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Please ensure that the majority of your posts in this thread are model related - a theme of model discussion needs to run throughout.
Some off topic chat and reactions are ok, but please use other, more relevant threads for entirely off-topic chat (such as snow reports, met office forecasts and general chat/moans about the weather or this winter).

For more no banter and just model discussion please head to the new focused model thread - this is also a great place to post (or cross post) your longer model summaries or thoughts around the models.

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  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish Plumes, Blizzards, Severe Frosts :-)
  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North
24 minutes ago, Summer Sun said:

Spring has sprung for the vast majority of Europe

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I think it's great that we are sharing our warmth with most of europe..

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  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
19 minutes ago, Weathizard said:

Live pictures from SS front room

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Complete opposite expressions from my front room!

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3 hours ago, karyo said:

We may get a below average spell of temperatures but record low is extremely hard to achieve these days. 

Also, look at how many above average months we get compared to the below average ones. There is a big difference.

Is it tho? People said back in the 90's & 00's that extreme cold was done for the UK but then in the last 10 years we've had record breaking cold events. Just because this year has been a stinker for coldies doesn't automatically mean future winters will be.

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  • Location: porth (Welsh valleys)
  • Weather Preferences: Cold and very cold.
  • Location: porth (Welsh valleys)
10 minutes ago, Frosty. said:

I think it's great that we are sharing our warmth with most of europe..

And yet if Europe was in the freezer the UK would still be showing as warm...….so strange.

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  • Location: Brighton, East Sussex
  • Location: Brighton, East Sussex
5 minutes ago, Bartlett High said:

And yet if Europe was in the freezer the UK would still be showing as warm...….so strange.

Blame the 100 million odd square KM of Atlantic Ocean to our west. However these huge pivoting high pressure cells seem to be becoming more common in recent years. I’m not someone who fully understands the phases the world goes through weather wise but we do seem to be in a phase where it’s more likely to have these monstrous heights, been dominating for months now after dominating for much of summer.

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  • Location: Sedgley 175metres above sea level
  • Weather Preferences: Any kind of extremes. But the more snow the better.
  • Location: Sedgley 175metres above sea level

Are we the unluckiest folk in the NH this winter or what! Just look at them - 20 uppers eying us up out East. Surely.. Could it be... One last hoorahh... Nahhh, I'm past caring!! 

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  • Location: Dunstable 446ft ASL
  • Weather Preferences: cold with frost & snow in winter; hot and dry in summer
  • Location: Dunstable 446ft ASL
2 hours ago, TomSE12 said:

You and me both, Don. Still think they'll be a "sting in the tail", as we enter March.

I'll order one of these with extra fries, please!!

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https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/mohippo/pdf/1/1/mar1970.pdf

Regards,

Tom. :hi:

Great post and a really interesting read. I wasn't old enough in 1970 to remember it but I remember the Spring of 1975 very well. I was 9 years old and living in Surrey at the time. There were a number of snowy episodes. That was a great spring for a number of reasons !

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  • Location: Dunstable 446ft ASL
  • Weather Preferences: cold with frost & snow in winter; hot and dry in summer
  • Location: Dunstable 446ft ASL
17 minutes ago, Dunstable Snow said:

Great post and a really interesting read. I wasn't old enough in 1970 to remember it but I remember the Spring of 1975 very well. I was 9 years old and living in Surrey at the time. There were a number of snowy episodes. That was a great spring for a number of reasons !

The date for March and April 1975

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/mohippo/pdf/e/k/apr1975.pdf

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/mohippo/pdf/e/f/mar1975.pdf

 

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  • Location: Leeds
  • Weather Preferences: snow, heat, thunderstorms
  • Location: Leeds
2 hours ago, Stonethecrows said:

Is it tho? People said back in the 90's & 00's that extreme cold was done for the UK but then in the last 10 years we've had record breaking cold events. Just because this year has been a stinker for coldies doesn't automatically mean future winters will be.

Uh, yes? You only need to compare the number of warm/heat records to cold records over the past 20 years to see that breaking record low temperatures is increasingly difficult.

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  • Location: Kent
  • Weather Preferences: cold and snowy winters
  • Location: Kent
1 minute ago, cheese said:

Uh, yes? You only need to compare the number of warm/heat records to cold records over the past 20 years. 

But we are now moving back to colder phase. It will be interesting in another 20/30 years of satellite data. Once we have been through both warm and cold cycles.

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  • Location: Frampton Cotterell
  • Weather Preferences: Snow & cold (love it) any extremes.
  • Location: Frampton Cotterell
44 minutes ago, Mattwolves said:

Are we the unluckiest folk in the NH this winter or what! Just look at them - 20 uppers eying us up out East. Surely.. Could it be... One last hoorahh... Nahhh, I'm past caring!! 

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The day Mattwolves says he’s past caring about a cold spell is indeed a sad day in my book ❄️

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24 minutes ago, Due South said:

But we are now moving back to colder phase. It will be interesting in another 20/30 years of satellite data. Once we have been through both warm and cold cycles.

I'm sorry, but on what basis is this colder phase going to occur?

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  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish Plumes, Blizzards, Severe Frosts :-)
  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North
41 minutes ago, Alderc said:

I'm sorry, but on what basis is this colder phase going to occur?

The Background  Signals

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  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy disruptive snowfall.
  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.

I have got a feeling for a cold spell in March but not a potent one, more of a NW flow than anything, could be reasonable for really good altitude in Northern UK but nothing really to float most peoples boats.

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Well well the models show what cold lovers don't want to see which could be exactly to our favour and the complete opposite to them showing what we want to see beyond 7 days 

Don't believe what we are seeing but instead realise that we could be seeing another cold spell brewing towards the end of the month,this week's spring can easily change to next week s back to winter, still too early to write winter off I say

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  • Location: Derry, NW Ireland, 20 to 30m ASL
  • Location: Derry, NW Ireland, 20 to 30m ASL
28 minutes ago, Stonethecrows said:

Simply not true.

Might this help?

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Lowest minimum temperature: Lowest value of the daily minimum temperature for each calendar year, averaged over climatological reference periods.
UK: 1961-1990 average -8.5 °C; 2008-2017 average -6.8 °C.

 

Shown us that the lowest daily minimums on average have been rising, even with very cold spells in perfect synoptic conditions? Might this tie in with our ability to breach record low temperatures?

 

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  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Thunder, snow, heat, sunshine...
  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
1 hour ago, Due South said:

But we are now moving back to colder phase. It will be interesting in another 20/30 years of satellite data. Once we have been through both warm and cold cycles.

No we're not...There's no evidence of that, anywhere...

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  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
12 minutes ago, parrotingfantasist said:

Might this help?

state-of-uk-climate-6-hazards-mm-v5-01-1920.jpg

Lowest minimum temperature: Lowest value of the daily minimum temperature for each calendar year, averaged over climatological reference periods.
UK: 1961-1990 average -8.5 °C; 2008-2017 average -6.8 °C.

 

Shown us that the lowest daily minimums on average have been rising, even with very cold spells in perfect synoptic conditions? Might this tie in with our ability to breach record low temperatures?

 

A depressing reading!

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  • Location: Wildwood, Stafford 104m asl
  • Weather Preferences: obviously snow!
  • Location: Wildwood, Stafford 104m asl
15 minutes ago, parrotingfantasist said:

Might this help?

state-of-uk-climate-6-hazards-mm-v5-01-1920.jpg

Lowest minimum temperature: Lowest value of the daily minimum temperature for each calendar year, averaged over climatological reference periods.
UK: 1961-1990 average -8.5 °C; 2008-2017 average -6.8 °C.

 

Shown us that the lowest daily minimums on average have been rising, even with very cold spells in perfect synoptic conditions? Might this tie in with our ability to breach record low temperatures?

 

And some say winters aren't getting milder

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  • Location: Bath, Oxford
  • Weather Preferences: Cold and snowy winters, hot and sunny summers with thunderstorms!
  • Location: Bath, Oxford

I recorded a -6c here this winter which is pretty rare for a southern city.

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  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish Plumes, Blizzards, Severe Frosts :-)
  • Location: Castle Black, the Wall, the North
3 minutes ago, Leon1 said:

I recorded a -6c here this winter which is pretty rare for a southern city.

It drops to -18c in my freezer!!..that's where I get my cold fix this winter

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  • Location: Raynes Park, London SW20
  • Location: Raynes Park, London SW20
21 minutes ago, I remember Atlantic 252 said:

And some say winters aren't getting milder

Every season is getting warmer.  Those who can’t acknowledge that obvious fact are in serious denial.

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