Cold Spell Discussion

[The Melting Snowman in Guernsey]

I'm guessing your sense of humour has desserted you Paul !!

Anyways the situation is dire in Guernsey, no snow in the north of the Island, where i am, but 2 inches in the south which is 100m higher than the north and only 3 miles away !!

[drgl]

Will this lump of cloud affect the UK??

[Optimus Prime]

What a clownish argument,

You like clowns I take it? Do they let you sit on their laps like farther christmas up there?Blimey still haven't risen above freezing.

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Who said it would be dry are largely snow-free?

[Neilsouth]

Who said it would be dry are largely snow-free?

Someone on TWO , but then they aren't known for good forecasts

Stick to here

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Someone on TWO , but then they aren't known for good forecasts

Stick to here

Someone on here also, made about 10 posts in model output adamant that it would be largely dry and that the north sea was 'dry'!

[Optimus Prime]

Someone on here also, made about 10 posts in model output adamant that it would be largely dry and that the north sea was 'dry'!  

Good old Village Plank, a suitable name if I must say so myself.

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Has anyone got the Northern Hemisphere/Europe/UK snow cover map updated for today, or a link to where i can find it when it does update?

Good old Village Plank, a suitable name if I must say so myself.

Village Plonker would be equally suitable

[Optimus Prime]

Has anyone got the Northern Hemisphere/Europe/UK snow cover map updated for today, or a link to where i can find it when it does update?

http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_daily.php?ui_year=2010&ui_day=5&ui_set=2

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http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_daily.php?ui_year=2010&ui_day=5&ui_set=2

Thanks.

Isn't there another one that is more detailed and shows actual cover rather than anomaly?

Edit: Just found one similar

Edited January 6, 2010 by RAIN RAIN RAIN

[Bobby]

Met Office now have warnings out for S/Central England, all of Wales and N. Ireland for heavy snow on Sunday

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_forecast_warnings.html?day=5

[Optimus Prime]

Metoffice has me down for a maximum of -3c tomorrow. Bloody cold.

[Spurry]

Steve Wright had BBC weather forecaster Laura [Tobin] on his radio 2 show this afternoon, she hinted that it could be at least another month before the atlantic wins through and our weather returns to it's normal pattern ....looking at the GFS charts it looks to me that it could break down before then ..i hope Laura knows something that the rest of us hope happens

[Nick L]

The GFS has been itching to bring back the Atlantic for weeks now, if it were to be believed we would have been back to the old routine at Christmas.

Don't look beyond +180.

[Spurry]

The GFS has been itching to bring back the Atlantic for weeks now, if it were to be believed we would have been back to the old routine at Christmas.

Don't look beyond +180.

I really hope you're correct and i know others are saying the same on here, i just can't help thinking that it's all gonna go pear shaped soon ...i've no basis for that view (apart from GFS FI) other than blatant pessimism

[Liam J]

I really hope you're correct and i know others are saying the same on here, i just can't help thinking that it's all gonna go pear shaped soon ...i've no basis for that view (apart from GFS FI) other than blatant pessimism

gfs 12z shows bitter easterly for the weekend and after that, we loose the 528 dam and the upper go up to -5 and higher so the surface will remain pretty cold however if the gfs is to believed, there would be no snow just freezing rain...

[Mark Bayley]

Met office report on the cold spell, not much detail though. (Half the thing is about how much warmer other parts of the world are plus global warming, but that shouldn't come as a surprise really)

http://www.metoffice.com/corporate/pressoffice/2010/pr20100106b.html

[echobase]

Will this lump of cloud affect the UK??

I was thinking the same thing!

[Neilsouth]

Met Office - Sky News

The freezing conditions are likely to continue till the middle of the month :lol: :lol:

[dogs32]

Met Office - Sky News

The freezing conditions are likely to continue till the middle of the month :lol: :lol:

:lol:

I think I will be fed up with it by then

maybe another snow LP coming in by Sun/mon

Edited January 6, 2010 by dogs32

[weather eater]

I may have several things to have a moan about during this cold spell, several that involve schools and car drivers, but one thing really irritates me and that's the use of the word blizzard to describe any moderate to heavy snow fall. Anyone whose ever been out in a blizzard can tell you that its not the same as just heavy snowfall, I must have heard it used several times today on news reports. We may have had some fantastic falls, but there have been no blizzards, there I better for that.

[DAVID SNOW]

I think I will be fed up with it by then

maybe another snow LP coming in by Sun/mon

Warm by the end of april will do me

[nick sussex]

What is it with that guy from the Met Office, asked on bbc news 24 whether another 1963 was possible, he just couldn't wait to go into one about global warming, for heavens sake change the record!

IMO he's just hating this cold weather, i'm sure he would much rather be reporting on yet another mild winter as this obviously fits better with his agenda!

Edited January 6, 2010 by nick sussex

[NorthantsSnow]

What is it with that guy from the Met Office, asked on bbc news 24 whether another 1963 was possible, he just couldn't wait to go into one about global warming, for heavens sake change the record!

IMO he's just hating this cold weather, i'm sure he would much rather be reporting on yet another mild winter as this obviously fits better with his agenda!

Banging on about global warming when we're in the midst of one of the most prolonged spells of cold weather in decades does seem a tad out of touch.

Maybe during the barbecue summer of last year might have been a more apt time. Oh, wait...

[nick sussex]

Banging on about global warming when we're in the midst of one of the most prolonged spells of cold weather in decades does seem a tad out of touch.

Maybe during the barbecue summer of last year might have been a more apt time. Oh, wait...

Yes to be honest can't they find someone less annoying to interview during the current cold weather. He's like a broken record and really needs to stop sticking his obvious obsession with GW into every interview. Say for arguments sake this ends up the coldest winter since 1963, i'm sure his reaction would be it would have been colder without GW! that will really go down well with the general public.