The wet and windy, with occasional snow, 2019/2020 thread

[Puggit]

Hmmm - what happens if it snows on election day? ECM chart beginning to move towards what the GFS already pointed out. Although the GFS is the most-often wrong chat! Current forecast (which will change) is for widespread snow across the Central Belt and Borders on the 12th.

Looks like it will be a cold one, anyway!

Edited by Puggit on Tuesday 3rd December 08:48

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Some utterly ridiculous snow porn for you - 10 days out, so will not verify...

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There was chaotic snow in Brighton within the lifetime of this thread and its predecessors. Buses were failing on the hills. I remember it...

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The atmospheric patterns are VERY different to the norm. Which will make any downgrade even harder to stomach

[Puggit]

A word of warning. The UKMO model is often the party pooper, and it isn't any where near as cold friendly this time: https://twitter.com/MattHugo81/status/120190249373...

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Scabutz said:

I know little of these things , but he said earlier that it was a very strange pattern that he hadn't seen before, so room for some strange behaviour the models arent equipped for maybe??? Or is that just wishful thinking

Very sensible thinking. Models are programmed by humans to do what humans have experience of.

[Puggit]

6 hours later that 56cm of snow has evaporated.

Or should that be sublimed?

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Annnnd for the Nth time, the UKMO wins... (probably)

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Celtic Dragon said:

Noooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

We.Want.Snow!!!!

Just to clarify, we've stepped back from the amazing charts. We're still on the edge of something cold, with plenty of time for 'upgrades' (and downgrades)

[Puggit]

What a difference 24 hours make - stormy and wet now becoming the form horse!

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JakeT said:

Puggit and Schmalex, is it just mega foggy for the two of you?

I'm amazed how bad it is Pangbourne way. Haven't seen it this bad in a long while.

Was earlier - beautiful starry night up on the hill

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colin_p said:

Puggit said:

What a difference 24 hours make - stormy and wet now becoming the form horse!

When is it due?

This weekend is beginning to look a little friuty

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colin_p said:

Is that tooty frooty, au routy with plenty of wop-bop-a-loo-mop alop-bam-boom

or

Frooty smoothy


I assume I am using the correct technical weather terminology?

Red wind levels on the forecast map fruity.

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Dr Doofenshmirtz said:

Any news on this snow we were promised at the end of the week? It’s just going to be drizzle isn’t it?

Nope, it's not going to drizzle. Tonight's weather has a name

[Puggit]

Half the (tasteful) Christmas lights along the gutter have detached from the gutter. The other half rolled up in to the gutter!

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RTB said:

Some talk of a few wintry showers over the hills up here in the Peak District in the next few days. Nothing to cause any problems but it makes it feel a bit more like winter.

My eldest son is on a 5 day outward bound residential thing this week. He's going to be rock climbing, abseiling and river scrambling over the next few days. I don't think the temperature is going to be more than a degree or 2 above freezing. It'll certainly be a change from playing fortnite

Oof - just came in to talk about Friday. Another Atlantic gale, with quite a northerly component to it. Blizzards are a real possibility up high, up north. Currently snow even modeled for South Downs, Chilterns etc for brief periods.

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Totally me

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Digga said:

O/T

True story. Me and three of my mates were camped at about 1,500ft in the Lakes doing our Duke of Edinburgh Silver expedition when Hurricane an extratropical cyclone, previously associated with Hurricane Charley hit.

Fixed that for you

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Digga said:

I can confirm the Peapod, that me and one of the lads were camped in, which twice tried to turn itself inside out during the night, is not a good tent for those conditions.

I have no doubt at all

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S100HP said:

So what happened to the 5 million ft of snow forecast for Thursday then?

It got blown away by Atiyah, Brendan and whatever C will be