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Worryingly Wet & Worryingly Sunless
Froze were the Days replied to SunSean's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
A Face like Thunder Well you could look at it like this...the weather that followed was a lot of wall to wall sunshine from what I can remember from April to July and fairly warm. -
ECM going the route of 'the only way is the Norwegian Sea' and the effects of heights over the near continent just too much for any low pressure (saying that has been the way for some time)...my money is on the ECM being closer to the mark and the first run of late GFS has gone to sustain heights to the north from the shorth northerly. Roll on Spring I say...who wants cold now?
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Winter 2023/24 - A Post Mortem
Froze were the Days replied to Nick F's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
sundog This was mentioned a number of weeks ago...BUT the North Atlantic hasn't been particularly warm in fact closer to normal with a slight tripole. -
Winter 2023/24 Chat and Discussion
Froze were the Days replied to Blessed Weather's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
I'd just like to congratulate everybody who said 'Winter was over' after the mid-January cold spell/snap - yes they were correct! (myself included)...also I made a post early February after seeing a few of the det charts saying if the weather we experienced was anything like the models were showing we could be 'staring down the barrel of the warmest February on record' and hey ho!...of course greeted by no likes in the model thread or completely ignored unlike some experienced/pro posts whom couldn't get it more wrong if they tried. By the way it is considerably easier now days in the 'large teapot' to predict mild conditions over cold... -
My take on this Winter: December: Other than the first few days more like November, wet, dull and mild. Xmas period in the run up to and to the New Year one of the worst I can remember. January: Started the same as December (Unsettled) then huffed and puffed with some blocking and a colder/cold for 10 days or so but yet again no snow (11January's running now without). Finished with the same old garbage. February: Like a Spring month, still rainy, mild basically like a March or early April. Only 1 ground frost. 2.5/10 for me as a Winter, we've experienced worse i.e. 2013/2014 but at least we did have some frosts/cold beginning of December and January. 30 seconds of proper snow falling. 0 days of snow lying (again). Sadly I wouldn't expect much better next Winter either.
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Had to laugh at the home page and scene of deep frost and rime 'Polar Air Mass bringing a drop in temperature' headline - the reality is particularly for us down south is probable cloud, damp/rain (cold version 2.0) and if we're lucky a bit of a frost (the 1st one this month). I think that's NW pushing the boat out a bit on that...saying that they could on my back lawn currently.
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Moans, ramps and banter
Froze were the Days replied to Community Team's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
cheeky_monkey Not a chance...certainly not towards the south east, the beeb presenter (forget who it was) was talking as a whole for the UK and this was before mid-month. -
Moans, ramps and banter
Froze were the Days replied to Community Team's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
Polaris Snowflake presenters? BBC forecasters should bow their heads in embarrassment at the their lack of knowing what max temperatures should be for the time of year country wide as an approximate, a week or so back they were saying that 9c was the average at the time...hhmmmm no. As for the continued bore-fest of Winter 2023/24 is anybody else just wishing Spring (real Spring not faux) would get a giddy-up? -
Hotspur62 Read the post above yours - not many posters I read last month mentioned a strengthening El -Nino (largely a cold party pooper) all I read was AAM that, MJO phase this, SSW that etc. etc. also Iberian Heights have been relentless the last few weeks, if you think it's been bad here just look at the near continent. Not sure about the SST's either as they've been close to normal with a slight tri-pole in the North Atlantic which can be inducive to a more southerly tracking jet stream but other than that it's always a struggle. I'm always set up to be disappointed before December arrives most Winters now but 2023/24 has been on another level, the worrying thing is I feel there will be worse winters which will give us small hope of any cold spells (as per mid-January) just around the corner...
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Moans, ramps and banter
Froze were the Days replied to Community Team's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
When did it go strong?...I asked about if El Nino had developed back in December and replied back that it hadn't developed no where near as much as expected and was weak to neutral, not that I put that much trust in such things. -
Moans, ramps and banter
Froze were the Days replied to Community Team's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
lassie23 I'm sure there are many in the MAD thread who will not give up on the Winter and as we have an extra day in the month will see it as a 'bonus' Lets be honest not only has the Winter been fairly shocking certainly in terms of 'signals' (if you believe in any of them or there worth now days but equally bad forecasts from seasonals and some of the more experienced 'pro' posters on here, as I've always said can they forecast ahead any better than you or me?...if so they wouldn't be on this website but making a living from it. -
Moans, ramps and banter
Froze were the Days replied to Community Team's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
If the models are correct the 2nd half of February is shaping up to be grim!...cloud and lots of rain, no surprise there - we can add that to the grim months of July, most of October and December of recent times. Shocking Winter. -
Moans, ramps and banter
Froze were the Days replied to Community Team's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
Yep disgusting weather and not for the first time this Winter...been raining here since about 6/7am. December and the Xmas/New Year period was about as vile as I can remember. Doesn't take long after a brief dry interlude the last week or so to start pelting it down again. Roll on Spring.