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

[leglessAlex]

schmalex said:

I’m calling it. Proper snow and cold, countrywide, to arrive around 28 - 30 Jan. After the washout so far, winter will come all at once and really make itself felt with an easterly / nor-easterly blast

Is this based on anything other that pure, distilled, PH winter thread hope?

[Puggit]

leglessAlex said:

Is this based on anything other that pure, distilled, PH winter thread hope?

Best signs all winter for any cold. High pressure forms over the weekend, and it will be very strong. If it nudges in the right direction we could get a cold snap.

[MattOz]

Sold my winter wheels and tyres at the weekend. Snow is coming. Mark my words!

[Puggit]

Interesting to watch the bulge of water move down stream. Now hitting Theale, apparently road from Burghfield Common to Theale now closed.

Mrs Puggit uses that road to get to work

[Puggit]

Daily Express use jet stream wind map to tell the UK 150mph winds are coming <sigh>

https://twitter.com/liamdutton/status/121773052386...

[colin_p]

Puggit said:

Interesting to watch the bulge of water move down stream. Now hitting Theale, apparently road from Burghfield Common to Theale now closed.

Mrs Puggit uses that road to get to work

Well we are all right thanks to the Jubilee flood relief river.

Looking at the scrollable flood warning map;

https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/w...

There are orange warnings up and down stream. Decisions decisions on who controls the sluice gates for the Jubilee river, do they hold the deluge back and flood Cookham, Bourne End and Marlow or let it go and flood Datchet, Old Windsor, Wraysbury and Staines.

The huge flood plains around Maidenhead are now redundant and places that didn't flood do now or flood worse than they ever did.


Scrolling about; the Burgfield / Calcott area has a RED ALERT !

...And according to Netweather we (Maidenhead) and I can't see it being much different in 50 miles away in each direction are due to get almost 20mm of further rain today!

[Puggit]

Most of that red area is floodplain and is empty. But we're certainly feeling a little cut off.

Fortunately I had a meeting in SW London today so used Basingstoke station

Signs of some proper cold improving, but far from nailed on.

[JakeT]

colin_p said:

Scrolling about; the Burgfield / Calcott area has a RED ALERT !

Most of the area near Calcot is an old gravel pit that's now a lake anyway, so I think they'll be safe. Even in 2007 Calcot didn't flood badly, so I reckon they'll be fine. It's mainly roads near us that will be bad for it. Usually coming into the village there's some flooding, but only at the bottom of the hill, thankfully.

[NoddyonNitrous]

JakeT said:

Most of the area near Calcot is an old gravel pit that's now a lake anyway, so I think they'll be safe. Even in 2007 Calcot didn't flood badly, so I reckon they'll be fine. It's mainly roads near us that will be bad for it. Usually coming into the village there's some flooding, but only at the bottom of the hill, thankfully.

Is it just me............?

[PositronicRay]

NoddyonNitrous said:

JakeT said:

Most of the area near Calcot is an old gravel pit that's now a lake anyway, so I think they'll be safe. Even in 2007 Calcot didn't flood badly, so I reckon they'll be fine. It's mainly roads near us that will be bad for it. Usually coming into the village there's some flooding, but only at the bottom of the hill, thankfully.

Is it just me............?

[Puggit]

Interesting charts tonight - pointing towards a Greenland High in around 10 days. Farrrrr too early to get excited...

[Bill]

Puggit said:

Farrrrr too early to get excited...

That won't stop us!

[rossub]

Was biblical driving home tonight in Aberdeenshire - really heavy driving rain. Was glad of the old Forester through the country lanes.

[mintybiscuit]

PositronicRay said:

NoddyonNitrous said:

JakeT said:

Most of the area near Calcot is an old gravel pit that's now a lake anyway, so I think they'll be safe. Even in 2007 Calcot didn't flood badly, so I reckon they'll be fine. It's mainly roads near us that will be bad for it. Usually coming into the village there's some flooding, but only at the bottom of the hill, thankfully.

Is it just me............?

Has to be top comment of the day !!

[popeyewhite]

rossub said:

Was biblical driving home tonight in Aberdeenshire - really heavy driving rain..

You mean you had rainfall of biblical proportions? Or do you mean your drive was similar to a drive documented in the Bible?

Sorry, misuse of 'biblical' is a pet hate, and I couldn't help myself.

[Puggit]

After 7 hours of constant rain it is now absolutely chucking it down. Have to cross the Kennet to go and collect my daughter from scouts. Hope I still can

[FiF]

Puggit said:

Interesting charts tonight - pointing towards a Greenland High in around 10 days. Farrrrr too early to get excited...

chart predicting almost record breaking high pressure.



Record 1053.6 in 1902

[J4CKO]

FiF said:

chart predicting almost record breaking high pressure.



Record 1053.6 in 1902

Looking forward to the build up, fever pitch, downgrade then 2c and drizzle

2c being the UKs ratified temperature, bd freezing when combined with rain, as cold as it can go without anything interesting happening.

[schmalex]

I was in Taiwan last week. It was 28c and beautiful sunshine. I’ll be in Tokyo next week. It’ll be 6c and pissing down.

I’m bored to the back teeth of 6c and rain

[eharding]

FiF said:

Puggit said:

Interesting charts tonight - pointing towards a Greenland High in around 10 days. Farrrrr too early to get excited...

chart predicting almost record breaking high pressure.



Record 1053.6 in 1902

I think there are still a lot of aircraft altimeters around which have an upper scale setting of 1050 hPa. Things could get interesting if sea-level pressure exceeds that - I've seen references to authorities in the US being close to grounding all aircraft incapable of an altimeter setting above 1050 during spells in exceptionally high pressure in Alaska.