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Defo been snowing in Stroud, they need to clean snow off the car. Although the quote was icy snow, so maybe hail.
It was very heavy hail in Churchdown - gave a good covering and but quickly went slushy
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How do u know that for sure?
If u genuinely do know and can make this kind of statement every year and are proven right each year you will become a very rich man.
Good luck to you!
The foundations are definately laid - interpreting what they mean is another matter!
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Last year really opened my eyes to the importance of the stratospheric profile on the synoptic developments during winter. I think the evidence is there for all to see personally.....
Also, one post stating it's only 12th October.....well the foundations for the coming winter are starting to be laid NOW. It reminds me of how last season started....Oh it's only November.....December.....January.....tick tock tick tock.
P.s I'll be extra naffed off if I get no snow here this winter, especially after a stormless summer. It's like a constant cycle of moderate rain, sun, cloud here and has been for 18 months!
Couldn't agree more - the foundations of our winter are probably already built - sudden major pattern changes do happen but often they remain for months. As far as I am concerned we had the same very general pattern from Jan 2011 right through to April 2012
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Im just ready for Spring and summer now. Weve at least seen some snow and very cold nights. Its been a decent cold spell particularly with the 4th Feb snow and the night before reaching -10c.
No, I want more than that ! Trouble is spring seems to have arrived now +8C and sun coming through !
was thinking that myself, come along Spring! the models look awful for the remainder of Feb, like a flashback to autumn, now models should be showing settled sunny dry weather
of course want more snow, but none of this wind and rain crap
Wind and rain can be quite fun!! We probably still need the rain as well
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Stopped snowing here - not good
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Well we had about 5 hours of snow and what did we end up with - about 1cm
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Just turned to rain here. sob! sob!
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Quite a nice little covering earlier on but now largely melted - a big surprise !!
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Snowing hard and settling everywhere now - 2011/12 won't be my first snowless winter after all !!
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If only that had settled we would have been knee deep in it - that was torrential sleet !
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Still +5C here and not really expecting a frost tonight.
As far as I am concerned it is not unusual to still be frost free by late November, here. I don't think we had had many by this time, even last year. They had one less than half a mile away four weeks ago but it remained +3C here
R
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Nothing indicates there would be something better replacing the high though, if the Atlantic pushes through, it's SWlies all the way and with them there is zero chance of anything seasonnal (unlike the chance of some inversion cold with the high in situ).
Any form of precipitation would be welcome to over come this severe lack of rainfall but we been stuck in a general pattern since last January and unfortunatly with the Atlantic seemingly weak I am not sure whether it will really break through
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I get the general feeling that the current weather pattens are very similar to those that have existed since January. i.e high pressure to the east blocking lows coming in from the west and causing things to be very dry and mostly cloudy. Am I correct?
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Still hardly any rain here. I don't record rainfall quantities but we haven't had any serious rain yet this year
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It was Jan 82 rather than Dec 81 that was the most amazing here. Yes, it was cold with about 4 ins of snow in December but it turned mild before Christmas. Snow returned with avengence in early Jan 82 with 12 ins of it in my garden here and a temp of -16C. The most snow and lowest temp I have ever recorded
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All I had that day was rain, sadly
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Thick rime ice on trees on Gloucester City Centre with blue christmas lights in then - spectacular
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1cm here - some now melted and much turned to ice. Now minus 2.8C
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This predicted lack of rain is getting serious - a winter drought looming. We have hardly had any all year
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I guess it depends where in the country you are to consider it a remarkable winter. To me the only thing that was remarkable was the absense of really mild weather. To call it severe, I would expect a fall of snow of more than 10 inches that stayed around with very little thaw for at least two weeks. That was the sort of thing we saw in 1962/3 and nearly in 1981/2 which have been the only two (what I would call) severe winters I have experienced.
Richard
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Interesting data there - it certainly explains why my recollection of winters of my late teens (1977 to 1981) was one of cold weather
R
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I think it is taken for granted that we are talking about next week. Unecessary post. Please stop deliberate nitpicking.
Definately not taken for granted - I knew it returned tomorrow and was puzzled to see it being suggested that the return was delayed
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This may well have been a severe winter with excessive snowfall here in the south. And yet the SE didn't grind to a hault, didn't suffer very much and everything went (comparible to what everyone was saying prior to December) on like it would have done in the 60s.
I've always protested about the hypothesis that the SE can't cope with a severe winter in modern times. This and Jan/Feb 2009 proves it can by a long shot. And conditions this month aren't too dissimilar if not worse to 1963.
Was this a severe cold spell or not? I remember many years from the 70s when when we regularly had 5 inches of snow as we did this year. We have had 10 days of snow cover which is longer than I'm used to but 7 days isn't that rare (even since 2000). Temps of -9C happen every three or four years whereas this year we had a -12C but that coincided with snow cover. To me in my back yard I would use the term moderately severe. What do others think?
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Snowing lightly and settling here +0.6C
I heard at work today that the ground is frozen to a least a foot which I find quite a amazing - that will take a long time to thaw out
R
I think it is taken for granted that we are talking about next week. Unecessary post. Please stop deliberate nitpicking.
Model Mayhem - Moan, Ramp, Go Nuts
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I am not surprised at all by the negativity - not everyone has experienced any particularly significant yet. Here we have seen about 4 inches of snow most of which has now melted and no frost for quite a while