The official summer sun, optimism and thunder thread 2022

[jimmyjimjim]

fttm said:

We’re lucky to get past Halloween without it, no $10 for you .

Halloween is usually just bd cold here.

[fttm]

……and so it begins , sigh . In Selkirk Manitoba Canada tonight , day was sunny plus 20C then as the afternoon wore on in got darker windier and colder . Forecast is for minus 1 with flurries overnight into tomorrow with a high of 5 . Plus side , will be home for Canadian Thanksgiving on Monday where we’re looking at sunny and 22 .

[jimmyjimjim]

Still sunny and warm during the days here - and due to be 24c next week. Evenings are very autumnal at last, and the leaves are finally turning yellow and red. Forecast is incredibly changeable; next week had a daytime low of 14c at one point, no where near that now.

[Riley Blue]

Where'd the winter thread go? I could have sworn I'd seen one.

It's 5.6 outside in Chesterfield at the moment but a snuggly warm 16 in here.

Bring on the snow, it's been a while (12 years) since we had a decent amount.

[Evoluzione]

Riley Blue said:

Where'd the winter thread go? I could have sworn I'd seen one.

It's 5.6 outside in Chesterfield at the moment but a snuggly warm 16 in here.

Bring on the snow, it's been a while (12 years) since we had a decent amount.

You forgot last November then?

[twohoursfromlondon]

Just back from a trip to Malta & Gozo, contrasting the beautiful weather there (high 20’s) with what we have here..

[Bill]

Perfect day here, not a cloud in the sky and next to no wind. I'm outside in a t-shirt.

[spikeyhead]

The weather has been good enough for me to take the Atom to Tesco when shopping this morning.

[Riley Blue]

Evoluzione said:

Riley Blue said:

Where'd the winter thread go? I could have sworn I'd seen one.

It's 5.6 outside in Chesterfield at the moment but a snuggly warm 16 in here.

Bring on the snow, it's been a while (12 years) since we had a decent amount.

You forgot last November then?

In Chesterfield we had an inch and a half between 3:20 and 8:00 on November 27th and more during the afternoon the following day. It had thawed by lunch time.

I don't think it was until early January that we had any more.

[TeaNoSugar]

Riley Blue said:

Where'd the winter thread go? I could have sworn I'd seen one.

It's 5.6 outside in Chesterfield at the moment but a snuggly warm 16 in here.

Bring on the snow, it's been a while (12 years) since we had a decent amount.

Yes I saw the winter thread but it disappeared again.

12 years ago was the “legendary” 2010 winter. I had a selfie from that winter when I was running just below Stanage edge with a snow drift behind me that had been cut out to open up the road between Scotsman’s Pack and Burgage Bridge upper. It was about 15ft high but nobody believes me. I don’t have the photo any more but it was that big. Honest!

Also, Feb ‘21 had a few really decent falls of snow over the space of 4 or 5 days. A good 4-6in just up the road in Sheffield.



That was from 8th Feb 2021 - the last of 3 decent snowfalls over the previous week. The black thing in the foreground is my Sprocker spaniel. He loves the snow, it sends him mad!!

[Bill]

Cold here this morning I thought, in sight of the sea. 7.5°c... Saw 1°c in the car a few miles inland.

[HappyMidget]

Iced up car windows here in Reading at about half 7 this morning.

[jimmyjimjim]

24c in Colorado today. Nighttime low this week of 3c, though. I still think it'll be November before we see snow.

[djc206]

fttm said:

……and so it begins , sigh . In Selkirk Manitoba Canada tonight , day was sunny plus 20C then as the afternoon wore on in got darker windier and colder . Forecast is for minus 1 with flurries overnight into tomorrow with a high of 5 . Plus side , will be home for Canadian Thanksgiving on Monday where we’re looking at sunny and 22 .

A tiny bit of snow in Mont Tremblant QC on Saturday, went for a hike up the mountain and it was -1C at the top at 1pm, wind chill made it feel a lot less. Glorious and warm today after a chilly start. Looks like winter has been put on hold for another week. Back to southern England tomorrow/Thursday where it’s looking remarkably mild.

[Evoluzione]

Riley Blue said:

Evoluzione said:

Riley Blue said:

Where'd the winter thread go? I could have sworn I'd seen one.

It's 5.6 outside in Chesterfield at the moment but a snuggly warm 16 in here.

Bring on the snow, it's been a while (12 years) since we had a decent amount.

You forgot last November then?

In Chesterfield we had an inch and a half between 3:20 and 8:00 on November 27th and more during the afternoon the following day. It had thawed by lunch time.

I don't think it was until early January that we had any more.

That was 4" delivered by Storm Arwen, pictured just 50 miles from you and I think Snake pass (which is much closer) will have been blocked. Last November most of the UK saw a lot of very rare and early snow, then not much for the rest of Winter.
I think the B from the E was Feb 2018, that was the harshest in recent years. I remember the waste pipes on the house freezing, being unable to drain the sink and that was a first in 20 odd years.
You're right though, we need a Winter thread now!

[colin_p]

The Winter thread is started once certain criteria are met and the necessary boxes can be ticked.

I can never remember what those criteria are, but seem to recall it is something to with a PH'er snow-foam washing their car and eating a Scotch egg with salad cream whilst howling at the clouds.

[Scabutz]

colin_p said:

The Winter thread is started once certain criteria are met and the necessary boxes can be ticked.

I can never remember what those criteria are, but seem to recall it is something to with a PH'er snow-foam washing their car and eating a Scotch egg with salad cream whilst howling at the clouds.

And you have to go outside turn around 3 times and spit.

[LHB]

I’m still wearing shorts daily, I refuse to concede until I see the winter thread!

(I’m not a postman)

[Puggit]

LHB said:

I’m still wearing shorts daily

Good call

[jimmyjimjim]

Mowing again.

It was 27c yesterday. But the trees are turning yellow and red and the wind is from Siberia instead of the Sahara.