The Midlands Regional Weather Discussion 19/12/2013----->

[BlueHedgehog074]

I definitely would not want to mess with this bad boy for Friday...   

 

[joanna1971]

Nothing extraordinary for shrewsbury, just a wet day...keeping an eye on the Severn though..

[Dancerwithwings]

I think in mid Dec i mentioned something or other about keeping an eye on the Jet heading further south or Hinting towards that and how things can change for the better.

 

I know this is FI but this the kind of outlook for the New Year that we may be looking towards and very Snowy one at that

 

But caution it's still a long way off....

 

 

 

[conor123]

Yup I don't wanna jinx it but there does seem to be increasing signs for cold zonality as early as the end of next week which would make for an interesting change.

In the meantime today was just a bog standard Autumnal storm here, rather wet yes, rather windy yes, brief loss of power yes, but not as bad as it could of been, Fridays and Sundays storms still look potentially worse although Friday's has been moved significantly further north today.

Edited December 23, 2013 by conor123

[I remember Atlantic 252]

sunday 29th is a washout, but to be expected in Dec, but yeah still hoping for winter to arrive just about on time, around 3 weeks from now, hoping to start seeing cold charts in FI appearing next week

 

post 147, a mighty cold westerly that, saw similar on 5th Feb '13, heavy snow shower in morning

[PolarWarsaw]

Standard December day really, wet and quite windy - nothing special. We rarely do get anything special here though do we?

[Staffordshire]

Had a pretty wild day of weather here, was in brum and there were bins piled with broken umbrellas just outside the bullring

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Standard December day really, wet and quite windy - nothing special. We rarely do get anything special here though do we?

 

We did from Jan 17th-19th, and mar 22-24th, at least I did anyway

[cyclonic happiness]

We did from Jan 17th-19th, and mar 22-24th, at least I did anyway

That was 'ok' ,special is like 9th december 1990 :-D

[Bishop Brennan]

That was 'ok' ,special is like 9th december 1990 :-D

 

.............I never need an excuse to repost a pic from that event. The snowfall was so intense, it broke the branches of a lot of the trees around Knowle and Solihull.

 

 

 

Bish

[Barbmac]

Wind's picking up again here, rain starting again too. Temp is 9.4^oC. Looks like a lot more rain to come, judging by the radar.

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Quiet on model thread! no post for 37 minutes! I was hoping for winter in 3 weeks

[WillinGlossop]

Nice run by gfs 19cm snow sunday..... Id take that....pity itll be in norway by sunday.....

Sun 29 Dec Morning 0 °c -4 °c 0.1 mm 67 % 11 mph 997 mb 415 m

In Detail ► Afternoon 1 °c -5 °c 18.9 cm 100 % 19 mph 981 mb 985 m

Evening 2 °c -4 °c 4.4 mm 99 % 21 mph 980 mb 737 m

Plus 16cm by early friday.... Ill take that too....

Edited December 23, 2013 by WillinGlossop

[Polar Low]

Here we go then, round two just getting underway here after 'pretty much' dry few hours. Getting pretty wild out there again.

[Costa Del Fal]

Suddenly gone very gusty again here. This phase shouldnt last long though.

[Serendipity]

fantastic squall line. Very windy here, we've lost our fence.

[Bishop Brennan]

It sounds like a jumbo jet is taking off in our back garden! Much stormier right now than it was during the day.

 

Bish

[cyclonic happiness]

Got seriously windy here and there's a bad looking squall line about to hit.

Quite the worst gales for years here atm.

Stay safe ever one!

[Bishop Brennan]

Now THIS is a proper Atlantic storm...........

 

Bish

Edited December 23, 2013 by Bishop Brennan

[Dancerwithwings]

It's battering my windows atm, Heavy is not the word and yes good word for it ( Jumbo jet ) the wind that is.

[Costa Del Fal]

As I expected, the 2nd phase of strong winds didnt last long here. 

 

Now, the latest Meto symbols seem to suggest a few flakes of snow for the big day itself just reaching the West Midlands in the morning. Could we get a technical white Christmas? Will be close!

[Summer of 95]

Strong winds for about half an hour 2230ish, and between 0900-1200, and raining pretty much all day- but I wouldn't say we had a day of gales by any means. No trees down or tiles blown off, at least round here. The flooding I think will be the main thing in Shrewsbury- the Severn has risen a lot since Sunday and the flood barriers are up in town.

 

The last real gale I remember? Saturday 20th March 2004, that was probably the windiest day here in the past 15 years. It was F8 sustained gusting to F10 for several hours around midday and into the afternoon, and it caused quite a lot of disruption around the Midlands (I remember someone being killed by flying debris at a football match, think it might have been Leicester?) and brought lots of trees down round here. Late Jan 2002 was another.

[Terminal Moraine]

I expected to wake up to hear the wind roaring in the trees, but not so. As I peer out into the darkness it seems like little more than a moderate breeze at present; perhaps later?

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Now THIS is a proper Atlantic storm...........

 

Bish

 

Ay we really do seem in the depths of autumn, mid Dec to mid Jan, the most westerly time of the year, still hopeful of pattern change in around 3 weeks, models even already flirting with some sort of change towards mid Jan

[Gord]

Atlantic storms are common for a British winter so I certainly wouldn't say that we are in the depths of autumn. Autumn is a transitional season. I agree though that in our climate, there is a lot of crossover between the weather types in the seasons, you could say this is close to late autumn,

Edited December 24, 2013 by Gord