Northwest NI

More runs needed

You’ll all say I’m mad but does anyone want to join me on a hunt for mild rain? I always like a challenge .

Carlsberg don’t do garden paths but if they did….. x

Bit if Game of Thrones rubbish in this otherwise excellent video on Polar Vortex in winter

How on earth did you miss out on 2009 & 2010? Both white Christmas here.

Can you book flights to day 10?

I made it quarter past 6. Damn another fail for me!

That last sentence is correct. By the time the time has passed and ongoing revisions made, nobody remembers what it once said.

There is a real sense this year that all of this, including our recent “taster” cold snap, is building up to something.

As another chase begins, you can’t help but reflect on the contortions we need to go through, to get cold to our part of the world. Basically it does not want to come here and it takes a veritable jigsaw puzzle to be completed. The inevitable happens and the forum goes back to 2 posts an hour. On the other hand, any mild, wet, windy weather programmed comes sweeping through the doors saying ‘hi, it’s me’ like some very unwelcome in law on Christmas morning. But here I am, reporting for duty, on the next chase!

The Northwesterly last January 16-21st was great in this neck of the woods. All of the above were snow days with no visible melt. So agree about straight Northerly but we can do reasonably well from a NW as well.

Ghee, I nearly didn’t get that joke!

All of which is fine as your preference. Personally prefer no snow to wet slushy snow that’s melting as soon as it stops falling. We had several inches of snow last January in an otherwise forgettable winter. It hung around for 5 days without melting. That’s what I’m after.

It’s been explained a few times by people. We’d rather be patient with the cold and wait for snow that isn’t battleground or borderline. At the end of the day it’s just a different preference to yours. Best wishes.

Not surprising as that’s where more people live. I just filter what’s relevant to here and what’s not. Some excellent posters who manage to talk about everywhere like for example Cambrian. “Ignore” the most annoying ones!

A lot of what we are seeing is already within a range most of our chases never get to.

Does the extent of “evaporation” of cold there not seem a bit unrealistic to you in spite of the early season North Sea temperature? It does to me.

Pay no attention to them. Always cold ramping

This is a much too civilised forum for what I call mine!

That in laws comment

The Atlantic traumatises any weather fans from this area

I never want snow at the cost of inviting the Atlantic back in. Like a fart in a spacesuit, it is never welcome. I’ll revise my opinion if we have a biblical drought. Cold and dry will do fine until the snow arrives from a cold direction.

@MATTWOLVES 3 winter Bingo strikes again. “Shortwave” the culprit this time.