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

[Evening thunder]

2 minutes ago, Dorsetbred said:

Now who's becoming the MAD thread?

Lol, allowed myself a bit of fun.. but I daren't venture in there and post it

Now back to trying to ignore the models' wild goose chases.

[fromey]

with regards to the MAD thread, standby its going to be a bumpy ride!!!

[karlos1983]

8 minutes ago, fromey said:

with regards to the MAD thread, standby its going to be a bumpy ride!!!

I'm not entering until I have a 24 pack of Heineken 

[knocker]

One has to keep in mind that 'chasing the easterly' is an annual event in the MOD thread. It's a sado/masochistic  ritual that is part of the initiation tests that newbies have to pass before acceptance as bone fide members of the 'coldie club'. Hence when thrown the odd bone by the GFS it's manna from heaven and the hare is running

............

[cornish snow]

3 minutes ago, knocker said:

One has to keep in mind that 'chasing the easterly' is an annual event in the MOD thread. It's a sado/masochistic  ritual that is part of the initiation tests that newbies have to pass before acceptance as bone fide members of the 'coldie club'. Hence when thrown the odd bone by the GFS it's manna from heaven and the hare is running

............

Putting my fishermans hat on,we haven't had a really good easterly blow for what seems like ages. 

Talking about it the other night,consensus amoungst the troops(fishermen) is that one's due.

 

[Wynn D Woo]

Well we did manage to get a dusting from some localised snizzle in Gloucester this morning, enough to turn the pavement and roads white so it looked wintery at least. 

[fromey]

19 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

I'm not entering until I have a 24 pack of Heineken 

And a tranquilizer gun!! 

Edited January 20, 2016 by fromey

[Stormyking]

Absolutely stunningly very cold frosty/icy Morning, Most of the island ranged between 0'c to around -3'c but there were some parts of the island got down to -6 - -7'c, so we decided to head out to see what photo oppurtunities we could find, it was extremely cold and was not easy to hole the camera for too long, but I manage to come across this beautiful little seen

Newtown Creek, towards the North West Part of the Island, the water was also partly frozen

 

 

Edited January 20, 2016 by Stormyking

[Andy Bown]

14 hours ago, chapmanslade said:

Drove into Warminster at 7pm and it was -2C then which as you say is pretty good going for that early in the evening. -5/-6C is about your limit without snow cover. Managed -15C in 2010 with snow which made working outside challenging !

You were spot on Greg, -5.9c was the min so the same as Mike in the Bristol area.

Seriously hoping the frost hangs on for a good time tomorrow and there must be a chance of freezing drizzle/rain later tomorrow due to the ground temperature being so low.

Re the post above about 'snizzle' ; did you have freezing fog? If so you had crystallized fog which can be extremely localised and is a thing of absolute beauty. I have only witnessed it twice ever and on one occasion it left a covering on one side of the road I lived on but nothing the opposite side!

[fromey]

i think we will be lucky to have a frost come tomorrow morning, just caught the forecast, grim is the best way to describe it, lets hope the GFS is on to something this time and the rest of the models catch up, just seen a tweet from Matt Hugo and its a graph of zonal winds as shown by the ECM they take them down to almost zero. 

[Wynn D Woo]

7 minutes ago, Andy Bown said:

Re the post above about 'snizzle' ; did you have freezing fog? If so you had crystallized fog which can be extremely localised and is a thing of absolute beauty. I have only witnessed it twice ever and on one occasion it left a covering on one side of the road I lived on but nothing the opposite side!

We did indeed have freezing fog, car was reading -3C at the time.

[MP-R]

Early January 2009 and 2010 both recorded -8C and -7C respectively here without snowcover, but the depth of cold was much greater - it had been cold since Christmas 2008 re the former, and uppers were lower in January 2010. Generally though, -6C is the limit here with no snowcover. The lower numbers tend to show up when there have been a few successive frosts, severe enough to last all day in some spots to start the cooling process quicker.

The nice thing this morning was seeing how little the thermometer on the car changed when I got to Clevedon before joining the M5 to go to work. Still -5C there, and all the way to Avonmouth where it was -4C before returning to -5C just north of Cribbs. Lovely hue to the sky too first thing.

Let's hope this upcoming yucky spell is as short and as dry as possible and that the easterly showing at the back end of next week verifies. Would be very similar timing to 2012 if it did.

[Bristawl Si]

2 hours ago, jtay said:

Sigh.... Here we go again...

I reckon Netweather doctor the charts occasionally to ensure the traffic through the site stays high. Lol!

[Mapantz]

Next week, according to mod logic..

http://i.imgur.com/K6lOr62.gifv

[Jason74]

4 hours ago, karlos1983 said:

Ahem, cough cough

timing is everything 

 

This is enough to make a grown man loose his mind.

[knocker]

Thickening Ac has been encroaching for the last couple of hours now accompanied by Sc and a little St. Temp 7C.

[Andy Bown]

2 hours ago, fromey said:

i think we will be lucky to have a frost come tomorrow morning, just caught the forecast, grim is the best way to describe it, lets hope the GFS is on to something this time and the rest of the models catch up, just seen a tweet from Matt Hugo and its a graph of zonal winds as shown by the ECM they take them down to almost zero. 

Yes I posted before the 13.30 forecast having thought the fronts wouldn't arrive until tomorrow pm, however it seems the first is due to turn up later in the night which I suppose increases the likelihood of freezing drizzle.

[karlos1983]

Just secured my allocation for Barcelona V Arsenal at Camp Nou in March 

Lets hope February is a cracking month for coldies so the time flies by 

[festivalking]

1 minute ago, karlos1983 said:

Just secured my allocation for Barcelona V Arsenal at Camp Nou in March 

Lets hope February is a cracking month for coldies so the time flies by 

Lets hope not for a double disappointment then...... 

[Methuselah]

Well done! You support Barcelona?

[karlos1983]

10 minutes ago, Ed Stone said:

Well done! You support Barcelona?

[Frosty hollows]

Not been above freezing all day here. After the dizzy heights of -1.2 we're falling again. Currently -1.8C

 

[Bristawl Si]

47 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

Just secured my allocation for Barcelona V Arsenal at Camp Nou in March 

Lets hope February is a cracking month for coldies so the time flies by 

I hope your February one comes to fruition but...........

March sees you return to blighty totally distraught.....unless you support Barca.

Sorry, couldnt resist karlos - COYS.

[Frosty_wsm]

What a gorgeous day it's been weather wise, clear blue skies &  so nice to have that crunchy feeling underfoot when walking on the grass, frost has stayed on the ground in the back  garden all day, much better than the quagmire the garden was like through all of December! 

What a shame the mild crud with wind & rain is on it's way back 

[karlos1983]

15 minutes ago, Bristle boy said:

I hope your February one comes to fruition but...........

March sees you return to blighty totally distraught.....unless you support Barca.

Sorry, couldnt resist karlos - COYS.

Lol - I'm a realist and acknowledge I will neither be a happy February coldie nor a happy returning Gooner. But I live in hope. Either way, going to be an awesome 5 days away.