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Winter 2023/24 - Discussions & Forecasts
Nick L replied to Blessed Weather's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
Well said. Ridiculous and unfounded predictions. -
A mostly pleasant week to come by the looks of it. I would advise people get off the forum and actually go outdoors
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There we go, amber warning the night before. No reason that couldn't have been issued this morning.
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I'll be visiting home in Cannock tomorrow, will be weird it being so calm as the centre of the low moves across while Wales and SW England get battered! Will be a thoroughly miserable today and pretty exceptionally cold too.
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This year was particularly weird. We had Easter, the Coronation, May Day and late spring bank holidays - that's 5 of them - in 7 weeks. Then just one between those and Christmas. I think better would be to bin off one of the spring ones, have it in September when the weather can still be reasonable, and move the late August one to mid-summer.
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I would argue this is even more reason to have an amber warning.
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EC, UKV and UKMO all have gusts of 60+mph well inland for Devon in particular. There is strong model consensus for damaging winds here, and I don't understand why it's only a yellow.
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It'll be tomorrow morning when it's too late. Just like they did with Eunice. There is good enough model agreement for gusts of 60+ in SW England and Wales. That alone warrants an amber IMO, especially with all the holidaymakers and trees in full leaf. One day I'll give up trying to understand their thought processes.
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Definitely the Met Office... https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weather-and-climate/2023/storm-antoni-to-bring-wind-and-rain#:~:text=Storm Antoni has been named,the issuing of weather warnings.
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"A storm will be named when it has the potential to cause an amber or red warning" So based on that, either they're going against their own criteria or they'll upgrade it to amber as the event is happening by which point it's too late to take notice of it anyway
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France don't use the same names we do. Antoni is from the UK/Ireland/Netherlands list. So one of those 3 agencies named it, and I'm pretty sure it was the Met Office. The whole thing is just a confusing, frustrating mess and I wish it would be binned.
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Wait, I thought the threshold for naming a storm was an amber warning? They're just making it up as they go along. Edit: No idea why it's only a yellow warning. SW England could easily see gusts in excess of 70mph, which at this time of year could be seriously damaging.
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Agreed. One of my favourite months. You can get very pleasant weather without it being too hot, I'm less likely to get sun burned, the daylight hours are more sensible (i.e. no dawn chorus at 4am). Plus the kids are back at school so public places aren't like war zones
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Perhaps that's an exaggeration, although the sun strength and daylight hours are equivalent to mid-April by that point. But my general point still stands. I don't understand why the solitary summer bank holiday is at the dying end of the season. At the very least move one of the cluster of spring bank holidays into mid-summer.
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I've always found it daft that the August bank holiday is at the end of the month, as the end of August more often than not is more Autumnal than summery. We have a yawning chasm between the spring bank holidays and the end of summer. Why not move the summer bank holiday to early/mid July?
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Based on the 1963 documentary done the year after and the huge knock-on effect on the economy from those winters, they didn't. This "we coped better in the good old days" is pish. Not just the winters either. Standpipes in the summer of 76 as well for example.
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But no, it's definitely the rain that's the problem. We never get rain in this country so it's completely unprecedented!
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The water companies must be delighted they can use that excuse for a change, rather than just dumping it in there anyway.
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My Mum turns 58 on Saturday and looks like it will barely scrape 13C. Must be the coldest birthday she's ever had. Dreadful stuff.
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We've had tons of courgettes haha! Loads of tomatoes coming through nicely as well now. Although the weeds and grass are a big problem, can't get the strimmer out because it's just too wet a lot of the time.
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Interesting seeing that people mentioning they're feeling tired all the time. For me it's been one of the best summers for sleep. A silver lining of the gloom and rain is that my indoor temperature has never been so tolerable through the summer months! My air conditioning has been sat gathering dust for a month. Sadly, any money saved on not using A/C is more than offset by much greater use of the tumble dryer.
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Well surely the trade-off is that indoor entertainment venues will be doing a roaring trade in comparison? I suspect bowling alleys, cinemas, indoor mini golf, go karting etc. must be loving the fact folks are forced to remain indoors. Swings and roundabouts.
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Well, it is? If June was like the second half of July then it would be far worse. Most of the winter 2010/11 was underwhelming, but December 2010 was exceptionally cold and more than made up for it. June was exceptionally warm so gives something to shout about this summer at the very least. It hasn't been a good summer. But folks here are acting as if we have had no warm or sunny weather at all. Haha yes, for all talk of today being dreadful it's been a nice morning here.
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June is certainly feeling like a distant memory now. We made a very wise choice of booking a holiday to Fuerteventura next month.
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Greece- Medicane
Nick L replied to matty40s's topic in Hurricanes, Cyclones and Extreme weather worldwide
Yeah going to close this...
