La Bise
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Cheers lads, here is hoping yours is voodoo science, I'm flying right in that super storm in December period you're predicting!
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There was a puzzling mention on the NOAA site for Manchester Airport mentionning "smoke" as the weather conditions during an hour yesterday, now I understand. I was walking next to the Trough of Bowland yesterday and it was bone dry up there, you could walk on the bog terrain without any problems, in fact you could have done the walk in white trainers and come back with them fairly clean...
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In layman's terms, what does that mean SB?
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December, after a very mild start turned out to be pretty nice, with my favourite winter weather, cold and sunny days with ice and frost galore. January was awful aside from a very short interlude at the start. February was like December only with an incredibly mild week during the day but with bone chilling nights. March, which I consider a winter month, was quite alright, some interesting and varied weather.
All in all, in the context of the UK, a pretty decent winter, at least I had a fair few cold and frosty nights and my winter wardrobe was used fully!
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The 2003 heatwave started in late May on the continent, I was in Geneva for the weekend at that time and it was 30c+ outside during the day. It stayed cool at night so it was really the best of both world. However when I got back there in late june, it was rather different. Very luckily the first night was cool as they had been a thunderstorm during the day but by the next day, temps were up to 35c+ during the day and barely going below 25c at night, I remember walking home at 1am and the temp in the city was still 29c. It made it near impossibly to sleep properly, everything was going slower, commercial output must have dipped as most people simply adopted survival pattern, there is far less aircon offices in Geneva than in Manchester ironically. The heatwave only started to die down in august...
Anyhow, the day I flew back, it was 37c when I left in a baking hot sun. In Manchester it was 16c and left trouser leging it down, the relief lasted about 5 mins then, sitting outside a cold pub, looking at the rain falling, I shrugged my shoulders and got on with it...
My own longuest period of hot weather was in 94, I was still living in Geneva back then and we had over a month of relentless 30-35 c temps by day and hot nights although there was a thunderstorm every 4/5 days to clear the air for a short while and allow you one night of decent sleep (which in my case was even more compromised having just met a lovely girl...)
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I'd dispute that. Chances of a long hot summer (or at least a summer with much more sunshine and warm spells, featuring regularly) are surely stronger than the chances of a snow dominated winter ....
Possibly but most of the times it will be the same tropical maritime wet mush we get in winter, only a bit milder. Thank God for that incidentally, hot weather does not suit this country at all
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A long, hot, summer...yeah right, about as likely as a cold, snowy winter.
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A very good month for me. Cold nights, even during the mild spell during the day, lots of sun and bone dry for a while, perfect hiking weather. Being on top of the Peak District, the sun beating down on me, no wind at all and frost in the shadows/frozen streams certainly made me very happy!
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-1c at Manc Airport at 8am, 11c now, probably 15c by 3pm then drops like a stone by 5pm...bit bonkers. It's like having two seasons on the same day, from deep winter to late spring to deep winter in what, 12 hours... :huh:
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23rd of June, on the first day of sun after 6 weeks of "mild zonality", the forum goes in "pattern change" meltdown, GFS did not see it coming (predicting "mild zonality" for that day) and ECM hinted at it 3 weeks earlier but MetO remained uncommited up until T12 at which point the server crashed for about an hour.
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in Spring Weather Discussion
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I'm a fanatical hiker, it does play a part insomuch as I like to be prepared although I rarely go out without the full kit. Today was a good example when I did not bother with any waterproof gear (aside from by boots and gaiters, snow galore where I was, sank more than once knee deep in snow drifts. Pure orgasm!) but I don't spend too much agonising on what the models show, partly due to lack of knowledge partly due to being adaptable.
I'm a simple man, I like my summers to be warm, my winters to be cold, that's what I was used to in Central Europe and to me is the best possible situation, well defined seasons. Suffice to say that I'm as happy as a pig in muck at the moment, today I spent 6 hours walking through what seemed like frozen Siberian tundra just a short train journey away from my home and quite frankly, if it could stay like that till March, I would be a happy man!
I'm quite partial to a rainy, windy day with the leaves swirling away, to me this is the best suited weather to the UK, autumn is the one season that never fails to please me, be it on the trail or even mopping around in town. It makes a visit to a warm, cosy pub with good ale and a roaring fire an act of worship...