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At 8.30 this morning, the long trail of rain set up shop over us and made sure to stay right on course to keep stuff falling from the sky for as long as possible. Winter coat back on, hood up and shoes wet; pinning my hopes on a few nice days next week with high pressure preferably positioned to deliver some pleasant warm, clear weather.
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I woke up at 3am to quite distant thunder to the south/south east and south west of here, which was nice as the rumbles and flashes of lightning were quite gentle but I still got to enjoy it all. It sounds like this was quite a storm covering multiple locations, although that early direction of travel almost direct west from around Ostend last night was so strange to watch on the radar. Grey skies this morning and still humid.
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So humid out there for our lunchtime walk. Uniform grey and white clouds above, very still and the radar showing rain but nothing falling. We are just outside the main warning zones for more severe weather overnight; hopefully we can get a bit of a lightshow and some rumbles nearby. Good luck to those who love a storm:)
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Mark wheeler Wow, it's no surprise your ears were ringing being so close! At least no one was hurt I suppose. My husband (who is brontophobic) got really stressed because he is sure he saw sparks outside our back door as the thunder struck. It's definitely the first time thunder has shaken the entire house!
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Thanks, and yes, I had a bit of hope for snow in Prague, but am happy with cold and seasonal. Agree with what you say, 'cold' varies so much, especially with a stiff wind against you. I'll put Riga on the list; I was there as a student, so it would have changed rather a lot by now. My coldest ever was -25 in Moscow, and my face went so numb I couldn't speak! Sounds like you have done well on the snow front - send your luck around the south east on Wednesday... please!
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A beautiful winter's morning here in Surbiton, after a hard overnight frost (the closest to anything looking like snow we're likely to get!), the air is crisp and sunny under blue skies, although rather raw walking into that wind. I'm loving the seasonal weather personally, but am disappointed at the lack of the white stuff later in the week. We're off to Prague for a few days on Saturday, so the cold weather will be good practice for correct clothing choices; hoping that storm doesn't come in too early and disrupt the flights.
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Can I very much agree with @Paul; it's the first place I go, along with my regional thread, to get a feel for what's going on. Then, if I have time, I brave the MAD thread!
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Model Output Discussion - Into 2024
Reefseeker replied to Catacol's topic in Forecast Model Discussion
Well, @northwestsnow will be behind the sofa, @sheikhy will be farting, @MATTWOLVES 3 will be telling us to get our coats as we've pulled, and nearly all of us will be hitting the booze, so that's Saturday night sorted.... -
Some serious gusts are whipping through Surbiton now, just outside of the amber warning. It was bins day, so rubbish is flying around everywhere, empty bins have gone over and there's some crashes and bangs going on outside that I hope have nothing to do with the scaffolding over the road; trees are blowing like mad. Re: cold prospects and the MAD thread, I will be very happy if we can just get some respite from all the wet weather and replace it with crisp, cold days, some nice frosts, and the possibility of some flakes falling. Top of a Swiss mountain conditions would be fabulous, as would 2009-2010 redux, but for now, no more rain please! Edit: neighbours are out trying to put bins back together braving an onslaught of yet more flying debris - it's kicking off! And edit again, I went out to retrieve someone else's bin from our drive; returning it, I found another neighbour's bin straddling the road, and while I returned that, a large plank of wood went flying from the skip at the house renovation opposite. It's been a wild half an hour!