The wet and windy, with occasional snow, 2018/2019 thread

[rossub]

Saw -7c register on my car this morning on the outskirts of Aberdeen. Still only 1c at mid-day.

[Puggit]

Looks like MetO agrees!

[RicksAlfas]

I don't care as long as it stops raining.

[xcseventy]

First 3 days of the week were pretty cold up here (Glasgow) but what made it really interesting was the rain that fell onto the ice, making roads and pavements like a bloody ice rink! Still, this was Tuesday morning up Ben Lomond:


Currently rain and around 5 degrees.

Next week is looking superb, full sun, hovering around zero all week.

[Stan the Bat]

Nice pic

[colin_p]

colin_p said:

With absolutely no knowledge at all except thinking about a sprig of imaginary magic seaweed nailed to a stick, my prediction is;

More and more warm, wet and windy and Sommerset underwater by Boxing day. (The Sommerset bit might not happen and the warm, wet and windy might not happen either).

The magic seaweed still says "rain-a-maggeddon and nearly as warm as a typical summer".

Puggit, is the Atlantic going to continue to slay beasts from the East? Just watched the weather on the BBC news and it is as the magic seaweed above, very wet indeed.

[Scabutz]

colin_p said:

The magic seaweed still says "rain-a-maggeddon and nearly as warm as a typical summer".

Puggit, is the Atlantic going to continue to slay beasts from the East? Just watched the weather on the BBC news and it is as the magic seaweed above, very wet indeed.

Was the same this time last year. Grey, mild, wet. Booooooring

[deckster]

Scabutz said:

colin_p said:

The magic seaweed still says "rain-a-maggeddon and nearly as warm as a typical summer".

Puggit, is the Atlantic going to continue to slay beasts from the East? Just watched the weather on the BBC news and it is as the magic seaweed above, very wet indeed.

Was the same this time last year. Grey, mild, wet. Booooooring

Certainly was not. Second weekend of December last year I was stuck on the M1 in a blizzard.

[Scabutz]

deckster said:

Certainly was not. Second weekend of December last year I was stuck on the M1 in a blizzard.

Oh. Don't remember that. I was training for something and doing long cycle rides and all remember was the rain.

[MentalSarcasm]

Last year on 10 December my corner of Essex had snow (had to go back and look at the photos I took on my phone to check the day).

[colin_p]

deckster said:

Scabutz said:

colin_p said:

The magic seaweed still says "rain-a-maggeddon and nearly as warm as a typical summer".

Puggit, is the Atlantic going to continue to slay beasts from the East? Just watched the weather on the BBC news and it is as the magic seaweed above, very wet indeed.

Was the same this time last year. Grey, mild, wet. Booooooring

Certainly was not. Second weekend of December last year I was stuck on the M1 in a blizzard.

I remember it as well, it even snowed here in the normally sub-tropical Thames Valley. It snowed again in late Dec, very rare. The Atlantic was most certainly on holiday last Winter, in fact most of this year with that horrible summer we have just had.

[Mr-B]

Was looking at photos the other day on my phone and 10th December in the Midlands there was pretty deep snow around. Another similar load at the beginning of March too.

[Cold]

Soggy. Today is soggy.

[carinatauk]

Cold said:

Soggy. Today is soggy.

It's that soggy that dogs won't go outside, until they are desperate.

[S100HP]

carinatauk said:

Cold said:

Soggy. Today is soggy.

It's that soggy that dogs won't go outside, until they are desperate.

Two of mine wouldn't get up. The third happily had his rain coat put on, stuck his nose outside then buggered off back to his bed. It is grim.

[Puggit]

No good news at the is point really. The cold northerly and easterly winds have watered down. At least the Atlantic will be quieter for a short period.

As always, plenty of hopeful signs for the mid-future, but they keep getting pushed back. We're at the point now of losing a cold/white Xmas, for the usual warm wet, brown/green guff.



Usually when I throw in the towel, within 24 hours we're staring down the barrel of a severe cold spell - here's hoping

[Paul Dishman]

colin_p said:

I remember it as well, it even snowed here in the normally sub-tropical Thames Valley. It snowed again in late Dec, very rare. The Atlantic was most certainly on holiday last Winter, in fact most of this year with that horrible summer we have just had.

We’ve had a fabulous summer, dry sunny and hot.
I hate cold weather

Edited by Paul Dishman on Friday 7th December 15:28

[Nigel_O]

One year ago today, I slithered across to north Wales in my Alfa GT with my son for some winter photography. You can see in the tracks behind the car that underside was scraping the snow - great day out

Alfa in the snow by Nigel Ogram, on Flickr

Northwest view from the south shore of Lake Vyrnwy by Nigel Ogram, on Flickr

[schmalex]

^^^ belting photographs

[MentalSarcasm]

So the Atlantic is what's blocking our cold? What is it that makes it stop blocking it? XD (I'm sure I ask this every year but I can never remember all the different set ups and what they cause)