North West Regional Discussion March 2022 onwards

[Joe Snow]

Anything remotely green starts Cheshire/ North Staffs northwards & Wales westwards  

[severe snowstorm]

Just now, Joe Snow said:

Anything remotely green starts Cheshire/ North Staffs northwards & Wales westwards  

Yeah, a remarkable satellite image. Some decent rainfall is desparately needed but nothing significant showing up in the short to medium term at least.

[Rush2019]

Temp still on the up. 

[Joe Snow]

7 minutes ago, severe snowstorm said:

Yeah, a remarkable satellite image. Some decent rainfall is desparately needed but nothing significant showing up in the short to medium term at least.

London/ the SE & East Anglia are in a real bad way especially if we have a dry autumn - which autumns often are until November down there. Autumn weather proper doesn’t start for southern Britain until post Halloween really like Winter proper doesn’t start till post Xmas for those south of Birmingham. 

Edited August 10, 2022 by Joe Snow

[Cheshire Freeze]

30.9 top temperature here today. Room at 26-27c so not too bad. Down to about an hr and a half heating through my bedroom window now and the sun has already disappeared behind the roof of next door.

I love the shortening days

Edited August 10, 2022 by CreweCold

[iand61]

2 hours ago, WillinGlossop said:

Been lovely hot day… 30-33c registered on car… all the reservoirs are so low at the moment… 31c reached here back in Glossop… went to Dovestones and then Littleborough via Baitings reservoir… g&t on patio and feet in a bucket of cold water

reservoirs compared now vs normal 

Looks like Baitings and it probably won’t be long before the conditions in the bottom photograph return and all of this will be a distant memory.

spent a couple of hours up in Keswick today, a good journey up the M6 and thankfully back before the livestock truck overturned and filled both carriageways with sheep but what fantastic weather it is for anyone holidaying up there.

shame that mine was a working visit.

 

[WillinGlossop]

Just now, iand61 said:

Looks like Baitings and it probably won’t be long before the conditions in the bottom photograph return and all of this will be a distant memory.

spent a couple of hours up in Keswick today, a good journey up the M6 and thankfully back before the livestock truck overturned and filled both carriageways with sheep but what fantastic weather it is for anyone holidaying up there.

shame that mine was a working visit.

 

Yes was Baitings reservoir… pretty much all the reservoirs around here are 50% or less… more consumption than rain fell… Will more than likely, as others have said, be months of heavy rain upcoming throughout autumn to make up for it… we still have filled up water butts for this coming hot spell… should be enough to keep the potted plants going still 27c… have fan on 

[Frost HoIIow]

25 minutes ago, Joe Snow said:

London/ the SE & East Anglia are in a real bad way especially if we have a dry autumn - which autumns often are until November down there. Autumn weather proper doesn’t start for southern Britain until post Halloween really like Winter proper doesn’t start till post Xmas for those south of Birmingham. 

Don't think it even starts in our region A morning of slush doesn't qualify really.

[Joe Snow]

1 minute ago, Frost HoIIow said:

Don't think it even starts in our region A morning of slush doesn't qualify really.

Haha I’m with you on that one - it can be hard to get even a frost until late Dec/ January in Gtr London though depending on the winter. Thankfully we aren’t quite that bad  

[Rush2019]

Anyone for an ice cream?

[Weather-history]

What's happened to Matt Hugo on twitter? His twitter account has gone. 

[Frost HoIIow]

10 minutes ago, Weather-history said:

What's happened to Matt Hugo on twitter? His twitter account has gone. 

Usually offensive tweets gets you thrown off or he's took himself off it and deactivated his account.

[Weather-history]

Just now, Frost HoIIow said:

Usually offensive tweets gets you thrown off or he's took himself off it and deactivated his account.

His account was there very recently. Could be to do with the company he works. Anyway, his account is gone.

[iand61]

Amazing how clear it is this evening.

according to flight tracker this has just flown over here on its way from JFK to Leipzig so I assume it was pretty much at cruising altitude but the colours were as vivid as if it was coming into land at Manchester.

D-AJFK | Airbus A330-343P2F | DHL (European Air Transport) | R Skywalker | JetPhotos

WWW.JETPHOTOS.COM

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Rare daylight movement for this A330P2F at AMS seen on short finals for rwy 18R coming in from Leipzig. Once again extremely lucky with the sunlight exactly...

 

Edited August 10, 2022 by iand61
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[StretfordEnd1996]

There's been a lot of talk recently in local media about the low reservoirs - while they are definitely very low I've seen them lower.

Dovies (as us locals call it - meaning Dovestones of course)! Does appear to be one of the lowest at the moment for whatever reason but plenty of other ressies around the area are still have a relatively okayish amount of wet in them albeit they are much lower than normal.

As I've said though I'm sure I've seen them all lower in the past. 

[Joe Snow]

 

[StretfordEnd1996]

1 minute ago, Joe Snow said:

 

We're just about hanging on aren't we to the lush stuff  

[Had Worse]

Evening all.

A bright moon to my South 

Still 21°C

Edited August 10, 2022 by Had Worse

[Cheshire Freeze]

19.4 here, fairly rapid temperature drop now, comfortably below 20c before midnight with another 7 hours of cooling to go

Metoffice has us down for 20C at 1am, that's blatantly not going to happen.

Edited August 10, 2022 by CreweCold

[PennineMark]

Local reservoirs not too bad. Greenbooth and Middle Naden here in Norden looking OK. Looks about 4m below a normal level. Beautiful day to ride up that way. 

[damianslaw]

Stunning evening

 Big moon, big moonlight. Full moon on Friday. Excellent 4 days ahead for evening saunters in the lakeland countryside. 

I think our max was 24 degrees today.

[Frost HoIIow]

39 minutes ago, CreweCold said:

19.4 here, fairly rapid temperature drop now, comfortably below 20c before midnight with another 7 hours of cooling to go

Metoffice has us down for 20C at 1am, that's blatantly not going to happen.

Yes these slightly longer nights and shorter days seems to be doing the trick with dropping both the outdoor and indoor temps. Any diurnal heating is now competing with increasing darkness. A month to 6 weeks ago and it would have been absolutely roasting indoors with barely a drop off at this time.

[Cheshire Freeze]

1 minute ago, Frost HoIIow said:

Yes these slightly longer nights and shorter days seems to be doing the trick with dropping both the outdoor and indoor temps. Any diurnal heating is now competing with increasing darkness. A month to 6 weeks ago and it would have been absolutely roasting indoors with barely a drop off at this time.

Absolutely and I suspected this would be the case. Clear skies, increased darkness and increased radiation of heat. As you say, 4 weeks back would have been a different story.

[StretfordEnd1996]

10 minutes ago, CreweCold said:

Absolutely and I suspected this would be the case. Clear skies, increased darkness and increased radiation of heat. As you say, 4 weeks back would have been a different story.

And they're only getting shorter - we're losing what 4-5 minutes or so of light at the moment? 
 

Will be waking up in the dark soon (what time does it actually get light at the moment?)

[Cheshire Freeze]

17.9C at midnight...Metoffice had us at 20C

2 minutes ago, StretfordEnd1996 said:

And they're only getting shorter - we're losing what 4-5 minutes or so of light at the moment? 
 

Will be waking up in the dark soon (what time does it actually get light at the moment?)

It's about 5am it's getting light now. Better than the 3.30am it was 6 weeks back