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    Coldest December & January On Record For Scotland

    in Spring Weather Discussion

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    Although Scotland has had the coldest combined December and January on record, temperatures would need to go lower to beat the coldest two month winter combination. January and February in 1963 was the coldest on record north of the border.

    The BBC article pointing out that 1963 was colder when January and February are combined as the cold came later in the year then.

    Still a really impressive sustained period of cold for those North of the border. Something that would not have looked too out of place much further East in Europe. Saw some spectacular photos from the spell and confess to being a tad jealous of those who got to experience it. smile.gif

    Model Output Discussion

    in Forecast Model Discussion

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    A real battle between the Icelandic Low and Siberian High.

    Fear that we will just be too far to the west and will remain under the influence of the Icelandic low whilst large areas of north / central continental Europe reap the rewards of the Easterly (unless the low tilts SE / NW allowing the high to ridge further west).

    Alot of talk about the pressure of the high over Eurasia and i notice from some description about the Siberian high that it is often above 1040mbar so not particularly unusual, it has developed pressures in excess of 1080mbar in the past!

    Cold Spell Discussion

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    this regards to the cold spell. why is it leeds never ever ever gets temperatures like -15? manchester got down to that and what makes leeds for example diffeent. its every cold spell an dit never fails to surprise me. i don't think it ever hardly drops below -5 in spells like this. why does it never get minus double digits. here we are predicted -10 tonght, my guess leeds will be -6 or something. bloody annoying.

    As a bit of a posting newbie here i'll take a stab at this. Could get it totally wrong however:-

    Many cold spells are associated with winds containing an easterly component. For the really cold minima, snow cover with clear skies and a very gentle east wind (if any at all) help to persuade more of the super cooled air on the pennines to sink down the western slopes and into the Lancashire / Greater Manchester area. I am guessing that those cold temps in Manchester / Stockport et al are a result of the air sinking down from Kinder Scout, Buxton et al.

    You could always cross the Pennines and move to Lancashire bad.gif

    General Model Output Discussion

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    There were blizzards and heavy snow today bought Reading to the standstill, all buses stopped. Worse pre christmas snow ever they are saying.

    Blizzards! really??

    The UK definition of a blizzard (one of the softest in the world) is...

    "moderate or heavy snow" combined with a mean wind speed of 30 mph (48 km/h) and visibility below 650 feet (200 m).

    Winter Wonderland

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    welcome to NW cuckoo-nice photos but it would be ever so much more interesting if we had an idea where you live please?

    Thanks for the welcome. I live in mid-Derbyshire.

    Sorry to be a pain but i have noticed that a lot of the more experienced posters have uploaded their attached files in such a fashion that when you click on them they expand to a reasonable size and can still be viewed in their entirety unlike the behmoths that I have uploaded.

    Any tips as to how this is achieved please?

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