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

[Dorsetbred]

Mornin All, SPRING IS HERE, shrug off those heavy coats, time for shorts & t's.....

Currently:

Temp 6.1°C

DP 4.3°C

Wind 5.8mph SE

RH 88%

1015.9 mb Steady

Conditions: Overcast,  dry

[knocker]

Now raining here.

[Rich_Clements]

Bye Bye cold snap it was nice knowing you.

 

8 degrees warmer this morning than yesterday

[lettice]

Feels much warmer today, temp has been rising since 11pm last night, now up to 8c.
Gloomy grey skies, light SSE wind.
1020hPa, been steady at that for a few days now.
No rain so far this week except a little drizzle Monday, but tomorrow looking like heavy rain for most of the day, but a fairly dry and warmer weekend.

 

Edited January 21, 2016 by lettice

[Frosty hollows]

We held on to negative digits til about 6.30. Temperature been slowly climbing overnight. Currently 0.8C,humidity 91%,pressure 1016 and steady.Light winds and dull and cloudy. At least I can warm the house up I suppose

[jethro]

And it's back to grey murk again, deep joy.

Leaving aside the lack of snow, it's the total lack of blue skies which I've found the most depressing this winter; day after day of total cloud cover. Thoroughly depressing.

[Frosty hollows]

1 minute ago, jethro said:

And it's back to grey murk again, deep joy.

Leaving aside the lack of snow, it's the total lack of blue skies which I've found the most depressing this winter; day after day of total cloud cover. Thoroughly depressing.

Absolutely. The last few days have been very welcome in that respect

[Rich_Clements]

1 minute ago, Frosty hollows said:

Absolutely. The last few days have been very welcome in that respect

Agreed I enjoyed the sunshine

[Frosty hollows]

Hold on people.All is not lost. There is ice on my patio.

[festivalking]

6.9c and drizzle as i left the moor this morning 

[Sam S]

8.3c cloudy and drizzling  really need dry sunny days as garden needs to dry out

[offerman]

11 hours ago, Nights King said:

Hate to have to say it but we are running out of winter again... nothing really looking cold into first week of February by which point we have 2/3 weeks chance of something noteworthy before sun starts to get stronger and being in mildest place in UK we are against the clock, before you know it 3 back to back snowless winters... 

March 2013 was exceptional in terms of cold but also an exceptional bust for west country with no proper snow falls.

 Don't despair as I.F  said there could well be mid Atlantic blocking in Fairbury putting us in a north-westerly northerly airflow. 

 If I'm honest he seems to have been really accurate when he is predicted patterns for 1 to 2 months in advance .  I'd say they have been more accurate with that then I have with really short time forecasts with regards to snow .   When we get the usual low pressures of the Atlantic interspersed with showers and sunshine they are very accurate but when it comes to snow they do have a lot of problems even at short term.  Like I say though for the past few years I.F  seems to me have been pretty accurate for 1 to 2 months in advance for general weather patterns  so hats off to him and let's hope his   February  prediction comes to fruition !! 

[jtay]

After a mucky start, it's pretty nice out there at the moment. We seem to have been sat in a gap in the clouds for most of the morning.

Sat24.com

 

[Dorsetbred]

18 minutes ago, jtay said:

After a mucky start, it's pretty nice out there at the moment. We seem to have been sat in a gap in the clouds for most of the morning.

Sat24.com

 

Same here, blue sky all morning..

[Andy Bown]

Yes John it is surprisingly beautiful at the moment and, it has to be said, feeling very Springlike!

Perhaps that was winter? I had 5 days with maxxes not reaching 5c and several harsh frosts including the lowest temperature for nearly 4 years. However with today's change allied to how it looks going forward nature can get back to progressing with Spring!

[Mapantz]

Sunny spells here. Temp did reach 9.4°C but it has dropped back down a tad.

Temp: 8.7°C - Hum: 69% - Bar: 1020.88hPa - Wind: SSE @ 9mph

[fromey]

Stat doses of Prozac to the mod thread please!!!

[Dorsetbred]

2 minutes ago, fromey said:

Stat doses of Prozac to the mod thread please!!!

Maybe we can get the name changed to the "MOOD" thread rather "MOD, MAD...."

And the sun is still shining, now at 8.5°C

[Nights King]

raining and feeling cold in wind. 

[fromey]

1 hour ago, Dorsetbred said:

Maybe we can get the name changed to the "MOOD" thread rather "MOD, MAD...."

And the sun is still shining, now at 8.5°C

It's absolutely doom and gloom in there today! Avoid it if you value your mental health 

[karlos1983]

Well at least We don't live in Richmond Virginia where they are about to get 1-2 foot of snow over the weekend, that would be rubbish 

[shane303]

So were heading for a mild or very mild weekend in the west country  some brighter spells and some rain. But please don't  take the recent mild weather charts to heart because as we all know they will change again tomorrow. Im thinking February will see temps below average at times with some frost and some snow. Nothing exceptional but more seasonal and march too. 

Edited January 21, 2016 by shane303

[karlos1983]

Well you know it's gone Pete Tong for coldies when you see The Strat thread full of model posters lol. I go in the Strat thread to get an update maybe twice a week, as it interests me a lot and I want to learn from the few extremely knowledgable posters. far be it from me to say, but I do think it waters down what is really a very very complex area of Meteorology seeing people clutch at straws in the Strat thread, not really interested in the science of it. 

Hey ho, it will blow over. Not venturing in the Mod thread, no way 

[knocker]

A foul afternoon here with low cloud, rain and a southerly gusting 35mph.

[Mapantz]

Looking a tad wet in the West/SW over the next 24hrs..