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  • Location: Shepton Mallet 140m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, snow and summer heatwaves.
  • Location: Shepton Mallet 140m ASL
3 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

 

That’s feet right :spiteful:

Thats the thing that confuses me.... mod thread = blizzards lasting days for south but then you see 4-6cm average for england :rolleyes:

Obviously charts to be ignored on depths but they dont add up... 

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  • Location: Shepton Mallet 140m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, snow and summer heatwaves.
  • Location: Shepton Mallet 140m ASL
Just now, Frosty hollows said:

Anyone know where I can get hold of historical DPs?

And back on topic please this is a weather forum after all :rolleyes::hi:

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  • Location: Barton on Sea, Hampshire
  • Weather Preferences: Snowy winter, warm/hot summer with the odd storm thrown in
  • Location: Barton on Sea, Hampshire

I think I would've finally reached the reaction limit today. But there isn't one anymore. :yahoo:

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  • Location: Work: Near Glasto Home: near Puriton
  • Weather Preferences: Hot and sunny or cold and snowy. Nothing inbetween.
  • Location: Work: Near Glasto Home: near Puriton

I feel strangely calm... is this a dream..?

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  • Location: Benson, Oxfordshire
  • Location: Benson, Oxfordshire
1 minute ago, Nights King said:

And back on topic please this is a weather forum after all :rolleyes::hi:

Sorry. Just winding down after work with a glass of wine making a shopping list.  Not that I need it being North of the M4

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  • Location: Bulford, Wiltshire 98m asl
  • Weather Preferences: frosty, lots of snow and good ol fashion thunderstorms.
  • Location: Bulford, Wiltshire 98m asl

Yay Mapantz!!   all aboard the snow plough :cold::yahoo:

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  • Location: Winterbourne, South Glos
  • Location: Winterbourne, South Glos

supposed to be travelling down to St Ives next Sat for a week's holiday (all paid for). Never thought I'd be saying this but kind of hoping the pub run doesn't come off!!:diablo:

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  • Location: Cheltenham, Gloucs.
  • Location: Cheltenham, Gloucs.
7 minutes ago, Nights King said:

Thats the thing that confuses me.... mod thread = blizzards lasting days for south but then you see 4-6cm average for england :rolleyes:

Obviously charts to be ignored on depths but they dont add up... 

You don't really need the charts for accumulations. Just look at the general positioning of lows ... how much rain does a low normal drop? Yes, it varies, could be drizzle but remember that for every mm of rain, 1cm of snow falls. 

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Blizzards devastated the South West 40 years ago 

2nd March 2058

It is the 40th anniversary of the start of what was one of the worst blizzards to have affected the United Kingdom in the last 100 years. It affected South West England and south Wales for five days from 1st to 5th March 2018 before milder weather edged in bringing a general thaw.

 

The cold air initially moved into the UK from the east around the 25th, and was further enhanced by a cold pool of air moving in from central Europe between the 27th and 1st of March .

 

The weather set up, with a huge contrast in air-masses either side of a weather front, led to considerable snowfall for the South West on the 1st and 2nd and this was followed on the 3rd and 4th by an unusually severe blizzard which extended to south Wales.

 

Snow accumulated to depths of about 60cm in places on Dartmoor and Exmoor and to 85cm at Shepton Mallet in Somerset, but drifts of at least 6m were reported over a wide area which included Dorset and Wiltshire.

 

The exceptional weather cut communications and caused severe hardship, and although milder weather soon reached the south-west, several towns and villages were isolated by snowdrifts for some days and it was reported that there was still snow on the ground in early July.

 

In Benson, Oxfordshire a bizarre prolonged heat burst event prevent the temperature dropping below 3c. 

 

Snow depths at 9am on 5th March:

 

85cm Shepton Mallet 

60cm Princetown Prison

55cm Swindon

47cm Bath

45cm Bristol

2cm Poole

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  • Location: Poole, BH14
  • Location: Poole, BH14
13 minutes ago, Nights King said:

Thats the thing that confuses me.... mod thread = blizzards lasting days for south but then you see 4-6cm average for england :rolleyes:

Obviously charts to be ignored on depths but they dont add up... 

Those charts will be off the mark models will probably be programmed with that bias. Also doesn't account for convection.

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  • Location: Poole Dorset
  • Location: Poole Dorset
3 minutes ago, SN0W SN0W SN0W said:

Blizzards devastated the South West 40 years ago 

2nd March 2058

It is the 40th anniversary of the start of what was one of the worst blizzards to have affected the United Kingdom in the last 100 years. It affected South West England and south Wales for five days from 1st to 4th March 2018 before milder weather edged in bringing a general thaw.

 

The cold air initially moved into the UK from the east around the 25th, and was further enhanced by a cold pool of air moving in from central Europe between the 27th and 1st of March .

 

The weather set up, with a huge contrast in air-masses either side of a weather front, led to considerable snowfall for the South West on the 1st and 2nd and this was followed on the 3rd and 4th by an unusually severe blizzard which extended to south Wales.

 

Snow accumulated to depths of about 60cm in places on Dartmoor and Exmoor and to 85cm at Shepton Mallet in Somerset, but drifts of at least 6m were reported over a wide area which included Dorset and Wiltshire.

 

The exceptional weather cut communications and caused severe hardship, and although milder weather soon reached the south-west, several towns and villages were isolated by snowdrifts for some days and it was reported that there was still snow on the ground in early July.

 

In Benson, Oxfordshire a bizarre prolonged heat burst event prevent the temperature dropping below the 3c. 

 

Snow depths at 9am on 5th March:

 

85cm Shepton Mallet 

60cm Princetown Prison

55cm Swindon

47cm Bath

45cm Bristol

2cm Poole

You trying to tell me something lol.

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  • Location: Work: Near Glasto Home: near Puriton
  • Weather Preferences: Hot and sunny or cold and snowy. Nothing inbetween.
  • Location: Work: Near Glasto Home: near Puriton
3 minutes ago, EllyTech said:

Smooth flight, isn't it? :laugh:

:rofl: 

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  • Location: Shepton Mallet 140m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, snow and summer heatwaves.
  • Location: Shepton Mallet 140m ASL
1 minute ago, kumquat said:

Princetown Prison lmao - very specific..... somewhere familiar to you? :rofl:

Do they have a psychiatric unit? :pardon:

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  • Location: Work: Near Glasto Home: near Puriton
  • Weather Preferences: Hot and sunny or cold and snowy. Nothing inbetween.
  • Location: Work: Near Glasto Home: near Puriton
1 minute ago, Nights King said:

Do they have a psychiatric unit? :pardon:

One at a time please...

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  • Location: Cheltenham, Gloucs.
  • Location: Cheltenham, Gloucs.

In the winter of 1963, didn't it snow on Boxing Day and everyone loved the Christmassy treat, there was a pause then, the big freeze came.... ??

In the winter of 2018, didn't it snow on Boxing Day and everyone loved the Chrissmassy treat, then ............................... :help:

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  • Location: Poole Dorset
  • Location: Poole Dorset

Being pessimistic by nature all this extreme ramping of the day after tomorrow has strangely turned me into a masochist.

If I don't get 5 foot of snowfall severe frostbite and snow blindness from returning from the local store in a raging blizzard I may be disappointed.

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  • Location: Barton on Sea, Hampshire
  • Weather Preferences: Snowy winter, warm/hot summer with the odd storm thrown in
  • Location: Barton on Sea, Hampshire
2 minutes ago, EllyTech said:

didn't it snow on Boxing Day

No. :nonono:

IMBY Alert. 

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  • Location: Peasedown St John.N.E.Somerset
  • Weather Preferences: Fair to Foul...
  • Location: Peasedown St John.N.E.Somerset

Anybody worked out next Wednesday forecast yet....

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  • Location: Barton on Sea, Hampshire
  • Weather Preferences: Snowy winter, warm/hot summer with the odd storm thrown in
  • Location: Barton on Sea, Hampshire
Just now, ARTDEMOLE said:

Anybody worked out next Wednesday forecast yet....

Cold. :good:

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  • Location: Lytchett Matravers - 301 ft ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snowy Winters, Torrential Storm Summers
  • Location: Lytchett Matravers - 301 ft ASL

ECM mean doesn’t get above 5c (2mT) all the way out to D15!! Nice!!

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Oops wrong thread lol ?‍♂️

Oh well you’ll do ?

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