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Evening all, what a beautiful day it's been, positively spring like. The garden is coming to life, usually these snowdrops reach this stage of flowering on Valentines day so they're a couple of weeks early. The Aconites however are late by about the same time, confused garden.... Wonderful sunset here too, can't take credit for the pic (came from a local FB page), thousands of starlings coming into roost on the reedbeds at Shapwick Heath down on the Somerset levels.
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This thread was at the top of my feed and it piqued my curiosity.... Checked the temp in my house and it's currently 12c, thought it was feeling a tad nippy. Time to light the fires. You lot live in a different world, 24c in a bedroom???? I'd never sleep. I guess I'm just used to living in my barny old 15thc farmhouse, we've got central heating, loft stuffed with insulation and new windows with higher efficiency than current regs but the inglenooks let it down. Fantastic when they're lit, hopeless when not, they suck every ounce of heat out and up the chimney, currently waiting on register plates to solve the problem.
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Evening all, it seems it's going to get rather chilly. Personally, I'm expecting nothing more than frost down here but on the off chance it does actually get properly cold, may I recommend a visit to Somerset. I doubt they'll be any snow on offer but what we will have is perfect conditions for skating. Any point in Somerset, from the eastern side of the Mendips to the Severn will do, the levels are mostly under water, none of it deep enough to cause a tragedy should the ice crack.
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What a bloody awful day it's been. Floods everywhere, the village just outside Bristol where I work is literally a river, the farm bunds have over flowed with the land absolutely saturated . I've been out in it all day, soaked to the skin by the end of day, waterproofs couldn't cope with the biblical downpour. The journey home was erm, interesting, twice I got halfway through deep flooding and thought 'oooo, shouldn't have done that', so close to getting wet feet. Really must remember I'm driving a car now, not my old Landy. Hope all this water has drained away before the expected frost tomorrow night, it'll be a nightmare if it freezes.
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Winter 2023/24 Chat and Discussion
jethro replied to Blessed Weather's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
It's a winter wonderland around here even without a flake of snow. Top of the Mendips are white, have been all day, stunning sunset too tonight. -2c at 4pm, it's going to be a cold one tonight. -
It's Shepton, doesn't matter how high it is it always gets snow when there's any around. Also gets absolutely grid locked, lorries getting stuck on the hills bring everything to a halt. One night it took hubby over two hours to do the short journey to Holcombe, nightmare. He soon learnt all those little lanes to get round instead.
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Fair to middling my dear, how's you? Life all good I hope. I'm still bogged down in major house renovations but at least the downstairs is now down, made it as far as the landing so only bedrooms & bathrooms to go. Then the outside fun starts....I did make a start on turning the old farmyard into a garden but got side tracked down an archaeology road. Long story short, the small part I've dug has turned up part of a roman brooch and over 1000 pieces of pottery dated 9th-14th century, plus Iron Age bits. Current archaeological theory is the house has Saxon foundations, thoughts are the current house dates early 15thc. Got to do a proper time team dig before the garden makeover can go ahead.
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Afternoon all, as it's now officially blinking cold out thought it was about time to check in for the season. Apologies to all you regulars for trespassing in your space, can't help myself, merest whiff of a snowflake, I'm instantly 7 again and this is the best place ever for mutual excitement/wishful thinking/commiserating. Locals round here are reporting the goats have come down off the top of the hills and are wandering around Cheddar Gorge, apparently a guaranteed sign of cold weather setting in. Can't personally verify this as in the two years we've lived here, I've only seen 29 snowflakes. Coming home today about 4pm it was 2c on top of the Mendips, 4c down here in the Cheddar Valley. Not holding my breath for the 30th snowflake to appear but the hills are literally at the end of my street, a short walk to snowy hilltops.
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Model Output Discussion - Into February
jethro replied to damianslaw's topic in Forecast Model Discussion
And down in the soggy south west, we're still drying out with lots of water logged fields around. I welcome anything that isn't wet, warm or cold matters not, merely hoping for dry. -
I wouldn't pay any attention to the daffs, so many varieties have been bred, it's now possible to have them flowering from December all the way through to April. Nothing to do with weather, depends upon the variety. Original post: https://community.netweather.tv/topic/98196-model-output-discussion-new-year-and-beyond/?do=findComment&comment=4796265