Autumn 2023

[*Stormforce~beka*]

2 hours ago, Don said:

As if!! 

Or if it's really good you might wanna marry me instead ...

[*Stormforce~beka*]

2 hours ago, MP-R said:

The perfect night here for fireworks. Clear starry sky, flat calm and chilly. Down to 07.5°C.

This after a mostly sunny day following morning showers.

Just got back from some at 9pm. It was gorgeous! Not a breath of wind. So even I!!! WASN'T!! Cold.

Ok I had 5,000 layers on but even so...lol

[Don]

23 minutes ago, *Stormforce~beka* said:

Or if it's really good you might wanna marry me instead ...

Yep! 

[*Stormforce~beka*]

3 minutes ago, Don said:

Yep! 

YAY We can live in our cosy cottage together in Scotland ... After you've brought your coat ... You'll need it LOL

[Don]

27 minutes ago, *Stormforce~beka* said:

YAY We can live in our cosy cottage together in Scotland ... After you've brought your coat ... You'll need it LOL

Yay, sounds like a plan.  I'll get that coat ordered!

[*Stormforce~beka*]

Just now, Don said:

Yay, sounds like a plan.  I'll get that coat ordered!

I'll start planning the wedding ... Who we inviting? I'm thinking 2 seperate party rooms for the coldies and hotties ...

[SunnyG]

15 hours ago, razorgrain said:

Something milder on the horizon thankfully 

 

Things we like to see

[In Absence of True Seasons]

Another very windy, wet and cold day here. On and on it goes.

[Metwatch]

Another case of if today's position of the low was exactly like that in mid December, the Midlands would be under snow.

 

Good example was March 2023, the 9th.

Starting raining at 5.5C this morning so not that far off it falling as snow now.

Edited November 4, 2023 by Metwatch

[SunnyG]

1 hour ago, In Absence of True Seasons said:

Another very windy, wet and cold day here. On and on it goes.

Very windy it ain't. Are you in London, Canada by any chance????

It's mild-ish, sunny and dead calm over here in North London, UK....

[johnholmes]

1 hour ago, In Absence of True Seasons said:

Another very windy, wet and cold day here. On and on it goes.

very different to EGLL observations!

[MattStoke]

Another Soaked-on-Trent Saturday.

[Summer8906]

Some contrasts between Ciaran and the current low.

Obviously the current one isn't anything like as severe. One "good" thing about Ciaran, I guess, was that it introduced clear polar air from high latitudes behind it, meaning Friday (particularly late in the day) featured dry, cold and clear air - though there were still 1 or 2 showers during the day so yet another in the long run of rain-days.

This low has tracked further north means we are in damper SW-lies again, less invigorating than yesterday's air.

That said I am glad it's this low which went north, and not Ciaran!

It often seems to be the case that we get a temporary blast of clear, cold air behind a big storm. ISTR October 16th 1987 being sunny and cool before damp air returned the following day; the Burns Storm of 1990 definitely had a cooler, drier, sunny interlude (including when the storm was ongoing - that was very notable as a 'dry' storm), the St Judes storm of 2013 the same (lasting 2 or 3 days IIRC) and Eunice also had a dry bright slot late in the day. Presumably the storms were all fuelled by potent cold air clashing with warm air.

Edited November 4, 2023 by Summer8906

[Summer8906]

1 hour ago, SunnyG said:

Very windy it ain't. Are you in London, Canada by any chance????

It's mild-ish, sunny and dead calm over here in North London, UK....

Interestingly, London (ON, Canada)'s forecast for the following week (googled it) is very typical for London, UK in November. Much cloud, rain on a good few days, and max temps varying between 6 and 14C. The typical continental-climate late autumn of sunny, frosty days seems to be on hold for now!

 

 

Edited November 4, 2023 by Summer8906

[Summer8906]

19 hours ago, razorgrain said:

Something milder on the horizon thankfully 

 

It's arguably not milder we need, it's drier! We really need an anticyclonic, northerly or easterly type - while the air is still streaming in from the Atlantic, we are always at risk of a heavy rain or strong wind event at this time of year.

 

Edited November 4, 2023 by Summer8906

[markyo]

19 hours ago, razorgrain said:

Something milder on the horizon thankfully 

 

Its hardly been cold though has it...

[Don]

3 hours ago, Metwatch said:

Another case of if today's position of the low was exactly like that in mid December, the Midlands would be under snow.

 

Good example was March 2023, the 9th.

Starting raining at 5.5C this morning so not that far off it falling as snow now.

Hmm, if only that same chart were to repeat in 6 weeks! 

[In Absence of True Seasons]

13 minutes ago, markyo said:

Its hardly been cold though has it...

Agree, actually been quite mild many days. Just very wet and windy.

[*Stormforce~beka*]

2 hours ago, Don said:

Hmm, if only that same chart were to repeat in 6 weeks! 

Noooo. Don't do it. It would disappear at t24!

[I remember Atlantic 252]

2 hours ago, In Absence of True Seasons said:

Agree, actually been quite mild many days. Just very wet and windy.

Aye but from now it will be, warm=wet/windy, clear/sunny=cold/frosty

[damianslaw]

3 hours ago, Don said:

Hmm, if only that same chart were to repeat in 6 weeks! 

Synoptics can be misleading, you would look at this chart and think slow moving pulses of rain nationwide, alas today here has been dry, sunny and calm. 

[CharlieBear9]

1 hour ago, I remember Atlantic 252 said:

Aye but from now it will be, warm=wet/windy, clear/sunny=cold/frosty

Correct. Never understood people welcoming mild weather then moaning about how cloudy, dark and wet it is.

[Don]

16 hours ago, *Stormforce~beka* said:

I'll start planning the wedding ... Who we inviting? I'm thinking 2 seperate party rooms for the coldies and hotties ...

Definitely two separate party rooms for coldies and hotties with bouncers on the doors to make sure they don't mix!  

15 minutes ago, damianslaw said:

Synoptics can be misleading, you would look at this chart and think slow moving pulses of rain nationwide, alas today here has been dry, sunny and calm. 

Not here it hasn't, quite the opposite, with rain all day and no sunny breaks! 

[Don]

4 hours ago, markyo said:

Its hardly been cold though has it...

What I've found this year is what was seen as mild/warm only 10 years ago is now seen as cold by certain people.  You can bet your bottom dollar at the end of the year, some will claim 2023 has been a cold year when in actual fact it will at the very least be one of the warmest, if not THE warmest on record!

23 minutes ago, CharlieBear9 said:

Correct. Never understood people welcoming mild weather then moaning about how cloudy, dark and wet it is.

Couldn't agree more!

Edited November 4, 2023 by Don

[CharlieBear9]

Just now, Don said:

What I've found this year is what was seen as mild/warm only 10 years ago is now seen as cold by certain people.  You can bet your bottom dollar at the end of the year, some will claim 2023 has been a cold year when in actual fact it will at the very least be one of the mildest, if not THE mildest on record!

Yes, some claimed the summer was cold!