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A bloody disgrace. Would love to know the real reason. How the hell is Corbett better?
With you on that one, drives me potty watching him.
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I've just sown my chillies last week but I've got propagators and a heated polytunnel so I can get away with an early sowing. Small propagators are relatively cheap these days and last for donkeys years so it's worth investing in one as you'll much better germination rates and uniformity of size rather than them emerging over a longer period.
I tried a new variety last year, Bulgarian Carrot. They actually look like carrots hanging of the plant even down to little lines on them and, by god are they hot! I sell plants and I fear I might have misled a few people as to how hot they were.
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We had unexpected snow here yesterday morning despite being on the coast so we can never say never. Gut feeling though is if the precip arrives too early it will be rain and stay as rain. The temp has gone up by 0.7c since yesterday which has made the snow event a lot less likely.
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Drizzle here for the past 90 minutes in Wareham. Doesn't bode well for those on the south coast for tomorrow
Just started snowing here and sticking on pavements and roofs already, nice pleasant surprise.
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This different to what was forcast. I am sure the low was supposed to move south east. Please let me know if I am wrong about this.
No you're not wrong, the forecast clearly said the low would move off to the east through the day. In fact it sunk south which we why we under the rotation at the moment. We just need the low to stall or move a little bit west and we should stay under the feed of snow.
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Anybody know what is happening to the low pressure? GFS has it sinking south (good for my location) and BBC N24 has it heading East.
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An emergency warning one minute then taken away the next. Cruel is the only way I can describe it as I'm sure other Dorset peeps will agree. No amount of radar watching is going to make it any different either.
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Just come on line so forgive me if this has already been said earlier in the thread but David Braine the spotlight forecaster said that the low was going to develop in the channel and that this early snow is not to do with the later warnings. So rightly or wrongly i'm still hoping for an event after 20.00
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If the ppn charts were reliable we'd have a foot of snow by weds teatime.........
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Can I bank the 06z, please??
The first chart within the reliable(very 'ish') timeframe that gives ME potential of a good dumping. My first snowflake of the winter would be followed in very quick succession by many others if this verifies!This has been hinted at for a while on the charts and seems a pluasable outcome. As the front drops down through us it is heading towards where the energy is, a formation of a small trough before it gets absorbed into the parent Med one, why not? Wishful thinking maybe but this is the first time this winter I have been able to see an evolution within 4 days that COULD give me down here a bit of snow.
But as we know the models giveth and the models taketh away.......
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No snow here, not unusual for us though as we need to have a channel low for a decent dumping. Anything else is always short lived. Hopefully we'll get some Tues night/Weds am but I'm not betting on it.
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Temperature only 4.8 here despite netweather forecast of 10degrees. I also noticed that Portland's temperature has actually dropped a couple of degrees from overnight. Does this mean the warmer air is delayed in getting in here or possibly not going to arrive at all.
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can i just say to everyone, this is touch and go once the main band comes across temps will rise but at the moment promising for higher ground. just dont get to excited but conditions are set. i don't like to be boring and is usually the excited one, but the intensity looks great at the moment but not sure how much it will fizzle out as it hits land. in terms of timing it will be good as it approaches evening.
Totally agree, the band of ppn has been just off the coast for an hour or so now, I'm only a mile inland and it's still not raining yet as it just keeps fizzling out.
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Temp has risen to 3.1 here now so looks like the band of ppn is gonna fall as rain, so close
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As I'm new to having central heating any views on whether it would be better to set the thermostat now, and have the heating kick in when the temp drops to maintain what heat is leftover in the walls from summer, or wait til later on when I actually get cold. We've used to being in a cold house with just an open fire in the living room so I'm not sure what to do.
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Just had a heating system installed this summer as daytime temps in the house were down to single figures last winter, being home all day it was just too much.......must be getting old. I've been having a good time winding up family and friends that I'm not intending putting it on, too expensive, but so far it's still nice and warm in the evening. We have very thick old walls and are south facing so are still retaining a lot of warmth. The other half will just keep putting on more layers until I set the programmer.
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Nothing here, quelle surprise! Did have 2mm of rain though whoppee.
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No storms and no rain here. We've had only 3mm of rain since 6 June, the fields are brown and the my allotment is a disaster.
We only had 20mm in May and 13mm in June so even if it rained now it would just run off. It never ceases to amaze me how different the weather can be within a small geographical area.
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v jealous of your rainfall totals. Here on the coast in west dorset we have had a paltry 20mm in May and only 13mm in June, 11mm of that being on the 6th so things are getting a bit desperate, Hence the name microclimate, every shower heading our way has either evaporated or split with rain going either side. I've got my fingers crossed for some rain tomorrow but I'm not holding out much hope.
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Very surprised at the amount of snow here on the coast, several inches overnight. The roads weren't gritted again so deep slush on the roads outside, my other half won't be happy as he had the day off anyway!
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Whilst the ECM and METO aren't as amplified as the GFS 0z, they are much improved from previous runs. As I mentioned last night, big test of the new GFS.
It's once again all about which model handles the US eastern seaboard low the best. Now this is GFS's neck of the woods, will be interesting to see how things pan out.
I continue to be shocked by the lack of interest in this thread given the wintry prospects next week.
I suspect that if many are like myself then the've had their fix for this winter...........our expectations are so low these days.
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Just as surprising as the dumping of snow we had here on Friday is that it is still here on roofs and pavements where the sun hasn't got to. Its been years since we've had snow fall that hasn't melted straight away.
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They have now. Updated about 7 minutes ago.
Yes, just as they issue the warning it starts to ease up, not sure why they bothered, about three hours too late to stop peeps getting stuck.
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Where are you exactly if you dont mind me asking?
I'm between weymouth and bridport.
Shame they are never right 
Can Anyone Help? Weather Stats For Dorset
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Hi all,
I need some weather stats for the Blandford area. My brother in law had a nasty cycling accident caused by a pot hole on an official cycling route. The council are citing bad weather but I don't recall the weather being particularly cold or wet after mid January but I'm on the coast and the weather can be very different inland.
What I am more precisely interested in is whether there was any very wet or cold weather between 1st March and 7th April as this is when the pot hole apparently 'appeared'. Also whether there was any severe weather between 20th January and 7th April as the road was apparently checked and there were no potholes yet the pothole my Bro in law hit was very deep and large.
Hope someone in that area can help,
thanks.