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March Blizzard

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  1. You don't live in Amityville, do you?!
  2. Sun noticeably lower in the sky earlier in the evenings now. I'll never wish any season/month away, but I've got a taste for those mellow September/October days, when it's still warm but the trees are turning and the sun is less intense and lower in the sky at all times of the day.
  3. You poor sod! But yeah, Jan 2010 is still the benchmark in terms of snow and cold for me, beating Dec 10 for temperatures and snow depth. It was the closest I've come to experiencing "proper" winter conditions, as per most places on our latitude. In terms of snow in Stockport, I'm fairly central and low-lying, so not the best location in theory, yet I have seen some spectacular snow events here over the last 5 years. Stockport rapidly rises in altitude to the east, and places like Marple can genuinely get pasted with snow, it settles earlier, deeper and lasts longer round that way, to the point that winter there can actually be relatively "severe" by UK standards.
  4. For our region in particular that North Atlantic cold anomaly could be a significant player, so I'm keen for it to remain or even grow and intensify as Autmumn drags on and winter arrives. That snowfall in late January this year from a NW airflow was spectacular while it lasted, as was the Boxing Day 2014 fall. This time round, should the low Atlantic SST's remain, we may be on the right side of marginal far more often. A potential snowy "cold zonality" winter on the way? A very, very early ramp! Anyway, knowing our luck, that cold pool will disappear by mid November and/or the Northwesterlies will die off. The one time I'd want some weather off the Atlantic we'll probably get a raging beasterly... ...with that being said, I'd take it!
  5. I know it sounds ridiculous now, but I was actually slightly disappointed with December 2010 at the time, after what I'd experienced in January 2010.Locally, Jan 2010 recorded lower temperatures and deeper snow than Dec 2010. Yes, it wasn't as prolonged as the spell in December, but for me Jan 2010 is still the benchmark for winter weather in the UK. I sum it up by saying my recollection of Jan 2010 is of wading through snow, while Dec 2010 it was slipping on ice. In Jan 2010 nearby Woodford was sub -17C for 2 nights in a row, and nearly as cold for a while longer. The -14C or-so achieved the following December seemed like a letdown! I couldn't figure out why it didn't get colder, despite the favourable conditions.
  6. Western Russia in the freezer. The Alps on fire!
  7. Wow, imagine if we ended up in the 15's after corrections! Would be very impressive given how the month started.
  8. Yeah, 45C is extremely warm, even in the hottest places on earth. I'd say such a temperature in the UK is actually impossible, considering continental Germany on a similar latitude to us has only scraped past 40C.45C is about the average summer high in Furnace Creek, California - the place that recorded the official world record high temperature and is probably the warmest place on earth for summer maxima. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furnace_Creek,_California
  9. Good stuff, BFTV. Looking forward to it!Off the top of my head I'm thinking maybe a date in mid Feb 1947, and then mid March when the thaw came. It was quite abrupt, apparently? Even so, that would take a CET average of around -5C to +10C, respectively.
  10. Another world here, I'm not kidding when I say it's cool enough to see my breath. Seriously.
  11. Wow, surprisingly cool out there, car windows have condensation on them and can see my breath! Would never have guessed it was so warm the day before.
  12. July 1st came in at 24.5C, a full 15C warmer than June 1st! There can't have been many instances in the CET history in which two dates within 30/31 days of each other have seen such a disparity in temperature.
  13. Perhaps the 36-38C range is around the upper limit for the UK, regardless of the time of year, with late June-early September the window for it. Kinda like how we have recorded -27.2C in every winter month, with late December to mid February the window for that, but haven't managed to drop lower. You get the impression it would take something extremely exceptional to reach either 40C or -30 here, with a "perfect storm" of factors all having to come together. I always find it odd when places abroad can completely obliterate records, by 5-10C, or even more in cases, yet in the UK we usually stumble over the line by 0.1C or so.
  14. Not saying you're lying by any means, Scott! I just thought it looked a little high is all. I suppose you aren't too far from Rochdale, so you may well have been the warmest place in the NW today.
  15. 34C?? That seems a little high. According to Diane on BBC weather tonight the hotspot in our region was Rochdale at 31C...
  16. June 1st came in at 9.5C in the CET zone, it'll be interesting to see the difference between it and July 1st. Substantial is an understatement...
  17. Heavy rain here now, lightning getting more frequent and seemingly closer.
  18. Yeah, going off in the distance to the west. Dry here.
  19. "Huge plume of boiling air" Wouldn't that result in, say, temperatures around 100C, rather than the lowly 40C they're predicting with certainty?
  20. Early August is the King of warm, going off that. Although I'm pretty sure that 36.5C temp was actually July 2006, not August. I also didn't realise it got so warm in January 1900...
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