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  • Location: High Wycombe, South Bucks (sadly in a valley)
  • Location: High Wycombe, South Bucks (sadly in a valley)

Just been to a party this afternoon and met Carol Kirkwood and Phil Avery. How surreal! They were both very nice!

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  • Location: Northwood. NW London. 68m asl
  • Location: Northwood. NW London. 68m asl

Tomorrow night (30th) at 5.30 pm on BBC 1; South East's wild weather.

Thanks for the heads up Robin. I don't know what the South East version was like but the one for London was quite frankly a waste of time watching. Garden Centre owners moaning how they'd bought to much drought related stock, the increase in bee-keeping in The Capital, and some numpty rolling a big plastic globe around a couple of places with a piece of white cardboard to simulate the jet stream !!

With all the information and archives at their disposal why on earth do the BBC have to present something as inane as that ?!

Oh....and I still can't seem to use my emoticons.....they are faded out on my screen for some reason :-(

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Thanks for the heads up Robin. I don't know what the South East version was like but the one for London was quite frankly a waste of time watching. Garden Centre owners moaning how they'd bought to much drought related stock, the increase in bee-keeping in The Capital, and some numpty rolling a big plastic globe around a couple of places with a piece of white cardboard to simulate the jet stream !!

With all the information and archives at their disposal why on earth do the BBC have to present something as inane as that ?!

Oh....and I still can't seem to use my emoticons.....they are faded out on my screen for some reason :-(

Thanks to the SW thread here is the link on BBC IPlayer for all the regional progs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search?q=Wild%20Weather

Just had a gust of 25mph which is the highest so far today.

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  • Location: west croydon (near lombard)
  • Location: west croydon (near lombard)

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tomorrow morning starts dry

a strong south westerly wind will make if feel chilly

heavy rain on the way around lunchtime

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tomorrow night

chilly north westerly flow

so feeling quite cold

heavy rain dying out but according this still here in the far south east

past midnight

trough to our north west will pass through us overnight

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tuesday

any rain in the morning clearing by lunchtime

chilly north west wind

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tuesday night

dry and a chilly north west flow

under higher dam air so not cold

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wednesday

a westerly flow and not windy

possible 12 degrees and dry as under high pressure

however there could be some light drizzle late afternoon

cloudy

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thursday

light westerly flow

under high pressure so mainly dry

weather front crossing late pm so possible light drizzle

cloud and fog an issue late pm evening

feeling a little cooler

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friday

stronger high pressure over us

this will be dry but a little cooler

variable wind flow if any

fog looks a big problem friday evening

chilly in the evening as wellc

could be a possible frost with this set up

i have decided to have a break from posting these as

i do not know if anyone is reading them

not spending the time it takes if they are not being read

happy new year

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  • Location: west croydon (near lombard)
  • Location: west croydon (near lombard)

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raw ukmo fax chart shows

high pressure still on the 5th

i am watching the low to our east

if that could strengthen and push

west it could make things quite interesting

more tomorrow

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  • Location: Reigate, Surrey 105 m (top floor 120m)
  • Location: Reigate, Surrey 105 m (top floor 120m)

...and still the wind rushes in off the sea here in Brighton. Tenzing Norgay described the wind at 8000m on Everest as 'the roar of a thousand tigers'. Not quite like that here, but I get the sense of what he meant!

AS

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  • Location: Reigate, Surrey 105 m (top floor 120m)
  • Location: Reigate, Surrey 105 m (top floor 120m)

Just been to a party this afternoon and met Carol Kirkwood and Phil Avery. How surreal! They were both very nice!

Very good! Did you persuade them to pop the occasional post on NWeather?

AS

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  • Location: Lee, London. SE12, 41 mts. 134.5 ft asl.
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, Snowy Weather
  • Location: Lee, London. SE12, 41 mts. 134.5 ft asl.

Tonight marks the 34th anniversary of one of the best snow events I've witnessed in my locale (Bromley, N.W.Kent).

I'd like to share a few memories with you.

Some of you old enough will remember the event, those not so old would have no doubt read about it or seen the archive charts around this time.

Christmas 1978 weatherwise was notably wet and stormy at that time.

http://www.wetterzen...00119781224.gif

http://www.wetterzen...00119781225.gif

But during Christmas day a colder easterly flow was starting to encroach into the north of the UK.

Just after Christmas the jet stream started to edge further and further south with a strong build of pressure over the Greenland/Iceland area.

http://www.wetterzen...00119781228.gif

Finally on the night in question the last low in a chain of lows, developed and ran due east up the Channel.

http://www.wetterzen...00119781231.gif

http://www.wetterzen...00219781231.gif

Those members who scream Channel Low every time a low pressure system finds itself in said body of water, please take note, this is the Daddy of them all!

I was 23 at the time and that evening was having a few drinks after work with colleagues, in the Dulwich and Camberwell areas of London. Around about 9 the snow started to fall and was driven by a strong, bitterly cold, east wind. The snow was very fine and resembled grains of sugar billowing across the streets of S.E.London. Even for an inner London borough (Southwark), the snow started to accumulate quickly and I realised I was going to have a tricky journey back to Bromley that night, around 8 miles away.

Fortunately my colleague gave me a lift but what would've normally taken 20/25 minutes took around 1 and a half hours, due to the heavy drifting snow and greatly reduced visibility.

On arriving back in Bromley, the snow had already accumulated higher than the roadside kerb and it was almost impossible to walk into the wind, so fierce was the snow being driven into your face, the depth of cold took your breath away.

As I went to walk up my garden path I quickly realised that it had vanished under the substantially drifting snow.

The actual snow depth was impossible to estimate as the drifting was so severe, some places were clear of snow, as it had been blasted away by the strength of the wind, whilst others had 1and a half to 2 feet of drifted snow.

Has to be one of my favourite snow events and certainly the most severe when combining strength of wind and snow falling.

Lets hope then for synoptics like this before this winters through. Raise your glasses please, one more time I give you

30th/31st December 1978. drinks.gif

http://www.wetterzen...00119781231.gif

http://www.wetterzen...00219781231.gif

Regards,

Tom.

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  • Location: Reigate, Surrey 105 m (top floor 120m)
  • Location: Reigate, Surrey 105 m (top floor 120m)

Tonight marks the 34th anniversary of one of the best snow events I've witnessed in my locale (Bromley, N.W.Kent).

I'd like to share a few memories with you.

Some of you old enough will remember the event, those not so old would have no doubt read about it or seen the archive charts around this time.

Christmas 1978 weatherwise was notably wet and stormy at that time.

http://www.wetterzen...00119781224.gif

http://www.wetterzen...00119781225.gif

But during Christmas day a colder easterly flow was starting to encroach into the north of the UK.

Just after Christmas the jet stream started to edge further and further south with a strong build of pressure over the Greenland/Iceland area.

http://www.wetterzen...00119781228.gif

Finally on the night in question the last low in a chain of lows, developed and ran due east up the Channel.

http://www.wetterzen...00119781231.gif

http://www.wetterzen...00219781231.gif

Those members who scream Channel Low every time a low pressure system finds itself in said body of water, please take note, this is the Daddy of them all!

I was 23 at the time and that evening was having a few drinks after work with colleagues, in the Dulwich and Camberwell areas of London. Around about 9 the snow started to fall and was driven by a strong, bitterly cold, east wind. The snow was very fine and resembled grains of sugar billowing across the streets of S.E.London. Even for an inner London borough (Southwark), the snow started to accumulate quickly and I realised I was going to have a tricky journey back to Bromley that night, around 8 miles away.

Fortunately my colleague gave me a lift but what would've normally taken 20/25 minutes took around 1 and a half hours, due to the heavy drifting snow and greatly reduced visibility.

On arriving back in Bromley, the snow had already accumulated higher than the roadside kerb and it was almost impossible to walk into the wind, so fierce was the snow being driven into your face, the depth of cold took your breath away.

As I went to walk up my garden path I quickly realised that it had vanished under the substantially drifting snow.

The actual snow depth was impossible to estimate as the drifting was so severe, some places were clear of snow, as it had been blasted away by the strength of the wind, whilst others had 1and a half to 2 feet of drifted snow.

Has to be one of my favourite snow events and certainly the most severe when combining strength of wind and snow falling.

Lets hope then for synoptics like this before this winters through. Raise your glasses please, one more time I give you

30th/31st December 1978. drinks.gif

http://www.wetterzen...00119781231.gif

http://www.wetterzen...00219781231.gif

Regards,

Tom.

Very good Tom, thanks for sharing that. I was 13 then, living in Bristol, and I remember one really snowy Saturday in January 1979 walking to my Saturday job in a fishing tackle/gun shop in central bristol. Took me about an hour and a half to walk what would normally be a 20 minute walk and none of the shops were open, the roads were all snow-bound, no-one was about, but I just wanted to get to work even though it was obvious nothing would be open. The shop owners lived up on the Mendips and there was no chance at all that they would have opened up that day. Once I got to the shop I waited about 2 minutes and then walked home. I never told them I had turned up that day, it didn't matter that no-one knew that I had been there; the walk and the sense, in a very limited way, of striking out on my own, was the thing.

AS

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  • Location: Lee, London. SE12, 41 mts. 134.5 ft asl.
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, Snowy Weather
  • Location: Lee, London. SE12, 41 mts. 134.5 ft asl.

Hi as,

Yes quite a few snow events in the winter of '78/79, the highlight in my area being the one I described.

We had a decent snowfall in mid-Feb too but conditions were'nt as severe as further north, down the eastern side of the country in particular.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/archive/ra/1979/Rrea00119790215.gif

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/archive/ra/1979/Rrea00219790215.gif

Regards,

Tom.

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  • Location: west croydon (near lombard)
  • Location: west croydon (near lombard)

these are sort of what i am thinking

i expect the jet to weaken and the atlantic to reduce it strength

leading to something like this

11th january

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12th

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13th

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14th

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15th

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  • Location: west croydon (near lombard)
  • Location: west croydon (near lombard)

http://www.meteociel.fr/cartes_obs/gens_display.php?x=320&y=150&run=18&runpara=0&type=5&ext=1

see meteociel ensembles

then here

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control run with different temperatures

weird

fi from the 10th

a nice dry spell from the 2nd to the 8th

i can see the warmest day being the 5th

reaching 12 degrees at best

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  • Location: East County Clare
  • Location: East County Clare

John I have just seen your post about not putting up fax charts. I find them very useful and pretty accurate I rely on them to tell me what the weather will be doing over the next couple of days. I say we set up a John Pike fan club.

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John I have just seen your post about not putting up fax charts. I find them very useful and pretty accurate I rely on them to tell me what the weather will be doing over the next couple of days. I say we set up a John Pike fan club.

Where do I join?! :)

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  • Location: Ashford Kent.
  • Location: Ashford Kent.

Where do I join?! smile.png

Sign me up!

John, I think i speak for the non posters on here who view your fax charts every morning. Please keep them going, its nice having a 3/4 day local forecast (esp the wind direction for us planning fishing trips!)

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  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)
  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)

Thanks for the heads up Robin. I don't know what the South East version was like but the one for London was quite frankly a waste of time watching. Garden Centre owners moaning how they'd bought to much drought related stock, the increase in bee-keeping in The Capital, and some numpty rolling a big plastic globe around a couple of places with a piece of white cardboard to simulate the jet stream !!

Yep, a bit basic and disappointing, but I have the HD, National version recorded to watch as it features Ian Fergusson as the presenter.

Morning all, it's bit breezy here and I don't mean turkey curry!!!

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  • Location: Stevenage - Herts (110m ASL)
  • Location: Stevenage - Herts (110m ASL)

Morning everyone. Blowing a gale and light rain here. Horrid. Currently 10.3c into the bargain.

John I always read your posts and look at your charts. I don't always understand the charts but I hang onto your words, and whilst I appreciate you may need a break, I would miss them if you didn't post them. So thank you. :)

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  • Location: Milton Keynes MK
  • Weather Preferences: anything extreme or intense !
  • Location: Milton Keynes MK

Yep, a bit basic and disappointing, but I have the HD, National version recorded to watch as it features Ian Fergusson as the presenter.

Morning all, it's bit breezy here and I don't mean turkey curry!!!

Morning Coast and all,

I watched Julie Reigner presenting Wild Weather in the East on TV but also have to admit to watching the Wild Weather in the West on i player here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01pmb5y/Wild_Weather_in_2012_West/

.............I prefer Ian Fergusson (as a weather presenter of course blush.png )

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  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)
  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)

Morning everyone. Blowing a gale and light rain here. Horrid.

Morning CM!

Had a 40.1 mph gust in the last hour and more to come here. Looks like a walk along my favourite part of East Sussex is in order shortly to watch the waves!

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Morning Coast and all,

Morning MKSA!

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  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)
  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)

Looks like it's here for most of the day:

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Another day spent in wellies too:

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