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Whilst no real sign of it spreading here yet, some intensely cold air now in place over much of Central and Eastern Europe.
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It's been single figure daytime maximums ever since the new year bonged into existence 4 days ago with me, and significantly colder nights too. The days have been 6c, 9c, 8c, 9c and today 8c. The nights minimums 1c, 7c, 4c, 4c, and last night 5c. The weather made a significant jolt downwards as the month and year changed. Always fascinating how often the change in the month brings a change in the weather. After just the first 4 days of January I'm already on 21mm of rain too.
I'm thinking that February 2016 will go into the chiller. Look forward to a snowfall and some frosts. I believe there is a major fog warning for the south of the UK on Wednesday. I wonder if anyone here knows who this weather forecaster is below in the link, who was doing the main BBC bulletin after the 9 O'clock News back in 1980. I simply don't recognise him at all. Does anyone else? https://youtu.be/d-pACoCwX_8 |
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It's been single figure daytime maximums ever since the new year bonged into existence 4 days ago with me, and significantly colder nights too. The days have been 6c, 9c, 8c, 9c and today 8c. The nights minimums 1c, 7c, 4c, 4c, and last night 5c. The weather made a significant jolt downwards as the month and year changed. Always fascinating how often the change in the month brings a change in the weather. After just the first 4 days of January I'm already on 21mm of rain too.
I'm thinking that February 2016 will go into the chiller. Look forward to a snowfall and some frosts. I believe there is a major fog warning for the south of the UK on Wednesday. I wonder if anyone here knows who this weather forecaster is below in the link, who was doing the main BBC bulletin after the 9 O'clock News back in 1980. I simply don't recognise him at all. Does anyone else? https://youtu.be/d-pACoCwX_8 |
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#129 |
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It's been single figure daytime maximums ever since the new year bonged into existence 4 days ago with me, and significantly colder nights too. The days have been 6c, 9c, 8c, 9c and today 8c. The nights minimums 1c, 7c, 4c, 4c, and last night 5c. The weather made a significant jolt downwards as the month and year changed. Always fascinating how often the change in the month brings a change in the weather. After just the first 4 days of January I'm already on 21mm of rain too.
I'm thinking that February 2016 will go into the chiller. Look forward to a snowfall and some frosts. I believe there is a major fog warning for the south of the UK on Wednesday. I wonder if anyone here knows who this weather forecaster is below in the link, who was doing the main BBC bulletin after the 9 O'clock News back in 1980. I simply don't recognise him at all. Does anyone else? https://youtu.be/d-pACoCwX_8 The forthcoming weeks might become a little bit like January and February 2006, which, if you remember, were extremely cold on the continent, but relatively ordinary, and fairly dry, here. Although there were some brief cold shafts at times, there was negligible snow. |
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John Sherwood -- see this link -- http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/weather/bbc.html (1979)
I frequently watch Michael Fish doing his weekly video forecast on Netweather nowadays, which appears each week on Thursday or Friday, from what looks like his study at home. |
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#131 |
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Unusual mist descending over my bit of central London
not common at this time of year .........the tops of the tall buildings are disappearing |
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Great piccies when that happens https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mi...w=1366&bih=560
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Winter properly arrives with freezing conditions in the UK next week.
"Winters as we used to remember them" is how John Hammond tonight described the weather that is waiting on the horizon for the UK about a week from now. This mild winter is drawing to a close and we're soon going into the ice, snow and cold of a proper January. Indeed some of the waterlogged and flooded ground will likely turn into frozen ice rinks he added. Having been on the warm side of the jet stream for such a long time, we are now going into transition and into the freezing side for what could possibly be a significant spell. A dramatic winter of two very different and distinct halves maybe? Just wait and see how rapidly the mildest ever December of 2015 fades from thought. Who knows, the Express could yet be right! ........but unlikely.
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Does anyone else think this impending freezing spell that is due to arrive next week has been over egged by the met office and certain forecasters? Three days ago they were making it sound very severe but it already seems there is some back tracking on the extent of it and it is still nowhere near having even arrived yet.
Meanwhile it remains a soggy wet January with 37mm since New Years Day in my rain gauge, very similar at this stage to just 2 years back in 2014. |
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Does anyone else think this impending freezing spell that is due to arrive next week has been over egged by the met office and certain forecasters? Three days ago they were making it sound very severe but it already seems there is some back tracking on the extent of it and it is still nowhere near having even arrived yet.
Meanwhile it remains a soggy wet January with 37mm since New Years Day in my rain gauge, very similar at this stage to just 2 years back in 2014. Obviously it's difficult to know exactly how it will go subsequently, but I wouldn't be surprised to see the continental high start to exert some influence over us at some point in the next several weeks. Although the Met Office has us returning to mainly unsettled from the West. |
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Does anyone else think this impending freezing spell that is due to arrive next week has been over egged by the met office and certain forecasters? Three days ago they were making it sound very severe but it already seems there is some back tracking on the extent of it and it is still nowhere near having even arrived yet.
"...a northerly regime is looking increasingly likely next week, even in the south. Single figure maxima everywhere, may or may not include snow in the south (some frosty nights with sleety stuff seems more likely there and no sub-zero day times), but cold it is likely to be. Brrrr!!!" Might not last far into the following week though, if it even gets that far. Forecast maxima currently for Southampton next week (M to Fri) are: 9,8,8,7,6. Not much to get excited about there at the mo. Colder further north. |
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Lashing down in London again..................wind howling
I wish we would get a cold snap as I tend to think it doesn't rain as much when it's cold and I'm getting fed up of being stuck indoors watching the rain...............
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Lashing down in London again..................wind howling
I wish we would get a cold snap as I tend to think it doesn't rain as much when it's cold and I'm getting fed up of being stuck indoors watching the rain............... ![]() There is the prospect of potential snowfall even across the south of lowland UK on Thursday now being flagged up at this early stage. I'll believe it when I see it. |
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Some unusual January thundery activity in southern England tonight, amongst yet more heaving rainfall. Also quite thundery across in Biscay. My location has now had its full amount of expected average rain amount for the month at 50mm, barely ten days in.
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Heavy hail and rain showers here for the last 12 hours, mostly brief as they are moving fast. No thunder heard though here in my part of S Hants, average is one such day every year or two in January, down here near the south coast. We heard thunder and saw lightning to the south last year on Jan 13th. Pretty well none elsewhere though, away from Cornwall and the Hebrides.
Rainfall has here too has pretty well reached its average value for January, 80mm. |
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Did the met office get it very wrong? Last night the weather was going to be wet for a good chunk of the day (NE England). Today, there is no sign of it. Its cold and misty but no rain.
So far, today is the second January day without rain (after the 1st Jan). I live in a rain shadow area close to Durham Tees Valley Airport where we probably have the lowest rainfall in the country. December had 24 days when it rained. It wasn't a lot of rain but the ground is sodden and the lack of sunshine keeps it wet. I noticed in another story that the Midwest USA had the wettest and warmest December on record so we are not alone in our weather experience. |
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Signs are that the cold spell (such as it is, really not far from normal but feels cold because it's been so mild), is weak and will not last that long. Mild weather is set to gradually return next week.
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Signs are that the cold spell (such as it is, really not far from normal but feels cold because it's been so mild), is weak and will not last that long. Mild weather is set to gradually return next week.
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Signs are that the cold spell (such as it is, really not far from normal but feels cold because it's been so mild), is weak and will not last that long. Mild weather is set to gradually return next week.
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Absolutely nothing more than bog standard perfectly average normal January weather and nothing more. I think John Hammond is one of the very best weather forecasters on the BBC so when he actually said in the middle of last week about the "type of winters that we used to remember" and the impending cold spell including frozen fields freezing over into ice rinks I really sat and listened. Nothing of the sort is turning up this week of course. Rather disappointed in yet another overplayed hand. Apart from the fact that its now chillier, but hardly freezing than much of the winter but only normal conditions, the actual weather, insofar that it remains wet and quite dull and cloudy has been no different to what has gone before. 56mm rain and counting in the first 12 days of January and the river behind my home is in flood and the back field looks like a lake, and not a frozen one that anyone's going to be skating on any time soon.
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Absolutely nothing more than bog standard perfectly average normal January weather and nothing more. I think John Hammond is one of the very best weather forecasters on the BBC so when he actually said in the middle of last week about the "type of winters that we used to remember" and the impending cold spell including frozen fields freezing over into ice rinks I really sat and listened. Nothing of the sort is turning up this week of course. Rather disappointed in yet another overplayed hand. Apart from the fact that its now chillier, but hardly freezing than much of the winter but only normal conditions, the actual weather, insofar that it remains wet and quite dull and cloudy has been no different to what has gone before. 56mm rain and counting in the first 12 days of January and the river behind my home is in flood and the back field looks like a lake, and not a frozen one that anyone's going to be skating on any time soon.
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Mid Jan and the first frosty morning since last winter.
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A very rare Hurricane has formed in the Atlantic, named Alex. It's only the 4th to have formed in January since far back in 1851 apparently. At the same time in the Pacific Ocean a cyclone has formed as well, being called Hurricane Pali and to have a pair of systems like this at the same time at this time of year is virtually unheard of. According to Rob McElwee if we go back just 20 or 30 years the chance of it happening would be almost nil.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/14/wo...alex-atlantic/
The remnants of this hurricane is heading our way
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http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/14/wo...alex-atlantic/
The remnants of this hurricane is heading our way ![]() I'm looking out for the first snowflakes of the winter due to fall, at any moment in North Bucks. |
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........but unlikely.