South East & East Anglia Regional Weather Discussion 08/12/13

[Flaked Queen]

Well just as I turn up to pic youngest up hubby turns up in a warm car ! Actually wasn't as cold as what I thought ... Fog still very bad am really looking forward to the cold do I sound mad ?

[Captain Shortwave]

CFS time

Terrible 

[Reefseeker]

Amazing, friends in Cyprus are posting pics on Facebook of thick, thick snow up in the mountains. SOOOOO jealous, by the time we get there after Christmas you can be sure it will all be gone

[Iceni]

I'm sure Coast has done this already...

 

lovejoy.jpg

 

I did spot it, but it was damned hard (with 10 X 50 binoculars!) Too much cirrus cloud, the great light polluter called Colchester to the west and the much waxing moon didn't help.

 

I'm going to get up early tomorrow and try and get a better view, if it's clear. At least the Moon will have set.

 

Can you give us the best time to go out tomorrow evening - assuming it's still there cometing - I'd love to see it and remember the one in the mid '90s which was really lit up with a beautiful tail just at sunset. I'd like to see another.

[Tamara]

I'm a bit angry about this snow on Christmas day thing. I put a bet on it a few years ago and yes there was a big pink blob over the MetO roof in London at about 5:15 am on Christmas morning (I sent them the radar image), but William Hill didn't pay out.

 

They're swindlers.

It's not just big pink blobs to use in evidence - it seems crazy that there can be snow on the ground on Christmas day, theoretically waist deep, yet if a single flake fails to fall it is deemed not to be a White Christmas. I know its nothing new to say this, and we all agree about it...but hey, I feel like having a grumpy old woman moment and saying it is STILL crazy! 

[john pike]

http://www.meteociel.fr/cartes_obs/gens_display.php?x=320&y=152&run=12&runpara=0&col=1&type=1&ext=1

 

heres the gefs ensemble pressure charts

 

go on

 

admit it

 

who did it ?

[john pike]

HERE COME THE GEMINIDS: Earth is entering a stream of debris from rock comet 3200 Phaethon, source of the annual Geminid meteor shower. Forecasters expect the shower to peak on Dec. 13-14 with as many as 120 meteors per hour. Lunar interference will be a problem, as glare from the nearly-full Moon reduces the number of visible meteors 2- to 5-fold. You can listen to radar echoes from the Geminids, unaffected by moonlight, on Space Weather Radio. Also, tune into NASA's live web chat about the Geminids on Friday the 13th beginning at 11 pm EST.

 

http://spaceweather.com/

 

expect cloud friday night then

 

also note on the link how many sunspots there are

 

good thing is they look like they are stable at present

[Snowangel-MK]

... or indeed a Wind Cup, I'm getting desperate now!Tom.

Try these .......

[NorthNorfolkWeather]

http://www.meteociel.fr/cartes_obs/gens_display.php?x=320&y=152&run=12&runpara=0&col=1&type=1&ext=1

 

heres the gefs ensemble pressure charts

 

go on

 

admit it

 

who did it ?

Wow, multi coloured spaghetti.

 

FI on the 15th then

[Snowangel-MK]

Nice. its interested me enough to look up some recipes online as to how to liven up the coffee, surprising how many different things you can add to it.

These are good .....They don't costa-lot-a either !

I'm a bit angry about this snow on Christmas day thing. I put a bet on it a few years ago and yes there was a big pink blob over the MetO roof in London at about 5:15 am on Christmas morning (I sent them the radar image), but William Hill didn't pay out.They're swindlers.

If it's any conciliation it didn't end well for the pink blob either ..... Edited December 11, 2013 by MKsnowangel

[JennyJane1]

These are good .....

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They don't costa-lot-a either !

 

thanks, i've put these on my list of things i want.

[Snowangel-MK]

Looking at some of the amazing photos taken this morning of the fog in London....

I can't help feeling the Daily Excess missed out on a ' killer mega fog ' scaremongering headline opportunity here - maybe they didn't see it coming !

Edited December 11, 2013 by MKsnowangel

[john pike]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/11/21858233-three-feet-of-lake-effect-snow-set-to-bury-parts-of-upstate-new-york?lite

 

[JennyJane1]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/448115/Christmas-weather-forecast-Winter-storms-warning-as-snow-gales-and-floods-threaten-UK

 

CHRISTMAS FROM HELL.WELL THAT'S DIFFERENT.

[Jason T]

Looking at some of the amazing photos taken this morning of the fog in London....

image.jpg

I can't help feeling the Daily Excess missed out on a ' killer mega fog ' scaremongering headline opportunity here - maybe they didn't see it coming !

 

I wonder if we will get snow that deep..... 

[john pike]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/448115/Christmas-weather-forecast-Winter-storms-warning-as-snow-gales-and-floods-threaten-UK

 

CHRISTMAS FROM HELL.WELL THAT'S DIFFERENT.

 

that must be from the new

 

g f expreSS model

[Summer of 76]

that must be from the new

 

g f expreSS model

John, dare you post that on the model thread.

 

On a serious note there is writing to sell papers, however to write that article when I know lots of elderly people are reading that I think it's very wrong unless he has proof from the models it's going to be that bad.

[john pike]

hi chris

 

i am staying in here

 

its safer

 

i agree the storys printed are to sell papers

 

do they care about the worry it may cause?

 

i doubt it

 

re storms

 

there is a chance as the jet drops south in about 10 days (  all assumption at present )

 

the low pressure systems in the atlantic will head further south

 

now there is a chance one may come through the uk

 

however the strength etc cannot be predicted at present as that is unknown

 

the only concern would be the azores high fighting against a southerly jet and storm incoming which could tighten the isobars right up

 

once the low goes through that should be our pattern changer

 

this is all guess work at present

 

to predict it properly now is what it is   a guess

[Snowangel-MK]

CHRISTMAS FROM HELL

Depends who your spending it with I guess - I try to follow the instructions on the turkey and keep chilled Edited December 11, 2013 by MKsnowangel

[Jason T]

Depends who your spending it with I guess - I try to follow the instructions on the turkey and keep chilled

image.jpg

 

P  ISSING myself laughing, Thats so funny MK, I would love to do that to the Xmas day Turkey and leave it there just before everyone else gets up, Hilarious, Do you know what "bugger" it. Its taking me so long to type this because i'm still laughing..

Edited December 11, 2013 by Jason T

[Jax]

Evening peeps

 

 

Took stock of the temp thingy and decided to go out and put the frost cover on the car windscreen, fog has gone (for now) but getting right nippy out there now.

 

And check out this place (http://www.waltham.ac.uk/), to think a decade ago I was installing all new extra networking in classrooms and it was a typical old style building then with classrooms and such as we all remember in the dim distant past (if you are 30 plus anyway)

[john pike]

just been out

 

cars are really iced up now

 

pavements are damp and some icy bits around but not too bad

 

would recommend if driving or walking tomorrow early give extra time to get there

 

its like a mist here at present which i assume has given the surfaces the damp

[Reefseeker]

Amazing thick sparkly frost out there tonight, kept slipping on the pavements; dog trialled his 'winter coat'. All very festive:)

[stodge]

Evening all

 

According to the Danish Weather Service, London is -2c at present so a frost setting in but as others have said, the fog has cleared. I presume we have now imported some drier air from the Continent.

 

http://www.dmi.dk/vejr/

 

Great map for moving round Europe and looking at temps - London currently colder than most of northern and eastern Europe.

[Steve C]

Amazing, friends in Cyprus are posting pics on Facebook of thick, thick snow up in the mountains. SOOOOO jealous, by the time we get there after Christmas you can be sure it will all be gone

Don't they have ski lifts in the Troodos Mountains? Hopefully you should see something.