The official winter 2015/2016 snow thread. (Ahem...)

[jimmyjimjim]

Similarly, the weather lady called it right and we've about 5" right now, due to finish at about 8".

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Edited by jimmyjimjim on Tuesday 15th December 13:09

[NRS]

Just saw the local xc ski trails are getting too much snow to be able to prepare the tracks!

[jimmyjimjim]

Billings, MT gets it's first snow day (schools shut) in more then 25 years.

http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/billings-loc...

A foot of snow (no big deal for them) with ice underneath(nasty).

[Puggit]

Amongst all the doom and gloom (and there's plenty of that!), there are rumblings afoot. If (and it's a pretty effing huge 'if') things happen, they could be spectacular. A complete flip in the weather.

For the moment though, it's more of the grey and green mush for most of the country.

[benjj]

Come on Puggit, that was just dragging a fingernail down the shaft. Try grabbing hold of it tightly and really flogging away.

Where?

When?

How gnarly?

[Puggit]

It's all way over my head. Far beyond simple GFS/ECM charts. Suggest you head over to the Netweather Winter forum and have a gander

[benjj]

No way, I've looked on there before and they're a mad bunch of deranged nerdy geography teachers.

[juice]

I read the last page, didn't have a clue what all the acronyms mean....pretty colours though

[jimmyjimjim]

Nice. Getting on for a foot or so here now.

Just shoveled 1/2 the driveway, taking a break.

[NRS]

Most of this snow came in the last day or so. At least 1/2m if not more. It's unusually light snow for here (beside the coast so often it's a bit wetter) so was a great chance to use the powder skis. Having some issues in normal life though. Even the Norwegian road clearing system has been struggling at times, and when getting into the MX-5 the snow was deeper than the bottom of the doors so gets shoveled away when opening them! It just keeps coming.

[Roo]

There was a rerun of the programme on TV about the snow of 2009 yesterday. I now have a proper 4X4.

My wife wants to know when it's going to snow.

Puggitt?

[Puggit]

Roo said:

My wife wants to know when it's going to snow.

Probably around the same time she's next going to get lucky

[ali_kat]

schmalex said:

No. If you are south of about Newcastle, you wont need them until mid Jan at the very earliest.

The models are shocking this winter.

I am seriously considering binning our ski holiday over Christmas, as there is pretty much no chance of snow outside the arctic circle and North America at the moment.

I'm sorry mate

[Mr GrimNasty]

Looks like the Azores air might be a bit warmer and more persistent than thought earlier, some local temperature records almost certain to fall, national?

[Puggit]

Interesting charts for the period AFTER Christmas. Some fairly general agreement about a high setting up around Scandinavia. It's a fine line though whether this would bring us cold or heat, all down to the placement.

It might not happen, of course.

[MG CHRIS]

Roo said:

There was a rerun of the programme on TV about the snow of 2009 yesterday. I now have a proper 4X4.

My wife wants to know when it's going to snow.

Puggitt?

Yea I seen that 2 was still in school but that winter was pretty warm until that week and apart from the big front that hit first the snow melted pretty quickly during the days, my school was closed though for the week as we kept on having unexpected snow fall during the night which wasn't forecasted. When the week ended the snow melted quickly as was gone by the sunday.

2010 was a much worse winter my first winter being in a garage and it didn't go above 0c for pretty much the majority of December and snow was on the ground for the best part of the full month certainly well past x-mas anyway.
2013 was a bad one also for snow we in wales got issued with a red warning which is the first time ive ever seen a red warning my street and garden looked like this



it was even deeper on the mountains around us.

[leglessAlex]

Puggit said:

Interesting charts for the period AFTER Christmas. Some fairly general agreement about a high setting up around Scandinavia. It's a fine line though whether this would bring us cold or heat, all down to the placement.

It might not happen, of course.

So... Because there's a chance it might not happen, it's actually almost certain not to?

Out of interest, what did the charts say in 2010/2011 when there was a proper snowfall? As in, was it predicted as being very likely or was it one of these 'it might happen' kind of things that actually ended up happening?

[The Beaver King]

What the hell is going on with the temperature this year?

I have never known it this warm mid-December.

Are we doomed? Is snow a distant memory, like ice skating on the Thames?

[Puggit]

A friend in Asturias (northern Spain) has shown a pic on Facebook of his thermometer showing 35 degrees. I haven't verified!

This is very much powered by el Nino

[schmalex]

It's rubbish. I was looking at photos of the Austrian Alps and they are all green. There is just no cold anywhere in Western and Southern Europe.

Where the hell has all the cold gone?!?!?!?!