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titchjuicy Apprentice

titchjuicy

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  • Location: Live Saarbruecken, Germany, work in Luxembourg
  • Weather Preferences: Cold and snowy in Winter, Cold and Wet in Summer
  • Location: Live Saarbruecken, Germany, work in Luxembourg
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God I'm glad we have a moaning thread.

 

I love snow, I mean I adore it, am fascinated by it and if it was feasible would put myself in Siberia and leave myself there.

 

However, I have the worst luck when it comes to getting some.

 

I live in South East London. The Thames Streamer of 2009 which dumped enough snow on my locale to stop all buses and trains, meaning I wouldn't have been able to get to work, happened when I was travelling back from an area of Germany that usually has loads of snow (it had none). So not only did I miss the fun, I was travelling back from Stansted that evening, heavily delayed because of the weather.

 

My locale seems to be the only one that missed out in March 2013.

 

This weekends PM from the North West happens a few days before I head to Cumbria. The forecast for when i'm there is dry at the moment. But of course there are now possibilities of a blinkin easterly, which could well affect my locale, when i'm not there. Because i'll be in Cumbria, where they'd have had snow the week before I go!!!!!!!!!

I'm going mountain walking in the Cairngorms on the last weekend of January. If there isn't snow there/then, i'm making that move to Siberia.

 

 

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Woollymummy Aficionado

Woollymummy

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  • Location: Boar's Hill, Oxon
  • Weather Preferences: Interesting weather
  • Location: Boar's Hill, Oxon
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23 minutes ago, titchjuicy said:

God I'm glad we have a moaning thread.

 

I love snow, I mean I adore it, am fascinated by it and if it was feasible would put myself in Siberia and leave myself there.

 

However, I have the worst luck when it comes to getting some.

 

I live in South East London. The Thames Streamer of 2009 which dumped enough snow on my locale to stop all buses and trains, meaning I wouldn't have been able to get to work, happened when I was travelling back from an area of Germany that usually has loads of snow (it had none). So not only did I miss the fun, I was travelling back from Stansted that evening, heavily delayed because of the weather.

 

My locale seems to be the only one that missed out in March 2013.

 

This weekends PM from the North West happens a few days before I head to Cumbria. The forecast for when i'm there is dry at the moment. But of course there are now possibilities of a blinkin easterly, which could well affect my locale, when i'm not there. Because i'll be in Cumbria, where they'd have had snow the week before I go!!!!!!!!!

I'm going mountain walking in the Cairngorms on the last weekend of January. If there isn't snow there/then, i'm making that move to Siberia.

 

 

I have been to Siberia in summer, very nice (Baikal) I recommend the place on the south eastern shore near the hot springs, as the temperature is moderated by the lake water and never gets too extreme, plus you get to rest your chilly limbs in the nice hot water from underground. You have to like eating lots of dried fish though.

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Number 23 Aficionado

Number 23

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  • Location: Chelmsford, Essex
  • Weather Preferences: Anything interesting!
  • Location: Chelmsford, Essex
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ECM 12z now throws out the sort of output which leaves your eyebrows halfway down the back of your head...

I can't remember many runs like that which have materialised in the absence of better consensus across the outputs though. I expect the GFS 18z to stick a finger or two up at it later.

But let's not allow that to deter us - cue the Benny Hill chase music!

 

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Yarmy Maestro

Yarmy

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  • Location: Near King's Lynn 13.68m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Hoar Frost, Snow, Misty Autumn mornings
  • Location: Near King's Lynn 13.68m ASL
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3 hours ago, Woollymummy said:

I have been to Siberia in summer, very nice (Baikal) I recommend the place on the south eastern shore near the hot springs, as the temperature is moderated by the lake water and never gets too extreme, plus you get to rest your chilly limbs in the nice hot water from underground. You have to like eating lots of dried fish though.

Lake Baikal looks incredible in the winter too:

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Garfmort Rookie

Garfmort

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  • Location: Western Park, Leicester
  • Weather Preferences: Dramatic
  • Location: Western Park, Leicester
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3 hours ago, Woollymummy said:

I have been to Siberia in summer, very nice (Baikal) I recommend the place on the south eastern shore near the hot springs, as the temperature is moderated by the lake water and never gets too extreme, plus you get to rest your chilly limbs in the nice hot water from underground. You have to like eating lots of dried fish though.

 

Fascinating article about Baikal here if you need a break from weather.

http://www.volcanocafe.org/the-old-man-or-the-sea/

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sparky1972 Community Regular

sparky1972

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  • Location: spalding, sth lincs
  • Location: spalding, sth lincs
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well there we have it, from an imby perspective, winter is nearly over, lol,  3 chilly days, rain on sunday according to the met office forecast, not much to cheer about, lol.

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Number 23

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  • Location: Chelmsford, Essex
  • Weather Preferences: Anything interesting!
  • Location: Chelmsford, Essex
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25 minutes ago, V for Very Cold said:

must be a cold spell approaching.... model thread has 200+ members and one liners appearing from everywhere ! lol

But will it snow in Steeple Bumpstead at t+240? We must have the answers.

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Tonyinhampshire

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39 minutes ago, sparky1972 said:

well there we have it, from an imby perspective, winter is nearly over, lol,  3 chilly days, rain on sunday according to the met office forecast, not much to cheer about, lol.

Is the met office on its own because apart from rain on Thursday, hardly any mention of cold days ahead in the South.

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cheese Veteran

cheese

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  • Location: Leeds
  • Weather Preferences: snow, heat, thunderstorms
  • Location: Leeds
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41 minutes ago, sparky1972 said:

well there we have it, from an imby perspective, winter is nearly over, lol,  3 chilly days, rain on sunday according to the met office forecast, not much to cheer about, lol.

Not sure why you're declaring winter is over based on their automated forecasts. 

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sparky1972 Community Regular

sparky1972

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  • Location: spalding, sth lincs
  • Location: spalding, sth lincs
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4 minutes ago, cheese said:

Not sure why you're declaring winter is over based on their automated forecasts. 

it was a little tongue, n cheek, but so far i have seen nothing wintry forecast for here, metoffice, theweatheroutlook, metcheck, all have us chilly but predominantly dry, albeit a little rain on sunday

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Hodgheg Community Regular

Hodgheg

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  • Location: Near Hull
  • Weather Preferences: Severe storms and heavy snow
  • Location: Near Hull
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Things are starting to get interesting for us in the south now. Id rather hedge my bets in the north this cold spell though. 

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Hammer50 Contributor

Hammer50

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  • Location: Braintree essex
  • Weather Preferences: Anything exciting.
  • Location: Braintree essex
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Wish bbc would stop showing crap rain in the forecast I thought we were in for colder conditions so we should get snow.Why can't they just be bolder and stop faffing around the forecast everyone else is saying snow.

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Hodgheg Community Regular

Hodgheg

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  • Location: Near Hull
  • Weather Preferences: Severe storms and heavy snow
  • Location: Near Hull
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1 minute ago, Hammer50 said:

Wish bbc would stop showing crap rain in the forecast I thought we were in for colder conditions so we should get snow.Why can't they just be bolder and stop faffing around the forecast everyone else is saying snow.

It seems the bbc always plays things down slightly. I can understand that, id imagine they don't want to cause panic. In my view the bbc does a good job, the forecast is never so straight forward. 

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cheese Veteran

cheese

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  • Location: Leeds
  • Weather Preferences: snow, heat, thunderstorms
  • Location: Leeds
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'As I expected' seems to be cropping up a lot on the MOD thread. Does anyone else find this incredibly irritating? Makes the person saying it sound big-headed. 

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MP-R Maestro

MP-R

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  • Location: Cleeve, North Somerset
  • Weather Preferences: Continental winters & summers.
  • Location: Cleeve, North Somerset
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Just to clarify, Madrid isn't looking sub zero by day. It's looking dry, often sunny with maxima of 5-10C and minima of 0 to -6C.

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stainesbloke Maestro

stainesbloke

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  • Location: Nymburk, Czech Republic and Staines, UK
  • Weather Preferences: Sunny and warm in summer, thunderstorms, snow, fog, frost, squall lines
  • Location: Nymburk, Czech Republic and Staines, UK
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2 hours ago, Tonyinhampshire said:

Ho dear, just seen the latest projections for the next 10 days. Hampshire has no sub zero temps even at night. Just across the channel , Paris, Madrid due to get sub zero by day with snow due in France. 

Doubt that's correct, why would Paris get snow and ice days and not us? 

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March Enthusiast

March

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  • Location: Ouse Valley, N. Bedfordshire. 48m asl.
  • Location: Ouse Valley, N. Bedfordshire. 48m asl.
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8 minutes ago, knocker said:

Gentle warm zephyrs from the south west are beckoning. Oh lordy!

ecm_eps_t850a_5d_natl_11.png

You need to inject some sanity back into the MOD thread. It's like someone left 100 litres of paint in the ape pen at the zoo. 

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