Crepuscular Ray
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Just ceaseless drizzle here, and my running rainfall total for the year has just passed a metre.
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60 mph is quite bad enough!
Mixing units can happen to anyone. According to one report released after an investigation, one of the joint NASA/ESA Mars landers crashed because NASA was using metric measurements while ESA had decided to use imperial.
On a more local note, at least the week of drier weather gave me a chance to strim the top off of most of the lawn. There’s no way I could have used the mower on it, though. I’d just have just ripped the grass out by its bedraggled roots.
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Andy. I apologise for doubting you. There is settling snow outside. I haven’t heard a gritter yet, so the Mountain Road could be nasty in the morning.
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Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus.
Garreg Lwyd about an hour ago. Melting already by then, but with snow and hail showers.
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Dxnielwashere Nothing in the way of thunder the westernmost of your circles. After a gloomy morning, the afternoon became gloriously sunny, although out of doors, it felt a lot chillier than the 13.5 °C the thermometer was registering.
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@snefnug Hopefully without the bad acting.
After the change of the cold snap, it’s been back to variations on the theme of wet and grey here. According to my weather station, there were 8 hours and 58 minutes between sunrise and sunset here today, so there should be 9 tomorrow. It would be nice to catch a glimpse of blue sky or the Sun …
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1 hour ago, snefnug said:
Thats because our default setting is green green grass……
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20 minutes ago, keithlucky said:
Check forum daily been talking for days about seeing a few flakes.
I have been keeping an eye out, but this village seems to escape snow when the wind is in the current direction.
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Totally unexpected herein the western Bannau.
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Blwydden Newydd dda to everyone.
My 2023 rainfall total ended up as 2672 mm.
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As Wetterfrosch says, the jet stream has dumped the rain here, not there. My running total for the month is 318 mm, and I’ll top 100 mm for the week sometime in the next few hours.
Most of the garden seems to have survived intact, although the watering-can has disappeared. This side of the village was only without electricity for an hour, but the other side took almost four to get power restored.
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50 mm of rain already since midnight in this neck of the woods.
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Wishing you all a peaceful and happy Christmas.
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Penetrating drizzle has just set in here, after a few brief breaks in the cloud earlier.
It’s banana-bread-making time here. If I get over the ridiculously early appearance of Cadbury’s Creme Eggs in the corner shop, I might manage to pick up the enthusiasm to put some lemon frosting on my creation.
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The light snow here - according to the radar anyway - is a barely visible mizzle.
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Down to -5 here last night, and another gloriously sparkly morning. After four days languishing with the you-know-what, I’ve finally got the energy to get outside to enjoy the sunshine before the return of the rain (fingers crossed for at least a sprinkle of the white stuff in between).
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-3.7 here at about 4.
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37 minutes ago, Sky Full said:
Definitely a surprise. Yesterday afternoon I was forecast to get 17mm of rain today but this morning it’s just 2.5mm! I’m not complaining, but it has occurred to me that quite a lot of active weather has tracked further south than expected recently, and I’m wondering if that’s a trend or just a coincidence?
It’s welcome, whichever.
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6 minutes ago, DeepSnow said:
Anyone else been getting lower temps at night than forecast? Generally been forecast lows of 7-8C but getting lows of 5-6C each night.
Me, too, generally about 4 degrees lower than the forecast. Someone else’s weather station about half a mile away registers temperatures closer to the forecast ones, though, so I have been putting it down to microclimate.
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21 minutes ago, Midlands Ice Age said:
Your probably correct that Councils and Companies no better than to trust the BBC. But I would suggest not all.
However if not the BBC, (Most easy to access) then who do they use?
Companies like Netweather.
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I concur with Midlands Ice Age’s comments about the BBC not changing their information early enough, their inherent bias towards southern England. You wouldn’t have known that there was also bad weather in the north from a different system.
I don’t think the problem would be solved by returning to the Met Office as a data provider, though, as the delay is - as far as I can gather - in the BBC’s own systems, which lead to a gap of some hours between the arrival of data from the model runs at six- or 12-hourly intervals and the final forecasts/graphics being produced. Obviously, this should be quicker now than it was before the introduction of computers, but I don’t think things would have been updated any quicker on the Beeb on Wednesday/Thursday whichever provider they used.
I doubt that the Hampshire and IoW Council, National Rail, etc. - unlike MIA’s golfing friends - rely on the BBC for planning purposes, rather than subscribing to the Met Office or any of the commercial providers. In addition to their inflexibility, the Beeb forecasts can never go into enough detail. My local council has roads ranging from sea level to 500 metres within the space of under 20 miles; the Beeb just can’t cover that level of information in a 2-minute national forecast.
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5 minutes ago, Crepuscular Ray said:
Yep, the Kensal Rise one of 7 December 2006, which was rated as a T5
2006 London tornado - Wikipedia
EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORGIt was an interesting morning, to say the least.
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andymusic I do hope so. It’s time to get out in the garden.