Weather in the general media (Newspaper features etc)

[Summer Sun]

FLOOD COMPO TO COST MILLIONS

http://www.dailystar...-cost-millions/

The homes lost to the floods: Block of flats left teetering on the brink of collapse by heavy rains will be demolished

http://www.dailymail...demolished.html

[Liam J]

As if a forecasters job wasn't difficult enough, well what do you expect from the Express!! Utter rubbish, Vantage Weather Services

''BRITAIN will be battered by an Arctic blast from Iceland next week – bringing snow, ice, flooding and bitter gales.''

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/348893/Arctic-blast-on-the-way

[Methuselah]

I wonder where that one's come from? Weren't they promising -20C, this time last year?

[Liam J]

Makes you scratch your head doesn't it, nothing changes with the Express's fantasy headlines. They were yes, I think we actually had +30c lol

[Summer Sun]

As if a forecasters job wasn't difficult enough, well what do you expect from the Express!! Utter rubbish, Vantage Weather Services

''BRITAIN will be battered by an Arctic blast from Iceland next week – bringing snow, ice, flooding and bitter gales.''

http://www.express.c...last-on-the-way

What a load of carp I notice how there's no quotes from the met office

The met office outlook does suggest wet weather and breezy but nothing cold

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

Rain clearing southern England on Monday. Otherwise very unsettled and generally breezy, with sunny spells and showers, these showers perhaps merging to longer spells of heavier rain at times

.

[Chris K]

Absolutely ridiculous. Cant believe the express can publish such stupid headlines and hugely exaggerated stories.

[Essan]

BRITAIN will be battered by an Icelandic blast from Iceland next week – bringing the sort of weather more usually associated with autumn months like October. Forecasters last night warned the mercury will plummet to near freezing in some Highland glens at night, with daytime temperatures lower than this time last year when, although we at the Express warned of freezing weather, most places were experiencing an exceptionally warm heatwave.

Higher summits in the Scottish Highlands and maybe even in some parts of northern England (Skiddaw, Scafell and Hevellyn) could see their first dusting of snow of the week sometime next week , while the entire country faces colder conditions than you get in extreme heatwaves, and possible frosts. Just as happened last year, and the year before and in fact every October in recorded history. Forecasters said the bitter weather is likely to remain for the next few months with significant snow on Scottish hills by the end of the year. This is being caused by a rare meteorlogical phenomena called autumn and winter.

Jonathan Powell, forecaster for Vantage Weather Services, said: “We could well see some bitter cold temperatures sometime in the next few months. Although we might not. And in any case I haven't a clue when.

“We are looking at a cold pool of air sweeping in from the north sending temperatures plunging. Somewhere. Though not necessarily in Britain. Possibly within the next 10 weeks. "

(Corrected version of the Daily Express fiction)

[Summer Sun]

The Daily Mail has a more sensible take on things for next week unlike the rubbish in today Express

After the storms comes the sunshine... but don't expect it to last as forecasters predict more heavy rain to come

http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz27roHqjlZ

[Don]

As if a forecasters job wasn't difficult enough, well what do you expect from the Express!! Utter rubbish, Vantage Weather Services

''BRITAIN will be battered by an Arctic blast from Iceland next week – bringing snow, ice, flooding and bitter gales.''

http://www.express.c...last-on-the-way

I am absolutely staggered as to how they can print such utter rubbish! It's just ridiculous.

Edited September 29, 2012 by Don

[Summer Sun]

I am absolutely staggered as to how they can print such utter rubbish! It's just ridiculous.

Yes its about time something was done about the Express there weather stories go beyond the joke most of the time and give unnecessary worry to some folk who actually believe them

[Nights King]

Yes its about time something was done about the Express there weather stories go beyond the joke most of the time and give unnecessary worry to some folk who actually believe them

It has done wonders for the sale of fleece at work today! All those people coming in and saying its going to get really cold this week! I told the other staff that it was all rubbish but even then they are like oh but it said in the news...

[Dorsetbred]

Typical when news is thin on the ground they publish this sort of twaddle. Interesting that people have said to me today "Gonna get really cold next week, aren't you going to wrap up warm? " No says I standing there in shorts,T, and sandals, it's not going to happen.

Oh but the newspaper said.....

Edited September 29, 2012 by Dorsetbred

[Methuselah]

It has done wonders for the sale of fleece at work today! All those people coming in and saying its going to get really cold this week! I told the other staff that it was all rubbish but even then they are like oh but it said in the news...

It's all part of Cameron's economy-expansion campaign...

[mackerel sky]

Being an early riser - not through choice, having a 3 yr old, I saw the newspaper review on BBC breakfast this morning about 7.15am. And they brought out the Express, with its headline, and they all had a good laugh about it. Dirty Desmond should just stick with peddling porn and crappy celebrity magazines. Its a complete joke and any private weather forecasting firm linked to him are a total disgrace.

[Summer Sun]

WeatherOnline have updated there monthly forecast to October

Valid from 01/12 to 28/12 2011

Mixed October

Issued: Saturday 29th September 2012

Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling & Captain Bob

A mixed October; cool spells and some warmer periods too

*1st to 12th* October

The cool and unsettled conditions look as though they'll be continuing through the short term period it low pressure in control and providing all areas with a mixture of spells of rain followed by blustery showers and a tendency for cooler weather to dig in occasionally behind as the systems clear and the evidence of colder more northern latitudes are felt.

*12th to 15th* October

Around the middle of the 2nd week of October it turns milder but remains unsettled as the flow reverts to a mainly westerly to at times south-westerly orientated direction with low pressure in control. With this being mid-autumn as you would expect it'll be windy at times with gales in exposed western and north-western area, rain for all of us some of it potentially heavy and persistent, blustery showers and cooler weather following on behind.

*15th to 21st* October

The middle of October see's potentially the first 'dig' of true polar air, showers turning wintry over higher ground in northern Britain, these carried on a brisk and very noticeably colder northerly wind, pushing deep into southern England, showers scattered in western areas, widespread through eastern and northern parts.

21st to 31st October

The conditions turn less cold for a time as pressures rise and settled, this quickly replaced by an unsettled milder weather, as low pressure 'steams' in off the Atlantic, wet and windy for all areas through the third week of October. Low pressure remains in control of the pattern through to the end of the month, the flow orientated from the west or northwest, bands of rain and strong winds, alternating between brighter and showery conditions and see-sawing temperatures as Atlantic and polar / North Atlantic sourced air crosses the UK.

Simon & Capn Bob

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-app/reports?LANG=en&MENU=205&FILE=tma&DAY=20120929

[Summer Sun]

Weather Onlines seasonal outlook has been updated to cover November and December

November chill?

December stays cool

Issued: Saturday 29th September 2012

Duty forecasters: Captain Bob

*November*

Into the beginning of November the flow remains westerly so little in the forecast alters, bands of rain followed by showers through the first week, southern England becoming drier as the pattern shifts in emphasis during the second.

Here it looks as if pressure will be rising a large anticyclone setting over the UK to provide the whole country with a dry, chilly and fine spell of weather through to mid-month, overnight frosts, fog and misty inland where skies clear, sunny by day and pleasantly very mild, chillier where this lingers for any length of time. Southern Britain seems favoured to see the benefits of a persisting ridge of high pressure and some late pleasant autumnal weather, through until around the 21st, more northern areas at risk of cloudier conditions and some rain on a developing westerly to south- westerly flow as the main area of high pressure weakens and slips away southwest.

Late in November all areas see a major 'flip' in conditions as colder weather moves south through the UK on a brisk northerly, low pressure tracking away to the east with a corresponding rise in pressure to the west, frosts overnight where winds fall light inland, wintry showers spreading south and east, especially over higher ground.

Well, here we are at the point where the thoughts turn to the winter ahead of us, there is a great deal to throw into the melting pot this time around, in addition to the usual parameters, we have an interesting sea surface temperature profile, cold PDO, weak El Nino in the central Pacific and a warm AMO, a set up which usually ups the ante in favour of blocking, how strong this'll be is debateable, the whole forecast is weighted towards a colder pattern when compared to the averages?

*December*

Colder conditions already established across the country during the latter stages will linger through the early part of December, the whole UK covered by a northerly flow which will bring a mixture of sunny spells and wintry showers, overnight frosts will be widespread. Through the first week, milder weather will move through north-western Britain as the flow swings around to the west, these cloudier and less cold conditions spreading south and east, southern Britain becoming brighter and drier as a ridge of high pressure builds in from the west.

Through to the middle of the month is looks as if the weather will be mainly unsettled and generally on the mild side, the flow distinctly westerly, occasionally southwest when it'll be feeling mild, some spells of brighter, colder and fresher conditions, when heavy blustery showers will punch their way across all areas.

Around mid-month pressure should begin to rise both to the east and west, the whole pattern becoming much more settled and colder as an anticyclone sits over the UK, perhaps drifting a little more westward with time. Southern Britain is at risk of a developing easterly breeze carrying wintry showers through England and Wales, northern Britain more settled beneath a ridge of high pressure.

During the Christmas period, pressures are expected to remain high across the central swathe of the country, but perhaps the main centre of high pressure moving to the northwest, this redistribution allowing lower pressure developments taking place to the north to swing south into the UK, wintry showers becoming more widespread and a brisk northerly breeze.

Through to New Year, the flow will be maintained for a time from the north to northwest, cold at first then easing to a less chilly regime, low pressure coming in off the Atlantic bringing rather wet and windy weather to all areas, gales expected.

Captain Bob

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-app/reports?LANG=en&MENU=206&FILE=sea&DAY=20120930

[Methuselah]

That's way too precise IMO?

[syed2878]

a verry interesting outlook if i may say.

[Summer Sun]

RAIN AND WIND TO SWEEP IN BEFORE THE FROST BITES

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/349909/Rain-and-wind-to-sweep-in-before-the-frost-bites

[Methuselah]

So what happened to this week's blizzards the? Or was it 'last week's'...You can always trust the 'Expetctless'.

[Summer Sun]

Atlantic storm sweeping across Britain set to bring a month's rain in 24 hours as Met Office issues weather warning

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2212720/UK-weather-Atlantic-storm-sweeping-Britain-set-bring-months-rain-24-hours.html#ixzz28MNbXvEI

[Methuselah]

Catweasle strikes again: http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=326118

[knocker]

Interesting piece by Paul Simons today.

Weather Eye: the formation of the RNLI

In the early hours of October 6, 1822, a severe gale caused the Royal Navy cutter Vigilant to strike St Mary’s Rock in Douglas Bay

A fierce storm in the often treacherous seas around the Isle of Man, 190 years ago tomorrow, led to the formation of what eventually became the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).

The Englishman and retired soldier Sir William Hillary had settled on the Isle of Man in a house overlooking Douglas harbour, and he soon learnt of the many local tragedies as boats and ships came to grief on the rocks nearby.

In one horrendous disaster, in September 1787, there was a storm at night in which 50 ships were dashed on the rocks and 161 crew were drowned in Douglas Bay. No one went to their rescue, and all the wives and children of the sailors could do was wait on the shoreline for any survivors who might be swept ashore.

Then in the early hours of October 6, 1822, a severe gale caused the Royal Navy cutter Vigilant to strike St Mary’s Rock in Douglas Bay. Sir William heard of this and rushed to the harbour where a crowd watched the crew of the stricken ship fight for their lives. Appalled at the unfolding disaster, he offered to pay any man to crew a small boat and rescue the stricken Vigilant.

In the end he got two boats crewed and in the teeth of the fierce winds and waves they rowed to the Vigilant, got lines from the ship attached to the harbour and pulled the ship to safety. Not only was the crew of the Vigilant saved, but as the storm grew even worse Sir William and volunteer crews went out again and again into the sea to rescue more stricken vessels, and eventually saved 97 lives.

These momentous rescues were a turning point for Hillary, who became convinced that a national lifesaving movement manned by trained crews was needed to rescue seafarers across the whole British coastline. He lobbied the Admiralty as well as politicans, philanthropists and anyone else in a position of influence, and eventually the pressure paid off. On March 4, 1824, the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck was formed, which became the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1854.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/weather/article3558790.ece

[Summer Sun]

FIVE-DAY BATTERING AS TROPICAL STORM TURNS WEATHER WILD

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/350149/Five-day-battering-as-tropical-storm-turns-weather-wild

[jtay]

Catweasle strikes again: http://www.itv.com/i.../?Filter=326118

The die was cast as soon as Mark Thompson was referred to as an Astrologer.

~18:22mins in, if you want to avoid his bit and just watch The Nolans.

In fairness, I thought PC came across quite well, keeping the ranting to a minimum, but he's reverted to type this morning on Twitter with ...

"Piers trashes CO2 warmists on ITV AlanT show Oct3"

Bless him.