South East & East Anglia Regional Weather Discussion 07/01/14

[Steve C]

Morning all and good POETS day to all.

 

I had a brief look for the Northern Lights last night, but saw nothing - not that they'd ever be spectacular here anyway. The bright and waxing moon didn't help either. Still it was nice to have a totally clear sky.

 

An underwhelming set of operational runs from the models overnight, from a cold lovers perspective IMHO. Here are ECM charts for 6, 8 and 10 days away, for example. The cold weather is too far to the east and there's nothing on here that would give us wintry precipitation.

 

 

 

[Coast]

Morning regionaires.

 

A lovely clear night but no Northern Lights in this neck of the woods - I'm not sure that they have ever been visible this far South?

 

A cursory wander through a few charts on the latest run this morning, right out to their ends and I'm afraid no improvement in trends for those on a snow-hunt. There are projected periods of fog, slightly colder temps and even a thunderstorm to our West but nothing white and crystalline falling from the sky. In fact GFS has even backed away from the North of England's chances and Scotland gets a mere dusting on high ground.

 

Not conclusive I know, but not as positive as a couple of days ago and I'm not going in the MOD thread as opinion is so divided (and biased towards personal preference in many cases, usual caveats apply), it just confuses me and I'd rather look at the available data and make my own mind up on any potential pattern at the moment.

 

So the wait continues and we all know it would be a major game-changer for their not to be a period of the white stuff during this season, maybe we just have to wait until we get into February and beyond? Remember, we have seen good dumpings of snow way out into April in recent years:

 

https://forum.netweather.tv/gallery/album/510-snow-in-eastbourne-april-2008/

[Steve C]

I've got a funny gut feeling that cold and snow will come and that tomorrow's charts will get this forum buzzing.

 

Hehe!

 

I don't think there will be much buzzing from the 0Z runs, unless it's the buzzing of chainsaws! Having said that, this forum is civilised, but I suspect carnage on the lively thread!  

[chilly milly]

Morning all.  Have no idea what the weather is doing outside as it's too dark to see, and I'm still in my jim jams.  We have a temp of 1.8c and I have a bowl of porridge.

 

 

Happy birthday today to donna-m

 

 

Have a good day all, whatever you are doing.

[Steve C]

Morning all.  Have no idea what the weather is doing outside as it's too dark to see, and I'm still in my jim jams.  We have a temp of 1.8c and I have a bowl of porridge.

 

 

Happy birthday today to donna-m

 

 

Have a good day all, whatever you are doing.

 

Clear here still at the moment.

[Tom Quintavalle]

Hi Steve, not much excitement in the models this morning with some rather static looking lows in the atlantic holding back any cold air.

 

Quite interesting piece on BBC this morning  - behind the scenes at BBC weather Centre

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25669649

 

Morning all,

 

Not looking so good this morning, after the overnights, carnage awaits in the MOD thread! 

 

It's only the weather after all and there's always the weekend to look forward to........and more work! 

 

Tom.

Edited January 10, 2014 by Kentish CZ

[Coast]

Hi Robin all very quiet this morning, even the mod thread relatively calm, probably much to do with Meteociel being down at the moment.

 

Most interesting thing I have seen this morning is that I appear to be threatening much of the population of Tonga . Sorry, been stalking your posts!

 

Ian

 

http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/78983-severe-tropical-cyclone-ian/page-2   

 

Morning ian, yes, leave those guys alone, they can fight back!

 

[HammerJack]

Morning all

A lovely crisp and bright start to the day here. Even managed a bit of ice in the car this morning.

Have a good one

[abruzzi spur]

Morning all

Sunshine, frost, 0c and ice on the car, no wind. Have I entered a parallel universe?!

AS

[NO LONGER POSTING]

Sigh.. More wind and rain next week starting today!

[Keraunic]

Mornin each. It's sunny and cold in deepest Ippy, with a clear blue sky.

Lovely clear, starry skies last night but didn't see Aurora. But I never really expected to. At least I saw my old pal, Orion and paid my nightly greeting to him. Ahem....moving swiftly on...

Have a good day, all.

[snow raven]

Morning all,

 

Frost on the car and saw a lovely sunrise over the city of London on my inward bound train journey into work this morning.  Have to say well done to South Eastern trains who managed to remove 200 tonnes of mud off the tracks over night at Barnehurst Station following the landslide - I didn't think it would be cleared until after the weekend.

 

Counting down the hours till home time...  roll on 4.30pm!

[alexisj9]

Nice crisp morning today, noticing some hefty showers in the channel, hope they stay there.

[Heisenberg]

Morning all,

 

No lights for me last night either but the sky was lovely to look at all the same.

 

Crisp N Dry here this morning....lovely

[fluid dynamic]

So its all gone Pete Tong in the Intellectual Playpen

 

If the weather stays as it is right now, that's fine and dandy with me, not as good as loads of snow, but I'm easily pleased

 

Good Morning All.

[Coast]

Urrrrghhh, lovely clear sky and frost has turned to dull and heavy rain yet again. It doesn't look like this will be the last of it either:

 

[alexisj9]

So its all gone Pete Tong in the Intellectual Playpen

 

If the weather stays as it is right now, that's fine and dandy with me, not as good as loads of snow, but I'm easily pleased

 

Good Morning All.

Nice dry and sunny, I'll take that any time after the weather we have had recently, snow doesn't seem all that important, we need this dry weather. It's a real shame that there may be some rain later today, even light rain is not good for some at the moment.

[snow raven]

Surely no more rain!  I could have got used to this dry weather and blue skies!

[Jason T]

Good Morning all, Not sure who did see anything of Northern Lights, For those that didn,t here is a cracking image from Norway.

 

[Flaked Queen]

In bed with lady flu but hubby took a pic of the frost on the car so I sort have seen what the weather was like this morning :/

[NO LONGER POSTING]

Really not liking the look of more rain.. the Thmaes at staines is about 5CM I think from breaking it's record... With more rain DAMN! :/

[Jason T]

 

celebrates 60th anniversary of its first-ever TV forecast

 

http://bbc.in/1iXwXrM  pic.twitter.com/fcfHlIx5Cs

[Snowangel-MK]

Morning all (it is still morning I think)

 

I'm not sure if there was a frost or not...unlike some people I didn't have to be up so early today so I've enjoyed a lazy start and a bit of organising for the holibobs - 8 days and counting 

 

As it's POETS day today and with so much will it won't it discussion going on regarding the cold spell/snap and any possible snow next week maybe we should have a nice new regional thread for the weekend ... linky coming up ...

 

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[Steve C]

Just hoping that we don't end up in a zone of stalling fronts next week. Still, a long way off and as such an outside chance only.

[JABWootton]

Morning all (it is still morning I think)

 

I'm not sure if there was a frost or not...unlike some people I didn't have to be up so early today so I've enjoyed a lazy start and a bit of organising for the holibobs - 8 days and counting 

 

As it's POETS day today and with so much will it won't it discussion going on regarding the cold spell/snap and any possible snow next week maybe we should have a nice new regional thread for the weekend ... linky coming up ...

 

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We had 8 foot of snow last night but by the time you got up it had melted

Edited January 10, 2014 by JABWootton