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  1. Thank you all so much from the bottom of my heart all your words are felt with kindness x As some of you know my mum also has cancer and my little one has had open heart surgery in march is his big apointment and I pray he is ok and after everything he has been thru my little hero is my insperation ( sorry about spelling ) over the last 2 weeks I have felt my life flash past me and I will be honest I am so scared but not for me ... For my children and my husband as I feel they have been thru enough Erm weather a dank day shall I say :/
    18 points
  2. Sunday Morning pics. Moon kissing the Ocean. Awesome Creature Tunnel Beach New Zealand Recent image over 17 meters of snow in Japan. Lightning strikes over the Ocean.
    16 points
  3. Took the children with hubby to cinema today to watch Lego the movie was fun ! Trying to keep my life as normal as possible atm as on Tuesday I am going for a small op and to be told if I have cancer or not or more tests ! I was hoping after the last 3 yrs we have had with family health issues we could move on ... Anyway today was about building memories with my family Chilly here tonight ( my weather input )
    15 points
  4. I'm very sorry to hear about so many traumatic and very worrying things going on relating to you and to those immediately around you In the circumstances you are very brave indeed to be posting about it all and so much credit is due to you for that My very best wishes to you for Tuesday Tams x We all know that we cannot take the virtual world of the internet as a substitute for real life. But in addition to the obvious value of mutual support for personal and health matters, when an underlying issue that has been going on in this little regional internet community and has served as a threat to undermine it and caused problems over at least several months for a few unfortunate members within it, then I think that it nevertheless proves just how important and valuable it can be .... whatever the weather
    13 points
  5. The NOAA signal showing the slow changes through this year have been really consistent over the 2.5 month period. To me they signalled the start of the truly ferocious Atlantic, with some hindsight I have to say as I do not think anyone expected quite the length and depth of so many low pressure systems through late December into February. They also did predict reasonably well the beginning of a decrease in both frequency and intensity of these storms. I know some do not believe my faith in them but I would not spend so much time using them if I did not feel they were the most reliable way of predicting the upper air pattern 6+ days in advance if I was not sure about them.
    12 points
  6. Quite windy out there this morning and very uniformly grey. After spending most of yesterday's beautiful sunny day cooking for the 5000, I am now feeling a strong need to get out and about even if our weather has returned to our 'winter' default somewhat. This cyclamen has continued flowering merrily all winter long in the face of continued batterings from the wind and rain, and no doubt enjoying its view from on high over our frankly slapstick at times efforts to restore the fences in the swamp that is the remainders of our garden. Best of wishes Snowlady, will be thinking of you on Tuesday.
    11 points
  7. Hello all I have been out most of the day. Walking across chalk heathlands as the crystal white sunlight was so heavy that it pressed down on us, slowing us down, allowing us to find the heavy rubber dog ball that sank into a flooded ditch 3 weeks ago and that we unearthed today through kicking rotting leaves that were already on their way, and will be in millennia, to coal. There were people out today that looked like they had not seen the sun for months, old people smiling a wrinkled smile that great age can bring, tiny children running for ever, until they realise for ever is too long and they need their mother, people just rejoicing in being out again in the world, breathing in and then slowly exhaling as their bodies warmed and relaxed. Against all of this at the moment is my favourite (only) weather thread, when I come home from that sort of real life outdoor, uplifting and moving experience to see it struggling the way it has been recently it's hard to take. I'd really love it if we could get back to the usual banter on here, weather, life, a life in weather and a weathered life, plus the other stuff that, I suspect, keeps some of us as close to sane as we are allowed to be. Let's keep it going please. AS
    11 points
  8. The 8-14 day outlook from NOAA suggests an unusually strong Azores High: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/814day/500mb.php I am seeing signals that March is likely to be more weakly westerly-dominated than January and February have been, with the Azores High periodically ridging into central parts of Europe and bringing drier, quieter spells for southern Britain in particular, which may help to ease the problems with flooding. I can also see potential for some "cold zonality" with the persistence of high pressure to the SW potentially allowing the jet stream to head SE as it moves into central parts of Europe, as happened at the beginning of March 1995, though I don't think we are likely to see anything that would bring widespread snowfall this side of the 5th March.
    10 points
  9. You know we are all rooting for you and your family Snowlady. Best wishes.
    10 points
  10. Good morning all you lovely peeps, Snowlady, wishing you luck for Tuesday x Steve C, have a fab holiday, I love Lanzarote and I'm very jealous. To everyone else:- This is such an uplifting happy place where we can all share our weather passion, but also a little bit of ourselves amongst lovely people. Long may it continue. Eerr the weather? Grey and drizzly........Yuk
    8 points
  11. What a brilliant regional thread this is, just in these 4 pages alone you got short masterpieces from AS, Alixandra, you got snowy lady battles with ill health (and I would like to add my best wishes for Tuesday and ultimately a successful outcome) you got J P with his weather analysis, its makes it a pleasure getting up early to read these heart felt pieces. AS you should write that story, just pick a story and go for it, you say that's the hard part, I always thought that, but as the old saying goes everyone got a novel inside us. I have and I know that I should be penning it now, but work won't allow it. Some 16 odd years ago my father wrote a short story about his life history, unfortunately missing out his wars years in Burma, he was a far better wordsmith than I, and I want to convert this into a novel and extend the length to include my life, perhaps altering things here and there to make it more interesting, there enough material for a couple of novels, all about the trials and tribulations of a working class family, living in dirty Dartford, who have advanced out of the slums and the lowest scum life imaginable to become well I suppose working class. I am fast running out of time, you young man are not, just do us all a favour and go for it, enjoy the experience, and do something that you and your children will be proud off for the rest of your / theirs lives. Sorry that came out as a bit of a lecture, it wasn't meant too. I think I better mention the weather, its dry, damp and dreary in dirty Dartford, oh how I wish I didn't have to keep typing those words, I'm and the wife are that depressed by this dreadful dismal winter that we have decided to book 2015 holiday shortly, so we have been looking through an online cruise Boucher, its hers favourite cruise line (and mine by a mile, boy you get well and truly pampered, the crew are fantastic) seeing all those lovely white ships sailing around the Mediterranean make me wish I could jump on a plane today and fly away to some white sandy beach, but no, I must wait until next summer, but for now I shall just daydream of the fine food, the free flowing wine and beer and the nice people you meet over a long evening meal, of the sun kissed bald heads and those white topped waves. Think I better stop now. Have a great day and make sure you enjoy yourselves.
    8 points
  12. Purga spreading the love as ever, have you not checked the latest outputs? The coming start to Spring is certainly looking a damn sight more wintry than the whole of the Winter season itself, furthermore the last dozen to two dozen posts (model related) confirm this to be the case. It still could be a chase of false hope but at least frosts look likely to return and that for me is something to be cheery about from a cold lover like myself and I believe your own good self, unless you have reverted to the other side. No more confusing posts please as at last we have something to chat about other than the potential for a recurring pattern that's been here during the vast part of the last three months. My thoughts from yesterday remain similar in spite of the updates since. http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/79434-model-output-discussion-13th-feb-onwards/?p=2937378 Many other posts within here also show similar opinions to my own so hopefully something's up and BBC Countryfile confirmed that veiw too.
    6 points
  13. Morning all, Just back from a nice long walk, it's a bit damp (must have been some overnight rain) and breezy here but better than I expected - I can now enjoy a hot shower and sit down guilt free to watch the Ice Hockey final and apart from roasting a leg of lamb at some point later do very little for the rest of the day! Hope you all enjoy a chilled Sunday whatever the weather is like where you are Chris, can I just point out that emptying the vacuum cleaner and measuring the 'dust depth' of it's contents will be a null and void entry...there is a big cobweb in the back corner though if you could remove that please
    6 points
  14. Good morning. Here is my Sunday review of the midnight outputs issued by the NWP for today Sunday February 23rd 2014 as featured on my website at http://www.norton-radstockweather.co.uk/Model-Analysis(2859336).htm. I am now including links to the data from which each section of my report is compiled. All models show a mild and broad SW flow across the UK with Low pressure to the NW. A trough lying SW to NE across NW areas is shown to slip SE through today and accelerate away East overnight to leave a Westerly flow briefly tomorrow before an active Low pressure systems streams in off the Atlantic towards NW Britain on Tuesday. So after rain in the NW this morning makes it's way across the UK today and tonight a showery interlude follows tomorrow before a fast moving spell of rain crosses all areas tomorrow night and Tuesday morning leaving a couple of blustery and showery days towards midweek with fresher temperatures. GFS then shows a new Low cross into the UK later in the week and take a turn SE across the near Continent next weekend. This ushers in colder weather following a wet end to the working week. Showers will be wintry in the North and East before a ridge moves across from the west or NW damping down any showers and leading to a cold and frosty period next Sunday. Thereafter a typical changeable regime develops under Westerly winds with some rain at times chiefly in the North. The South will see rather drier weather for longer with High pressure never far away from the South and temperatures generally will return closer to average though still rather chilly in the North between weather systems. http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfse_cartes.php?&ech=6&mode=0 The GFS Ensembles show very changeable conditions today with Low pressure trending to come down from the NW in Week 2 maintaining a changeable theme with rain at times and snow over the hills, chiefly in the North. The South is shown by many members to have some reasonable drier interludes in accordance with High pressure close to the South or SW at times. http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gefs_cartes.php?code=0&ech=0&mode=0&carte=0 UKMO closes today with next Saturday being a breezy and cold day under NW winds around Low pressure positioned over NW Germany. The weather will be generally showery with wintry showers over all high ground, dying out from the West later. http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/ukmo2.php?nh=0&ech=6&carte=1021 GEM also introduces colder weather from the weekend. A wet end to the working week under Low pressure is replaced by North or NW winds and wintry showers over the weekend. Then further rather cold and unsettled weather with some snow in places occurs to start next week as another Low pressure slides SE across the UK and away to the SE by midweek. http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/geme_cartes.php?&ech=6&mode=0&carte=0 The GEM Ensembles though changeable do indicate a lot of dry weather to be found from next weekend on as High pressure is in much closer attendance at times, especially over the South. Some rain events are shown, chiefly in the North and while temperatures shouldn't get too low some frosty nights are likely at times. http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/cmc_cartes.php?code=0&ech=0&mode=0&carte=0 NAVGEM today ends it's run with a slack and unstable North backing West flow next weekend with wintry showers in places before more places become dry by the start of the new week. http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/navgeme_cartes.php?&ech=6&mode=0&carte=0 ECM shows a cold and unsettled weekend with wintry showers especially towards the East and SE before things settle down early next week as a strong ridge builds NE over the South from the Azores with bright sunny days and frosty night. By the end of the run the North has become cloudier and milder under a slowly freshening SW flow. http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/ecmwf.php?ech=0&mode=1&map=0&type=0&archive=0 The ECM 9 and 10 Day Mean charts do show some support for the operational again this morning, albeit in a more diluted form. In general it points towards a trend for Low pressure to be held well to the NW with a much closer Azores High towards the UK than has been shown for a very long time. The net result would most likely be for any rain to cease across the South with most if not all restricted towards the Northwest. With winds shown to have a maritime influence but much less strong than of late there will likely be a lot of cloud floating about with temperatures returning to close to average values by the middle of next week. http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Reem2161.gif http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Reem2401.gif The Jet Stream Ensemble group still point towards the flow elevating to a more northern latitude across the Atlantic through week 2 supporting the better conditions possible for the UK after this week. http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gefs_cartes.php?code=0&ech=0&mode=3&carte=0 In Summary this morning it still looks strongly likely that there may be something a little more hopeful in the weather once we have got through what will be another unsettled, windy and often wet week to come. Over next weekend we will likely see a transition period involving a spell of colder NW or North winds with some wintry showers as Low pressure slides away SE over Europe. With the Jet Stream buckling strongly North over the Atlantic at that point pressure will rise strongly towards Southern Britain and while the North may see this as a rather transitory pause in the unsettled Atlantic regime Southern areas may hold on to it rather longer giving flood stricken areas much relief with several days if not longer of fine and benign weather with temperatures never desperately low much with an increased risk of night frosts which we haven't seen for so long.
    6 points
  15. Good evening all. I am, for now, ignoring the forecasts and forging on in the Garden with Spring and Summer in mind. Patio plants over wintered, now in their rightful places, seedlings repotted and waiting patiently for their time to shine. The fish have started to come out of their slumber at the bottom of the pond and I was thrilled to see some bull finches and coal tits ( only seen in my area once before) come back to the feeders. Moved my front room around, so I could sit at my recently brought French dining table circa 1900, a one of those saw it, been looking for months and finally found it moments in an antique store in KempTown, so I could sit and watch the bird life enjoying the food I put out, because it quite simply makes me happy whilst working on the laptop. Finally, had lunch with a very dear lifelong friend, life has been, well life, and we lost touch about five years ago through one thing and another. The test of a friend, is no matter how much time passes and what challenges us in those moments, they are all gone in an instant and you connect and understand each other in an instant, no matter the time spent apart. We sat and shared those times both, past, present and fears for the future. Ah, with time and life, comes a wisdom, we never thought we would grasp and understand when we were children. The sun was shining today and I certainly did positive things in its presence :-)
    6 points
  16. Interesting SS, seemingly the trend is being maintained now consistently across the GFS 12z runs at least, further to my post from earlier. All being well, all other model outputs will now firm up on the new trend. This posting from damianslaw from yesterday also appears to back up the suggested weather pattern moving forwards into the first week of March. http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/79434-model-output-discussion-13th-feb-onwards/?p=2936974 One more week of wind and some bits and pieces of rain to go before we get there and with one eye on next Friday and next weekend for wintry potential, before we hopefully receive the much needed pattern change down South at least. HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL I SAY. The pattern could be about to change (50/50 or phone a friend?), at long last. Sorry to those that like the wind, rain and storms but something more benign may well be knocking on the door by WINTER'S end.
    6 points
  17. The output tonight from ecm and gfs show in sorts at this unreliable time frame [T+249] of some very cold zonal weather. Perhaps March will deliver the Late Winter goods, and give us snow starved folk at least a sight of a snowflake
    5 points
  18. 5 points
  19. Continued signs of a pattern change of sorts as we move into March - all thanks to a more amplified flow over the atlantic, something we haven't seen once all winter. Winter will end on the same tune with the atlantic dominating and a westerly flow bringing further wind and rain with temperatures slightly above normal in the south, nearer average further north. Come the end of the month - well we have low pressure tracking SE and look pressure rising behind and to the NW which is a significant change to what has happened all winter. Thus next weekend looks like being quite chilly with a northwesterly flow pushing in some wintry showers to the north and east and a good chance of a widespread air frost - again something we haven't seen much of all winter. As we move into March proper - there are signals of heights to the SW becoming quite a key player, hopefully drying things out in the south as they ridge NE from time to time, but the north will still be under the influence of lower heights to the NW and these on occasion could muscle in on any azores high ridge development forcing it back west and pulling in cooler northwesterlies - just as we look like seeing next weekend.
    5 points
  20. Mornin each. Dull, drizzly and chilly here in Ippy. Just heard what sounded like gunshots somewhere about, and pretty close. The gulls first alerted me to something going on, they were going crazy. Hope it's not a crazed gunman. (I really must stop watching CI programmes) Best wishes to SL for Tuesday. Hope it all goes well for you. And hope you have a fab holiday, Steve. Did you know......a famous publishing house has rejected the new book by a disillusioned vet. It's called 'All Creatures Grunt and Smell' Have a good day, everyone.
    5 points
  21. Evening all. A lovely day here too, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I should have, due to not feeling too great - maybe it was beer yesterday evening, but I really don't think I had enough to cause the feeling of lethargy today? I see I might have missed a couple of dodgy posts on here today - probably a good thing, as sometimes I can 'bite' if I think a post is annoying or offensive. I'm off to Lanzarote tomorrow afternoon, so should see plenty of sun during the next week. I'm not excited at the moment, as I really don't like the rigmarole of going through airports and flying - a necessary evil to me of foreign holidays that have a reasonable flight duration. I'll be excited when I'm through the passport control of the destination airport. Hopefully I'll be able to keep in touch next week, but if I'm very quiet, it'll likely be due to the lack of Wi-Fi. Have a relaxing Sunday everyone.
    5 points
  22. Yes it's not often that a weather forum almost universally condemns a season as being one of the worst like Winter 13/14 has been. Certainly for lovers of cold and snow then probably no one can recall one so void of interest. I would imagine even lovers of wild weather have had more than they needed with the constant gloom and flooding problems taking the headlines. Another minus has been the negative effect on Model Discussion where we have seen week after week of the same Atlantic dominated outputs with no sign of any other pattern other than the week long tease of an easterly in mid-January. I think i can safely say from a cold lovers pov i have lived through the best (62/63) and the worst (13/14) Winters in 65years.
    4 points
  23. Hello all Out and about today, after very early rain it dried up and despite a lively breeze it still felt mild as the sense grew that the season is changing. A few hours working outside yesterday, painting replacement fence posts, clearing up storm debris, fixing back climbers that had been blasted from their mountings and become burrowers, walking on the grass without seeing and hearing the water pushed to the surface as my not entirely featherweight footfall pressed down, it really felt like a transformational moment in the year. Driving this morning to the chalky Heath, me, the 2 youngest and the crazy hound, we had (my choice - they put up with it) 6Music, the Cerys Matthews Sunday 10 - 1 show, full of stuff. They had a chap on who was head of the Shellac 78s club (or something like that) where they collect and play the old 78 rpm records (some of our readers will have no idea what I am on about, sorry!) and Cerys (love her and her musical knowledge) was playing lots of them. We were lucky enough to be in the car as they played a Duke Ellington piece from approx 1928. As the track started then got going my daughter looked at me and said 'what's that noise in the background, are they playing while a fire is burning?' I explained it was the crackle and hiss of old recording techniques, that I thought it added to rather than took away from the music, that it was evocative and wonderful. I asked her what she thought of it and she said that she liked the idea they were playing in front of a fire. Which I suppose, given the way some of those early jazz musicians were ripped off, they were. It remains very mild here tonight. I have got such a taste for Spring now, can we please have a proper one this year.... AS
    4 points
  24. Not a bad UKMO +144 chart , Nice to see Pressure rising in the right place .
    4 points
  25. Haven`t seen the GFS showing a precipitation chart like this for a while. Signals, signals, signals. https://forum.netweather.tv/gallery/image/17587-imgres/
    4 points
  26. Good luck for tuesday Snowlady, I hope you get good news.
    4 points
  27. Big ((((HUGS))) and best wishes for Tuesday - I hope it's all good news for you
    4 points
  28. hi SL, am sure your positive approach and everything you've been through already will stand you in good stead, huge support.....AS
    4 points
  29. Hi Ali, Just a quick thanks for reacting quickly to my post, earlier this afternoon. I really felt that the 2 posts I quoted were unacceptable and as this is a family orientated forum, we should be guarding against the use of this sort of language and smutty innuendo. If some members feel I've overreacted, I'm sorry and I certainly didnt intend to cause an "atmosphere", on the thread, at all. But in light of certain problems there have been recently on the Regional Thread and on the forum in general, standards and behaviour need to be maintained, for the good of everyone, poster and viewer alike. Ali, think you have a thankless task trying to keep order on this thread but you always manage do so with a smile and some considerable understanding too. Regards, Tom.
    4 points
  30. 3 points
  31. My snowdrops, crocus and daffs are out, spring is sprung? whilst in the kitchen making a cuppa watched the crows harass the local red kite.
    3 points
  32. A few lucky spots could reach 13 or possibly 14 celsius today, the most favoured areas for this being parts of north wales and north west england and for the rest of us, a mild day with temps between 10-12 celsius...it's been a mild week and today could be the mildest so far. The Gfs 00z op run shows a lot of unsettled weather with spells of rain and strong winds, especially during the week ahead but nothing as severe as recently, and it's not all bad news either, high pressure does look like building across the south of the uk from time to time with occasional ridging for all areas bringing dry and bright weather with light winds. Temperatures generally on the mild side but with some incursions of cooler rPm air, especially for scotland, no sign of anything wintry on this run apart from a slight frost at times.
    3 points
  33. On my visits to Staines-Upon-Thames in Surrey over the last few weeks it was difficult to avoid the flood waters, it was really serious in places. And it wasn't only the rivers that flooded roads and housing estates, it was ground water, and the drains were spewing out water it had no where to go but to the surface, nothing really could be done to stop this coming out, such a great pressure forcing the water anywhere it go release. On my journeys I took some photos so here is a selection all taken at Staines town and the boarders surrounding the main town. All photos are my own. (have uploaded some impressive clouds too)
    3 points
  34. And so the cycle may be complete. With a snowless winter today saw double digits breached, daffs are coming out as are tulips and now the GFS seems to be sniffing ridging. Autumn may well simply become spring..
    3 points
  35. Keeping my fingers crossed for you and hoping the results are negative.
    3 points
  36. Tomasino (Kentish CZ) is your PM box full? Or maybe, as I was going to send you a message, you have blocked potentially annoying contributors! Cheers AS
    3 points
  37. Beautiful sunny morning, clouding over by early afternoon. Daffoldils shining brightly in the morning sun, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing like Wordsworth's finest . A most cheering sight after such a long period of rain, gales and that gloomy leaden light that has dragged on for months. I recall very clearly the earthquake that was felt in Suffolk in February 2008 in the early hours of 27th February. I was working late to meet an important deadline and my boss and I were quietly slogging away at our respective computers. We were both exhausted and silent, except for the occasional sigh and tsk if I made an error in the desktop publishing I was using, or the occasional sweary word from him. Suddenly the silence was broken by the sound of a tractor. I thought it was coming from behind me and I turned to look at the window at my back. As I turned back I clearly saw the room swaying from side to side. My boss said "what the **** is that!" I replied, very calmly, "an earthquake". It felt as though it went on for a long time and I was intrigued by how intense the swaying became, all the time accompanied by a low pitched rumbling, which I now realised wasn't a nocturnal joy riding tractor at all. I remember sitting there wondering how much more the Victorian building could take before it started falling to pieces. Am not sure if I was so tired I didn't have the foresight to get outside or in reality it happened over a much shorter timeframe than it felt. I suspect the latter. Naturally Badtempered Boss didn't believe me and ranted on about being disturbed (as if I had caused it...) so I was quietly (and smugly) pleased when it was on the news the next morning. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266272.stm
    3 points
  38. hi snowy fingers crossed for you that it goes well on tuesday still waiting the fax charts so will update when in hi lottie i remember a while ago my mrs upstairs felt a quake but i didnt as i was downstairs maybe around that time too
    3 points
  39. Thank you Kate, you're very kind and I really appreciate it; my challenges are (1) plot and (2) sustaining any writing beyond 3 paragraphs or a poem. I am still scribbling away though, throwing stuff around, so maybe one day.....Again, thank you lots (that line won't be in the book!)AS
    3 points
  40. note the top one the observed one is gradually going down if its positive it does this if it goes negative it does this now lets look at ukmo at 144 now ecm there are subtle differences but close enough to follow on now heres the rest of ecm possible showers of? colder and mainly dry mainly dry dont be misled this is still chilly and frost overnight would be likely finally warmer but cloudy at day cold and possibly chilly but not frosty at night solar output http://www.solarham.net/regions/map.htm http://www.solarham.net/ although there are spots there solar activity looks to be dropping off now http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/warnings_timeline.html link above shows how activity has been high but slowly dropping off lets hope we see something like the above happening and we keep the atlantic away from us
    3 points
  41. Not certain what's been happening on here today, and to be fair, I don't want to either. Like MK says let's get back to happy weather related regional thread, or in my case the usual rubbish of non weather related posts :-) I don't normally speak about the football games I go to, I do mention the fact that I am going, but today if I get this right will be both weather related and football related. Today I went to see Charlton at the valley where the drainage has collapsed and the water table is only about 10mm below the playing surface, knowing in my heart we where going to lose, but I thought why not go, its a beautiful day, the sun was shining, birds singing and the pitch well I think you can say it was mud, with a few patch of grass, actually reminded me of Surreys pictures of his garden. The game kicked off off eventually half time come round, and the Charlton and QPR Down syndrome teams come onto the pitch, these lads mostly youngster are the absolute highlight, they love the applause and lap it up, they are really fantastic, and be honest this is the second time this year they have been presented to a large crowd. Anyway the game if you where a Charlton fan ended happily with us snatching a 92 minute goal, great joy erupted and I got a kiss from the 18stone bloke who sits behind me when we scored, also got a lovely hug from my boy, he never done that before, all this love and excitement just made me wonder and I don't want this to sound condescending but will the fans of the big TV clubs ever know what today feels like - pure joy, we have suffered a lot of negativity over the past few years & today, no matter how small & insignificant in the football world & possibly even our season, was just a brilliant feeling. Have a great night what's left of it, and enjoy yourself, I have the wine slipped down a treat.
    3 points
  42. Thank you Tom - and for understanding why I also deleted your post which quoted the one I deleted and the other that I edited - can I just ask all of you to please hit the report button when you see something that you think needs moderating or bringing to the teams attention - it makes our job so much easier as we only have one post to deal with rather than having it quoted and then having more to edit or delete. Hopefully we can get back to happy regional weather based chat in here now and move on from some of the issues there have been recently
    3 points
  43. Good evening. Here is the report on the 12 noon outputs from the NWP for today Saturday February 22nd 2014 and lifted from my website at http://www.norton-radstockweather.co.uk/Model-Analysis(2859336).htm All models show another week of unsettled weather to come with rain and strong winds at times alternating with spells of brighter weather with showers. Temperatures will stay largely near average throughout as winds look like continuing to blow from a Westerly point and continue to be strong at times. Low pressure will remain to the North or over the UK for much of the time but by the end of the week subtle changes in the synoptic pattern make for radical changes in the weather over the UK from next weekend. GFS shows the second half of it's run with a cold Northerly flow next weekend with wintry showers for many for a time. High pressure builds steadily behind this short period and allowing fine and sunny conditions by day and frosty nights at the start of week 2. Further out in the run a North/South split seems likely as Westerly winds bring rain at times over the North while Southern areas continue to see drier and brighter weather and little if any rain. UKMO shows Low pressure moving away East near Denmark next Friday with a cold Northerly flow with wintry showers and frosty nights looking likely next weekend. GEM tonight shows a brief northerly next weekend before the briefest of ridges crosses the UK from the West. Thereafter renewed Low pressure slips South over the UK and away to the South as pressure builds to the North. The net result of this would be rain and showers turning wintry in rather cold air as winds veer Easterly later. NAVGEM shows Low pressure to the East next weekend with sunny spells and wintry showers giving some snowfall over the hills as well as introducing frosts by night. ECM tonight shows much drier conditions developing next weekend and the following week following a short colder interlude under Northerly winds and wintry showers and frosty nights. High pressure builds steadily from the SW to form a large centre just to the SW at the end of the run with milder NW winds flowing around the High later. The ECM 9 and 10 Day Mean Charts still remain somewhat reluctant to follow the operational wholeheartedly but are at least slowly coming around to the idea of brighter and drier weather at times, most likely towards the South but not completely removing the risk of rain amost anywhere given that pressure remains much lower on the mean than that on the operational. http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Reem2161.gif http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Reem2401.gif The GFS Ensembles tonight show a slow cooling of the pattern over the UK though at the same time there are strong signals of conditions becoming much drier, especially over the South later. http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gefs_cartes.php?code=0&ech=0&mode=0&carte=0 The Jet Stream Forecast tonight indicates the flow moving North over the Atlantic following the demise of the seemingly endless procession of the flow close to the South of England for the next week or so. As a result of the move High pressure builds up from Southern latitudes towards the South of Britain. http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gefs_cartes.php?ech=0&code=0&mode=3&carte=0 In Summary the momentum for better weather continues to grow pace tonight as all models indicate varying degrees of a migration North or NE of High pressure down near the Azores. In the meantime there is still more rain and strong winds to get through this coming week before the weather perks up with a colder period of weather with wintry showers is the precursor to better conditions than of late, especially in the South where dry weather could for the first time for months become the most dominant factor of the weather. Temperatures after a colder interlude look like returning quickly to average by the end of week 2.
    3 points
  44. No sprouts for me , bangers and mash washed down with a bottle of gin !!!
    3 points
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