[Storms and Convective discussion - June 2023]

4 minutes ago, Gordon Webb said:

Currently in the Gap with all the moving w through the midlands but boy it ain't half windy

i'm in Park Road, we had leaves flying everywhere

[Storms and Convective discussion - June 2023]

32 minutes ago, CoventryWeather said:

Ominous to the south, some towers from the mid levels growing again.

Same in Bedworth, but seems to be heading due north/west, and just maybe 15 miles to the west of here. I think it's gonna miss us unless something develops later on

[Spring 2023 - Moans, Ramps & Chat]

1 hour ago, Summer8906 said:

OT but I haven't had a bad cold since early 2020 - except Covid, which for me resembled a bad cold. Have had lots of very, very minor "sub-cold" things though, the sort of things where you feel very, very slightly rough but not enough to feel ill, as such. Hope it stays that way!

Now you mention it, I've had covid three times now since the start of the pandemic, I've had three vaccines, and I've not had a cold in the past 2 years either?

Either it's the covid that has done this, or the vaccine or both?  Wouldn't it be ironic if covid finally cured the common cold? :-p

[Midlands Regional Weather Discussion]

Next doors snowman just hanging in there, even though it's almost 16'c here 

[Model Output Discussion - Snow Watch limited edition]

1 hour ago, ANYWEATHER said:

Looks like low pressure is going to take up residence over the uk, in the days ahead, plenty of rain to come and wind....

We REALLY need the rain still, especially in my area, the soil just 6" down is still dust from the drought last year.

This snow is good because, as it melts, it slowly seeps into the ground rather than just roll off the surface and down the drains.

But I'm conflicted as I really want spring and the warmth to come back :-p

[Midlands Regional Weather Discussion]

got around 2" already round here, dew points and temperature are both -0.1'c   so it's very marginal.

Has it only just starting snowing for most people??

[Midlands Regional Weather Discussion]

Best snow for at least 4 years here. 

We ended up with 7cm, and although it's gone a bit slushy, it's only dropped to around 60% coverage. 

Both dew point and temp are at 1'c here, so it shouldn't take much to drop it back again to snow once the system starts to move south again

[Midlands Regional Weather Discussion]

we have 1cm of snow here!!! more than the past 2.5 years

[Midlands Regional Weather Discussion]

22 minutes ago, andy_leics22 said:

Oh boy! The latest model run (12z) has shifted the band for tomorrow slightly further North. Leicester is right on the edge though. Going to be a very close run thing for my location Could even be a case of Market Harborough getting a pasting and Leicester and Loughborough with a sugar dusting! Hoping for a further 30-50 mile shift North before tomorrow. That would put Leicester in the firing line.

i'm sure I remember a similar thing happening around 17 years ago, and I think it was you and me and some other who stayed up all night watching the radar on the BBC forum, only for it to miss us by around 10 miles?

[Midlands Regional Weather Discussion]

Well temps here at 3am 1.5'c

Dew point 1'c

And a tiny amount of sleet. 

 

Hopefully it'll be better later in the week, but usually here when it fails on the first attempt, it fails on the entire spell

[Midlands Regional Weather Discussion]

the annoying this is that tuesday last week under high pressure's influence, we had tons of showers piling in off the North Sea, but you can bet under the trough of low pressure next week, it'll be bone dry!!

I really feel like the weather is broken atm, it just doesn't do what it used to do in all the books I ever read on weather (which was the entire library's worth).

I 'dare' the weather to snow in my location and settle!!  I dare it!!! ><

[Model Output Discussion - A cold start to Spring?]

7 minutes ago, Tim Bland said:

Thanks Blue, perhaps it’s just a case of tempering one’s expectations of what a SSW will bring and not get carried away with the narrative of a 15 day snowy spell

considering we've had two years of zero measurable snow here, even seeing a few hours of the stuff would be Narnia

[Midlands Regional Weather Discussion]

Dew points just dropped below zero in the last hour :-)

[Winter 2022/23 - Moans, Ramps & Chat]

The weather continues to take the absolute p**s

 

Storm Juliette: Mallorca is hit by TWENTY INCHES of snow and 25ft waves | Daily Mail Online

WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK

---

Mallorca has been gripped by a winter storm that is wreaking havoc on the Spanish holiday island, with 20 inches of snow shutting down roads and cutting off power.

 

[Model Output Discussion - Into February]

28 minutes ago, snowray said:

What gets my goat is that we never, ever, and I mean NEVER get near term upgrades, this easterly is so ridiculously close it's almost insulting!

And Northern Italy has been forecast that heavy snow all week, no downgrades there, like Greece, a mere speck on the global map, but they always get their snow too, no near misses for the Greeks....Ever!

 

don't forget the first blizzard warning in Los Angeles in 30 years, just to rub salt into the wounds

[Model Output Discussion - Into February]

58 minutes ago, damianslaw said:

Do you mean this year? Next year is a long way off.. we shall wait and see, recent decades have brought long very dry periods suddently cancelled out by lengthy very wet spells.. 

I'm sure you know i meant that :-p

[Model Output Discussion - Into February]

5 minutes ago, damianslaw said:

Its a very settled outlook, high pressure ruling the roost, as has been the case last 5 weeks, as others have said its persistance at what is normally an unsettled time of year is quite remarkable.. but not exceptional I guess. We do have some colder uppers moving in from the NE and could be quite a cloudy scene for many, sunshine the further west you go, feeling quite cold for many especially near the east coast. The days ahead will be a case of chasing cloud.

I said we are entering a transitional phase model watching wise as the models get to grips or not the case with the anticipated effects of the SSW.. and it won't be until early next week perhaps they will begin to crystallise somewhat and we can say with a bit more certainty how things will pan out as we move further into March - 2nd week onwards, which if as some models and forecasts are predicted is when any cold outbreak will surface should the effects set up the synoptic of Greenland high and scandi trough.

I said on Monday this week would be a very long week for anyone wanting some clarity on this matter, this weekend will be a long weekend in this regard, and I fully expect further divergence in the models such as the ECM op today.. I won'tbe getting hung up on any model run this weekend as a result.

unless things really change, we shall be in drought very early next year :-(

[Winter 2022/23 - Moans, Ramps & Chat]

42 minutes ago, Tidal Wave said:

Wintry prospects diminishing and staying in lala land. Do nicely  

Speaking of 'la la land'  it appears that Los Angeles is set to have its first blizzard for 30 years, and yet here we are, wishing we could even see snow falling!

This has got to be one of the worst, most boring winters I've ever known in my 45 years on earth, we not even had a wind storm.

And to boot, it's been so dry we'll probably be in drought again this summer unless it's a washout, but washout summers mean there will be some interesting weather, but seeing as we seem incapable of have that anymore, I don't hold out much hope!

[Model Output Discussion - Into February]

Does anything ever get any nearer than day 10?   :-p

[Winter 2022/23 - Moans, Ramps & Chat]

On 20/02/2023 at 07:07, Weather-history said:

Who says it won't be a washout summer? That would offset drought fears.

it would have to be, but as it stands, it's going to exacerbate the food production crisis in the UK and Europe

[Winter 2022/23 - Moans, Ramps & Chat]

Anyone else concerned about the lack of rain this winter, after such an awful drought last summer?

I think the last thing we need is a high pressure or continental dominated regime where we stay practically bone dry, albeit very cold.

We need March and April to be washouts to restore the deficit in rainfall, especially in the Midlands

[General Volcanic Activity Thread!]

News of a possible imminent eruption of 10km3 of magma at the Askja volcano in Iceland..... very exciting and would probably affect the UK if this thing blows up

 

[Winter 2022/23 - Moans, Ramps & Chat]

you can tell how screwed up the weather in general is nowadays, we've just had an amazing red sky here, usually that would mean bad weather or rain on the way, but not nowadays....it's going to be the same weather we've had for 90% of the past year....boring nothingness.

Even if it's sunny, it's still boring, boring boring!

I feel sorry for the under 20s, who've not really seen what traditional British weather is like, even here in the Midlands. 

[Model Output Discussion - Into February]

I take it due to the lack of posts, the dirge of boring weather is to continue?

[Winter 2022/23 - Moans, Ramps & Chat]

26 minutes ago, North-Easterly Blast said:

My point is that fog has traditionally occurred during the winter season and fills the air white - so fog in my view is the white stuff that fills the air away from where there is any surface to stick to; snow falls and sticks to the ground and surfaces, and frost forms on the ground and on surfaces, so in reality frost, snow and fog are all different forms of the white stuff.  "Winter white" from fog is visible in the air above the ground and surfaces.  To make the air white it has to be foggy, whereas snow forms in the sky and falls to make the ground and surfaces white, and frost actually forms on the ground.  Compared to fog, frost and snow do not really make the air white in the same way.  

Away from the winter season it is rare to see fog, at least away from high ground and near coastal areas.  

 

51 minutes ago, Weather-history said:

When I think of winter I think of snow, frost and low temperatures, I don't really think of fog. 

Also fog can occur during mild weather, for instance what if you are live on a hill? It could be 11°C and shrouded in hill fog. Should that be included in a winter index that measures the degree of wintriness? Hill fog at 11°C?  Or one of those very mild drizzly airmasses where visibility really drops and how do you differentiate between thick mist and fog? 

 

I agree with the OP.

Here in the Middle Midlands, we used to get a lot of rime frosts due to freezing fog, but I think the last time we say a decent amount of rime frost was ten years ago.

Even during the cold spell in December, we had a day of freezing fog, but it left no rime whatsoever and no visible frost, it's weird??

I do think something fundamental has gone awry with the weather in the UK, the old rules of weather that I spend years reading in old weather books in the library, that used to apply almost without fail, now fail 99% of the time, nothing can be relied upon