Nick L
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TwisterGirl81 Then crap for the weekend, of course.
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I just hope we don't have an absence of a happy middle ground between this dross and the inevitable "Unpleasant 35C+ from nowhere heatwave" that we will inevitably get in the summer.
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Just got back from 10 days of glorious warm sunshine in Fuerteventura, and the spring is just as wretched as it was before.
Comfortably the worst spring I've ever experienced. 6C and drizzle barely a week from May is appalling.
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I think this current spell of weather demonstrates perfectly that having lighter evenings means bugger all if the weather is dreadful. Proponents of year-round BST take note!
Off to Fuerteventura next week, cannot wait to escape the gloom.
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5 out of the last 6 months here have had more than 100mm of rain. Just ticked over 100mm for March.
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WYorksWeather Absolutely. At least the disgusting winter of 13/14 was interesting in how stormy it was.
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Looking on course for yet another 100mm month around here. It's just relentless, it's extraordinary.
Anyone who insists our climate has not changed needs to look out of the window once in a while.
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Good god there is no end in sight to the misery. GFS is utterly, utterly grim. I'm so glad I've got a holiday somewhere hot in mid-April.
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Lovely couple of days for many of us in the south and east. Enjoy before perpetual Autumn returns.
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SunnyG Although it was a bit disappointing in London, it was widely 16-17C elsewhere. I would class that is pretty warm for mid-March.
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78/79 The rest of us will put our clocks forward on the 31st
I really hope we don't end up with another "year without a spring" like we endured last year. It's even more of a depressing thought considering how grim winter has been. At least we had an outstanding first month of summer on the back of it last year.
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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.
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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.
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I didn't think a "winter" could be as repugnant and depressing as 2013/14, but here we are. Just want spring now.
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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.
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Absolute joke from the Met Office. Another red warning issued in the dead of night for an event that was already happening.
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1 hour ago, SunSean said:
Another shocking stat, Heathrow currently on around 746mm of rain this year which means it's the 4th wettest since I was born! Only 2000 (820mm), 2002 (786mm) and 2014 (864mm) have been wetter! May even overtake 2002 yet still lol. What a wet and dull year!
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.
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2 hours ago, SunSean said:
2 in 19 days at Heathrow have recorded a measly 2+ hours of sunshine. 2 in 19. Absolutely, mind numbingly atrocious. Currently making the dull December of 2021 look like May 2020. Where are those crisp & sunny days???
That's astonishing. Never mind cold, I just want some sun.
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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.
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3 hours ago, Jo Farrow said:
I know Paul so have refrained from commenting on TORRO's page. But that's not helping the confusion, really.
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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.
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12 hours ago, Jo Farrow said:
@Fitzwis posted some photos from the scene a few days ago, see below. There were more.
https://www.torro.org.uk/pdf/20231106_TORRO_PressRelease_JerseyTornado.pdf
https://www.torro.org.uk/research/tornadoes/tscale
https://www.weather.gov/tae/ef_scale
Certainly not EF3 level if that was amongst the worst damage. For comparison, just Google "EF3 damage", simply no comparison.
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1 hour ago, WeatherArc said:
I did think it was a little much but not sure how these things work, maybe to do with construction? I believe the ESSL gave it an IS2/EF2.
This is the worst damage ive seen, will have a look at twitter for anything else.
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.
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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.
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Azazel Bloody hell I would be absolutely melting in that attire in this weather. It's chilly but no more than a light jumper required for me.