The windy winter and occasional snow thread 2017/2018

[fttm]

Grudgingly doffs cap to the mighty Yipper

[cptsideways]

Still wintry in the Scottish Alps Glencoe on the weekend

[Bill]

A stopped clock is right twice a day.






And he's a lot less reliable than that.

[J4CKO]

Spring is on its way, it wasnt raining, even saw the sun and it wasnt properly dark until 4.45 !

[MentalSarcasm]

Agree about the sun shining, but it was still very chilly outside, even in the sun! I'm hoping that the 27th wasn't my last snow for this winter

[Bill]

Yep, barely scraped 5°c here all day.

[Battlewagon]

Is there any chance at all we'll end up getting just a taste of the North American snow fall? how long does it usually take for a weather system that large to cross the Atlantic.

[Wills2]

Battlewagon said:

Is there any chance at all we'll end up getting just a taste of the North American snow fall? how long does it usually take for a weather system that large to cross the Atlantic.

Not long but the weather systems warm up over the Atlantic and we get wind and rain instead.

[ASA569]

Bill said:

Yep, barely scraped 5°c here all day.

It's currently -5°C here - north of Aberdeen

[Yipper]

Some good skiing at the English ski resorts at the moment.

[fttm]

You've had your moment of glory here Yipper , don't get carried away . Bugger off to annoy another thread please

[NRS]

J4CKO said:

Spring is on its way, it wasnt raining, even saw the sun and it wasnt properly dark until 4.45 !

[Cold]

The Sahara received a temporary covering of snow over the weekend. It was confined to the Ain Sefra area of Algeria in the north but was noteworthy for being only the third time in forty years that the desert has had snow.



Indie link to their gallery

[J4CKO]

NRS said:

J4CKO said:

Spring is on its way, it wasnt raining, even saw the sun and it wasnt properly dark until 4.45 !

It is here in Cheshire, can see the bulbs coming up !

[IroningMan]

J4CKO said:

It is here in Cheshire, can see the bulbs coming up !

Cheshire has its own microclimate - it's all the tanning booths.

[Puggit]

Cold said:

The Sahara received a temporary covering of snow over the weekend. It was confined to the Ain Sefra area of Algeria in the north but was noteworthy for being only the third time in forty years that the desert has had snow.



Indie link to their gallery

Beat me to it!

https://twitter.com/magteam_/status/95071439173710...

[Puggit]

Bit odd with the weather at the moment. The massive block of high pressure to our east is too far east to be of any use to create cold. However, there are signs that there will be cold weather next week, but from a polar maritime source. Usually snow is confined to the hills. So for the rest of us it would be miserably cold rain.

Tentative signals for a sudden stratospheric warming in the future, so this could bring really cold weather to us - or as usual with this kind of event, it could sink south over Russia or N America!

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

Lovely day in Oxford. Sunny, quite mild etc.

[SeeFive]

Did a return trip from Pompey to Manchester yesterday in Mrs seefive’s white car. Yuk weather meant it looked like it had just finished a forest special stage when I saw it in daylight this morning!

But today in Pompey is bright and warm, so a bucket of Megs and hot water and all is fine again.

[PositronicRay]

Mild but foggy turning to misty now foggy again