Machu Picchu
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So the 'Beast' turns up sporting a pink hoody, skinny jeans and pristinely groomed facial hair. So far the beast is a bit of a snowflake.
Its been snowing in some form non stop since yesterday afternoon and still theres only a good covering. I've never seen so many different types of snow, last night was constant sparkling talcum powder. The Beast is coming.....Be afraid they said. I've got 40 gallons of milk in the back yard, i thought it would be frozen day and night but the suns turning it to cottage cheese. -
Thats the end, its finally stopped with a total just shy of 16cm.Could do with it freezing now.
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Over 13cm now and still coming down nicely.
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Was expecting it to ease off at anytime but its become heaviest its been all night. Its getting blown around
now and coming down horizontal
I cant believe how much snow is on the ground, if it carries on a bit longer there'll be 15cm on the wheelybin.
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11cm on the wheely bin, been snowing now for 4 hours and its still coming down steadilly.Exceeded the MetO's 10cm and still going.Snowplow/gritter has passed twice now but not plowing or gritting here, must be headingstraight out to the M1.
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Its getting a bit heavier, theres now 10cm on the wheelybin, temp still 0.5C.
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Stuck the steel rule in the wheelybin, just over 6cm. Bright orange sky and looking good
for sledging with the twins tomorrow.
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Still coming down at the same rate here, nice steady snowfall. Temps dropped to 0.5C now.
Car tracks on the main Sheffield road are quickly covered over, cars are passing very slowly
Still not a gritter in sight, the local council depot is just down the road from here and theres
no activity from there.
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Beautiful orange sky. Fully covered now, even the main Sheffield road is covered and surprisingly
no gritters have been out today.
Shame it didn't come a day earlier.
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Snowing here now for past half hour and getting heavier, settling too, wheelybins covered and settling on paths.
Temps at 1.1C and dropping, was 4.2C an hour ago.
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I've just spotted February being written off on the forums. Just need to find someone doing the same for March and I'll have a bingo!Seriously though, some people are providing some very good discussions, and I don't mean just the people looking for cold. But I still stand by the one week at a time approach. However, a genuine well done to those who put their necks on the line earlier in December saying that the zonal pattern will stick until the end of the month. I think they're brave doing the same for January but we'll see. I know I'm not brave enough to predict more than a week ahead let alone a whole month.
Yep, especially when we've seen in previous winters how quickly the signal can change. The thing that worries me at the moment is the
lack of cold across most of Europe, the UK has been recording lower temps than much of the continent. I'll be happier when widespread cold arrives
in Europe and we'll see what happens from there, its not just our little island thats missing out.
We're still in December, theres plenty of time left yet and like you say, its a brave man who can write off the next 3months.
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Indeed, and I've just followed Milhouse's suggestion of looking through the archives (particularly that example of 6th Jan). Very interesting and certainly helps to keep chins up!
That sounds about right then for 1st signs around the 6th, i remember being back at work the 2nd week in Jan and confidence grew quickly, then we
had the 1st taste of a few inches of snow on the 19th and a big dumping on the 21st and a spell of about 10days with frequent snow showers.
I recall the turnaround being sudden, it was a quick change from nothing like now to a good cold spell with nice snow amounts. I remember METO's 16-30 day outlook
for the time stating their usual carefully worded play it safe 'uncertainty for the period, with the trend for temps to be around or slightly below average'
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At what point last year did we start to see the light at the end of the tunnel in the models? It was just after new year wasn't it?
Last year i came home on the 4th Jan from our annual New Years week in Prague and the first thing i did was check the mod thread to find that the outlook was no
different to when i left regarding cold. Last New Year was the first i've spent in Prague without deep cold or snow, it was overcast with temps between -1 and 5C and
this year is going to be pretty much the same.
I think we were well into the 2nd week of Jan before signs of cold started showing and i remember the mood in the mod thread being similar to now with many feeling
anxious at being half way into winter without any sign of seasonal weather. Still plenty of time left yet with the best 2 months for proper winter weather ahead of us.
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A very Happy Christmas to all you awesome weather geeks and a big thankyou to the fantastic Netweather site and all the members input
for helping noobs like me understand (sort of) and educate ourselves.
Santa got me a new weather station so i'm now retreating to the shed to play with it
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Best. December since 2010 here, I've had two dustings of snow albeit patchy and a heavy snow shower this morning. In fact I've seen more snow this month than tithe previous two winters combined I love cold zonality and long may it continue but with more cold in the mix than now.
Really SI? Did you not get anything from 19th Jan, 20-21st Jan and 22-23rd March 2013 over your way?
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We've had 2 rain to snow showers, 1 quite heavy but it didn't last long, lowest temp --1.9C
The worst thing is its not been really cold but its not been mild (excuse my language) enough to make do without the heating on.
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Theres a lurker in the shadows of the Mod thread liking any post containing zonal, mild, winters over type curse words.
10 points to anyone who can guess who it is.
Its chilly out there so keep your Extra Large Teapot full and a very Merry Christmas Pudding to you all.
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My God .. we are having the the most dramatic weather in years and some of you experts are still looking for a bit of cold … get real and join the real world… actually you might enjoy it ..
This is the model output discussion thread, the current set-up has already been discussed if you want to go back and have a read.
I'm sure many of the members posting in here are also posting in the regionals etc regarding the current storms.
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To be fair I reckon with the right set up anywhere in the UK can have "impressive" snow even in Cornwall. But with your height you would do well in the marginal situations too, probably places below 200m would have rain.
I agree Gaz, very true, just a shame the UK as a whole doesn't get the favoured set-ups more frequently. I suppose my impressive could be another mans average or mediocre, i spent the first 26yrs
of my life in Lincoln which is not the greatest location for snow and seems to have a 6" snow cap in place (although Dec 2010 was epic, better than here) Then i spent 5yrs on the south coast moving
between Brighton and Eastbourne, i saw a few snow showers and a slight covering once so its a different world up here.
On a few occasions i've left Barnsley/Sheffield in the rain for it to turn to snow a couple miles from home and have lying snow when i get here so 100m or so can really make a difference like you say.
Theres places within a few miles of here that tend to do much better, especially over the Woodhead way and more exposed areas so location plays a big part and works the same way i suppose
as it can be raining here but snowing a couple of miles away. Its not uncommon to see cars drive through the village covered in snow when its raining/sleeting here.
I wouldn't mind moving to the Dales or the Moors though.
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Maybe IB melted in the furnace like zonal flow, also Steve Murr posting 2 days on the bounce is a good sign.
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Agree with all that, but surprised even Dec isn't more wintry for your location
This is my 10th winter in Penistone and i can honestly say that i've seen more snow showers in November and even October than i've seen in December.
Temps tend to be a degree or two lower than Sheffield, Barnsley etc but no real what i would call winter weather, but when it does come it can be impressive,
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If this isn't autumn,then I don't know what is? everyone knows Dec is the most autumnal month of the year
Cant really argue with that bud, i've lived through 39 Decembers and from the ones i remember they usually feel like autumn. Theres the months that crossover like March
for example which is a mix of winter and spring or winter or spring orientated but the Decembers i've experienced have mostly been autumnal, i wish they were more winter like
then we would stand a chance of snowfall and accumilations at Xmas but we all know that is as rare as rocking horse poop in the UK.
Can anyone say that Decembers feel like winter? Everyone obviously knows that December is placed in the winter box but my idea of winter isn't wind, rain and mild damp muck and
thats usually what we get in some form or other. I would class March as more of a winter month over December.
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Has anywhere in the country been buried yet? Or had 5cm even?
I was just looking at the photos in my Album from 22/23 March 2013, now that was an event and almost a month later than this 'Beastly Attack'
The farmers had to dig the roads out and a couple of miles away on the back roads towards Holmfirth it was like driving through tunnels 2 and 3 times highrer than the car.
This event isn't really worth the noise its getting, but i suppose the South is forecast a covering so the sensationalism goes wild.