van). It was starry in snow and managed a 1:5 hill with ease in 6" snow, my husband to be came down to see us in Sussex in it and take us out food shopping when we'd been nearly snowed in for a couple of days (our car couldn't do the hill if someone had got stuck).
We have a Freelander (automatic) now and it's pretty ok, but the best of all in snow is our SORN Series III Landy got nice narrow tires which slice through it like a knife through butter. Of course we won't be able to afford to have any Landy's if they bring in the £400 VED... all very well for townies, but what about country people who depend on them — look out into lane this morning, no-one's gritted it for 2 or 3 miles and it's an ice rink with a layer of snow on top.
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We have snow and I've clicked that 'Yes' button.
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Just started sleeting here, maybe it'll turn snowier... itching to press the 'Yes' button on the vote, but will be honest and desist until it snows.
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Far as I'm concerned, as a country dweller, when all the leaves are off the trees and they are bare. Which has usually happened by second half of November.
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A trip on the A170 & A171 to the North Yorkshire Coast. Had to contend with difficult driving conditions from 9am -> 4pm when I headed back home. Snow was settling all day expect right on the coast. A171 was closed for a time so I had to turn back. Best of the snow was between Pickering and Scarborough on the A170 which was just about passable. Several Inches in favored spots. Many minor accidents on the roads.
This one's surely your Christmas card this year :lol:
It looks lovely up there and so unusual to see snow with the rusty leaves still on the beech tree in the background. Great pics.
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Temperature: -0.4C (falling slowly)
Dewpoint: -1C
Wind: NNW 14mph, gusting 25mph
Still heavy snow showers, beginning to become more prolonged. A dusting on the grass, cars etc. and the odd bit now laying on concrete and paths.
Driza bone here all day. Was a bit disappointed, but checked out the MetO/BBC for early hours of Sunday, frosty overnight then looks like 3 hours of snow 6–9 am with a smidgeon of drizzle up until lunchtime when it clears and drops to freezing again. :lol:
I'm not going to put in any celebration symbols until tomorrow am, as it's just tempting fate too much.
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:lol: Not a snowball's chance in hell.
I'd be pleasantly surprised if the temperature was 0C on Christmas morning... that's how dire Christmas weather has become. The long range says above average and dry for December and January. Another dismal winter in Mild Grey Island's on the cards.
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Just read the forecast from PWS and I have to say they do themselves no favours by giving such a detailed forecast this far in advance. This far out all anyone can do is give hints whether the winter as a whole will see above/below average CET/Sunshine/Precip. The MetO have the right idea because this is generally what they do in their LRF but in some cases they are too vague because they cover themselves by saying it could be below/near/above average
This is the actual forecast from PWS:
http://www.positiveweathersolutions.co.uk/UK-Long-Range.php
As each winter month starts off with "wet and windy and on or above average temps" it would seem the Express is being extremely selective with their 'Arctic winter' forecast. As you say, totally meaningless waffle.
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From the look of my MetO gizmo it's chucking it down over the Black Mountains in Wales and the red area seems to have stuck... hope when all that water finds its way downstream to Hereford/Gloucester there's no repeat of last year's nightmare :lol:
Any reports from the area or are you all out sandbagging?
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They're under instructions from the govmint to ignore Scotland after their Glasgow East humiliation?
We just had another amber warning from MetO — after the event. There was a 30 minute thunderstorm but bright sunshine now.
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Nope - the only warnings are for the west. Surprising might be an understatement! Imagine if the mainline out of Waterloo was closed due to flooding... News24 cameras would be there boring us tears.
There's bound to be some MetO techie saying that "technically the trains should be able to run — despite the 2ft of flood water" or "technically, the rain isn't out of the ordinary, just there's a lot of it"
If it's any consolation, we had an amber warning in place last night, and got not one drop of rain.
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Situation just keeps getting worse now. The East Coast Mainline through Edinburgh is now shut due to flooding. Headline in the local rag:
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstori...mmer.4366909.jp
And no MetO warning in place?
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Nope, not just you.
We've had lots of rain and overcast days so I would expect cooler days and general disappointment but the thing which has struck me this year, has been how quickly it cools down in the evening and how cool the nights are. My bedroom is up in the attic, converted years ago with zero insulation in the roof, in summer it's stiflingly hot up there at night, but not this year.
This is true. Last year I grew a line of tomatoes against a south facing wall out of the wind, sheltered from the rain and although the toms weren't very quick to ripen, the plants were pretty healthy...
I tried the same this year and they've been definitely poorly, so much so, that we got the old greenhouse reglazed and put them in there for the last few days. I know it's a nightime/daytime temperature thing because they have perked up no end and are looking much better.
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Are you being serious ste?
Last year,apart from a spell of inversion in Dec was mild mild mild with quite a few places in the country seeing little or zero snowcover.
And for the first time ever, not a single frost in January!!!
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Here's my weather one taken this afternoon after some thunderstorms:
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I would like to think so. However, the Met office have made recent comment on 2007 being slightly cooler than recent years but that the general trend in the next few years would still be upwards for global temps, with one or two years in the next 6 or so likely to warmer than the current record 1998. I'd just like to see a couple decent winters before this projected endless upwards curve in global temps really kicks in.
Me too!!!
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One of the worst for cold and snow in SW Suffolk. Had to wait until April for our first snowflake. It was generally mild, especially January and at times during February.
Will go down as one of Suffolk's worst Winter's on par with Winter 2006/07- (Yes that long ago)
Are we going to see a good Winter again down south? Mammatus
I concur although that Easter morning's snow almost made up for the dire period from Christmas Eve to the end of January.
Does this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7376301.stm mean we might have our proper winters back for a few years?
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:lol:
Lately summers have been very dry - until last year hosepipe bans had started to seem a normal part of summer life down here in the south. Is it just that last year was SO bad and 2006 a bit meh that's changed people's minds or is there a greater pattern that's so accepted it's not being talked about?Hosepipe bans are usually necessary because the preceding winter has been dry — the only time when trees and other vegetation are not drawing up water, so reservoirs get a chance to refill. As this last winter has seemed a pretty wet one with all the rain in January, so for this summer, even if it doesn't rain for a couple of months on end, I'd be surprised if there's another ban this year.
The perfect summer for me would be like an African one... blazing sunshine then just after sunset an inch of rain — every day, with some exciting thunderstorms.
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Last summer was a freaky one thats for sure never seen it so wet can`t see anything like that a one of a kind that was at least it dried up for august if still cool, although 2004 was a long drawn out one meaning much too wet with not enough dry spells plenty of thunder mind, who knows what this summer will bring lots of variety is all I ask for dry warm/hot spells mixed with fresher atlantic air and of course thunderstorms at times and humid S-ly and the odd cold wet day/2 like last summer to be refreshed if it gets too hot.
Variety's the key for me as well. I hate weeks of one kind of weather (unless it's snow in the winter)
This year it's my parents' Diamond Wedding in mid September and and my Dad's 90th birthday in November... so I'm hoping for a warm September for the marquee. Their Golden Anniversary in September '98 was a scorcher and it got above 25C so we had to bring in the wine set out on the tables.
If we have to go through the purduh of a vile August to have a sunny September, I don't mind.
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Too early to say. Last year I said dry and hot and look what happened. Someone even managed to find my orginal post and post in the middle of July. :lol:
Last years crap summer was blamed on La Nina. Even though there wasn't one at the time. Experts hang you head in shame. So if last years summer was crap due to neutral conditions this years should be wetter. Not serious by the way.
I don't really care how much it rains or how hot and sunny it gets. What I do wish is that it would be more changeable. The last few summers seemed to have been weeks and weeks of endless rain or weeks of relentless sun and drought... either way, it's desparately hard work trying to keep a garden looking its best.
Is this what is referred to as 'zonality'? I'd prefer mini heatwaves followed by a few days rain and so on.
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100% chance of snow tomorrow!!!! I don't think so, that must be wrong!
On Easter Saturday, I only had a 60% chance of snow, yet it snowed on and off nearly all day. But it wasn't until just before sunset when the temperature dropped to 1C that it started to settle.
So technically 100% chance of snow is easily possible, but whether it settles is the question.
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Well if you're heading N into Norfolk, I might be tempted to meet you - I'll be in the Wolds early doors with the camera, but a comedy drive across the featureless fens in snow showers might be entertaining.
I'd offer our LR Defender (seats 12
) probably not on though as expected for family lunch Easter Sunday. :wacko: One great snow mobile.Be sure to call in at the fish & chip hut at Dunwich beach on the way back for the best f&c's in the world. Think they should open this w/e but check first.
an even deeper frost than yesterday giving everything an fresh layer of crystals. It's prettier than snow imo.
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I think it's our second ice day in a row only got up to –0.7C yesterday. Still crazy cold here –3.4C, just half a degree warmer than it was this time last night. I shall feel bereft when it's gone
I was thinking today that I prefer a hoar frost to snow visually. Every detail is picked out with ice crystals but you still get the colour variation... snow just covers everything.
Here's some pictures of the scenery. I've never seen it so frozen in the 7 years I've been living here and won't forget the past few days (in a nice way
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