South West & Central Southern England - Weather Chat, 6th December and Onwards...

[Tattooed Fox]

Hi Mapantz,

LUUUUUUUV the weather station, "I WANT ONE".  I would rather watch that than the TV. 

Loving the radar .......

[dec10snow]

1 hour ago, Dorsetbred said:

OK this has to be seen as ramping, do we allow such things in this calm environment?

Just spreading the excitement I had for this snow shower... And I prefer the term optimism 

[karlos1983]

15 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

Maybe too late, so i took a pic.

That must be the same shower that just passed through Poole, which had a wintery element to it.

[cornish snow]

5 hours ago, jethro said:

The cottage in Cornwall we stayed in last week had a bulging bookcase full of books related to local interest/history, one of which was a photographic history, loads of pictures going back to the very beginning of photography. Amongst all the photos were lots taken in the winter of 1890/91, deep, deep snow and frozen seas in Cornwall - of all places! Had a quick look on here and found an archived thread from Weather History; this weather chart led to deep snow all over the SW:

Admittedly the cold weather then was much more entrenched than it is now, or will be in the near future, but as a model reading numpty who just sees different/coloured shaped blobs, I'll be on the lookout for any which resemble the ones in that chart. Who knows, with all the apparent strange goings on in the NH this winter, maybe we will get one of those elusive Scandinavian highs which led to the cold that year - I may even have a vague idea of what one looks like now, although I'm not convinced my senile brain has got it sorted just yet, I think it's that round, yellow blob on the right hand side???

More on that cold winter here:

 

I live a field away from the wreck site of the "Bay of Panama" which founded in a snow storm on 9th March 1891.In what's become known as the great cornish blizzard.

The cold was so great that sailors actually froze to death,stuck to the rigging.

It's what i judge my winter's by,if it did that in March 1891,it can do it again. My winter ends on 10th march.

 

Think Knocker was a school kid back then,saw some stuff that put him off cold and snow for life.

[That ECM]

Think I might stay up!!!!!

[jtay]

4 hours ago, jtay said:

Oh yeah, check me out...

Early start on Friday...

Upgrade alert...

[karlos1983]

Might be worth watching points west forecast this evening after Fergies latest tweet

 

An all nighter could be on the cards after all 

Edited January 13, 2016 by karlos1983

[Andy Bown]

Yes that's for tomorrow night into Friday, I noticed the 13.30 national forecast showing/mentioning snow showers spreading SE into the early hours of Friday. That will presumably be a trough and shows how such features can quickly pop up to give snowfall which had previously seemed unlikely. The sort of situation where one town could have a few cm and the next town nothing because it will be showers.

[Rich_Clements]

8 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

Might be worth watching points west forecast this evening after Fergies latest tweet

 

An all nighter could be on the cards after all 

ooohhhh interesting............

[Nights King]

9 minutes ago, Rich_Clements said:

ooohhhh interesting............

Lets just hope for a south west correction on those graphics... 

[jethro]

1 hour ago, cornish snow said:

I live a field away from the wreck site of the "Bay of Panama" which founded in a snow storm on 9th March 1891.In what's become known as the great cornish blizzard.

The cold was so great that sailors actually froze to death,stuck to the rigging.

It's what i judge my winter's by,if it did that in March 1891,it can do it again. My winter ends on 10th march.

 

Think Knocker was a school kid back then,saw some stuff that put him off cold and snow for life.

I read about them freezing to death on the rigging too - grim way to go. The photos were spectacular, not just a thin coating of ice on the sea but thick enough to freeze the boats in solid. Some say we're heading for another little ice age due to a deep, prolonged Solar minima, if so we may all live to see local conditions like that again. Records show that the NH was particularly prone to harsh winters during the Dalton minimum, which is when that Cornish blizzard happened, the Maunder minimum was even colder at times. Something to look forward to perhaps.....now that really is the far reaches of FI.

[karlos1983]

2 minutes ago, Nights King said:

Lets just hope for a south west correction on those graphics... 

Not to far though  

[MartUK]

6 hours ago, Nights King said:

1 minute ago, karlos1983 said:

Not to far though  

Well local forecast shows nothing for tonight except for highest parts of Exmoor then it looks like a cold frosty spell before return to rain from the west next week. 

Slight frost this morning.

At last something could be heading our way - 

sorry about post not sure how to remove quote on ipad --- any ideas ? 

[karlos1983]

7 minutes ago, Cashy Cornwall said:

At last something could be heading our way - 

sorry about post not sure how to remove quote on ipad --- any ideas ? 

No it is a definite bug for iOs devices on the platform NW use for this forum. On laptop or most other devices you just need to delete the content and highlight the top left of the quote box and press delete, but that doesn't work on iOS devices for some reason.

[festivalking]

So Karlos got your phone battery topped up tonight then?

[MartUK]

Thanks Karlos , ive not posted for a few years although i still read the forums

[karlos1983]

1 minute ago, festivalking said:

So Karlos got your phone battery topped up tonight then?

lol yes, and am in the comfort of my office, not a train, where the gentleman beside me thought my shoulder was a pillow. #akward

[festivalking]

1 minute ago, karlos1983 said:

lol yes, and am in the comfort of my office, not a train, where the gentleman beside me thought my shoulder was a pillow. #akward

Been there chap! I always seem to attract the lunatics on the train  Office here until 4 at which point I'm struggling down the high street one eye on the charts and the other on.....well everything else.

[MartUK]

Just took a look at the BBC weather forecast for tomorrow , good graphics for snow  as pointed out  above, are we going to get lucky this time around  Thurs into Fri 

Edited January 13, 2016 by Cashy Cornwall

[khodds]

I won't believe it until I see it... Been burned too many times before

[karlos1983]

Channel Islands would fair well

[Rich_Clements]

1 hour ago, Nights King said:

Lets just hope for a south west correction on those graphics... 

Anything is possible, including no one seeing a single flake

[Nights King]

26 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

Channel Islands would fair well

 

That reminds me of a painful memory... 

[knocker]

Firstly an observation by Ian F.

W COUNTRY Some 'interesting' model indications overnight Thurs-Fri.

The cold, very cold, and dry weekend is now nailed on so secondly the questions are whether the front on Monday will bring rain or snow and and how far east will it get, if at all.

And thirdly when will the transition to warmer air occur, if it does. The middle of the week is currently favourite but I suspect that this will be pushed put back.

EDIT

Reminder to self to look back through the thread before posting

Edited January 13, 2016 by knocker

[Dorsetbred]

3 hours ago, Mapantz said:

Check my weathercam out..

So, are you seeing the weather coming or going?