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  • Location: Steeton, W Yorks, 270m ASL
  • Location: Steeton, W Yorks, 270m ASL
The sensors in Glasgow are picking up snow ramping for Wednesday and Thursday all the way from Barlbrough. Keep watch for lastest developments.

That's not near Lesta is it? I've been trying to pin that place down.

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  • Location: Heswall, Wirral
  • Weather Preferences: Summer: warm, humid, thundery. Winter: mild, stormy, some snow.
  • Location: Heswall, Wirral

satsigs alert number 4,002,9272,666,6229,000

possible snow events driven on by hurricane force 12 blizzard event for hi-lands and scotland, however carlisle is not in the alert.

standby issue number 6,000,000

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  • Location: Brixton, South London
  • Location: Brixton, South London

Some quite spectacular ramping from Bexleyheath (firmly outside the ZSMT) at around 11pm this evening on the Model Discussion Thread(gratuitous mentions of 26.12.62 must alone get to a 4):

"http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/19...00119621226.gif

Meets

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn3361.png

After my post earlier- thats the best case scenario........."

Quite possibly a deliberate ramp to test the monitors rather than the real thing...

Regards

ACB

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  • Location: Putney, SW London. A miserable 14m asl....but nevertheless the lucky recipient of c 20cm of snow in 12 hours 1-2 Feb 2009!
  • Location: Putney, SW London. A miserable 14m asl....but nevertheless the lucky recipient of c 20cm of snow in 12 hours 1-2 Feb 2009!

0742 GMD Thread: Interesting, and I think new variety of default ramp spotted, emanating from highly active area of S Yorks. While admitting no snow forecast for next frontal system, suggestion that this could be because presenter didn't have time to mention it.

I suppose this is a Stage 1 Alert, though it hardly seems strong enough to justify such a high number....can we go into negatives?

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  • Location: Steeton, W Yorks, 270m ASL
  • Location: Steeton, W Yorks, 270m ASL
0742 GMD Thread: Interesting, and I think new variety of default ramp spotted, emanating from highly active area of S Yorks. While admitting no snow forecast for next frontal system, suggestion that this could be because presenter didn't have time to mention it.

I suppose this is a Stage 1 Alert, though it hardly seems strong enough to justify such a high number....can we go into negatives?

I think maybe we need YET ANOTHER classification, which I have to say would lead to bounteous dividends here on N-W, which is the Clutchus Strawus. That's fantastic, up there with the person who once tried to tell me what I had intended to say...well, er, no actually.

Good to see the London monitoring network has lost none of its hair trigger accuracy. I seem to recall Bexleyheath was something of a hotspot last winter as well. I'm backing Telford this year though, don't know why, but I have a feeling in my bones. Telford, they could put one of those brown tourist signs up: "welcome to sleety rain country"...

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  • Location: The Weather Surgery Nr Langsett S.Yorks 340m asl
  • Location: The Weather Surgery Nr Langsett S.Yorks 340m asl

Being from the Sensible thinking zone is my wife now banned from voting for Mark RAMPrakash on strictly come buffoonery?

Doc.

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  • Location: Steeton, W Yorks, 270m ASL
  • Location: Steeton, W Yorks, 270m ASL
Being from the Sensible thinking zone is my wife now banned from voting for Mark RAMPrakash on strictly come buffoonery?

Doc.

I think the RAMPlifications of applying sound thinking too rigidly beyond the confines of snow giddiness just aren't worth thinking about.

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  • Location: G.Manchester
  • Location: G.Manchester

There's been a fair few instances of the December 30th 1979 charts being uploaded over on the Model Discussion thread. Blues and Purples dominating our NE

Some seem to suggest we're in for the same treatment come this December and with FI showing something of a NE orientation of wind, SATSIG vigilance is a necessity.

Should we be stocking up on Brown Sauce?

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Posted
  • Location: Poole
  • Weather Preferences: Extremes, inc Snow and Wind
  • Location: Poole

Warning, Warning!

People have recommisioned the will it snow at xmas thread!

I hear people bosting they have a 55 or 65% of a white xmas according to Met-Check!

First and final warning issued!

Think we may have to Escalate this one later! Currently at level 5!

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  • Location: Leeds (Roundhay) 135m
  • Location: Leeds (Roundhay) 135m

That's not near Lesta is it? I've been trying to pin that place down.

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Barlbrough is near chesterfield. I live in Barlbrough

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  • Location: Glasgow
  • Location: Glasgow
Warning, Warning!

People have recommisioned the will it snow at xmas thread!

I hear people bosting they have a 55 or 65% of a white xmas according to Met-Check!

First and final warning issued!

Think we may have to Escalate this one later! Currently at level 5!

Ive tried to calm it down. But most of the activity is coming from the Teeside area and North England.

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  • Location: Leeds/Bradford border, 185 metres above sea level, around 600 feet
  • Location: Leeds/Bradford border, 185 metres above sea level, around 600 feet

What level are we at now, have we backed down from the level 2 warning.

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  • Location: Rossland BC Canada
  • Location: Rossland BC Canada

______________Daily Excess___________________

Saturday, 25 November, 2006 Price: 2 much

___________________________________________________________

<<< HOWLING GALE SKIRTS BRITAIN >>>

by Dennis Dubious with Pumpkin Bassetthound

LONDON -- Much of Britain was battered today by what some are calling

the worst storm since Thursday. Winds were recorded at 5 knots at the

London Weather Centre, which is the equivalent of 6 mph or several angstroms

per nanosecond. Winds of this magnitude occur on the average about once every

five years, in Antarctica.

Damage reports were too numerous to enumerate, and still coming in to our

newsroom from France, Japan, and Mongolia.

In one tragic turn of events, a bag of crisps was completely blown apart and

moved upwards of 100 feet, according to an astonished eyewitness who

told me, "The bag of crisps was completely blown apart and moved upwards

of 100 feet."

There was no report available on whether the bag contained crisps or not at

the time it was seen blowing across the heavily-travelled arterial route which

also serves as a lane.

Sport was also affected by the strong wind. Birmingham City, hemmed in

their own end as usual, had to defend 73 corner kicks in the first half alone,

and trailed 1-0 at halftime after their keeper kicked the ball into the vicious

gale and saw it returned into his own net.

A spokesman at the Ministry of the Obvious said that "obviously this will not

be good if it keeps up, or shall I say, begins."

Russian climate expert Igor Tunodoff, contacted by the Excess at his office

at the University of That Town That Used To Be Gorki, stated "This is almost

certainly a result of global warming, which is almost certainly a result of

Americans driving too many cars, which is almost certainly a result of

the mania for shopping, which is almost certainly a result of having too

many goods in the shops there. In Russia, we have solved that problem,

and so it is cold here."

Amateur British forecaster and teenage prodigy Gord Helpus has now revised

his outlook for December, in which he called for the North Sea to freeze over

on the 5th, land ice to form by the 12th, and mastodon hunting to replace

football by the 19th, and is now calling for seven kilometres of ice to cover

all parts of the U.K. by Friday afternoon, the only uncertainty being whether

this would be before or after News At Six.

Very recent reports indicate that a vicious gustnado or dust devil may have

done additional damage to the package of crisps, which is reportedly in

several pieces and "beyond restoration at this point," according to a panel

of experts which includes the astronomer guy, that weatherman who predicted

the rainstorm last century, and a fashion model who hopes to become the

next Mrs. Wayne Rooney.

Edited by Roger J Smith
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  • Location: Powys Mid Wales borders.
  • Location: Powys Mid Wales borders.
______________Daily Excess___________________

Saturday, 25 November, 2006 Price: 2 much

___________________________________________________________

<<< HOWLING GALE SKIRTS BRITAIN >>>

by Dennis Dubious with Pumpkin Bassetthound

LONDON -- Much of Britain was battered today by what some are calling

the worst storm since Thursday. Winds were recorded at 5 knots at the

London Weather Centre, which is the equivalent of 6 mph or several angstroms

per nanosecond. Winds of this magnitude occur on the average about once every

five years, in Antarctica.

In one tragic turn of events, a bag of crisps was completely blown apart and

moved upwards of 100 feet, according to an astonished eyewitness who

told me, "The bag of crisps was completely blown apart and moved upwards

of 100 feet."

There was no report available on whether the bag contained crisps or not at

the time it was seen blowing across the heavily-travelled arterial route which

also serves as a lane.

Very recent reports indicate that a vicious gustnado or dust devil may have

done additional damage to the package of crisps, which is reportedly in

several pieces.

How are those crisps doing now took quite a battering by the sounds of it :D:D

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  • Location: Rossland BC Canada
  • Location: Rossland BC Canada

The panel of experts has issued their first statement on the now-infamous "bag of crisps" storm of 25 November 2006.

"It is our considered opinion that events like the total destruction of this bag of crisps will become more and more common as global warming reaches an advanced level. This points to the need for everyone to abandon motorized transport and cycle or walk, or get in a rowboat if an overseas trip is contemplated. Otherwise, the future will be bleak, with the landscape covered with crisps, flocks of crows or other predatory animals quickly closing in, mass epidemics of crispitis, which has already killed thousands in America, where it is known as chipitis, and things of this nature."

Now that this genie is out of the bottle, I don't know who is going to ease it back in.

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  • Location: Bournemouth
  • Location: Bournemouth

LOL, you crack me up Roger!

I wonder if the bods at SATSIGs HQ have decided to issue a ruling on how the recent no-blow storm would rate on the Abingdon scale? Presumably a new scale would be required to describe disappointment in observed wind speed, rather than snow?

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  • Location: Brixton, South London
  • Location: Brixton, South London
The panel of experts has issued their first statement on the now-infamous "bag of crisps" storm of 25 November 2006.

"It is our considered opinion that events like the total destruction of this bag of crisps will become more and more common as global warming reaches an advanced level. This points to the need for everyone to abandon motorized transport and cycle or walk, or get in a rowboat if an overseas trip is contemplated. Otherwise, the future will be bleak, with the landscape covered with crisps, flocks of crows or other predatory animals quickly closing in, mass epidemics of crispitis, which has already killed thousands in America, where it is known as chipitis, and things of this nature."

Now that this genie is out of the bottle, I don't know who is going to ease it back in.

I think that you forgot to mention that property prices "would plummet" as a result (as per the mid market tabloids)

Regards

ACB

P.S: you are the only person i have seen use the term "housewife" apart from my late father born in 1933: you fearless old fogey!

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  • Location: Steeton, W Yorks, 270m ASL
  • Location: Steeton, W Yorks, 270m ASL
LOL, you crack me up Roger!

I wonder if the bods at SATSIGs HQ have decided to issue a ruling on how the recent no-blow storm would rate on the Abingdon scale? Presumably a new scale would be required to describe disappointment in observed wind speed, rather than snow?

Well, I think we need to add a word to the glossary; I wouldn't say that this is a problem that has never arisen before, but SATSIGs' clue is in the last "s", maybe we need a department suffixed "bw" (be windy, or even 'bvw').

Right, off to the Urban Words thread...

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  • Location: Abingdon - 55m ASL - Capital of The Central Southern England Corridor of Winter Convectionlessness
  • Weather Preferences: Winter: Snow>Freezing Fog; Summer: Sun>Daytime Storms
  • Location: Abingdon - 55m ASL - Capital of The Central Southern England Corridor of Winter Convectionlessness
LOL, you crack me up Roger!

I wonder if the bods at SATSIGs HQ have decided to issue a ruling on how the recent no-blow storm would rate on the Abingdon scale? Presumably a new scale would be required to describe disappointment in observed wind speed, rather than snow?

Abingdons would be an entirely inappropriate unit of measurement, as the geographical location that is so well protected against snowfall is totally useless against other extreme forms of UK weather. Storms, gales and floods all seemingly strike at will. Also a hotspot in summer and surprisingly black ice is a regular occurrence.

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  • Location: Steeton, W Yorks, 270m ASL
  • Location: Steeton, W Yorks, 270m ASL
Abingdons would be an entirely inappropriate unit of measurement, as the geographical location that is so well protected against snowfall is totally useless against other extreme forms of UK weather. Storms, gales and floods all seemingly strike at will. Also a hotspot in summer and surprisingly black ice is a regular occurrence.

Enforcer, I suggest you come up with the scale anchors then for the latest addition to the SATSIGs armoury of monitoring and measurement, the ABINGDON scale.

Did you know there's a Bristol scale?

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  • Location: Rossland BC Canada
  • Location: Rossland BC Canada

Yep, it may be the first time I have used the word housewife, a vanishing species for sure these days.

How about this scale, the Stratos-Brixton Scale of Non Events:

Z1 -- widespread minor damage, gusts to 65 mph, not observed

Z2 -- considerable minor structural damage, gusts to 80 mph, not observed

Z3 -- widespread structural damage, gusts to 100 mph, not observed

Z4 -- major damage to large structures, gusts to 120 mph, Defoe's ghost, not observed

Z5 -- catastrophic damage, calendar date mysteriously 10-16-1987, not observed

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  • Location: Bournemouth
  • Location: Bournemouth
Did you know there's a Bristol scale?

Just so long as it doesn't involve Kerry Katona.

That has me thinking, I wonder which met station in the UK has recorded the lowest mean wind speeds this year?

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