South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 19/01/2018 Onwards

[Frosty hollows]

9 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

Phew!!! 

Swapped Gin for Brandy tonight, sorry gang 

I need a thermos of hot chocolate and a heated blanket. And socks and a onesie 

[jethro]

5 minutes ago, Frosty hollows said:

Better than the Minack view?

On a par but quieter. Love the Minack but it's always packed, think the only way to get a quiet time there is to go in the middle of a storm.

[Mapantz]

-0.5 °C here. Doesn't feel that cold. I really thought that I'd see some very cold temps over the last few days, but they haven't materialised.

The BBC weather app updated about 20 minutes ago, and removed the -4C, and put -1C as the low, now. That app is now going to be deleted, which is a shame, as I liked the layout. But, the temperature projections have been so far out, that it's not worth keeping.

[Mapantz]

I've finally finished my new aqua-scape!

The lights are programmed by my PC, so I have them fade to a sunset, then to a slight moonlight, before they automatically fade off.

A fresh, new 2KG fire extinguisher to inject Co2 during the day, to help the plants grow and keep algae at bay. I ordered the Seiryu stone from Germany and three types of aqua-soil. I can watch it grow/cycle out for 5 or 6 weeks now, before adding some new fish.

Really pleased with it!

 

[A Frayed Knot]

49 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

I've finally finished my new aqua-scape!

The lights are programmed by my PC, so I have them fade to a sunset, then to a slight moonlight, before they automatically fade off.

A fresh, new 2KG fire extinguisher to inject Co2 during the day, to help the plants grow and keep algae at bay. I ordered the Seiryu stone from Germany and three types of aqua-soil. I can watch it grow/cycle out for 5 or 6 weeks now, before adding some new fish.

Really pleased with it!

 

One word ' Stunning . Love it .

Hard work though ' i have Marine set up here ... Love what you have though . If you add Fish ' Let us know what you add please .

[festivalking]

6 hours ago, karlos1983 said:

Phew!!! 

Swapped Gin for Brandy tonight, sorry gang 

Brandy....That's a whole new area for discussion ?

[Dorsetbred]

Morning all, a quick scan of the newspaper this morning to find this

“Dorset and Hampshire last night shivered through the big freeze – and early this morning weathermen were recording the lowest air temperature for years.”

Bournemouth saw its coldest temperature since 1972, at minus 6.9C"

Rubs eyes, looks outside..

Reads the paper again quick check and sees "Forty years ago, a serious ‘big freeze’ was followed by snow so thick that most of Dorset and Hampshire was brought to a standstill....." 1978

Hohum http://bit.ly/2Ep5iBv

[karlos1983]

Morning 

-4.7c i got down to. I think that’s a record for my station, will need to check later when I get home.

[Dorsetbred]

Meanwhile back in the here and now, it was -2.3°C with minimal covering on the car of frost when I left home about an hour ago and now it's warming up @ -1.9°C.

Clear skies some slight haze around the moon possibly suggesting the moisture for later today..

Edited February 8, 2018 by Dorsetbred

[EllyTech]

No air frost this morning but temp hovering just above freezing at dawn.

[Georgie]

2 minutes ago, EllyTech said:

No air frost this morning but temp hovering just above freezing at dawn.

No Frost here and was 2c when i left for work very overcast now.

[lettice]

A cold night, slight frost this morning and clear blue skies.
0.1c at midnight, down to a low of -2.2c at 5am

Now -1.6c, 1020.1 hPa, very light ENE wind

[knocker]

Stratus with light rain. Temp 6C and a zephyr from the south west

[Andy Bown]

The last 3 days have been wonderful but no glorious sunshine to come today.

Cloud has thickened quick enough to deny a colourful sunrise, the sky was still mostly clear an hour ago.

Surprised to see showers on the radar over Somerset this early too.

[khodds]

Strangely warmer than I had hoped this morning +1.5c and cloudy. We just had a shower of something but I missed it.. I’d imagine it was snow but it’s melted anyway.

[Dorsetbred]

2 minutes ago, khodds said:

We just had a shower of something but I missed it.. I’d imagine it was snow but it’s melted anyway.

You have such a VIVID imagination

Edited February 8, 2018 by Dorsetbred

[khodds]

1 minute ago, Dorsetbred said:

You have such a VIVID imagination

One can only dream of these things these days ?

[Dorsetbred]

Oh dream a little dream with me... as usual in "Never never land", dream a little dream with me...

 

[jethro]

Morning, a sprinkling of flakes on the car this morning so something white and fluffy must have fallen at some point, still got a covering on the deck, table and grass too; the old wives tale of snow hanging around was that it was waiting for some more - aren't we all! Not feeling so cold though and we've lost our sunny blue sky.

[karlos1983]

7 minutes ago, Dorsetbred said:

Oh dream a little dream with me... as usual in "Never never land", dream a little dream with me...

 

Is that a ramp 

[Dorsetbred]

6 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

Is that a ramp 

No...it's a picture of ethersnow... What you find is the closer you get to see it falling the more it evaporates...

[Evening thunder]

I did see a few extremely rare snow grains on Tuesday and Tuesday evening!

Anyway, its been a nice seasonal feeling cold snap however the last 3 nights have not been as cold as they could have been. Monday night had stubborn cloud at times so it only dropped to -3.5C when it looked like the coldest night of the winter. Tuesday night stayed above freezing due to wind until 4am, then fell to -3.0C.

The cloud was forecast by most models (though it did manage -1.7C and I just had a bit of rain at -0.2C lol), however it's still kind of annoying to have 24-30 hours of cloud before the front, when places like Hurn and Southampton eastwards got to -6C.

As a result we didn't get the coldest minimum of the winter from this spell.

(I see -13C locally over the snow cover in North France and the front looks to turn to snow there easily! lol)

[jethro]

7 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

Is that a ramp 

Would I be ramping if I admitted to looking at that and instantly imagining that large blob in the channel to be 150 miles or so further North?

[Frosty hollows]

Overnight minimum of -5.1 c. Now hovering at 0 with some kind of icy/snowy/sleety mix falling. Temps on the rise so I guess it'll be rain in no time

[bellanite]

7 hours ago, Mapantz said:

I've finally finished my new aqua-scape!

The lights are programmed by my PC, so I have them fade to a sunset, then to a slight moonlight, before they automatically fade off.

A fresh, new 2KG fire extinguisher to inject Co2 during the day, to help the plants grow and keep algae at bay. I ordered the Seiryu stone from Germany and three types of aqua-soil. I can watch it grow/cycle out for 5 or 6 weeks now, before adding some new fish.

Really pleased with it!

 

Looks lovely! I now have aquarium and weather station envy! Have a 120l commuity tank and a 65l breeding tank but l like that set up!

Toasty 3oc here this morning after a min of -1 last night.