The Official Winter Snow Thread 2014/2015

The Official Winter Snow Thread 2014/2015

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Puggit

48,354 posts

247 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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NRS said:
It better not be the first, we need snow!!!
Your part of the world might be seeing a lot of snow around Feb 1st

And some severe cold


Edited by Puggit on Friday 23 January 18:45

Evoluzione

10,345 posts

242 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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Although only just South West of Leeds I'm quite high up (can see across the valley to the Pennines) and when I had trouble getting out of this:



In the daily shed I had a root around in the workshop and found these:



I'd picked them up for good money for use on a rainy (track) day, but never used them so on they went:



They don't look bad on actually and gave some much needed grip in the soft stuff, I want this threat of snow to go as they're bloody noisy and the pair worth more than the car itself!

NRS

22,079 posts

200 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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It's best to have the tyres with the most grip on the back wheels, otherwise the control will be impacted a lot, particularly in snowy and icy conditions.

Puggit said:
NRS said:
It better not be the first, we need snow!!!
Your part of the world might be seeing a lot of snow around Feb 1st

And some severe cold


Edited by Puggit on Friday 23 January 18:45
bounce

Cold is no problem! There's not bad weather, just bad clothes, wink

Gretchen

18,997 posts

215 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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There's been some pretty frosty mornings in the past couple of weeks, inc Friday morning





Just iPhone photos, no app or filter etc.



MentalSarcasm

6,083 posts

210 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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Gretchen said:
There's been some pretty frosty mornings in the past couple of weeks, inc Friday morning
Aaah those photos remind me of winters at home cloud9 I really hope I'm out of London and back in the countryside by the end of this year, I don't think I can stand another London winter after this frown

beko1987

1,636 posts

133 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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A sunny morning with no frost, and only a few clouds in the sky in thame.

I'm dissapointed...

Blib

43,791 posts

196 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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MentalSarcasm said:
Aaah those photos remind me of winters at home cloud9 I really hope I'm out of London and back in the countryside by the end of this year, I don't think I can stand another London winter after this frown
Get yourself to Richmond Park early in the morning. Especially on a frosty day. It was glorious there earlier today.

Puggit

48,354 posts

247 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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beko1987 said:
A sunny morning with no frost, and only a few clouds in the sky in thame.

I'm dissapointed...
Frost in West Berks - still the coldest place tongue out

Puggit

48,354 posts

247 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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This is the setup we're looking at, starting next week... Bitterly cold winds straight from the north, low pressure to the East, high pressure building in the Atlantic and ridging up towards Greenland - switching off the Atlantic conveyor.

We're pretty much assured of cold and high winds at this point - MetOffice are already warning of this. Snow is not assured, but as throughout this winter so far, it's Scotland and the NW - particularly on hills, that will benefit most if it arrives. The South could miss out, yet again...

As before, it's not certain at this point - but there is broad support across the models for something like this to happen. Likely starting period is this Thursday and maybe lasting up to a week.


Puggit

48,354 posts

247 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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kapiteinlangzaam said:
Almost had a whiteout for a while.

Yay, winter at last, even if only for a morning....[/URL]
I'd seen it on the charts, but forgot to post it for you - still the SE of the UK struggles on snowless frown

Blaster72

10,772 posts

196 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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Puggit said:
This is the setup we're looking at, starting next week... Bitterly cold winds straight from the north, low pressure to the East, high pressure building in the Atlantic and ridging up towards Greenland - switching off the Atlantic conveyor.

We're pretty much assured of cold and high winds at this point - MetOffice are already warning of this. Snow is not assured, but as throughout this winter so far, it's Scotland and the NW - particularly on hills, that will benefit most if it arrives. The South could miss out, yet again...

As before, it's not certain at this point - but there is broad support across the models for something like this to happen. Likely starting period is this Thursday and maybe lasting up to a week.

What do the colours represent?

Puggit

48,354 posts

247 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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Blaster72 said:
What do the colours represent?
They indicate the temperatures in the troposphere - the area of the atmosphere where weather is made. Purple is extremely cold, blue is cold - moving up to the warmer colours. It doesn't necessarily correlate exactly to surface temperatures, but is a good indicator - it also helps to understand if it will snow or not.

For example, if it's warm up there and zero degrees at the ground level, you're more likely to get freezing rain. Yet it can be 4 degrees on the ground, cold up there and it will snow. Other factors, ie dew point, come in to play also.

Generally, dark blue = certain snow (if there is precipitation), light blue = wintry showers (ie might snow/sleet/rain), anything else = rain.

It's actually more complicated than that, but that's the easiest way of explaining it. It's all to do with the pressure at a certain point, but pressure is related directly to temperature wink

Edited by Puggit on Saturday 24th January 10:09

Puggit

48,354 posts

247 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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The biggest danger for the upcoming pattern is that if the high pressure builds slightly further East, the UK will end up with warm weather instead of cold - this happened earlier this winter, and is quite a well known feature of the weather charts frown

ApOrbital

9,939 posts

117 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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Evoluzione said:
Although only just South West of Leeds I'm quite high up (can see across the valley to the Pennines) and when I had trouble getting out of this:



In the daily shed I had a root around in the workshop and found these:



I'd picked them up for good money for use on a rainy (track) day, but never used them so on they went:




Nice car i want one smile

They don't look bad on actually and gave some much needed grip in the soft stuff, I want this threat of snow to go as they're bloody noisy and the pair worth more than the car itself!

5potTurbo

12,481 posts

167 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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kapiteinlangzaam said:
Puggit said:
kapiteinlangzaam said:
Almost had a whiteout for a while.

Yay, winter at last, even if only for a morning....[/URL]
I'd seen it on the charts, but forgot to post it for you - still the SE of the UK struggles on snowless frown
Trusty WeatherPro has had it pinned on all week.

Dutch National Weather Service had a warning out for a bit of wet snow / ice - fair to say they ballsed that one up.
Surprising amount so far in Luxembourg today, too. RTL didn't have any snow expected on their forecast, BBC did! hehe
Snowplough's just been around our site and ruined my sliding the car fun for later, the git. wink

MentalSarcasm

6,083 posts

210 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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Blib said:
MentalSarcasm said:
Aaah those photos remind me of winters at home cloud9 I really hope I'm out of London and back in the countryside by the end of this year, I don't think I can stand another London winter after this frown
Get yourself to Richmond Park early in the morning. Especially on a frosty day. It was glorious there earlier today.
Got too much to do this weekend so I popped over to Kew Gardens for a stroll instead. Various puddles, ponds and lakes are either frozen or partially frozen, and the paths are a bit of an ice rink in places too.

Hopefully will have less on next weekend so if it's still this cold and chilly then then I'll head over to Richmond Park for a wander.

Blaster72

10,772 posts

196 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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Puggit said:
Blaster72 said:
What do the colours represent?
They indicate the temperatures in the troposphere - the area of the atmosphere where weather is made. Purple is extremely cold, blue is cold - moving up to the warmer colours. It doesn't necessarily correlate exactly to surface temperatures, but is a good indicator - it also helps to understand if it will snow or not.

For example, if it's warm up there and zero degrees at the ground level, you're more likely to get freezing rain. Yet it can be 4 degrees on the ground, cold up there and it will snow. Other factors, ie dew point, come in to play also.

Generally, dark blue = certain snow (if there is precipitation), light blue = wintry showers (ie might snow/sleet/rain), anything else = rain.

It's actually more complicated than that, but that's the easiest way of explaining it. It's all to do with the pressure at a certain point, but pressure is related directly to temperature wink

Edited by Puggit on Saturday 24th January 10:09
Brilliant explanation, ta very much for taking the time. beer

Evoluzione

10,345 posts

242 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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ApOrbital said:
Nice car I want one smile
It's a 16vt and quite a good one at that, also very rare to find one in that colour. TBH I bought it very riskily (Ebay auction); pretty much unseen and because I liked the colour nono
I would say to you 'buy it', but it's now insured until Nov so will look to get rid then if you're still interested. After i'd bought it I got it up on the lift, I was surprised at how solid it was so decided to run it and it's been with me just over a year now, i've pretty much ironed out all it's faults and enjoy driving it.
Sorry for thread derailment!

RicksAlfas

13,355 posts

243 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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Warmed up yesterday, but it's felt cold today. We had a light dusting of snow overnight, and there's still plenty on the moors:



Does mean the car parks are quiet. Wonder where all those circles came from??? whistle


NRS

22,079 posts

200 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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Alien snowcircles I imagine, wink

Got held up on the way skiing today. British army is over here doing their winter training currently.