Wales - Weather Chat

[Marcus_surfer]

2 hours ago, Jackfrost said:

Currently on a knife edge, but this would be a snow party for South Wales if it were to verify with the 0C iso generally acting as the barrier between snow and rain. Cardiff would see snow while Weston saw rain, that's how neatly the isotherm slices through the Bristol Channel.

 

Snowmaker or rainmaker will be down to nowcasting and radar watching next week and beyond

[Bafan]

3 hours ago, Jackfrost said:

Oh, and another anecdote (which I've mentioned several times in the past on here, so I apologise if anyone is sick of hearing it);

Tredegar holds the UK record for deepest level snow ever recorded in an "urban" area - 165cm in February 1963.

Funnily enough, I don't get sick of hearing it!

[andymusic]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/632611/UK-Weather-Snow-snowbomb-red-alert-UK-coldest-winter-58-years

 

many councils now seen filling up grit holders on roads - they have been warned too I think - they know what's coming

Edited January 7, 2016 by andymusic

[dbaloo]

Had letters home from the kds school today staying what the procedure is in extreme weather circumstances.......not saying that they don't do it as standard but surely they would issue it at the start of winter not mid way through and yes Andy music I have seen the council stocking up the grit bins today.....hopefully interesting times ahead!

[Jackfrost]

On 1/7/2016 at 7:57 PM, Bafan said:

Funnily enough, I don't get sick of hearing it!

One day I'll be at a dinner party and somebody from, oh I dunno, Basildon or some place, will be wittering on about the 15 cm of snow they saw in whichever year, giving me the opportunity to interject with "stuff your 15 cm, Essex. We had 165 cm round these parts a few years back".

The table falls silent and mouths drop...

Now that's oneupmanship we can all get behind.

Edited January 10, 2016 by Jackfrost

[Pembroke Dangler]

18 minutes ago, andymusic said:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/632611/UK-Weather-Snow-snowbomb-red-alert-UK-coldest-winter-58-years

 

many councils now seen filling up grit holders on roads - they have been warned too I think - they know what's coming

Well that's done it the express ramping up snow and ice prospects means the barbecue will be out next week they always ruin it lol

[dragonfalls]

Thats cursed it all now then spring soon ....

[Marcus_surfer]

i see quite a lot of milder air flirting with the southern portion of the uk, with a low producing showers,  including wales on the latest runs

[WINTRY WALES]

9 minutes ago, Marcus_surfer said:

i see quite a lot of milder air flirting with the southern portion of the uk, with a low producing showers,  including wales on the latest runs

Rain showers you mean or snow??

[Marcus_surfer]

11 minutes ago, WINTRY WALES said:

Rain showers you mean or snow??

Mixed PPN really into mid and north wales its snow but there is a distinct boundary of warmer air to the south, hopefully this will disappear on further runs its just getting confused with the low pushing in from the west, screams warm sector 

 

[Jackfrost]

Can you link me to those charts, Marcus? Not sure which ones you mean.

Either way, I'm not too worried about things at the moment.

[Icequeen]

Decided to finally sign in instead of lurking........hoping that the cold arrives and sticks around a while

[keithlucky]

1 hour ago, Marcus_surfer said:

i see quite a lot of milder air flirting with the southern portion of the uk, with a low producing showers,  including wales on the latest runs

I cannot see any milder air around come Tuesday with -2 to -5 uppers temperature cold enough to produce the white stuff,then with -10uppers soon following,lets see closer to Tuesday how much of the white stuff we can get.Not a stable airflow that"s for sure!Very simular to December 2010 with A large Greeland high to the west ,LP in the middle and Huge HP to the east.could be  another 5 or so years before we this set up again ENJOY lol!

Edited January 7, 2016 by keithlucky

[andymusic]

got some snowy -sleety mix passing through right now

[gareth moo]

Wrists being slit in the Model thread this morning. Big downgrades overnight and all teddies getting thrown out of their cots.

More entertaining than the model watching itself.

Certainly going to be colder next week from about Tuesday. How long for and what type of precip still up for grabs by the looks of it although nothing guaranteed for sure.

[Pembroke Dangler]

It's the express's fault for ramping up snow and ice and coldest its been in 50yrs. 

Does my head in lol

[Marcus_surfer]

Its looking briefly colder for a few days before mild air wins out and looks like become stormy once more

[Pembroke Dangler]

As long as the blocking signals remain I think we might get a couple more bites of the cherry further down the line. Later this month and beginning of Feb I'm taking a punt at 

Edited January 8, 2016 by Pembroke Dangler
Could still be next week it seems nothing is resolved yet in the models

[andymusic]

[Jayfromcardiff]

27 minutes ago, andymusic said:

Looks like a north of the M4 and over 200m for me lol odds on it doesn't happen.

[ourson]

1 hour ago, andymusic said:

Six days out Andy? Not sure I'd put an each way bet on that coming off personally. Love to see it though, but ........

[Pembroke Dangler]

I think that Irish lass is being mentioned here and there, Shannon I think they said her name was 

[andymusic]

2 hours ago, Jayfromcardiff said:

Looks like a north of the M4 and over 200m for me lol odds on it doesn't happen.

keep the faith jay - the models are in dissarray over this big change

[worldairgroup]

Just now, andymusic said:

keep the faith jay - the models are in dissarray over this big change

Yep the model thread is going bonkers just like the model outputs! LOL

[dragonfalls]

It's lets u down in one wa y and other u can't stop looking lol still think Feb will be our big one