The windy winter and occasional snow thread 2017/2018

[anonymous-user]

When I left Macclesfield this morning the weather was foul. Wet, windy and cold - so I wore my heavy wool overcoat and thick socks (with a 3 piece suit)

fk me it's boiling down in EC3 - got a full sweat on walking between meetings.

[NRS]

anonymous said:

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Still talking about Scandinavian models?

[jmorgan]

Cold said:

Turns out it was actually a documentary.

Need the Water World film cover for S Wales.

[anonymous-user]

jmorgan said:

Need the Water World film cover for S Wales.

Twister for Kent

[Welshbeef]

It was gusty early PM in Reading but has totally died down now.

[Gretchen]

mikal83 said:

Puggit said:

Meanwhile, it's snowing in Florida...

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/arti...

A few years ago when driving to work, I heard a weird sound like sand being thrown at my windshield and saw tiny specks flying around.

Sleet.

I lived 1 hr north of Tampa!

I read this out at work. Ignorant colleague quipped ‘well yeah it’s really cold and bad in America’...

[Puggit]

anonymous said:

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All cancelled - normal false dawn from the models. Just a slight easterly for early next week, but certainly nothing out of the ordinary.

We had a bit of excitement and then totally lost it, as usual. Better than WindyCommon's 5 seconds of smug though

[p1stonhead]

Puggit said:

anonymous said:

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All cancelled - normal false dawn from the models. Just a slight easterly for early next week, but certainly nothing out of the ordinary.

We had a bit of excitement and then totally lost it, as usual. Better than WindyCommon's 5 seconds of smug though

So basically, no one knows what the weather will be until the day before at the earliest?

[MentalSarcasm]

Boo to those teasing Scandinavians, keeping all the cold to themselves.

[anonymous-user]

Puggit said:

All cancelled - normal false dawn from the models. Just a slight easterly for early next week, but certainly nothing out of the ordinary.

We had a bit of excitement and then totally lost it, as usual. Better than WindyCommon's 5 seconds of smug though

Agree, on all points

[DRFC1879]

When I was scraping ice off the car in November I thought we'd be in for a long, cold winter but it's shaping up to be yet another one with no snow whatsoever. No fun to be had.

[Puggit]

MentalSarcasm said:

Boo to those teasing Scandinavians, keeping all the cold to themselves.

Looks like the high will end up sitting over the Baltic states instead of over Scandinavia. So this means we miss out on the easterly wind, and the Atlantic gets a better look in on us. However, if the high was to shift west again (and I'm not saying it's on the cards), then it's game on again.

So, so near...

[stu67]

Right you lot, I need to know what the weather is doing next week;

I need to drive to Ireland from London next Friday 12th, return Sunday 14th (return my mum after her Christmas grand tour, this is important as she is now doing my head in love her). I'm then flying to NY on business on the Monday morning. If I had tried to do any of these things yesterday I wouldn't have stood a chance.

[tenohfive]

stu67 said:

Right you lot, I need to know what the weather is doing next week;

I need to drive to Ireland from London next Friday 12th, return Sunday 14th (return my mum after her Christmas grand tour, this is important as she is now doing my head in love her). I'm then flying to NY on business on the Monday morning. If I had tried to do any of these things yesterday I wouldn't have stood a chance.

A week away? Guess work this far out. And since this is Britain, guess rain and a bit windy and you'll be right 9 times out of 10.

[rustyuk]

Snow on the hills in the Peak District again today. Drove up to about 900m and there was thin covering, looked like an inch up top.

[Yipper]

DRFC1879 said:

When I was scraping ice off the car in November I thought we'd be in for a long, cold winter but it's shaping up to be yet another one with no snow whatsoever. No fun to be had.

Yeah, it looks like Winter is pretty much over for this year.

About another 4-6 weeks of rain and slightly-above-zero temps, and then Spring arrives.

Chances of a long, hard Winter in England and Wales (and most of Scotland) are now close to zero, due to global warming.

[tenohfive]

rustyuk said:

Snow on the hills in the Peak District again today. Drove up to about 900m and there was thin covering, looked like an inch up top.

I thought the highest point in the Peak District (Kinder Scout) was 636m up?

[Wobbegong]

Snow in mid Wales too

Woke to a dusting this morning near Cader Idris

[tedmus]

Wobbegong said:

Snow in mid Wales too

Woke to a dusting this morning near Cader Idris

Can you keep it there for a couple of weeks?

Off to a cottage in Tal-Y-Bont then, would be nice to have some snow there.

[rustyuk]

tenohfive said:

rustyuk said:

Snow on the hills in the Peak District again today. Drove up to about 900m and there was thin covering, looked like an inch up top.

I thought the highest point in the Peak District (Kinder Scout) was 636m up?

Sorry meant feet!!