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  • Location: Stoke Gifford, nr Bristol, SGlos
  • Location: Stoke Gifford, nr Bristol, SGlos

Who'd have thought, eh? January 3rd, a nagging NE wind today, feels cold, at 4c, but cant help thinking of years gone by when a 'fetch' such as today would've seen temps at freezing, even in middle of the day. Seems such a 'waste'.

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  • Location: Saltdean,Nr Brighton,East Sussex,Hither Green,SE London.
  • Location: Saltdean,Nr Brighton,East Sussex,Hither Green,SE London.
29 minutes ago, Bristle boy said:

Who'd have thought, eh? January 3rd, a nagging NE wind today, feels cold, at 4c, but cant help thinking of years gone by when a 'fetch' such as today would've seen temps at freezing, even in middle of the day. Seems such a 'waste'.

Also a total waste of the money being burnt on heating.

Damp,chilly Easterly winds are a total waste of Winter weather.

I appreciate some are seeing transient snowfall from what's on offer right now,but that doesn't cut the mustard for me either.

Controversial this, but I would rather raging Zonality to this..

A few named storms,thunder and hail..a few surprises that deep Lows tearing from West to East can bring.

Winter preferences for me, like most here are proper cold with snowfall or if that fails  cold,crisp and frost with blue sky days.

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  • Location: Louth, Lincs
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, frost, thunderstorms and sunny summer days.
  • Location: Louth, Lincs
7 minutes ago, saintkip said:

Just seen an extended weekly BBC forecast. Strong east- north east winds with rain/sleet and temperatures of 4-5 in January. 

Some cold spell this is turning out to be. Bring back the Atlantic, at least it will save on my gas bill. 

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  • Location: Basingstoke
  • Location: Basingstoke
3 minutes ago, YellowSnow said:

Some cold spell this is turning out to be. Bring back the Atlantic, at least it will save on my gas bill. 

I work outside so this is going to be a horrible  week of dull damp pointless cold weather. I agree I’d rather the Atlantic.

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  • Location: Wyck Nr Alton- Hants
  • Location: Wyck Nr Alton- Hants

Oh well after all the promise shown by the models last week I end up with this for the coming week zzzz - ho hum - roll on spring 

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  • Location: Tonbridge Kent
  • Location: Tonbridge Kent
20 minutes ago, YellowSnow said:

Some cold spell this is turning out to be. Bring back the Atlantic, at least it will save on my gas bill. 

Lack of deep cold air to our NE and over NW Europe has been the problem from day one!

Russian high surely the main culprit, pumping warmer air up from Med?

Still lots of uncertainty about end of this coming week and loads of time for changes during January with fascinating SSW events.

Keep the faith guys!

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  • Location: halifax 125m
  • Weather Preferences: extremes the unusual and interesting facts
  • Location: halifax 125m
3 hours ago, John88B said:

Exactly Sheldon. The brain remembers the cold, snowy winters and the long, hot  summers, like the summer of 76 for example, but forgets all the mundane, normal weather in between. This fools us into believing every childhood winter was cold and snowy and every summer was a long and hot.

The truth is that 95% of our weather is rather dull and mundane.

That is not quite true.It really depends how old you are.If you are older say my parents age ,they were kids in 1947,teenagers in 1955,twenties in 1963,exlerienced the cold 60s winters and all those cold and snowy winters from 1976 to 1987,throw in 1990 and 1995 and you have seen a lot of bad winters.Yes for them winters are not the same ,yes we have had 2010,2013 and 2018 but the rest since the mid 1990s are definately milder.We did have less snow and cold in the early 1970s but you can pull out winters today which have been almost snowless even here in the pennines.At the moment i cannot complain as we have had at least 3 snowfalls here  where last year i think was late January befor we got anything  and at least 2010,2013 and 2018 gives us some hope but i do fear we will at some point have a snowless winter here,if we have had one before i dont know where it resided in history.

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  • Location: Louth, Lincs
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, frost, thunderstorms and sunny summer days.
  • Location: Louth, Lincs
49 minutes ago, saintkip said:

I work outside so this is going to be a horrible  week of dull damp pointless cold weather. I agree I’d rather the Atlantic.

I used to work outside all the time and there’s nothing worse than this kind of weather. 

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  • Location: South Lakeland.
  • Weather Preferences: Extreme events.
  • Location: South Lakeland.

And it’s all starting to fall apart in the model thread as the children realise that we are not in for another winter of ‘63 . Got the popcorn out and finger on refresh - that forum really should be moderated better OR have an minimum age limit of 21!

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  • Location: frogmore south devon
  • Location: frogmore south devon
58 minutes ago, YellowSnow said:

I used to work outside all the time and there’s nothing worse than this kind of weather. 

not to bad if it's dry

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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

IMHO, there’s a fair chance of many places seeing some snow this week and then later, some major effects from a significant SSW to await. This cooler spell was never forecast to be ‘snowmaggeddon’, so why there is so much toy throwing is beyond me. Even some saying bring back the Atlantic, no thank you. A cold, sunny high would be nice, though.

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  • Location: Alford, Aberdeenshire.
  • Location: Alford, Aberdeenshire.
3 hours ago, Bristle boy said:

Who'd have thought, eh? January 3rd, a nagging NE wind today, feels cold, at 4c, but cant help thinking of years gone by when a 'fetch' such as today would've seen temps at freezing, even in middle of the day. Seems such a 'waste'.

Agreed and UK winters are only heading in one direction.

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  • Location: Bedlinog
  • Location: Bedlinog
48 minutes ago, Barmada_Casten said:

And it’s all starting to fall apart in the model thread as the children realise that we are not in for another winter of ‘63 . Got the popcorn out and finger on refresh - that forum really should be moderated better OR have an minimum age limit of 21!

Too right. Winters over, uk winters will never be the same, blah blah. Doommongering as normal. 

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  • Location: Chesterfield 115m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Calm warm and sunny 😎
  • Location: Chesterfield 115m ASL

I love a good snowfall and as yet all I’ve seen is a bit of wet snow followed by rain. If that’s all we’re gonna get then bring on the mild dry weather anyday! 

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  • Location: Godstone Surrey
  • Location: Godstone Surrey

Yep its all gone the shape of the pear in the MAD thread ... the latest UKMO run and their  extended forecast has put a dagger into the chance of any severe wintry weather  certainly in the next two weeks.. the obsession with SSW is most peculiar ..not sure most of them  understand how it works ...not he banker it was supposed to be!1 ..back to climatology

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  • Location: Louth, Lincs
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, frost, thunderstorms and sunny summer days.
  • Location: Louth, Lincs
1 hour ago, Barmada_Casten said:

And it’s all starting to fall apart in the model thread as the children realise that we are not in for another winter of ‘63 . Got the popcorn out and finger on refresh - that forum really should be moderated better OR have an minimum age limit of 21!

It’s hilariously entertaining as an onlooker, but people that are genuinely trying to learn about the weather it’s a disgrace and half the posts need removing. Too many armchair experts I’m afraid. 

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  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Thunder, snow, heat, sunshine...
  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
2 minutes ago, YellowSnow said:

It’s hilariously entertaining as an onlooker, but people that are genuinely trying to learn about the weather it’s a disgrace and half the posts need removing. Too many armchair experts I’m afraid. 

It seems as if the MOD thread is in serious need of your scintillating input, YS?

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  • Location: Louth, Lincs
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, frost, thunderstorms and sunny summer days.
  • Location: Louth, Lincs
1 minute ago, General Cluster said:

It seems as if the MOD thread is in serious need of your scintillating input, YS?

I’ll leave the kindergarten to the children thank you

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I called this days ago. 

Standard Atlantic fair until SSW outcome late Jan into Feb. 

For what it's worth the SSW might bring some calm weather for the UK with a high on or close by for the remainder of Feb. I would take that.

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  • Location: South London
  • Weather Preferences: Heatwaves, hot weather, dry, mild, gale force winds
  • Location: South London
17 minutes ago, YellowSnow said:

It’s hilariously entertaining as an onlooker, but people that are genuinely trying to learn about the weather it’s a disgrace and half the posts need removing. Too many armchair experts I’m afraid. 

I'm very new to all this - what are they saying in the thread that is so egregious? I have noticed they always say it's 10 days away every 10 days or so...

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  • Location: Maldon, Essex
  • Location: Maldon, Essex

I just get fed up with the same people who get away with making predictions and making it sound like a certainty. At least they should show the other side of the argument. And other people just never learn, salivating after charts then getting the hump when they don’t come true!

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  • Location: Porthmadog
  • Location: Porthmadog
24 minutes ago, YellowSnow said:

It’s hilariously entertaining as an onlooker, but people that are genuinely trying to learn about the weather it’s a disgrace and half the posts need removing. Too many armchair experts I’m afraid. 

They're entitled to their opinions.

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  • Location: Rotherham
  • Weather Preferences: Snow Frost Sun
  • Location: Rotherham

Just watched BBC week ahead forecast that's just come out and they're saying there's lots of uncertainty towards next weekend. 

Very interesting model and forecast watching in the days ahead, whichever way it goes I can't see any prolonged Atlantic influence. 

With the ssw event coming I think we might see the models struggling more than they usually do.

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