pascalsbongo

Nothing low down ... just not going to be cold enough . No chance on the sea front in Swansea but way up in the Tycoch / Townhill mountain region they still believe that winter exists ...

Andymusic Greatest weather forecaster Wales has ever seen. Winter ! Not been in here since the beast that failed to deliver for Swansea . Still waiting to make a proper snowman in Swansea with my daughter who is now 6. Hope your well Andy . Great to see your still here .

Drizzle on coast in Swansea ,snow above 100 metres following route from sea front up to top of townhill . This is how I think Fridays event will pan out .. Such knife edge situations !! Not noticed it sticking yet . Never mind though as unexpected bonus snow shower prior to the main event Just a little taster hopefully

pffffft what was all the fuss about, little bit of rain and a few puffs of wind, hardly storm like. Lets hope Friday can deliver lashings of lighting and a real deluge!

Lightning 9 miles from Swansea

Open the regional threads. Andymusic in south waes gets snow before anyone in the uk. ANDYMUSIC IS BACK

Yes i partially agree, but i would say that more love him than hate him , so i would call this the vanilla cheesecake syndrome. It would be interesting to see how many people actually complain about Andy as opposed to those who support him? Is there any access to this material? Anyway roll on the weekend and one last blast before we enter March and SPRINGTIME!!

Noooo, i want spring !! i want spring!! We could end up with some MEGA blizzards now!! thats ok , as long as it is not mega sleet fests. I wonder if the met office will miss you out on the next blizzard forecast lol? Apart from the main cities , we are rather sparsely populated , hence the main focus of the forecast being for the city areas of Wales.

Will the jet stream ever come back? Is this the end of the jet stream? As the arctic ice melts during global warming, this could lead to the end of the the atlantic dross as we know it. Global warming to equal cooling for the uk whilst other areas warm up (eg vancouver?) Ice cold winters that we deserve for our latitude!

Im willing to trade in any further snowfall here for an extra few clear crisp days. Or even next winter, you can take two inches of snowfall from Swansea to place on the graigerhorn , as long as you can forecast a few sunny days soon!. Apologies to other people of Swansea for giving our snow away, but its going to a good home. Which brings me onto the subject of snow theft. If you remove all the snow from next doors garden, and place it in your own, is that classed as theft? Ok it would be trespass , but theft? Do we own the snow that falls in our garden? and if its a rental property can the landlord come and take it away?

Well Andy, i hope that you are wrong this time. Whilst travelling from far west wales back to Swansea , i have seen snow over the higher ground, but generally wet mush and cold rain lower down. I have enjoyed the last few days of nice cool sunny weather , and would much prefer this to the slash we have now. Nowt worse than slashy slushy crud. MEGA cold yes , MEGA mild yes, in between cold rain no thanks. I hope your cold just brings clear days mr music. Sorry folks but i have defected into the spring camp and am hunting the mild weather. Time for that final curtain now. Those who cant stand pascal the rascal will be pleased to know i was soaked to the bone today in heavy cold sleet/rain. Come on father time speed up a little , and mother nature its time to give us 15 degree calm sunny days please. The fluffy baby rabbits are on their way.

Nice pic there Joo, and looking at that road sign , i would say that there must have been a MEGA blizzard , all be it a short one. Extremes of weather int it brilliant. Good idea, ill bring my data log book and loads of old charts to keep the conversation flowing. Wonder if we will be able to get up the graigerhorn with all that June snowfall though?

Potential three more months of winter then !! Maybe this is just the middle curtain?

"Blizzards have a negative impact on local economies and for days at a time can paralyze regions where snowfall is unusual or rare" The above is evidence that you did not have a blizzard. The blizzard that you say had a positive impact as it made you extra happy, and snowfall is not unusual or rare in your area. Therefore on a technicality i rule in favour of no blizzard. However after a re trial ,it was found that this was an Andy music blizzard , which is not defined in wikipedia. So the jury is still out.........

I suppose were it to be dark , and if you had a faulty street lamp giving off stroboscopic effects, whilst wearing some 3d glasses, and living at an altitude so high that the oxygen content makes you feel so merry, then it may well look like a blizzard. Then again , the area Andy is in, today most definately had the heavy snow fall, and a few localised gusts would have made it a knife edge blizzard situation to say the least. We just have to trust in Andy lol In Andy we trust.

<BR><BR><BR>The snow line i would say varied in height, whilst travelling east to west in south wales earlier. Around Pencoed for much of the morning was a heavy mixture of 60/40 mixture in favour of rain over snow.(guess thats rainy sleet then). Slightly further east and later on the snow line appeared to be much lower, with a mainly snow/sleet mixture, and also the beginnings of the snow line could be seen only about 50-75ft higher, so i have no doubt that up where you are it must have been very heavy snow. There is quite a bit of difference in height between ponty and pen y coed cae as it is. Lucky Andy gets his snow once more lol. I think some people are frustrated with the sleety mush they had. I missed out today, as i was just inder the snow line. I guess that will please a few people. But hey win some lose some.

Correct ,that is what i was trying to say. When did i ever say 99% on here were incredibly boring? Lol talk about a play on words. tee hee hee. 1.There is information which most like to look at (note i did not say 99%). 2.There are the more technical parts that which many do like to look at and also many do not. 3.Then there are the real dull technical jargon posts, which only a select few like to look at. Then there are the additional posts like Andys which make it worthwile reading this forum. The additional posts fill the voids of when its not snowing, and they keep this message board ticking over. If the debate is not kept alive by light hearted interjections, then the debate dies. Rather like marmite,love it or hate it ,Andy music is the main reason this message board is as active as it is. Sorry to compare you to marmite Andy lol

I think you deserve all the snow this week Andy. Your positive and refreshing attitude has made it a pleasure to take part in this forum. If it was not for your posts and one or two others on here this forum would be incredibly dull ,with nothing but boring technical jargon that most dont really understand. Hehehe snow for andy!!

More data to add to the log. I need more temperatures and dew points please. The log will be printed at the end of winter.

That was a good post. I have no soul. That could be good. Could you give me your temperatures and dew points so i can log the data. When this forum closes i will give you a copy of this winters data.

Thanks , i have logged that data now.

There is a chance those charts will verify. There is a chance that things may be good for snow. There is also a chance that this will not verify. The chances of it not veryfying mean the chance of snow will decrease possibly. It is not very cold here at the moment. I do not know what the dew point is.

It is still early days and the prospects are average.

Thats within a reliable timeframe and something to monitor. Could be good.