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Old 17-01-2016, 00:20
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First snowflakes of the winter began falling at 8.20pm tonight and it's coming down steadily here at the moment, initially melting but has now began to settle to a slight cover. The temperature hovering just a fraction above zero at 0.4c. But the forecasters have got this weekend quite dramatically wrong haven't they. Overnight tonight was meant to be hitting lows of -7c to -10c even in parts of England. Clearly not likely tonight.
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Old 17-01-2016, 00:31
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First snowflakes of the winter began falling at 8.20pm tonight and it's coming down steadily here at the moment, initially melting but has now began to settle to a slight cover. The temperature hovering just a fraction above zero at 0.4c. But the forecasters have got this weekend quite dramatically wrong haven't they. Overnight tonight was meant to be hitting lows of -7c to -10c even in parts of England. Clearly not likely tonight.
Precipitating in Cornwall but a balmy +7.
We've only got to around +2 thanks to wind chill - my heating bill is (hopefully) going to be the lowest for a long time.
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Old 17-01-2016, 00:38
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Good layer of snow over Peak District on Thursday but worst was the wind which gave a bitterly cold chill factor and some of the B roads very icy.
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Old 17-01-2016, 00:40
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Hurricane in Lower Wallop.
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Old 17-01-2016, 03:55
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Full snow cover on the ground, after initially failing to settle as sleet and wet snow earlier on, and still coming down quite steadily here in Buckinghamshire. Only just over 2 weeks since that mildest ever December too. I knew it would do this as soon as people got complacent into thinking winter was set to stay mild and snowless.

I think Scrumper may have been telling a fib about the wind strength in Lower Wallop somehow.
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Old 17-01-2016, 05:28
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Rain in the central south and south west lowlands. As usual.

Not due any lying snow down here anyway for a year or two, that's about as often as it happens, and then melts within 2 days. We had 2 centimetres once!
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Old 17-01-2016, 10:03
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Rain in the central south and south west lowlands. As usual.

Not due any lying snow down here anyway for a year or two, that's about as often as it happens, and then melts within 2 days. We had 2 centimetres once!
That is 2 cm too much
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Old 19-01-2016, 04:36
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A chilly -4c here in Norwich. It has cooled down significantly since I left in December.

This past week has been very cold, I would say almost ICY. I have had to wrap up daily, I am getting bored of it.
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Old 20-01-2016, 20:31
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So 2015 was the hottest year on record by a wide margin
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Old 20-01-2016, 21:01
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Becoming milder again - not as mild as December, but mild nonetheless.

Also wet and windy.
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Old 20-01-2016, 21:07
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Indeed. Though the deniers will continue to deny, as they must. Without the current El Nino, it would almost certainly still have broken the record, though not by so wide a margin.
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Old 20-01-2016, 21:13
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Indeed. Though the deniers will continue to deny, as they must. Without the current El Nino, it would almost certainly still have broken the record, though not by so wide a margin.
This might be worth a separate thread.
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Old 20-01-2016, 21:16
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This might be worth a separate thread.
Are you going to start it? I'm not sure I want to compromise my record of never having started a climate change thread!
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Old 20-01-2016, 21:26
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Are you going to start it? I'm not sure I want to compromise my record of never having started a climate change thread!
Ok done. See here
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Old 22-01-2016, 08:51
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Storm system Jonas set to bring record snowfall to the North East of the United States.

Should be one to watch as it develops.

Washington, DC, Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia, and perhaps Boston are all in line for what forecasters say could be a historic amount of snow. Although forecasts could change, the storm is currently expected to bring more than a foot of snow to some major cities, along with whiteout conditions, high winds, and major coastal flooding.

The storm's bullseye appears to directly target Washington and Baltimore. The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning for those cities and their suburbs in effect from 3 pm Friday to 6 am Sunday, with "potential life threatening conditions" peaking overnight into Saturday. Accumulations of 18 inches or more are expected in this region.
By the way it's a good link with a lot of useful information.
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Old 23-01-2016, 04:47
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I've heard a couple of people in conversation state that the huge snowstorm in the States means it will be doing the same over here within 10 days or so. People really believe this and it's just never going to be the case. There happens to be a few thousand miles of rather warm Atlantic Ocean to navigate before reaching the UK.

I recorded nights of -2c, 0c, 2c, -4c, -3c, -3c, and 4c in the past 7 days in my location. Saturday was the first day to hit double figures all month at 10c, a total contrast to December which almost never fell into single figures, not only in daytime but often by night.

No named UK storms in 2016 yet. Gertrude is taking her time to show up after the first furious six in succession in November & December.
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Old 23-01-2016, 06:14
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I've heard a couple of people in conversation state that the huge snowstorm in the States means it will be doing the same over here within 10 days or so. People really believe this and it's just never going to be the case. There happens to be a few thousand miles of rather warm Atlantic Ocean to navigate before reaching the UK.

I recorded nights of -2c, 0c, 2c, -4c, -3c, -3c, and 4c in the past 7 days in my location. Saturday was the first day to hit double figures all month at 10c, a total contrast to December which almost never fell into single figures, not only in daytime but often by night.

No named UK storms in 2016 yet. Gertrude is taking her time to show up after the first furious six in succession in November & December.
Some even insist that BBC weather forecaster Phil Avery has said it, and won't accept it when the hard facts are pointed out to them
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Old 23-01-2016, 15:44
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Some even insist that BBC weather forecaster Phil Avery has said it, and won't accept it when the hard facts are pointed out to them
I've seen the other thread about the Washington snowstorm and read a few posts before giving up. It's just not going to be coming over the Atlantic as a snowstorm to us. Simple as that. Little to actually discuss. If that storm did make our shores directly it would be rain, unless it bumped into a cold air mass from this side in Europe. There has never to the best of my thinking been any remote case for saying that snowfalls in New York / Washington and the NE of the USA have subsequently turned up here. None. As for what Philip Avery is alleged to have said or not said, when and where was this forecast?
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Old 23-01-2016, 16:53
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Cute little Disastergeddon video (with bonus Muzak). 12m29s.
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Old 23-01-2016, 17:20
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I've seen the other thread about the Washington snowstorm and read a few posts before giving up. It's just not going to be coming over the Atlantic as a snowstorm to us. Simple as that. Little to actually discuss. If that storm did make our shores directly it would be rain, unless it bumped into a cold air mass from this side in Europe. There has never to the best of my thinking been any remote case for saying that snowfalls in New York / Washington and the NE of the USA have subsequently turned up here. None. As for what Philip Avery is alleged to have said or not said, when and where was this forecast?
It wasn't actually a forecast. It was an interview he had with Anita McVeigh about the NE USA blizzards. No mention was made of "the snow coming here in a few weeks".
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Old 24-01-2016, 04:48
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It wasn't actually a forecast. It was an interview he had with Anita McVeigh about the NE USA blizzards. No mention was made of "the snow coming here in a few weeks".
Having said all that, I'll be very surprised if we get a snowless February across Britain, and by that I mean England especially. But it won't be American flakes, for those who need telling!
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Old 24-01-2016, 05:04
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A total of 12.8 cm of snow so far this winter and getting towards the end of January and looking ahead, things are looking promising temperature wise and there doesn't look to be any storms on the horizon. As time keeps going on, winter might not be given a chance to really start.

Makes me feel good when I compare this winter to two winters ago which consisted of an ice storm, polar vortexes, storm after storm and ice.
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Old 24-01-2016, 09:00
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A total of 12.8 cm of snow so far this winter and getting towards the end of January and looking ahead, things are looking promising temperature wise and there doesn't look to be any storms on the horizon. As time keeps going on, winter might not be given a chance to really start.

Makes me feel good when I compare this winter to two winters ago which consisted of an ice storm, polar vortexes, storm after storm and ice.
Hi Mashamoto, hope you're OK. Isn't it Toronto area you live and therefore not been touched by this storm?
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Old 24-01-2016, 09:12
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A total of 12.8 cm of snow so far this winter and getting towards the end of January and looking ahead, things are looking promising temperature wise and there doesn't look to be any storms on the horizon. As time keeps going on, winter might not be given a chance to really start.

Makes me feel good when I compare this winter to two winters ago which consisted of an ice storm, polar vortexes, storm after storm and ice.
But doesn't that just make your igloos stronger?
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Old 24-01-2016, 12:15
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Meanwhile over in the UK, it's incredibly mild - already 15C at Brize Norton (Oxon)

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