Mark.C
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3 years ago today was my last thunderstorm.
We had better win this year.I remember that storm there was reports on the news about it, looked awesome. It was really warm that week and i expected to get a storm here that night as it clouded up but nothing as usual
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All cape now been removed for Northern England for sunday, didnt expect it to downgrade so soon typical!!!
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Sunday now looking better for storms in Northern England, but still to early to get excited it could all be downgraded to nothing as usual
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Blackpool has never been a particularly snowy location. At Lancaster, the 1971-2000 average was only 6 days per year with lying snow, and at Blackpool it's probably more like 3 or 4 days. Lancaster was similar with snow as well as storms- most of the snow events gave a dumping up on the Pennines, on occasion Lancaster would catch a dusting on the western flank, while at Morecambe on the coast it very rarely settled.
On Christmas Day 2004 sleety showers were reported from the Blackpool area while Lancaster had an inch of lying snow.
As for storms in the South West, they're more common than in eastern Scotland or much of northern England north of Yorkshire, but not relative to the more thunder-prone areas of England. The south-west of England tends to miss a lot of the continental imports that head up from France, while homegrown storms over the region tend to grow in intensity as they head east and north. But on occasion a Spanish plume with the wind not west of due south, or a south-easterly regime, may bring big thunderstorms to the SW. But I think most south-west England storms tend to be quite well scattered, like the one that brought a rumble of thunder to the east of Exeter on 28 April this year.
I do think East Anglia and parts of south-east England get the biggest and most frequent thunderstorms, but Lincolnshire, the Midlands, parts of S Yorkshire and around Manchester are not far behind.
I remember the wintry showers on xmas day 04 no lying snow in Blackpool but on boxing day there was lying snow in Preston just a few miles inland. I bet you have had some decent storms where you are compared to when you were in Lancaster and more snow too. lol
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No,sadly I'm not in the best of places here.I have only lived in Glos for a few years I'm originally from Plymouth. I can only recall a couple of good storms here but that's going back a few years now. I live in a valley surrounded by hills,so I've been told storms never seem to make it here due to the hills
Plymouth used to have some good storms.But I have noticed lately that they aren't as frequent as years ago.
Believe me !! Storms have decided too miss Tewks lately.
Who knows!! everywhere could see some good oones this year.Time will tell
Well storms in Blackpool certainly arent as frequent as they used to be. My mum says in the 60s 70s and 80s there were loads of decent storms in Blackpool, she says theres hardly anything now compared to what it was like back then, oh and there was a lot more snow about then too and i love snow in winter, well looking at peoples pictures of snowfall on netweather gallery. lol
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The GFS probably has lol. Hopefully we will all be lucky( but how many times have I said that lol)
I doubt I will even get one lol. But if I do ,I will gladly send it your way
In recent years storms have been very rare here . Really? I thought you would of been in a good location for storms coming in from the south or south west. I always envy people who live in or around your area because of lots of storms. I bet you get more than me this summer anyway
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Woooo!!!! lol Sunday's looking good for storms for me
But it's still to early yet. It will change to zero by then knowing my luck
lolIf u do get some decent storms then please could you send one north to me, cape not looking too good for me again for sunday it all seems to happen further south.
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LMAO! My mum kind of understands what I show her on the net with the radar and stuff but she still doesen't really get most of it. It's funny you should mention that there was an inch sitting on the school football pitch because when we had that crazy hail/thunderstorm here last Tuesday I was supposed to have football training an hour after the storm had passed, there was about an inch of hail laying on all surfaces and I thought "Well it will have melted in an hours time, it's almost May, it won't last more than 20 mins before melting! Well how wrong I was :lol: An hour later and the artificial grass pitch which we train on was still covered in an inch of compacted hail so it was like a skating rink and we had to call training off. In fact there was still patches of hail that lasted overnight! The storm passed at about 6pm on Tuesday evening and most of the hail had melted by 8:30pm but on patches on the grass and on a few roofs the hail managed to last through the night because the temperature dropped to about 1-2c. I don't know how that happened because before the hailstorm came the temperature was around 16c.
Im still in the no storms club, apart from a few distant rumbles last year. I cant remember an overhead storm here in Blackpool they all seem to pass to the east of us and i can hardly hear them. I dont even recall hail falling here let alone an inch covering :lol: I hope to have at least one decent storm this year!
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Excellent pics, would love to see clouds like that here.
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That band of rain over Ireland is moving across in a very straight line on the radar. Cloudy and cool here currently 7c, hope the sun comes out later.
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Certainly my most memorable snow event, in Windermere we saw 18 inches of snow and school was closed for a week. Haven't seen anything nearly as deep since, though 28/29 Dec 2000 deserves a mention for the fine powder, and also 29 feb 2004 in Sunderland where I was working at the time probably about 4-5 inches.
Seems poor that I have not seen a foot or more since considering having spent most of the period either in Newcastle/Sunderland, Stirling (jun 2000 - june 2001) and Windermere (i missed the march 12th 2006 event in Windermere which I believe delivered 6 inches or more..).
Going back to someones message about April 1981 what a severe event that was considering the time of year must have been some exceptionally cold air about!
yes ive heard about the 1981 event wish i was old enough to witness that. As for 12th march 2006 , yes that was good about 4 ins but it turned to rain and melted same day.Nothing i can remember beats early feb 96, would love to see some pics or weather forecasts from then if anyone has them.
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6th feb 96 it started snowing just before dinnerbreak i was in my last year at school. By the end of dinnerbreak it was starting to settle, and by hometime there was roughly 4 ins laying snow and still snowing. That night it continued to snow and got deeper. The next morning i woke up and expected it to have melted, how wrong was i, it was still snowing and was over a foot deep level snow and deep drifts. It wasnt till late the following night that it stopped snowing and the snow lasted on the ground for almost a week and this was in Blackpool of all places!!
Anyone else remember this event in the north west?
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Excellent pics, especially teits snow pics love em.
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Three fine days and a thunderstorm,cant grumble at that.
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is the strength of the sun today the same as it would be on 29th september
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very blustery today and feeling cold too,seemed to have missed all the showery activity too.Nothing exciting ever happens here weatherwise.
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Drizzly here in sunny old blackpool, mild too unlike early this morning.The car thermometer registered -3 at 6am then after a mile drive to work to the sea front it was registering +3
We had better win this year.
In recent years storms have been very rare here .
The 'no Storms Club' 2009
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well you might get another one soon. Storms used to be very frequent here in Blackpool according to my mother. I bet you get loads of snow in winter where you are.