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Marcus_surfer Rising Star

Marcus_surfer

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  • Location: Swansea (Abertawe) , South Wales, 420ft ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Storms & Snow.
  • Location: Swansea (Abertawe) , South Wales, 420ft ASL
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Heavy hail showers have returned, what's that PPN in west wales?

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keithlucky Experienced

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  • Location: swansea craig cefn parc 160 m asl
  • Location: swansea craig cefn parc 160 m asl
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Heavy hail showers have returned, what's that PPN in west wales?

Reports Marcus was producing  sleet /snow on its back edge ,but the cold front a lot weaker now

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keithlucky Experienced

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  • Location: swansea craig cefn parc 160 m asl
  • Location: swansea craig cefn parc 160 m asl
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Haw haw haw. References also being made in the MOD thread to Wales doing particularly well.

 

I really do feel bad for our long-suffering Southwestern friends, though. Perhaps we should share some of our (potential) snow with them?

Saturday into Sunday Front moving down from the north trough after trough great potential before next week!PPVJ89.png

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Marcus_surfer Rising Star

Marcus_surfer

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  • Location: Swansea (Abertawe) , South Wales, 420ft ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Storms & Snow.
  • Location: Swansea (Abertawe) , South Wales, 420ft ASL
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Thunder and lightning here

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A Gower Guy Contributor

A Gower Guy

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  • Location: Swansea (West)
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, Thunderstorms, Hot Summer days
  • Location: Swansea (West)
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bit of thunder and lightning in the next band thats coming through :D

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Jackfrost Aficionado

Jackfrost

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  • Location: Nelson, Caerphilly County, 175m ASL
  • Location: Nelson, Caerphilly County, 175m ASL
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Completely off-topic but I've had an entertaining ten minutes with this:

 

http://elevationmap.net/

 

Just click on the map if you want to find a place's altitude.

 

Slightly surprised to find that I'm at a higher elevation than Brecon and that Merthyr town centre is barely higher than Nelson.

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Cymro Community Regular

Cymro

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  • Location: Dwyrain Sir Gâr / Eastern Carmarthenshire 178m abs
  • Location: Dwyrain Sir Gâr / Eastern Carmarthenshire 178m abs
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Heavy hail showers here with the odd flake of snow/soft hail perhaps thrown in for good measure. I think we will see quite a few surprise dustings tomorrow morning...

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  • Location: Powys Mid Wales borders.
  • Location: Powys Mid Wales borders.
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Heavy wet snow here and wind from SSW looking outside where snow is blowing from.

Temp 1.5c

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Jackfrost Aficionado

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  • Location: Nelson, Caerphilly County, 175m ASL
  • Location: Nelson, Caerphilly County, 175m ASL
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Did anybody happen to catch Derek/Benhaz/Sue's forecast on BBC Wales?

 

It makes me sad that Derek is such a lover of mild.

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  • Location: Powys Mid Wales borders.
  • Location: Powys Mid Wales borders.
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Did anybody happen to catch Derek/Benhaz/Sue's forecast on BBC Wales?

 

It makes me sad that Derek is such a lover of mild.

A lot of people don`t like cold.

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Cymro

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  • Location: Dwyrain Sir Gâr / Eastern Carmarthenshire 178m abs
  • Location: Dwyrain Sir Gâr / Eastern Carmarthenshire 178m abs
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I have noticed a lot that Derek is a mild ramper, just look at his twitter account, people askign abotu weather for tuesday and he was saying sleet/rain to many who saw a couple of cm of snow.

But in terms of cold as snowyowl said, some don't like it and we must remember it can prove very dangerous as well.

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Jayfromcardiff Experienced

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  • Location: Caerphilly
  • Location: Caerphilly
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Did anybody happen to catch Derek/Benhaz/Sue's forecast on BBC Wales?

 

It makes me sad that Derek is such a lover of mild.

Yep sue Charles didn't like mentioning snow, it was for High ground. I'm sure all welsh forecasters are mild lovers! Derek especially.
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worldairgroup

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  • Location: A470, Upper Boat, Pontypridd
  • Location: A470, Upper Boat, Pontypridd
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Did anybody happen to catch Derek/Benhaz/Sue's forecast on BBC Wales?

 

It makes me sad that Derek is such a lover of mild.

 

Here we go latest weather with Sue Charles.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast-video/21416950

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Jackfrost

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  • Location: Nelson, Caerphilly County, 175m ASL
  • Location: Nelson, Caerphilly County, 175m ASL
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Perfect, thanks worldairgroup.

 

I understand that cold is not popular with many and that it can prove dangerous, but I can also remember several instances where BBC Wales forecasters have downplayed cold and snow events compared to coverage by national and other regional forecasts.

 

It really isn't a huge issue for me, it just leaves me feeling a bit... deflated.

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  • Location: Caerphilly
  • Location: Caerphilly
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Perfect, thanks worldairgroup.

I understand that cold is not popular with many and that it can prove dangerous, but I can also remember several instances where BBC Wales forecasters have downplayed cold and snow events compared to coverage by national and other regional forecasts.

It really isn't a huge issue for me, it just leaves me feeling a bit... deflated.

Was it 2010 when Derek said it'll stay mostly dry throughout south Wales and then the majority had at least a foot of snow? Prime example. Edited by Jayfromcardiff
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Jackfrost

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  • Location: Nelson, Caerphilly County, 175m ASL
  • Location: Nelson, Caerphilly County, 175m ASL
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December 18th 2010 would be a candidate, yes, given that we saw well over a foot here. But to be fair to Derek, I don't think any of the forecasts could have foreseen the narrow, intense streamer which set up that day.

 

But my point still stands: our regional forecasters prefer to downplay prospective snow and, I've noticed, don't go into as much detail in the general synoptic patterns as certain regional forecasters *ahem*.

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andymusic

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  • Location: Pontypridd, Wales 240m asl
  • Location: Pontypridd, Wales 240m asl
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Front kicked off with lots of icy goodness - followed by some loverly large wet snow flakes - which is getting heavier and heavier - still a bit wet to stick - but temp is dropping too

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Jackfrost

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  • Location: Nelson, Caerphilly County, 175m ASL
  • Location: Nelson, Caerphilly County, 175m ASL
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Where in Ponty are you, Andy?

 

I've noticed several times that you've seen snow while here, further up the valley, it's been rain or sleet at best.

 

The difference in altitude is to blame, obviously.

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