Methuselah

Yes it is...And I've a feeling that our winters might, in the short-term at least, get colder as the Jet Stream weakens/migrates southward?

A quote from Dan Quayle should demonstrate just what scientists are currently up against: "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it ."

So said Betty Swollocks!

But at least the goalkeepers will keep warm!

I feel your pain, CC. I went away to Farnborough in late July...Do I need tell you the rest!

Why not? I'm making an entirely different point altogether: Warnings are just that: they are not promises of gargantuan, tropical deluges everywhere within the area mentioned. And, how do I know this? I lived in the NW Highlands on many days when snow was forecast, for NW Scotland...And, more often than not, it all fell 'elsewhere'! Warnings are about probabilities not certainties. It can be bloody annoying sometimes, though!

Aye, IF. We've seagulls and grebes available, for making forecasts!

Why not take a trip to Swansea? Wrexham, like MK, is not the whole of the UK...

Dry, bright, 24C...But there are bottomless anvils and rainbows in the sky...

Never mind mate. All those things happen in 'Elsewhere'!

It was exactly the same down here: thunder, lightning, torrential rain and a howling gale...Just what LEWPs are made of?

Aye, you can see the UK's top temps on the Homepage...

Cheers mate!

After an hour-long spell of cloudy, dark dross, it's all blue again now, 25C...

Yes Ian, a tipping-point is inevitable (unless global-cooling intervenes); IMO, it follows from the laws of physics...And, if the sun really was 'too low to cause melting/heating' the ice would never melt at all? The fact that open-water loses heat to the atmosphere, throughout the winter months, is part of the problem - the specific heat capacity of water being four-times that of air...

You're welcome, mate; I'll keep my ears to the ground too...Just one question though: does he document the times when he gets it wrong?

IMO, should all the ice melt, there will be a marked warming of the Arctic region, due to heat becoming sensible. Now that I'd call a 'tipping point'!

The waving front is annoying: one minute it's bright and sunny, the next it's overcast and grey, the next...

I agree with SNOW_JOKE. Although there's nothing within the laws of celestial mechanics (I think?) that says that inter-planetary gravitational forces cannot influence events here on Earth, that's are far cry from us being able use said influences to predict earthquakes...My family readily recalls the times I successfully forecast rain, sometimes hours in advance, at the age of two! What they, more readily, forget are the myriad times my predictions came to nothing! I suspect that this is what we're seeing here?

Isn't Abertawe having a pile of rain,a and thunder this arvo?

That might be because latent heat is latent?

Dry and breezy with frontal cloud coming and going, 26C...

Cloudy one minute, sunny the next, 20C...

Cloudy (one brief blast of rain) and muggy, 18C...

Aye, thanks for that (I'm not in any way disputing it) but why has the ice melted-out so fast, this year?