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Oh, I really, really hope not! It's so beautifully spring-like atm, I've packed all the winter coats and jumpers away... Come next October I will be as keen as anyone to see snow but what I want now (and what we all need) are SUNSHINE and WARMTH!
Can't remember which winter it was, but I did that. Out they all came again a week later.
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unfortunately i dont do apple. am an android user. but even so. my lousy samsung doest let me add apps as i have no memory on the phone to add any more than BBC news, weather, Banking and all the other crap that i cant remove unless i root the memory and risk turning the phone into a brick
still, never mind. its a phone, it does txt and i can talk on it. take photos too. i mean, what more does "billy no mates" need???
In that case, try installing Stellarium on your computer... you can do a replay and at the time you posted, the nearest bright star to the moon was Capella if it's the one above and West of the moon, Jupiter has been well to the East of the moon for most of this evening.
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bored, bored, bored.
hungry too... could do with some food as well
whats everyone eating tonight? i've got some fish and chips from last night in the frdge. just contemplating heating it up. but really fancy hot and spicy food intstead
down to 9C here and clear sky. there is a star very close to the moon and looks bright. was loooking out for the space station when walking dog, but not sure if its in view in my horizon. anyone know :unknwn:
We had Spag Bol. My husband's turn to cook.
But the worst is that we ran out of maple syrup on Tuesday and forgot to get any when we went shopping on Wednesday (we live miles from anywhere and have to limit our shopping to once a week). So I've gone 4 days without my maple syrup, bacon and eggs waffles. We bought this waffle iron a month ago and have them every morning and sometimes for supper with ice cream. So yummy.
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Surely we must have a good snowy winter next time ?we had a fab summer last year went to selsey for holiday, this year we are off to mine head (world up finals )fingers crossed Australia and England are in :)and Bognor at new year so fingers crossed for a hot summer and a snowy Christmas !! Or is the snow at Christmas just for films and Xmas cards ?
Until the Julian Calender was changed to the Gregorian one (both Popes) Christmas Day on the 25th December would have been our 6th January.
In the 16th Century, year by year, Easter was getting too close to early summer, when it was supposed to be in spring, so Pope Gregory deleted 11 days from the ecclesiastical year.
Snow and cold is quite common during the first week of January, whereas in the final week of December (nearly two weeks beforehand) it isn't.
Strangely, May * or Hawthorn blossom still comes into bloom around the end of the first or second week of May (the month). It was called 'May blossom' because it used to come into bloom during the last week of April/first week of May when the Julian Calender was in force. I always check the date as we have quite a few hawthorns in our garden and more often than not it comes into flower around the 10/11/12th May. It seems hawthorn trees didn't get the memo.
* Not to be confused with the white blackthorn which is much earlier.
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Chilly Milly, I don't think you would want to see me dressed up in my tutu :-).Sorry about all the spelling etc mistakes above, I blame the wine last night.
The moment you mention to caterers "it's a wedding" their prices go up 50%. We did a cunning trick by combining my Mum's 80th birthday party with our wedding reception (we'd married at a registry office the day before).
Boy were the caterers p'd off when they realised... we spent the money on this brilliant Swing band called Swervy World instead.
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All the snow's gone!
This is Christina Lake, BC Canada... temperatures are currently above freezing at 1.7ºC. Elsewhere there's still a lot of snow, but it shows how powerful the sun is getting now to melt 3 foot of snow which was still there just a few days ago on a SW facing hillside.
Light at the end of the tunnel
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and I say little feet as I'm only size 3 1/2
Lol u got there before I could say
Furious with husband. We have this lovely little wood-burner stove and usually get the wood from a tried and trusted supplier's estate in August (cost of a really big truck load £250 + £12 delivery and it lasts about 2 winters).
This year, my husband thought he'd save a few quid and asked some farmer to bring a truck load over..., we got about 1/2 the amount of wood and it's turned out not to be seasoned, so doesn't burn properly.- this cost £200. So won't be any good until next year - meanwhile, we've got no wood which burns.
There are a few big trees which have either broken off or have to come down as soon as the weather dries up, so they'd have seasoned for the next couple of winters anyway... KNEW he was making a mistake.
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Well the Spinal Tap vile weather dial has been turned up to 11 today. Just the worst. Thank God they invented cars and Wellington boots.
All I can say.
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Very early build was good in September , but it grinded to a holt in October and never moved westwards at all. Good Eurasian snow cover is a proven aid to our winter cold chances
But a huge Greenie High is even better. We got the opposite.
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I just upset some customers in the local shop. They were all chatting about how beautiful it's been today when I piped up with...."yes, but snow is forecast for Friday" oh dear, you should've seen the faces.
I omitted to tell them it wouldn't be much, so they'll all expect blizzards and chaos. Ha ha ha I am awful.
No you're not. It's their fault for not liking snow. They deserve all they get.
I'm a happy lady. I got up at 6 to nab a Marc Jacobs cashmere jumper on Ebay for £48. Talk about the early bird - mine was the only bid. And now it will be cold enough to wear it.
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Hi all thank you for all your best wishes x
Yesterday went well had biopsys taken and they said they couldn't see any cancer but to be sure will
Have to wait 2-4 weeks for results . And I have to have a op under ga to get rid of
The pre cancerous cells
Once
Again thank
You all your all so lovely and have really helped me get thru some tough times I want you all to know if anyone ever want a ear I'm here
For u xx
Lovely sunny day today that matches my families smiles
Did you have that staple gun thing done to you? OUCH! She had to give my another shot of local as it just didn't work.
The radiotherapist was absolutely sweet and said she'd seen lots of cancers, and this wasn't anything like it. So that eased my mind before the ga biopsy a lot. Don't worry - they wouldn't make you wait that long if they thought there was a problem - you'd be having surgery done next week or be fast-tracked.
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Yep and a Winter I am quite partial to too
Just got the 4 x CD box set - 'True to the Blues' to mark his 70th birthday this year. There are 56 tracks on it and every one of them is a killer... really. I just can't wait for May!
Thoroughly recommended
http://www.amazon.co.uk/True-Blues-Johnny-Winter-Story/dp/B00GSGT7G8
Go on... treat yourself - you know you want to.
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Hello everyone and Happy Tuesday. Best wishes of all to snowlady on an especially nerve wracking day
Who remembers February 2012? Maybe not too many of you, but this totally snow barren and starved winter I found some pics I took back then which I thought had been deleted when my computer was serviced some time after.
This was the synoptic chart for midnight 4/5 February. Looking at the pressure map you would never think that this produced a snow event. But there was a trough sliding SE through SW England and the western channel
So that by midday on Sunday 5 Feb there was cold air being pulled back from the continent from High pressure east of the Baltic region
The colder surface air clearly over our SE region
The sliding trough meant snow meant snow for some of us on its NE edge - and a reasonable amount of it, and what was relatively unusual was that the snow arrived initially on a southerly wind straight off the channel and for my region by the coast that was a very nice surprise
. The dewpoints and temperatures were kept very low because of especially cold surface temperatures on the nearby continent. As the wind backed further round towards the south east, the temperature fell here from a maximum around zero in late afternoon to about -3C by late evening with powder snow! Areas further west along the coast towards Brighton were reporting sleet at this time I remember on the regional forum !!Anyway here are some of the pics I took the following afternoon. The snow stayed here for a week with cold easterly winds, hard frosts, sunshine and the very low dewpoints, despite an annoying brief partial thaw the day after these pics were taken. Areas to the north and west of here saw little or no snow at all. I think it proved to be the only main snow event of the whole winter - so I was lucky here in Hastings
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Best wishes for snowlady today....
The worrying wait is always worse than once they get going diagnosing and treatment (if any). My husband had cancer a couple of years ago and although he was fast-tracked, that 4 week wait for treatment and another 2 weeks afterwards for the scans and test results were far worse than the actual operation or the single chemo dose (although it wasn't exactly fun). Fingers crossed, he's passed the 18-month recurrence thing about 5 months ago.
Tamara - you seem to be a photographer and an excellent sculptress as well as your meteorological expertise.... is there no end to your talents? I love the one with the sea in the background and the snow cat is fabulous.
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Well, folks, it looks as though these will be the only 'flakes' we'll all be seeing this winter, which is nearly over. Never mind.....soon be Christmas.
This is the only Winter I'm going to see this year - got the tickets yesterday, but got to go to Lyon.... oh well it will be worth it - he's the BEST.
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Hi all, been away from the forums for a week or two. Went to Wales (Porthcawl) over the weekend bit didn't see too many flooded fields from the M4. Weather's been quite nice of late! Actually been out at lunch at work in just my shirt - no jacket which was nice. Just had a few gusts just now though and my parents in Wexford are worrying about strong winds after my dad started putting up their fences today after it was completely destroyed over the last few weeks. Doesn't seem too bad on my dad's weather station so far though.
I've given up giving people forecasts though as I keep looking the fool. Once moment it's "oooh might be a nice week this week" then it rains. Or "oooh looking colder next week - even the odd wintry shower!" then it rains and stays over 10'C :|
Know the feeling. All I've bothered to look at is where that polar vortex is and has been since November. There's no point in hoping for a change while it's there.
And actually this mild winter has had its compensations - my watercress has carried on growing under a fleece in an unheated greenhouse so I've still been able to have it (even when you can't buy fresh bunches of watercress in the supermarket) so I won't need to sow it and start again. The lettuces and winter salads in the grow bag haven't needed a fleece at all - they actually like cool conditions.
The snowdrops, crocuses and hellebores are magnificent this year. I was looking out of our kitchen window this morning thinking how pretty they all looked under the plum tree. And of course, the birds have started singing again. I stopped for several minutes to listen to the most beautiful thrush warbling away this afternoon.
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Chilly enough to freeze 8 inches of mud solid? Every track around our garden is now impassable - even with a 4x4 - you need a tractor.
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Beautiful sunny morning, clouding over by early afternoon. Daffoldils shining brightly in the morning sun, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing like Wordsworth's finest . A most cheering sight after such a long period of rain, gales and that gloomy leaden light that has dragged on for months.
I recall very clearly the earthquake that was felt in Suffolk in February 2008 in the early hours of 27th February. I was working late to meet an important deadline and my boss and I were quietly slogging away at our respective computers. We were both exhausted and silent, except for the occasional sigh and tsk if I made an error in the desktop publishing I was using, or the occasional sweary word from him. Suddenly the silence was broken by the sound of a tractor. I thought it was coming from behind me and I turned to look at the window at my back. As I turned back I clearly saw the room swaying from side to side. My boss said "what the **** is that!" I replied, very calmly, "an earthquake". It felt as though it went on for a long time and I was intrigued by how intense the swaying became, all the time accompanied by a low pitched rumbling, which I now realised wasn't a nocturnal joy riding tractor at all. I remember sitting there wondering how much more the Victorian building could take before it started falling to pieces. Am not sure if I was so tired I didn't have the foresight to get outside or in reality it happened over a much shorter timeframe than it felt. I suspect the latter. Naturally Badtempered Boss didn't believe me and ranted on about being disturbed (as if I had caused it...) so I was quietly (and smugly) pleased when it was on the news the next morning.
That's the one my husband noticed. I know it was fairly recent.
The most spectacular one was in Athens. We'd messed up our flight home from Syros and stayed overnight in the multi-storey hotel. I was just drifting off to sleep, about 6 floors up when I felt the rumbling tremor - just one - lasting about 10 seconds - I thought a heavy lorry had gone past but then thought "Don't be silly you wouldn't notice that 6 floors up". No one else had noticed a thing the next morning at breakfast and we flew home.
We'd been home about 36 hours when Athens was hit by a massive quake - it was in August 1999. So I felt very lucky, but wished I'd said something as a few people were killed and there was a lot of damage.
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Wasn't there an earth quake this week in the bristol channel?
The Bristol Channel floods, which occurred on 30 January 1607, resulted in the drowning of a large number of people and the destruction of a large amount of farmland and livestock. Recent research has suggested that the cause may have been a tsunami.
The cause of the flood remains disputed, insofar as contemporary explanations blamed God. Subsequent scientific explanations ignored much of the written evidence and blamed bad weather, until recent research suggested a tsunami. Traditionally it had been believed that the floods were caused by a storm surge, a combination of meteorological extremes and a high tide.
Written evidence from the time describes events that were similar to those that unfolded in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, including the sea receding before the wave arrived, a wave of water that rushed in faster than men could run, sparks coming off the top of the wave, and a crowd of people who stood and watched the wave coming towards them until it was too late to run.
There have been 10 earthquakes in the last 50 days - which is quite a low incidence, usually there are @ 15-20 of them. As the Richter Scale is a logarithmic one., a 4 magnitude quake is minor compared to a 6 or 7 which is when damage would occur. People only detect them over Mag 3.
http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/home.html
A few years ago there was one in or near Suffolk, because we live in a timber-frame house, my husband upstairs noticed it, but I was in the kitchen and didn't feel a thing - we looked it up and apparently it was a 2.8.
We''re not on the edge of a tectonic plate so it's just rocks undergoing natural settlement sometimes quite near the surface or thousands of metres below ground
Don't PANIC!.
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Hello Charltonkerry,
Thanks for your reply. You are perfectly safe as her indoors is totally computer illiterate. she can just about turn it on, but that is as far as it goes! she has no desire to use the PC. She even gets annoyed when I start to read out posts from this site as she thinks I spend too much time reading about the weather especially when I start to read postings out aloud to her!
She once went into the Halifax to set up a new account and decided on an internet one- God knows why. The assistant there got her to log in- an ordeal in itself and she then had to go through various security passwords, but forgot to write them down. The lady then asked to log in again to show her how to interrogate her account, but of course she could not. They had to start the whole process over again and that did not go without mishap. By this time the queue was almost out into the precinct. In the end the lady tactfully suggested that perhaps an internet account was not for her.
Weather related- light shower on the way back home this evening, but a bit on the chilly side.
Kind Regards
Dave
I reckon learning to use a computer is just like learning to drive a car. You either can do it or you fail every driving test into your 40s - it's nature's way of saying, this technology is not for you.
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Indeed, it was a bit of a scandal at the time as due to there being "no more snow forever", councils were not encouraged to have stocks of salt, leading to a bizarre situation in our area where all the deliveries to B&Q etc depots were suddenly cancelled and the salt commissioned by the government. My opinion is that somebody got climate change (another subject entirely, and with some huge uncertainties) mixed up with weather. Not for the first time, if we remember spring 2012's drought (" we can expect this to be a frequent occurence") followed a week later by the summer that never was. Bad advice or poor judgement?
OK, I'm done now. Sorry
It's simple. The MetO is a quango and it tells its paymasters (the government) what the government wants to hear... if they can't in all honesty do that and still be taken seriously by the public, they shave bits and pieces off and spin it. We are paying a LOT of money in green taxes and any way the Govt can justify this daylight robbery and continue to collect it and can be justified is very good news (for them).
Every heard of that saying "Whoever pays the Piper, calls the Tune"?
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Hi Iceni, It was really strange, could feel the wind whipping up and could see the line coming towards us (the rain and hail was visible as it moved forward) and was quite some way off, but still got to us as we reached the track (chalk/mud/wet underfoot, wish I'd worn my riggers rather than the garden wellies, sliding all over the place)...bloody autocorrect keeps changing wellies to willies lol. We were literally running down the track, it was like needles on your face'. Then straight back to blue sky.
Yes the wind before the squall hit was quite fun. It had been totally calm and I heard a lovely thrush singing for the first time this year, then when the squall was about 1/4 mile away, this swirly updraft (or downdraft?) hit us and we ran for the car. Opened the back of the Landy, both dogs jumped in and we set off home again.
Sorry dogs... yesterday was a swizz.
PS My 5 year old niece came home from school and said her teacher had read them 'The Wind in the Willies'.
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Thanks for the link Lassie. I thought the Met Office had ( quite rightly ) given up doing Long Range Forecasts but that was probably just for the general public. Even so if this story is true it makes for pretty grim reading.
I say that as someone who has tended to defend the Met Office on many occasions.
I don't see the point - either tell both the public and councils or admit defeat and don't predict a whole season predominant weather at all.
Councils will spend according to MetO advice infinitely more on preparation for a particular sort of winter than the public - say if they'd predicted Winter 13/14 correctly, I might have bought that nice mac in the sale, or invested in some really good wellies, if I should have bought snow stuff, no harm done.
But councils spend millions of our council tax and government money - so in a macro-economic sense, it's worse.
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Saw one just like that yesterday - just walking the dogs down the hill in a field and there this huge ominous black line squall was (a line squall was what the skipper of this sailing yacht we holidayed on called them). Of course we turned around and just managed to get back to the car as it began to rain. I was quite worried about thunder, as my Black Lab is terrified of it and might just run off, but luckily there wasn't any. Just more rain... as if we needed it.
I have to walk them on this farm hillside now as everywhere else is too slippery and there's 6" mud.
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as once N America/Canada warm up, it's bye bye to that dratted Polar Vortex which is giving us such a bad time.
I omitted to tell them it wouldn't be much, so they'll all expect blizzards and chaos. Ha ha ha 
. The dewpoints and temperatures were kept very low because of especially cold surface temperatures on the nearby continent. As the wind backed further round towards the south east, the temperature fell here from a maximum around zero in late afternoon to about -3C by late evening with powder snow! Areas further west along the coast towards Brighton were reporting sleet at this time I remember on the regional forum !!
South East England & East Anglia Regional Weather Discussion 01/03/14
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My 83 year old Dad was asked to play a game of cricket by the warden of our church. He spent all afternoon searching the loft for his bat, pads and cricket sweater and eventually found them in a tin trunk.
Came the big day and he was bowled out first over
My mother observed this with a steely eye as he'd lost his temper several times when she couldn't remember where they might be.