The Official Winter Snow Thread 2014/2015

The Official Winter Snow Thread 2014/2015

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Bill

52,479 posts

254 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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Oof! I'm holding out for 40pp/l before topping up.

schmalex

13,616 posts

205 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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Actually, I'm not sure what we pay - my wife deals with it all and gives me an invoice from the joint account at month end!!

v8250

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2,724 posts

210 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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schmalex said:
When I look at the charts for around the 28th - 30th, my willy wobbles ever so slightly...

It's all about trends at the moment and the trends are looking good
Schmalex, I'm delighted to hear you've a wobbling willy. Here there's no wobbling at all...the charts appear to be warming and showing lots of this; I do so hope they wrong...



Mr GrimNasty

8,172 posts

169 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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A Gremlin appears to have photo-bombed the bottom right corner.

Puggit

48,355 posts

247 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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fk knows - one thing is for certain, the charts don't know!

I give up rofl

<wibble>

tenohfive

6,276 posts

181 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Bill said:
I've been stockpiling Viagra, if you want some.
Sounds like you're a hardened survivalist then.

schmalex

13,616 posts

205 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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My willy has stopped wobbling now frown

The output was looking really good and now it's just all over the place. The one thing anyone can say with certainty is that it could be cold or warm or snowy or rainy or dry in the week betwixt Christmas and New Year.

Bill

52,479 posts

254 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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They're just teasing us. I won't get excited until it's falling from the sky.


tenohfive said:
Sounds like you're a hardened survivalist then.
thumbup

Puggit

48,355 posts

247 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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I think this helps sum things up:

Ian Fergusson of MetOffice said:
W COUNTRY F'cast confidence good to Xmas Day but post-26th tricky. Expected colder than average to New Year. Periods of severe weather poss.
ETA an additional tweet:

Ian Fergusson said:
ey thing we will be watchful for end Dec are deep areas of low pressure & resultant disturbed weather. A watching brief.
This will be one of the biggest u-turns in history. MO are predicting an Atlantic conveyor belt!

Edited by Puggit on Friday 19th December 08:58

geeks

9,121 posts

138 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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I have no idea what that means. Should my willy be wobbling as well?

Puggit

48,355 posts

247 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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It means a return to last winter's weather eek

geeks

9,121 posts

138 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Balls so rain and wind then frown

Bill

52,479 posts

254 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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How definitely? cry

Thankyou4calling

10,595 posts

172 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Please stop this daft nonsense about there being snow at Christmas.

Firstly, to me and most others snow means a decent covering, 3 or 4 inches in old money on large parts of densely inhabited England, a decent carpet over major areas of the South East, Midlands, Northern cities etc so most people can make a snowball in their garden.

This kind of silly weather speculation happens most years, snow at Christmas doesn't.

If there is snow, it'll be in isolated places where few live.

End of.

matt173407

503 posts

228 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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So its going to be wet and windy for the foreseable future ! frown my snow toe also agrees it will be wet and windy but at least it will be mild smile

schmalex

13,616 posts

205 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Puggit said:
It means a return to last winter's weather eek
Depends how you read it...

Puggit

48,355 posts

247 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Thankyou4calling said:
Please stop this daft nonsense about there being snow at Christmas.

Firstly, to me and most others snow means a decent covering, 3 or 4 inches in old money on large parts of densely inhabited England, a decent carpet over major areas of the South East, Midlands, Northern cities etc so most people can make a snowball in their garden.

This kind of silly weather speculation happens most years, snow at Christmas doesn't.

If there is snow, it'll be in isolated places where few live.

End of.
The law of averages does indeed point out that snow is unlikely at Christmas. However, it's fair to talk about snow at Christmas when every single publicly available model is showing it!

The law of averages says it doesn't snow on any given winter day in England - so should we write off snow totally? No!

Thankyou4calling

10,595 posts

172 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Puggit said:
he law of averages does indeed point out that snow is unlikely at Christmas. However, it's fair to talk about snow at Christmas when every single publicly available model is showing it!

The law of averages says it doesn't snow on any given winter day in England - so should we write off snow totally? No!
I fully accept that you have more expertise on the weather than I'll ever have.

Talking about snow only builds up the anticipation for what won't happen, you know it won't if you are honest.

Weather charts more than 3 or 4 days out are about as reliable as hanging seaweed out the window or watching if the cows in a field are facing a certain way.

Puggit

48,355 posts

247 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Thankyou4calling said:
I fully accept that you have more expertise on the weather than I'll ever have.

Talking about snow only builds up the anticipation for what won't happen, you know it won't if you are honest.

Weather charts more than 3 or 4 days out are about as reliable as hanging seaweed out the window or watching if the cows in a field are facing a certain way.
You're too kind - my knowledge is firmly in its infancy!

Granted - but I as I said, every single model was pointing to exactly the same forecast, quite remarkable at about 10 days out - fortunately I did caveat at the time it was outside the reliable range.

It might still happen though wink

s p a c e m a n

10,752 posts

147 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Thankyou4calling said:
Talking about snow only builds up the anticipation for what won't happen, you know it won't if you are honest.
And therein lies the point of the thread. We're probably not going to be able to go outside and build a snowman in a few foot of snow so I want to get excited by the possibility of it, otherwise Christmas is just a month of having to put up with a bunch of people that I want to stab in the head. I need something to look forward to, something to focus on, something to keep me out of jail xmas