South West & Central Southern England - Weather Chat, 6th December and Onwards...

[Lyn-M]

Overnight minimum of -5.2°C was the coldest since December 2010, currently -4.9°C, looks lovely, but glad my days of playground duty are well and truly over!

[Rich_Clements]

Good Morning all, What a glorious morning if a little cool.

 

 

[Stargazer]

-5.8 here in Reading, after a minimum of -6.0, our coldest night since February 2012.  Looks like the official minimum at Benson has turned out to be about -8 again. At least if we post a Mars Bar to Frosty Hollows we can be pretty sure it won't melt

Edited January 20, 2016 by Stargazer

[lettice]

Looks like many had a cold night.
Currently 1.8c here and down to -2c around 3am
Quick wipe away frost, light ENE wind, 1020 hPa

Noticed birds finally appeared yesterday on our bird tables.
Thought they had all left us this year. Normally arrive here mid December.
They are really tucking into the mealworms, sunflower seed feeders, homemade bread and homemade cocunut bird feeders.

 

Edited January 20, 2016 by lettice

[karlos1983]

56 minutes ago, Dorsetbred said:

Karlos, as it's so cold up there, maybe it should be a deep fried one

Oh yeah not had one of them for years nom nom. Not since my school days in southbourne 

[MP-R]

Almost made it to -6C last night, bottoming out at -5.9C. Very frosty indeed though fortunately not icy on the roads as it's so dry. Took quite a few attempts to completely defrost the car windscreens this morning. Now where's that Atlantic undercut...

[Nights King]

Chilly morning with an over night low on my main temperature sensor of -8.2c and bedroom sensor was colder at -11 but not sure it's that accurate. 

[MP-R]

1 minute ago, Nights King said:

Chilly morning with an over night low on my main temperature sensor of -8.2c and bedroom sensor was colder at -11 but not sure it's that accurate. 

-11 in the bedroom? Wow, you must sleep well! 

[nettie]

Morning, woke up this morning feeling a little bit chilly temp was -8c  outside not sure how accurate that was. warming slightly now. Currently -6.7c. 

[festivalking]

We scraped a frost last night got to -1.1c, well done all for getting some seriously low figures (in relation to this winter anyway) 

Just a bit meh that it all goes mushy from tomorrow 

[jtay]

A min of -5.0C on the nose at 6.20am this morning.

Stunning out there and the ground has firmed up nicely.

Here's my BFG impression.

[karlos1983]

7 minutes ago, festivalking said:

We scraped a frost last night got to -1.1c, well done all for getting some seriously low figures (in relation to this winter anyway) 

Just a bit meh that it all goes mushy from tomorrow 

Yes, I'm actually quite depressed about the next 10 days. But am convinced into February we will see another cold spell, that will actually be a cold spell. 

The irony of this cold spell is that the coldest 2 days here have been the past two days, when it was supposed to have ended 

so I think we will have to grin and Bear the next few days and then it's all eyes to the north or north east imo. 

I shall bookmark this post for either my backtrack or celebration of my vast knowledge in guess work.

[festivalking]

Just now, karlos1983 said:

Yes, I'm actually quite depressed about the next 10 days. But am convinced into February we will see another cold spell, that will actually be a cold spell. 

The irony of this cold spell is that the coldest 2 days here have been the past two days, when it was supposed to have ended 

so I think we will have to grin and Bear the next few days and then it's all eyes to the north or north east imo. 

I shall bookmark this post for either my backtrack or celebration of my vast knowledge in guess work.

Absolutely the models makes fools of us all. After thinking the Atlantic would come in on Sunday (mind you it did here on Monday before giving up) it just shows how hard cold blocks are to shift. I feel your enthusiasm but it took such an effort to get the cold here I can't bear another couple of weeks obsessing at the models 4 times a day. Its knackering! Also it took such a long time to get this cold snap here, I know its only mid january but is there time?

I've taken to looking at the models once a day now, in fact you don't need to look at the models just seeing how many pages have been added to the MOD thread is enough to know what is or what is not happening.

[Evening thunder]

Well it may be less cold here, having risen to about 0c at sunrise and 2c now at 9:35, but the same conditions in a way added to the beauty with some cloud in the sunrise:

A nice hard frost across the fields, could wear normal shoes for once! Wish this could continue, even me being an advocate of 'active' Atlantic weather (which doesn't look like happening anyway), I'd much prefer this now.

Edited January 20, 2016 by Evening thunder

[wiltshire weather]

Managed -7.6^oC overnight and still -7^oC so another ice day coming up?

Congrats to those that broke through -8 !  

[wiltshire weather]

Looking through the meager amount of posts in the model thread (sure sign of the models not playing ball!) there does seem to be some glimmers of hope for about 9-10 days away. The GFS Parallel run particularly has been showing an easterly around the end of Jan for the past couple of runs.

A new model that is not 'live' yet but is scheduled to replace the current GFS system April/May this year so may not be a complete 'straw clutcher' !

Edited January 20, 2016 by wiltshire weather
typo

[katemart]

Bottomed out at -4.9C last night: coldest min since Jan 2013 here. Not bad, considering my location on the coast and warmed by the balmy Southampton Water! Shame we didn't manage to tuck in a Channel Low, but I'm not too downhearted as temps do seem to fall away again at the end of next week....

[karlos1983]

Ahem, cough cough

timing is everything 

 

[jtay]

2 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

Ahem, cough cough

timing is everything 

Sigh.... Here we go again...

[wiltshire weather]

 And as if by magic the GFS 6z has pretty much gone the same way as the Parallel run !

Phantom easterly chasing has begun ... 

[festivalking]

 

2 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

Ahem, cough cough

timing is everything 

 

Smooth operator!

If its there at the 12z then the obsession is re-ignited......

[Evening thunder]

Probably dreaming here.. as this doesn't even happen on this unlikely run.. but if only we could get an intense cold pool go into France like this, but then get dragged NW across us by an undercut.. the Channel could become a 'lake affect' snow machine!

Edited January 20, 2016 by Evening thunder

[festivalking]

1 minute ago, Evening thunder said:

Probably dreaming here.. as this doesn't even happen on this unlikely run.. but if only we could get an intense cold pool go into France like this, but then get dragged NW across us by an undercut.. The Channel could become a 'lake affect' snow machine!

Aye - Everyone wins!!!

[Mapantz]

It bottomed out at -5.1°C at 4.5m and -5.5°C at 1.5m - coldest since 2012 here.

[Dorsetbred]

12 minutes ago, Evening thunder said:

Probably dreaming here.. as this doesn't even happen on this unlikely run.. but if only we could get an intense cold pool go into France like this, but then get dragged NW across us by an undercut.. the Channel could become a 'lake affect' snow machine!

Now who's becoming the MAD thread?