The windy winter and occasional snow thread 2017/2018
Discussion
king chaos. Once in a lifetime was quite enough.popeyewhite said:
Yipper said:
...As Puggit hints, some of the latest charts are indicating most of the UK will get absolutely walloped next week. Perhaps 20-30cm due around the Midlands...
Have we really come to the point we consider 20-30cms a walloping? It's less than a foot isn't it? We've had around that 3/4 times so far this winter in High Peak and life barely notices. Must do better. Battlewagon said:
The black line shows the average of all the models, the bottom right panel shows the probability of falling snow.
Top left search for your own location
http://wxcharts.eu/?panel=default&model=gfs,gf...
Yipper said:
Due to global warming, snowfall in England and Wales has declined by 50-90% during the past 30-50 years, so anything that dumps more than 15cm / 6in is now a major and rare event.
Not up here it's not. Whilst it's true we've had no major snow in Macc/Bux for some years, there have been a number of occasions in the last 5 when we've had over 6". It's snowed here 4/5 times so far this season. We often get over 12" on the moors, and that's not drift. The difference between recent years and, say, 30 years ago is we used to get feet and in town it might stay on the ground for weeks. More than a week is quite rare now, and last occurred a few years ago. So far this season compares quite well with an average winter 30-50 years ago.
Just popped out for a oil radiator, just incase heating can't cope/stop her moaning.
Looked online prior and as you would expect lots of places sold out for anything decent with a timer, so if anyone else needs one - look at Maplins and Homebase who seem to have stock. I got a black coloured one from the latter which makes a change from the normal white ones.
Looked online prior and as you would expect lots of places sold out for anything decent with a timer, so if anyone else needs one - look at Maplins and Homebase who seem to have stock. I got a black coloured one from the latter which makes a change from the normal white ones.
popeyewhite said:
Yipper said:
Due to global warming, snowfall in England and Wales has declined by 50-90% during the past 30-50 years, so anything that dumps more than 15cm / 6in is now a major and rare event.
Not up here it's not. Whilst it's true we've had no major snow in Macc/Bux for some years, there have been a number of occasions in the last 5 when we've had over 6". It's snowed here 4/5 times so far this season. We often get over 12" on the moors, and that's not drift. The difference between recent years and, say, 30 years ago is we used to get feet and in town it might stay on the ground for weeks. More than a week is quite rare now, and last occurred a few years ago. So far this season compares quite well with an average winter 30-50 years ago.Manchester, for example, used to get 20-30 days of snowfall per year in 1950 to 1990. Now, it averages 5-10 days at most.
Britain's most southerly "ski resort", at a golf club in Northamptonshire, has recently closed down its two rope-lifts because it never snows enough anymore and they don't get used.
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