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A dedicated thread for moans and ramps and banter about either the weather or the model output. (But not for moaning about other members!)  

A fresh thread, and hopefully a fresh start after things went a bit off on a tangent in the previous thread.  No big sermon here, but we really do need to make every effort to stay within the forum and model thread guidelines (below) in here. And within that, please, please, please don't respond to comments which are clearly outside of those guidelines. Please just report them and move on so as not to give any iffy, inflammatory comments the oxygen that they do not deserve.  The community guidelines, have recently been updated - so please have a read of them if you haven't yet. We also have a separate set of guidelines specifically for the model output threads t

Heavy driving rain and dark by 3pm horrid day ☔️ 

Hi everyone, new topic for the 2024 US tornado season. Yesterday the first us tornado of the year struck Fort Lauderdale in southern Florida likely causing EF0-EF1 damage. 2024 will be an interesting year, looking ahead we seem to stay in EL Nino till around March/April before transitioning into a neutral state by May, could even be in a La Nina by the end of June, this will have a large impact on severe weather positioning within the US. Many believe the US will have a close to average tornado year with the most tornadoes being either in the southern plains or the deep south depending on jet positioning.   Something i dont like at the momen

Wow! the sky has gone purple! Changed in seconds, at last it's actually stopped raining.

Convective Outlook⚡️  Overnight on Wednesday, severe thunderstorms look fairly likely to hit parts of the south coast bringing the risk of frequent lightning, low-end severe hail and some flash flooding risk. Before that, some daytime showers are possible across England and Ireland with 200+ J/KG of SBCAPE possible. The daytime risk looks fairly limited on the lightning front without much energy but a few lines of showers may grow strong in Ireland whilst lacking in much lightning threat along a PV lobe. Forced ascent into clusters along convergence zones in Ireland and less organised showers across the midlands ahead of and connecting to the approaching frontal syst

New thread for winter, Is the potential high next week going to retrogress or sink?

In my topic "What was the summer like during the year that you were born?", a couple of members and myself agree that we could do with some more fun topics on here. I wasn't too sure whether this one would be better suited to The Lounge or Historic Weather thread, but seeing as we are talking about the past and it is weather related, I think the latter would be the most appropriate. The objective of this is to describe a year by telling us what the weather was like during the seasons of that year and other members have to guess the year. Please keep it relatively recent (within the last 100 years). You can also provide up to three clues.  So I shall start:

CET May averages and other statistics ___ table includes all CET values for the period 1981 to 2023 ... bold type, warmest third, italics middle third, underlined, coolest third of years ___ ___ ties indicated are in one decimal, table ranks are based on a second decimal ___   21.2 ... warmest daily mean (29th, 1780) 20.0 ... 15th (1833) earliest 20.0 CET day. 15.1 ... warmest May (1833) 13.9 ... 2nd warmest May (1848) 13.8 ... t-3rd warmest Mays (1758, 1788) 13.7 ... 5th warmest May (1808) 13.6 ... t-6th warmest Mays (1727, 1992) 13.5 ... t-8th warmest Mays (1784, 1868, 1919, 1947) 13.4 ... t-12th warmest Mays 2