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We are now loosing between 2 and 3 minutes of daylight each night - the period from now through to when the clocks go back is the period of greatest rate of loss of light per day. After the clocks go back the rate slows down gradually.
On wet nights it is preety dark by 8.30pm whereas clear skies can make for fairly light conditions still at 9pm. Make the most of the light in about 6 weeks time it will be dark by 7pm even on clear days and earlier on wet cloudy evenings.
God it'll be dark by 6.30 then , that'll be weird!
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Sunset Is 8.42pm here.
Sunrise is 6.15am here..
I wish they were later i am really getting sick of these long nights.
It usually gets pitch dark around 23:23! Though that shortens in the winter very quickly
Edit thats totally different now, was dark at 9pm last night!
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Sunset Is 8.42pm here.
Sunrise is 6.15am here..
I wish they were later i am really getting sick of these long nights.
It usually gets pitch dark around 23:23! Though that shortens in the winter very quickly
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Tonight - My Exact Position
Sunset: 20:23:18
Civil: 21:03:11
Nautical: 21:54:27
Astronomical (Pitch Black): 22:57:24
Where did you get that?
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Lerwick is forecasted 6C tonight which is suprising considering the oceans are at their warmest now. Tommorow night looks too windy for most to record decent minima, though a few places in Scotland could get into single digits, however the BBC have commented on the low minima likely on tuesday night. GFS forecast minima of 5C for Scotland and Ireland from tuesday night.
We've been having that for weeks here... its not unusual now. Though it is becoming more autumnal now so we are having cooler maxes apparently all week we are going to be having 12c maxes and in the highlands it will be 8 and 9c, is this normal?
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Yep. Down to just t120 now. Though it is quite fleeting and just a small area once again.
Aw well at least if it does come it'll be record again, though it says it'll rise to 5 850pha, will that really happen?? Or has that just been happening in fi?
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Both in eastern Greenland in the middle of the -15C areas. They're not numbered as -20C but there is a small dashed line shape to show where it should be. It's barely there on t162, but tis visible enough at t186.
Ah sure I'll post up the images and put a red box around the areas in question!
Does it come out too 120 hours now?
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The very end of the 06z GFS shows the the first -20C 850hPa of the Autumn, arriving September 5th. 'Tis nice to see those blues and purples appearing on the models again, even if they are nowhere near our shores yet.
everything seems to be coming early this year it won't be long until -5 is over me
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oh goody but i doubt it
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rubbish old day, temp got up to 15c most of time but cloud cleared away to leave glourious sunshine and 17c, luckily tonight it'll drop and we will get 3/4c!
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It's the same up here and it's funny I made the same point in another thread not so long ago. There seems to be a perception by many up here actually that August is the start of autumn. Maybe it's the Celtic connection with Ireland, their calendar is:
Spring - Feb/Mar/Apr
Summer - May/Jun/Jul
Autumn - Aug/Sep/Oct
Winter - Nov/Dec/Jan
But the recent poor run of Augusts is a disappointment nonetheless. Maybe I've just been spoiled in my short time with years like 1995 and 2003!
Actually this August hasn't been too bad here so far and is fast catching up with July for number of days over 4 hours sunshine (7 to July's 11)
Aye it must be these irish ones on this weather forum were saying that autumn had started and i was like............ dosen't autumn not start near the end of september! Not friggen august, (mind you, you'd think it was setptember now at 13/14c maxes i wonder what october will be like!!!!
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Absolutley not. I don't think it's possible for winter to be delayed. One Northerly/Easterly outbreak after mid-november will be cold.
That's a ploughed road!!!! The snow ploughs have move ALL OF THE SNOW on the road, to the side. Obviously it's going to look piled up...
You said 4 feet now you are saying 3 feet! Make up your mind.
Edit: If you go onto the next picture, you can see clearly the snow level behind the piled up snow. It's around 1.5ft which was my original estimate!!!
Stop treating me and others like we are dumb! I do know that and if you look to the side its far more than that as you can see its near up the fences, and that area is like 600foot the main road is 950 foot and the road i was on was 1200 foot, so don't tell me whats their and i don't live in bloody ireland!
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Where I live, I'd say Winter starts when the mercury doesn't hit 15c in a day. Hasn't happened yet, and forecasts show that it might not happen for a while yet. Also, late Autumn expected, could this also delay this years' winter?
Erm we've been having that here for 2 weeks now and no its not winter temps that quite mild for winter!
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Cairngorms can get that but that's a very high mountain range. The snow doesn't thaw throughout winter. I remember Frosty reporting that in a single night.
He lives in Ireland. Not Himalayas.
Erm no i live in northern ireland they are a different country with a totally different climate when it comes to snow. Read this it says 4 foot drifts at the road which is lower than the road at my hill : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8596098.stm , plus my station had 50mm of rain which that day and 20 the night before which equals 70mm which is probably going to be 100 cm up on hills with all the stuff added on whice is at least 3 foot aswell as the 2 foot of snow below that from the snow before that which lay all winter.
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Frosty, come on mate. I already pulled you for your temperature readings, which seem to be 10c out.
But now 4 feet of level snow in the hills.
4 feet is something that doesn't occur often even in Finland, Sweden, France, Scotland. 4 feet is a stupid estimate. Maybe 1.5 feet. Not 4 mate.
Oh dear god. I think i know how much snow was on the hills thank you. There was most definately at least 3 foot of level snow look at this pic :http://www.flickr.com/photos/sallea/4478945038/ --- that is the height of it on the main road, here is a flat one, http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellswood/4490231442/ you see snow at the top of the fences nearly!
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Less than 3 weeks to go and the METO are now forecasting into September !!
http://www.metoffice...st_weather.html
Summer's over...........
Most certainly is only 12c here now, days are definately getting colder, start of month maxes were 16c now they are like 14c.
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i now reckon we will get a way below average autumn for temperatures. the pattern what we had last winter is still continuing after months and months , with high pressure to the north etc and there some trends of northerlies from the gfs as we head towards the end of august. look at 06z at the end of the run. cool air setting in place http://www.netweathe.../h850t850eu.png look at the warmth going around the uk and the much cooler air developing over scandinavia.
i remember last september and it always seemed to be consistent warmth with temps at 21/22c. we havent even got above that for a whole week here at least, since july. the odd days above 21c and thats it.
What sort of temps would that bring? We haven't had that for well over a month!
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Hehe, we do *occasionally* get wind chill readings (not actual temperatures) of below -50 C. Temperatures in winter are frequently below -20, and wind chill readings of over -30 are common. But it varies winter by winter - and temperatures can change quite quickly (for better and worse). Summers are hot and humid, with temperatures often over 25 C, feeling hotter with the humidity.
The truth is, I think I'm probably going to miss the city. The weather can be uncomfortable sometimes, but it can also be unpredictable and interesting, with occasional severe thunderstorms and blizzards, and extreme temperatures.
That said, though, I will still fully enjoy my first winter without said temperatures.
Oh yes i heard about the extreme temps apparently rising from -20c to 0c in one night! Ohh dear, bit nuts, i would love that cold but no colder after -40c it starts to get a bit bad!
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Well my ideal autumn would be summer until late October, then winter- say the first half of autumn 2006 followed by the second half of autumn 1993. Failing that some crisp sunny days followed by frosty, foggy nights would do. Not weeks on end of 10-14C with cloud and rain like happened in most of the autumns of the early 2000s, or a repeat of autumn 1994 when the tempreature seemed to stay the same from September till mid-December.
I doubt we'll have that if we have been having 14c maxes all august (here anyway.)
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We missed the March event, it was late Feb which we got a hammering.
We saw nothing here in the end of March "Red" event. Not a single flake.
It was marginal all winter, sometimes on the right side of the margin but often on the drip drip side of it.
You live in a coastal area so that is to be expected, sorry.
Not when its -4c all winter and then it warms up when it snows!
We got sleet all day but it turned to blowing snow and it started to lay but it stopped. But the hills above got at least 4 foot of level snow. -
What struck me about the snowy spell we had between Dec 17th and January 17th was the fact that at most times the temperatures were marginal and it took ages to reach our maximum depth of 18 inches in my back garden . There was some sort of thaw nearly every day-like others here I am not complaining - just harping about winters past when snow fell on occasion at about -2c and accumulated much more readily.
Yes we had -4c maxes most of the time but anytime a front came the temp rose to about 2c and the snow never lay.
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Oh, and I think worst winter event was probably the blizzard of 5-6 April 1997. Blew snow for 24 hours, dumping 48 cm. What really made it "worst" was that it was was very, very badly timed -- we had already had a record year of snowfall and the Red River was already very bloated. Being hit with the worst blizzard in the area for, like, 40 years pretty much made flooding that spring inevitable. (Surprisingly, Winnipeg doesn't really get blizzards that often.)
Oooo your from winnipeg, my uncle told me stories about that place apparently they get -50c their and the snow is real bad, i hated it when i was their so flat and depressing could see for hundreds of miles.
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The one in april, snow flying past me at 70mph and temps of -3c made it feel freezing!?! The snow eventually got upto about 4 foot of level snow at the top of the hill and very high drifts mostly around 8 foot but some very high drifts maybe 15 foot?? It lasted to may, i actually remember seeing snow lying in the middle of april with 21c and wall to wall sunshine, but at night it got down to about -2c (one time -7c, but max that day was 14c.)!
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Excelent!
The -15C isotherm has developed a full nine days earlier than at any time in the last 13 years, 2006 was the next earliest occurance as the -15C isotherm developed on the 19th, we also seem to be accelarating away from our rivals because the -5C isotherm developed just seven days earlier than 2000.
Our next target is the -20C isotherm, this occured earliest in 2005, 2004 and 2003 on the 18th, 19th and 20th of September respectively. Now i personally doubt that we will have to wait over a month for a 5C drop in the Arctic temperature, so i think we have a good chance of seeing bigger gains against years since 1997.
The coldest isotherm recorded in the UK was -24C in January 1987. Scotland will usually see the -5C isotherm (required for snow) flirting in September, England usually gets its first real wintry push in November.
Ok october then but since this is early maybe earlier.
oh goody but i doubt it
Grass frost? Then 24c tomorrow yay!?!
We got sleet all day but it turned to blowing snow and it started to lay but it stopped.
But the hills above got at least 4 foot of level snow.
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