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Nick L

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  1. Genuinely got some leaves coming out on a couple of trees here. I have never seen it this early before. Certainly a year without a winter down here. Also saw my first bumblebee of the year although that's not quite so unusual in mid-Feb.
  2. reef "But at least it's mild" Haven't had one opportunity to get the chimenea out and have a fire this winter. It's either been too wet or too windy. And it's barely been cold enough to even properly enjoy it.
  3. I didn't think a "winter" could be as repugnant and depressing as 2013/14, but here we are. Just want spring now.
  4. No no no no no. The naming system for storms is an absolute shambles and completely unnecessary as it is. Most normal summers you only get two or three hot spells that may warrant it. Are we really going to have an A-Z naming system for something that can only occur in a 3-4 month window? At least with storms they can occur year-round and are far more frequent in winter than genuine heatwaves are in summer.
  5. Absolute joke from the Met Office. Another red warning issued in the dead of night for an event that was already happening.
  6. That masks a couple of extremely dry months too. Feb and June barely saw a drop. Just another example that regular periods of rainfall are a thing of the past in our changed climate. Either drought or deluge.
  7. That's astonishing. Never mind cold, I just want some sun.
  8. Looking likely we'll be on for our third consecutive 100mm+ month around these parts. I am not someone who suffers from SAD, but the last couple of months have been seriously trying. Utterly miserable run-up to Christmas and any hope of a brief cold and frosty spell looks to have been extinguished. Really regretting not booking a winter holiday this year.
  9. I know Paul so have refrained from commenting on TORRO's page. But that's not helping the confusion, really.
  10. Some of the comments on the TORRO Facebook page are ridiculous. Suggesting it's a low end EF4!!! If it was EF4 the houses wouldn't even be there. I've seen the collapsed wall. I think EF2 is more sensible. But 160mph winds? No.
  11. Certainly not EF3 level if that was amongst the worst damage. For comparison, just Google "EF3 damage", simply no comparison.
  12. That's more like what I would expect. Perhaps some of the surveying of the rural damage has uncovered some debarking of trees? Shame that TORRO has released precious little evidence to back up the preliminary report.
  13. Absolutely no way was that tornado worse than the Birmingham one! Either that or TORRO are yet to release proof of it. I've seen damage from EF-3 tornadoes close up and they do a damn sight more damage than rip off a few tiles. For comparison, this was an aerial shot of the Birmingham tornado which ripped roofs clean off and turned over cars: And the aerial footage of the Jersey one: At the scene where a 'tornado' struck Jersey WWW.BBC.CO.UK The BBC's Dan Johnson surveys the damage after Storm Ciarán struck St Clement. The damage in the footage doesn't correspond to TORRO's own scale for a T6: "Moderately devastating"? Come off it. Happy to change my mind if someone can provide images proving me wrong but so far this just seems like TORRO overhyping things.
  14. 163mm for October around here, crazy amounts for Buckinghamshire. Can we please, please, please have some crisp, cold, frosty weather? This wet and mild mush is becoming tiresome.
  15. It's for a tiny portion of the area likely to be affected, I simply don't understand why that small area has been included and not other areas which look to be just as badly if not worse affected. Every single model has the majority of the southern half of England seeing 30-50mm at least. One of the major flaws in the way that the Met Office do warnings is that they have a window between 10-11am where they issue warnings and then very rarely make updates outside of those hours.
  16. There's been nothing for Friday yet, models have only come to agreement over last night.
  17. Really should be warnings out for central, southern and eastern England for Friday IMO. Really quite a nasty rain event possible, soils will be saturated over the next couple of days.
  18. Indeed. I do forecasts for Network Rail and it's all hands on deck updating them this morning. Could see 50mm through London and the SE. Should be warned IMO.
  19. ...surely they're about to issue something for NE England at the very least?
  20. We went to Fuerteventura the first week of October, the same place we went last July. It was hotter than when we went in July. Remarkable heat and humidity, even with periods of Saharan dust diluting the sunlight.
  21. I'm hearing it may well be beyond amber tomorrow for rainfall in E Scotland.
  22. It also made me laugh that the BBC weather article on this storm had to include a bit on how to pronounce the name. It's not exactly a ringing endorsement of the system if you're having to do that. I get that we're sharing the system with other countries who have their own names, but if there's doubt that the general population aren't even going to be able to pronounce the name then that has to raise doubts over this system.
  23. Put it on for the first time yesterday, a whole month earlier than last year. Got down to 14.1C in the end
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