The wet and windy, with occasional snow, 2021/2022 thread

[Puggit]

Moving the 24 hour period, Honiston has now seen almost 31cm in 24 hours. Record there is 34cm back in 2015 (Storm Desmond).

[Puggit]

RicksAlfas said:

Not with Colin's heat/heart condition!

Hea(r)t ?

[Puggit]

Storm Apollo has formed in the Med - displaying tropical storm/hurricane characteristics.

[Puggit]

Interesting tweet, from someone who does not ramp cold... https://twitter.com/MattHugo81/status/145507095753...

Translation. Greenland high, Scandi low... cold and precipitous...

[Puggit]

Torro have tracked all the events caused by a meso-low yesterday. There was a small area of low pressure that tracked across the country - looked like a hook on the radar.



You can see it just about to hit the south coast below. Winds of 60-80mph were briefly caused locally as it passed.

[Puggit]

Scabutz said:

Gentlemen, start your disappointment engines.

Cold and precipitous could well mean cold rain. Words were chosen carefully

[Puggit]

Evoluzione said:

How low did you go? 3'c here last night.

Zero in West Berks. We often hit lowest temp in early stages of winter. Suspect it's the distance from the sea...

[Puggit]

Scabutz said:

Gentlemen, start your disappointment engines.

I hope they are still running. Strengthening signs for blocking high pressure to bring a cool or cold northerly as we get in to mid-November

[Puggit]

snowandrocks said:

There seems to have been a shortage of northerlies over the past few years, growing up our road would be blocked each winter by drifting snow blown in from the north but it hasn't happened for ages.

We've had plenty of drifting snow but seemingly always from other directions.

They happen a lot - just not during winter

[Puggit]

Just came in to post about Wanda - she's coming for a visit, shaped like a....

[Puggit]

Brrrr - West Berks coldest as usual!

[Puggit]

Susie Dent said:

Word of the day, once again, is ‘apricity’ (17th century): the warmth of the sun in winter.

Problem is, it's autumn

https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/145655019826...

[Puggit]

[Puggit]

Toasty

[Puggit]

Do you know that I knew Roy?

[Puggit]

Scabutz said:

Saw a brief telegraph article about gas shortages and a polar vortex causing trouble for UK.

I couldn't work out if the vortex was a if this happens we're buggered, or the the problem was that it was going to happen and possible gas shortages meant we're buggered.

Any stirrings in the weather tea leaves?

The GFS has occasional flutters with a cold spell at a long time frame. Not worth reposting as it has no support from itself - it changes back to normal, and the ensembles don't support it - and no support from other models.

(Ensembles are where they take the starting point of weather data, then tweak a tiny bit, see where it ends up - they make 20-30 of them. If the main forecast has over 50% support in the ensembles, it is far more likely).

[Puggit]

colin_p said:

Go on.....

Tell us all about it.

I went to school with his son, Ben, they lived nearby. Shared the occasional lift to school. If he came across as a lovely person on TV, the real Roy Castle was even better than that. One of the best people who ever lived.

[Puggit]

colin_p said:

Back to the weather, it is drizzling here in East Berkshire, North Maidenhead out towards Cookham to be precise, not too worried about that. But am more interested in what it will be like tomorrow when all of our chattels are in a lorry or two going up the M1 to a village quite close to Chesterfield?

Today is the worst day in the current short term forecast. It won't get much better sunshine wise, but it will be drier.

[Puggit]

Good luck with the move to the North, Colin. Now us southerners can get on with a hot summer without feeling guilty

[Puggit]

Scabutz said:

Half way through November and still got the summer duvet on and I think I can count on two hands the number of times the heating has been on.

Keeping an eye towards the last week of Nov. Potential northerly.