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Old 26-12-2015, 00:29
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I'm never up that early to see that!
Wish i was you.I'm off to check my lottery tickets.
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Old 26-12-2015, 00:44
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Wish i was you.I'm off to check my lottery tickets.
Get the right numbers and it could be year round summers for you then!
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Old 26-12-2015, 00:48
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Get the right numbers and it could be year round summers for you then!

Just checked and i'm not one of the 5 UK millionaires.Still there's always todays £40m jackpot.Got 3 tickets on for that.
Weather wise.I quite fancy the South of France.
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Old 26-12-2015, 00:56
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Just checked and i'm not one of the 5 UK millionaires.Still there's always todays £40m jackpot.Got 3 tickets on for that.
Weather wise.I quite fancy the South of France.
Nice down on the Med. Good food, dirt cheap plonk, and while away the evenings watching the predators cruising around in their Lambos and Ferraris zooming the totty.
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Old 26-12-2015, 00:59
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Nice down on the Med. Good food, dirt cheap plonk, and while away the evenings watching the predators cruising around in their Lambos and Ferraris zooming the totty.
He He!.
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Old 26-12-2015, 09:03
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Yes, some places look set to be flooded for the fourth time this month, there are currently dozens of troops in our village setting up flood defences. I was out walking the other day, two large iron victorian railway bridges have been swept away, one of them is lying in the river but the other one has just vanished. They're so sturdy it probably remained in one piece and just barrelled down the river taking out everything in its path.
It must be really grim, with so many houses lying empty.

I was surprised to see Glenridding flooded. I've camped there a few times, and the beck that runs down to the village is small, with quite high walls. It must have taken a massive amount of rain to make it flood.
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Old 26-12-2015, 09:09
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Just checked and i'm not one of the 5 UK millionaires.Still there's always todays £40m jackpot.Got 3 tickets on for that.
Weather wise.I quite fancy the South of France.
They get dreadful thunderstorms at certain times of year.

Someone I used to work with had an almost new BMW written of by a hailstorm while on holiday in the south of France. The hailstones were so big, the roof and bonnet were covered with dents, some about the size of a tennis ball, and quite deep.

It looked someone had been dancing on it.
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Old 26-12-2015, 09:14
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I'd give anything for a bright, cold frosty morning. I can't believe we haven't had a frost yet here (East Sussex).

The grass in the garden appears to be still growing, which seems really bizarre. We still haven't got the winter duvet on the bed, or shut all the little windows.

When I was a kid, I used to love walking to school on autumn mornings, when it was frosty and all the autumn leaves were all crisp on the ground. Autumns always seem to be wet now, and the leaves turn to slippery mush.
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Old 26-12-2015, 09:43
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They get dreadful thunderstorms at certain times of year.

Someone I used to work with had an almost new BMW written of by a hailstorm while on holiday in the south of France. The hailstones were so big, the roof and bonnet were covered with dents, some about the size of a tennis ball, and quite deep.

It looked someone had been dancing on it.
Large hail can be a nightmare - I work in insurance and the severe thunderstorms of 28th June 2012 triggered tens of thousands of claims for shattered conservatory roofs in particular, mainly from the South Midlands area.

Some claimants sent us pics of the hail, which was golf ball sized. Quite interesting, as they're not all perfectly circular. Some have spikes and some are irregularly shaped.
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Old 26-12-2015, 09:44
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It's dark here.

Actually the day has been rather bleak. I drove to a relatives for dinner at 1.30pm and everyone was driving with full lights on.
You know what I mean. It doesn't really rain there.
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Old 26-12-2015, 09:44
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I'd give anything for a bright, cold frosty morning. I can't believe we haven't had a frost yet here (East Sussex).

The grass in the garden appears to be still growing, which seems really bizarre. We still haven't got the winter duvet on the bed, or shut all the little windows.

When I was a kid, I used to love walking to school on autumn mornings, when it was frosty and all the autumn leaves were all crisp on the ground. Autumns always seem to be wet now, and the leaves turn to slippery mush.
Grass will continue to grow if the temperature is above 6C, but obviously much more slowly than in Spring/Summer.
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Old 26-12-2015, 09:47
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Right now the temperature just before midnight on Christmas Day is a full 10c warmer than it was last night on Christmas Eve at the very same time - the temperature outside currently stands at 13.6c with a strong gusty and rather mild wind. Although it was a damp and dull day with rain about, not enough to even register a full millimetre. Unlike up North.
That's crazy. Still 5c here.

Same as yesterday really.
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Old 26-12-2015, 09:49
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As I posted in the other thread, these hints at cold easterlies in the first week in January have been popping up in all the operational runs for several days now, GEM started it on the 22nd then after a couple of days flopped to westerlies again but has now resumed its earlier 'cold' projections. GFS has been flipping between mild westerlies and something a bit colder and slacker but still keeps the deep cold well to our East, but it's now bringing it closer (at 10 days). ECMWF has finally produced a deep cold easterly at 9-10 days and that is reassuring for cold lovers as it was previously in love with the westerlies. The next set of runs will hopefully be a bit more consistent though I do now sense that a change may be on the way.

Maybe with this recent bout of model vacillation at 10 days, the message is that normal winter weather will resume next month, with a bit of everything even down south... and if so, not before time!
Well it makes sense that winter weather would begin, the weather we've been getting is nothing short of daft.
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Old 26-12-2015, 09:56
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It's a lovely bright 14°C in East Anglia

(A little windy at times.)
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Old 26-12-2015, 12:14
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I am some considerable distance South of Cumbria and the weather here is frightful. There is some flooding here though not on any major scale so I dread to think what it's like in Cumbria. Especially on top of what they've already had!
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Old 26-12-2015, 13:09
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Rained very heavily and continuously here (Cheshire) since late yesterday afternoon;

…..just stopped raining but heavily overcast with a very light intermittent SW’erly breeze,… 13C but feels much colder.

There hasn’t been any good old ‘Water Shortage’ threads on here for a while and there appears to be little chance of any being posted in the near future.

I may petition the Express to see if they’ll make any apocalyptic ‘Water Supply’ predictions;

….. to build on the spectacular success they’ve enjoyed with their ‘Worst Winter for 50yrs’ article.
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Old 26-12-2015, 13:32
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Nice to see this thread. I keep a daily record of max & min temps going back to 2000 together with the weather conditions, although not complete obviously. I've lived in the same area all that time but at 3 different locations within half a mile of each other.

The part of the Wirral Peninsula I inhabit has some interesting weather that is never accurately reflected on the national reports when the weather is changeable, like today, although the regional reports sometimes get it right.

I have a full set of 26th Dec from 2005, and the daily max has mostly been within 5°C and 9°C. 2010 was 0°C and 2011 was 13°C. There was a mild run from the 21st through to the 28th in 2011, 12° on the 22nd and the 25th, 12.5° on the 27th.
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Old 26-12-2015, 13:37
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Grass will continue to grow if the temperature is above 6C, but obviously much more slowly than in Spring/Summer.
Well, it ought to damn well stop. If it dried a bit, I'd try and persuade Mr Lakie to go and cut it, but it hasn't got dry enough.

If we're going to continue to have mild winters, someone needs to develop a new kind of grass that stops growing when it drops to 15C.
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Old 27-12-2015, 13:40
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Nice to see this thread. I keep a daily record of max & min temps going back to 2000 together with the weather conditions, although not complete obviously. I've lived in the same area all that time but at 3 different locations within half a mile of each other.

The part of the Wirral Peninsula I inhabit has some interesting weather that is never accurately reflected on the national reports when the weather is changeable, like today, although the regional reports sometimes get it right.

I have a full set of 26th Dec from 2005, and the daily max has mostly been within 5°C and 9°C. 2010 was 0°C and 2011 was 13°C. There was a mild run from the 21st through to the 28th in 2011, 12° on the 22nd and the 25th, 12.5° on the 27th.
Boxing Day was the mildest I have ever recorded, with a daytime maximum temperature just a fraction short of 15c, at 14.8c. This followed a previous night time minimum of 13.3c.

Lunchtime today and it is actually colder, relatively speaking as it's still a mild 11c, than it was overnight when about 3am this morning the temperature held up at 14.4c.

Rainfall today has been 7mm bringing the month to 55mm which is just about what to expect from a monthly total in my area, which averages 600mm per year, so 50mm per month. Considering the prevailing conditions that seems to be rather fortunate that we've not been a lot wetter in the more southern areas of the UK.

Since the year 2000 we have only just missed out on a white Christmas in England a couple of times. In 2000 with a significant snowfall on 28th December, and back in 2005 there was a decent snowfall just as Boxing Day ended on 27th December with a full covering in central England, and at my location.
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Old 27-12-2015, 13:54
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Well the models are starting to line up now for a fair chance of at least a short spell of proper winter cold from the east next week, with GEM, GFS and ECMWF all showing a cold outbreak from the Siberian High getting as far as at least the North Sea and Low Countries, with Eastern England at most risk.

Anyway, summat's up, and we should see an end to the incessant boring and squelchy westerlies at least temporarily - though any snow may be on a knife edge. If it comes off, the Canadian GEM saw it first, 5 days ago (though the ECMWF doesn't run far enough ahead to have seen it back then).
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Old 27-12-2015, 14:08
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Someone needs to lasso that bloody Jet Stream. I want Saharan Southerlies not Siberian Easterlies.
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Old 27-12-2015, 14:17
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Someone needs to lasso that bloody Jet Stream. I want Saharan Southerlies not Siberian Easterlies.
That's pretty close to what we've been getting. Cumbrians Lancastrians and West Yorkshire folks might not agree with you on that.
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Old 27-12-2015, 14:22
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I do feel for the folks either already flooded or living on pins that they will be.


I'll hope for a less wet but still mild winter then.
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Old 27-12-2015, 14:52
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Someone needs to lasso that bloody Jet Stream. I want Saharan Southerlies not Siberian Easterlies.
When I was checking things out yesterday I noticed that the direction of the mild wind was coming direct from the Canary Islands into the UK. Personally I'd enjoy a cold eastern blast for a period, even if it wasn't a snowy one. Winter frosts and clear midwinter sunshine can't be beaten. If this winter were to remain much as December has done there could be the possibility, albeit remote, that next spring was chillier!
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Old 27-12-2015, 16:11
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I'd agree in an ideal world. But there are also Heat or Eat considerations and lack of budget for ice gritting and snow clearing operations.


This is what is in the back of my mind.

For every poor sod who has been flooded, there might be a 100 who freeze or break their hips in Siberian conditions.
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