The official winter 2016/2017 snow thread....

[jimmyjimjim]

Puggit said:

You'll need to take a time lapse...

Dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, white.

Not that exciting

[Puggit]

Mixed bag...

The models are still really struggling. Long term forecasts keep pitching the idea of blocking somewhere north of the UK, but the reality is the only high pressure so far has sat over Europe, feeding us miserable cloud and warmth.

The Atlantic looks to wake up a little in the run up to Xmas, and there is evidence of a strong storm due around the 23rd/24th. This could bring a temporary snowy outlook for much of the UK, washed away with plenty of wind and rain.

[Blib]

jimmyjimjim said:

Puggit said:

You'll need to take a time lapse...

Dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, white.

Not that exciting

You selfish bd.

[Puggit]

5 years ago I was complaining about this much snow:



We haven't had this much snow for 3 or 4 years!

[funkyrobot]

Puggit said:

Mixed bag...

The models are still really struggling. Long term forecasts keep pitching the idea of blocking somewhere north of the UK, but the reality is the only high pressure so far has sat over Europe, feeding us miserable cloud and warmth.

The Atlantic looks to wake up a little in the run up to Xmas, and there is evidence of a strong storm due around the 23rd/24th. This could bring a temporary snowy outlook for much of the UK, washed away with plenty of wind and rain.

A storm.

Bah!

I did wonder the other day if it would be stormy at Christmas. Been very quiet so far.

[Puggit]

funkyrobot said:

A storm.

Bah!

I did wonder the other day if it would be stormy at Christmas. Been very quiet so far.

The storm, as it's currently modeled, would drag cooler air in from the NW. It brings the chance of a white Christmas (by the betting definition) in to play.

Xmas Day is unlikely to be warm, but not frozen either.

[Mr GrimNasty]

Puggit said:

5 years ago I was complaining about this much snow:



We haven't had this much snow for 3 or 4 years!

Currently several mainstream forecasts showing hail/sleet showers possible around 21st, wooooooo hoooooooo wooooooooo whooooo - forget it!

[fttm]

Currently sat at minus 32c , windchill -46 . By Monday it should be minus 4 then rising which isn't good , forecasting some 0's for later in the week which will screw the roads up .Hey ho
Edit , no winter tyres either so we're going to die ,send help

Edited by fttm on Saturday 17th December 06:29

[jimmyjimjim]

Blib said:

jimmyjimjim said:

Puggit said:

You'll need to take a time lapse...

Dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, white.

Not that exciting

You selfish bd.

I was mildly tempted to set up a webcam pointed out the window, but couldn't find a free streaming service that wouldn't kill my bandwidth.
Has to be something out there that only has the one connection to a server, which everyone one else then connects to.

Edited by jimmyjimjim on Saturday 17th December 06:42

[Bill]

I've just realised I killed the cold snap - I've got a new car and just discovered the button that warms the screen under the wipers and d efrosts the washer jets.

I only got to use it once.

[Puggit]

Bill said:

I've just realised I killed the cold snap - I've got a new car and just discovered the button that warms the screen under the wipers and d efrosts the washer jets.

I only got to use it once.

Not much scope going forward either. North American east coast going in the freezer means the jet stream is cranking up. Atlantic weather for us for the foreseeable future.

[NRS]

jimmyjimjim said:

Puggit said:

You'll need to take a time lapse...

Dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, white.

Not that exciting

More exciting than here where it's dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark for 2 months or so!

[Bill]

Puggit said:

Not much scope going forward either. North American east coast going in the freezer means the jet stream is cranking up. Atlantic weather for us for the foreseeable future.

Does it look like the storm conveyor belt, or just a bit warmer and damp?

[Puggit]

Bill said:

Does it look like the storm conveyor belt, or just a bit warmer and damp?

More of a mixed bag. But there are storms modelled. One particularly just before Xmas. More aligned to the NW than us down in the South.

[Misaps]

Bill said:

I've just realised I killed the cold snap - I've got a new car and just discovered the button that warms the screen under the wipers and d efrosts the washer jets.

I only got to use it once.

I think I killed winter a few years ago; after a particularly bad spell of snow and having to clear a drive way of about 600 metres long I went out and bought a fancy snow blower. Barely a frost seen since 🤔

[Bill]

Puggit said:

More of a mixed bag. But there are storms modelled. One particularly just before Xmas. More aligned to the NW than us down in the South.

Better than 2 years ago when our solid stone/rubble walls were so wet water was coming out of the window lintels.

[Bill]

Misaps said:

I think I killed winter a few years ago; after a particularly bad spell of snow and having to clear a drive way of about 600 metres long I went out and bought a fancy snow blower. Barely a frost seen since ??

I won't feel so bad about replacing a Landy with a Subaru then.

[Puggit]

Bill said:

Better than 2 years ago when our solid stone/rubble walls were so wet water was coming out of the window lintels.

And we lost all 3 back fences. Managed to get the last fence posts for miles around and someone to fix the fence on Boxing Day!

[road hog]

SNOW BOMB: Wall of SNOW to SMASH UK as deadly blizzards hit in COLDEST freeze for 53 YEARS

as reported in paper ????

any possibility or will it be another no snowshow year ?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/742699/Snow-...

[PRTVR]

road hog said:

SNOW BOMB: Wall of SNOW to SMASH UK as deadly blizzards hit in COLDEST freeze for 53 YEARS

as reported in paper ????

any possibility or will it be another no snowshow year ?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/742699/Snow-...

I always think with their headlines that that work on the principal that at some point they will be right.