cyclonic happiness
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We had a good shower at around 2pm, peed it down for a round a minute. But otherwise , warm and sunny 19'c :-)
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Snow next Sunday? Anyone! Anyone?
Winter, the only season we get twice per year, and yet snow comes at any time other!! ><
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Nearly managed a frost last night before the muck arrived, but so near so far...
Horrible and grey out there now. Yet another rise in pressure brings more cloud. This has happened repeatedly the last 2 years except June/July last summer, every time we get a high building it fills with cloud. No lows or.fronts near us, so why?
We really don't get 'weather' here anymore do we? :-(
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I love how they keep saying that Northwest America having record breaking snow, has nothing to do with us getting zilch!
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Almost makes you wonder whether the weather is being manipulated to attack America. They get all the fun :-(
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Ecm 0z ensemble mean is showing an increasing bias towards colder westerly winds which would eventually veer northwesterly beyond the next 7-10 days or so with -5 T850 hPa spreading SE and a good chance of ppn turning wintry with snow on hills, at least across the north.
That is the quote that describes the entire winter this year :-D
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Think after looking through this mornings charts I'm moving into the final stage of winter model watching ..........
acceptance............
Always a small chance but very unlikely now IMHO. Roll on spring.
Well, perhaps it'll surprise us like spring 2013? :-D
I've actually felt a few twinges of spring in the air for the past 2 weeks, I think we're in for a nice, warm one. That would be consolation enough for this excuse of a winter.
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Not trying to be clever at all CH its just that I have been recording the weather each day for over 40 years and cant abide inaccuracies or exagerration. I think the fact that you were only 13 has tinted your view of the event, and no doubt you do honestly perceive that there was over 2 feet, all I am saying is that would have been on the side of the road where it had drifted, as there are no measurements of level snow approaching 2 feet in the lowland Midlands for that event. Carry on and believe your perceptions but I actually measured the stuff
All I try to do is inform and provide accurate data from my life long hobby of recording the weather, I am dismayed at the hype that has taken over Netweather and so will leave you all to it.
So, basically you're telling me I'm exaggerating, even though I have around 20 people backing me up? It almost smacks of jealously or something. Funny you'll accept anecdotal 'evidence' from other periods in time, but just not the 1990 blizzard which affect Nuneaton worse than any other town. I'll again leave you the link so you can gauge how deep the snow actually was. https://www.facebook.com/groups/NuneatonMemories/10153136316631886/?notif_t=group_comment
I really am getting quite annoyed that you always seem to think that I'm either exaggerating or lying.
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Most folk are saying between 2 1/2 to 3 feet of snow, so I hope that proves that I wasn't exaggerating? :-D
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Thanks for sharing the great memories of December 1990 everyone, fascinating reading!
I trust you've adopted a different technique for measuring local snow depths nowadays, CH
Bish
Yes, but I'm still waiting for the snow to get up to me goolies again :-D
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Here's a link to the facebook group, my name is Paul Birkin on there (I don't mind folk knowing :-) )
There are actually some even more deep estimates than mine, we really did cop it that day :-D
https://www.facebook.com/groups/NuneatonMemories/?fref=nf
you might have to scroll down a bit.
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I'm just asking the 'Nuneaton memories' group on facebook, to which I'm an admin, about the 1990 blizzard.
There are 7500 members, so if their word isn't good enough, I don't know who's will be
Alright Tone, what did Leicester get in that event? I was only 2 and a half years old so I have no memory of it whatsoever. I'm guessing if Cov got 30cm though that Leicester would have had a decent amount?
Leicester had much ,much more than Coventry (for once).
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Photo of the snow at Allesley Park Coventry Dec 1990:
Wildcroft_Road_in_snow,1990_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1073452.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_1990%E2%80%9391_in_Western_Europe
Note how deep it is drifted against the garden walls on the left.
I mean CH started a thread about this event on here and since then his estimations have gone up over half a foot!
"Almost 2 feet of level snow in the back yard and in the street "
https://forum.netweather.tv/topic/52188-the-great-midlands-blizzard-9th-december-1990/
There was 42cm at Acocks Green again reported in COL. Thats the highest actual MEASURED depth anywhere from the event.
Some more photos:
Alright Mr clever clogs, as everyone is saying, it's difficult to remember exactly. All I know is that I was 13 at the time and it was up to my goolies , you hyad to lift one leg up to get forward one step. Nuneaton was the country's worst affected town and the only things that got through the snow were the larger tractors. But it was absolutely over two feet. Sorry I cannot be more specific.
But don't worry, like I said, we've been paying for it ever since. That was a 'once in a lifetime' blizzard.
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I am totally flabbergasted how you got 'two and a half feet' while I measured a LEVEL 31cm just 4 miles away at Walsgrave?
The most I have seen recorded was 40cm in the Solihull area (Climatological Observers Link), and it looked around 40cm on a friends photos of Kenilworth. But yours blew these amounts away more like 70cm!?
Sorry, I was living in Nuneaton at that time ,10 miles away, I keep forgetting to mention that :-D
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I know the weather does have boring periods, but surly two almost full years where practically nothing has happened of note, is really too much.
And I'm talking about this region of the Midlands, not the peaks or the peripheries.
I'm seriously considering moving to try to get some weather back into my life . We didn't even have any April shower last year, not a single one?
I cannot remember the last time we had a warm april day, with heavy showers and hail and bright, clear skies afterwards, that just doesn't happen any more.
In fact, there never seems to be alot of shower activity after cold fronts nowadays at all?
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I've just discovered an absolute gem of a video covering the December 1990 blizzard, great stuff.
Still my favourite ever weather event after all these years
Bish
Stunning event, we had two and half feet of snow and were the worst affected area in the country, no electricity for four days and no water for 2 days, drifts up the front door of over 5-6' !! I still think we are paying for that snowfall all these years after :-(
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it was ok, but we got the least fierce winds in the whole country.Last winter was pretty violent surely?
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The weather is getting more and more sluggish. Patterns are lasting longer and becoming less intense.
The only thing of note nowadays is rain, and not because it's especially heavy, just because the pattern sticks around for so long it mounts up.
I can see a boring future where we get eternal autumn the whole year round, regardless of what the rest of the world is doing.
Dull, dull, dull, dull, dull......I'd rather live on the moon, they get more more weather than this part of the Midlands.
I suppose I'd better get back to watching Youtube videos from the 80s and early 90s, when we used to get 'proper' textbook weather, the type I read in every book on weather, and which actually seemed to happen, as a kid.
I was also sold the lie that winters would get more violent and summers more hot and neither have happened, and they were predicted by climate scientists.
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I'd actually like some nice, springlike weather now. I'm tired of all the half-hearted attempts at winter we've had for the past two years.
Hopefully, we'll get a nice warm southwesterly, with showers and sunshine, something to lift the soul out this this new season that we have now, winter?? "FAILTER" :-D
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Well folks how much negativity around tonight... come on it's still early Feb "BIG plenty time" for things to change yet!
Looking at the GEFS diagrams charts there's plenty of uncertainty after the 11th of Feb.... looks like they are not dealing to well with the HP in where it wants to go.
The pick for me is Member no18
:cold: http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gefs_cartes.phpSorry wouldn't normally do the Mod thing, but my God you all need cheering up... just remember... IT'S ONLY THE 4th OF FEBRUARY !!!
This is my Glass what's Yours
Trouble is we'd still be practically bone dry in that set up too. Seems we can't win in the past 2 years. I reckon if we go another year with no meaningful snow, I'll believe all the climate change propaganda.
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Probably gonna be another 'marginal' fest, I'm sort of not really that interested this time :-(
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The weather is so impotent this year, I can't think of anything of note at all really??
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I can't really see anymore snowfall for here really. Thursday might bring something decent for the Thames Estuary, Essex and Kent. The Met Office warnings completely contradict their forecasts for the same areas. Seems a bizarre logic. Or a wild hedging of bets.
Well, you can understand why, especially after last night's snow.
I'm wondering where the precipitation is going to come from too, there's not much anywhere in England?
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Why do we always have to wait until 1 am for the showers to reach here? :-D
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I never trust warm Aprils! they always seem to lead to crap summers