Model banter and emotions

[Sweatyman]

  @SLEETY Absolutely.  Not a flake here so far. Can't be bothered anymore. Roll on the warmth.Another rubbish winter..

[TEITS]

Considering the vast changes we are seeing in the operational's at a relatively early timeframe. Do you not think it's rather silly to be writing off the rest of the winter.

Very disappointed in some of the posts who frankly should know better.

[lassie23]

If a cold spell is to arrive in February it better not be a complete letdown like the recent so-called cold spell that ended before it began.

[Penguin16]

  @MAF After the suffering on here this winter some might..

[MAF]

5 minutes ago, Penguin16 said:

After the suffering on here this winter some might.

I mentioned something the other day about how much the model threads had; and i know its an odd thing to say; spoiled my enjoyment of winter.

the constant up and down waves of pessimism, optimism, fortune telling, unpredictability and in thread sniping, cliquey groups of certain model types and general about facing of opinions left me just wishing winter would go and the rants and raves of folk disappear. 

alway been and always will look 3-5 days ahead and not wish my life away as to what might happen in a fortnight  

[TURNED OUT NICE AGAIN]

  @SLEETY I said just over a week ago that I can see another 2018 BFTE....just a feeling

[Jacob]

Honestly I don't really want a ripoff of a cold spell which turns zonal the second cold air arrives at the south. Im hoping for an actual blocking, one where there's a greenland high which isn't too far west

[ItNeverSnowsInWindsor]

Game over with winter.

[Jason M]

Hard to see anything more than a short cold snap in the foreseeable. 

Very hard to shift Iberian heights.

Fat lady is preparing in the wings for winter 2023/24 IMHO. 

[LRD]

Is there a more fruitless and boring hobby than chasing cold/snow in a UK winter?

Was interested early in the season. But I've been fining it an increasingly dull, pointless past time over the last few years

Despite last summer's disappointment at least late spring/summer is generally more reliable these days. Well, IMBY anyway. Just wish we had more thunderstorms

[Jason M]

  @LRD  There has been a huge change over last 10 years. We were always going to see dramatic winter changes from global warming though as our climate is about competing air masses. 

 

I'm not excluding possibility of seeing snow as a brief northerly or two is just about still in play, but a deep cold, snowy easterly is pretty much off the table now looking at the charts. As always, I hope to be proved wrong!

Come March, I'm after warmer weather though!

[LRD]

  @Jason M Yep, agreed. I think we will get cold winters in the future but instead of say, 1 in 3 cold ones, and what it sort of used to be, it's going to be 1 in 10. If warming isn't arrested by the end of this century we won't have winters at all. But that'd be the least of humanity's worries by then!

Mid-March to mid-Sept: yes, I'm always looking for warmth!

[Atmogenic]

11 minutes ago, LRD said:

Mid-March to mid-Sept: yes, I'm always looking for warmth!

Which is much more likely to happen because you also have the sun high up to make you warm/hot when you're in it

[LRD]

  @Atmogenic Wow, they say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit and you've proved it mate

Edited January 30 by LRD

[MP-R]

 Tim Bland  Tim Bland

It always amazes me how snow makes it across vast swathes of Europe but fizzles out the moment it crosses the UK…

[offerman]

 MP-R excellent point, which I have also made before I’ve seen this over Germany, where snow showers can make it across the whole country and yet that’s only land, but here they just seem to fizzle out or any bands of snow quite often fizzle out it’s really

[nick sussex]

I think after the disappointing winter for most parts of the UK my threshold for not moaning is output that delivers crunchy snow and not two hours of lowland slush and a BBC presenter reporting from on top of a northern hill .

#ColdiesAgainstSlush .

 

[ICE COLD]

 daz_4 story of the winters these days Daz . The only place over this side that’s done well this winter is scandi . Oh how I would love to have  a week of there weather

Edited January 31 by ICE COLD

[cyclonic happiness]

 offerman Here in my part of the world, we have what the local weather fanatics call "the Gap" where any weather, of any kind ,goes to die.

It's absolutely the least snowy part of the British Isles, even Cornwall has had more snow than us the past 5 years.

We've had 1 storm in the past 12 months, no hail, no snow, one day of fog, no gales of note, no decent heatwave....nothing!

Even the rain here manages to be a disappointment.

[offerman]

 cyclonic happiness

morning cyclonic

Thank you for your post that’s absolutely incredible. There are definitely some strange anomalies on this small island ! 

[matty40s]

 offermani

If you've been to Bedworth, you will understand....

[joggs]

 Harsh Climate I'm looking at it glass half empty. Similar set ups have not produced much for most of the country with everyone saying, troughs and features will pop up.

Saving disappointment lol

[Lukesluckybunch]

6 minutes ago, feb1991blizzard said:

Poor GFS 6z in short term (not wholly unexpected) but the whining in here is OTT over one op, when its nowhere near the target date for expected cold.

It is very poor absolutely feb..not a sign of anything cold

[WINTRY WALES]

Not good for us down south again tho

[Drifter]

 WINTRY WALES behave! This is nowhere near resolved yet.