The Great Meteorological Thread

05'c here at present plenty of mist around I'm walking the hills in the morning 04:30hrs start and hoping to catch a cloud inversion within one of the Valleys of Snowdonia :D great image you posted of the meteor landing on His Holiness earlier Ian in out of focus your finger is certainly on the pulse :thumbs:
 
Current Conditions, Spalding, Lincolnshire.

Temperature: 5.1 °C

Windchill: 5 °C

Humidity: 77%

Dew Point: 1 °C

Wind: 4.8 km/h / 1.3 m/s from the SSE

Wind Gust: 11.3 km/h

Pressure: 1023 hPa (Steady)

Visibility: Good
 
Afternoon all from what is a bright Folkestone. However, mist and low cloud are trying to roll in from the Strait of Dover as I type, so we are losing this clear blue sky.
Due to my coastal location and winds coming in from the SE, I didn't see a frost upon awakening at 8 am this morning but according to my sources, there was one only a few miles inland.

Looks like being a cold and dry week ahead of us as high pressure holds firm over the UK. It is hard to say how much of it will be of sunshine or whether low cloud will get dragged in and held in place as winds remain calm.
There is a small risk of snow/wintry showers moving into the South East later on in the week but that's being said in low confidence.
But at least this extended spell of dry conditions will come as a relief to those who has seen one waterlogged field too many.
 
Enjoying this high pressure hanging over us at present Ian and I have also managed to get a couple of photo shoots of my local Landscape that I have had on my list for some time, snow was falling earlier today had to protect myself once or twice with the hood on coat :D outside sensors currently raeading 1'c having a lie in in the morning despite the forcast for capturing a sunrise :wave:
 
Hi Kevin. It's been pretty overcast with light snow flurries off and on in the past couple of days over here but the snow never got heavy enough to settle.
The wind was lighter today whereas yesterday was raw and fresh.
 
Man alive, wish our weather around here would do something a bit more lively. It's been unremitting gloom and overcast stuff for the past few days (and I'm looking at grey cloudy skies right now). Even the tiny bit of snow we did have recently wasn't much to get excited over.
Speaking as an amateur meteorologist, I reckon I must be living in one of the most boring places when it comes to local weather watching.

I suppose there is the option of emigration.
 
michael23 said:
Pretty boring here to, did have some strong winds a couple of nights ago. But it has been grey and damp and the wind chill this morning is very cold and biting.
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Mornin' Michael. No change on this boring weather today for around here, although more of North England can expect to see a bit more in the way of brightness (but Kent remains under this cloud blanket).

I felt quite sad when I looked back to the very beginning of this thread.
 
Gremlin said:
Wow that's quite impressive, they occur over the sea round here quite a bit
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Trying my hardest not to be pendantic but it's actually a waterspout as they form over sea. Still looks very impressive all the same.
Even though they look very similar to tornadoes, waterspouts ALWAYS die out the moment they touches land as they are fuelled by the warm sea (the cold air aloft gives it that "lift") and the parent cloud doesn't need to be that large for such a spout to form.
Hence that's how they behave differently to their land-based cousin, the tornado, even though both look the same. Likewise, a tornado - which are often associated with a large "supercell" complete with hail and torrential rain - die out the moment it moves onto open water as their heat source from the land is cut off.

PS: It's been mostly overcast over here at Kent all day as the Groundhog Day effect continues.
 
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Ian D J said:
Trying my hardest not to be pendantic but it's actually a waterspout as they form over sea.
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Sorry to be pedantic, but out here they call this event a tornado. Hence the reference to "tornados" in the linked news article.:thumbs:
 
Ricardodaforce said:
Sorry to be pedantic, but out here they call this event a tornado. Hence the reference to "tornados" in the linked news article.:thumbs:
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Either or, it's far more interesting than what I'm experiencing over here. :)

I'm just a bit grumpy due to the lack of seeing any real exciting weather, it's been unremitting gloom since October here at my corner of Kent (even missed out on the real snow). I reckon I have experienced the most boring winter I have ever known in all my 30-plus years of being into meteorology.

Extreme cliimate change? Not much evidence of that around here. :bonk:

Of course, I could always emigrate.
 
Ian D J said:
Either or, it's far more interesting than what I'm experiencing over here. :)

I'm just a bit grumpy due to the lack of seeing any real exciting weather, it's been unremitting gloom since October here at my corner of Kent (even missed out on the real snow). I reckon I have experienced the most boring winter I have ever known in all my 30-plus years of being into meteorology.

Extreme cliimate change? Not much evidence of that around here. :bonk:

Of course, I could always emigrate.
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Awwww don't be grumpy! Strangely for a place that really doesn't get much rain, this kind of event is not unusual. Here's a video of one in Chavidorm early. Sadly it didn't destroy the place.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=578820938795512
 
I can now officially say that spring has arrived as I have been outdoors more than indoors today (doing the garden, walked into town, visited my sister, etc) and the UV level from the sun was strong enough to make me go red on the face and ears. Yep, I now have the first sunburn of the season. Didn't think the sun was strong enough for it today, even though we had unbroken sunshine the whole day, but indeed my face really does have that glowing feel to to it.
Spring has Sprung - and not a moment too soon as I was starting to look positively translucent after what has been a long, dull and boring winter.

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A shame it's a a case of making the most of it while it last as things are expected to become cloudy and wet as we go into the second half of this week. Still, at least I am now seeing more in the way of variety in our weather.
 
Ian D J said:
I can now officially say that spring has arrived as I have been outdoors more than indoors today (doing the garden, walked into town, visited my sister, etc) and the UV level from the sun was strong enough to make me go red on the face and ears.
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Lucky devil. Chucking it down here!
 
Ricardodaforce said:
Lucky devil. Chucking it down here!
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I suspect that'll what we'll have later on this week as the lot trundles northwards towards the UK.
But at least today was just the ticket to lift the spirits and get me warmed up. A nice feeling after four months of gloomy weather (very little in the way of rain and snow, sun and wind. It was just blimmin' cold and cloudy since October - a real Groundhog Day theme).
 
The sun even broke through late afternoon here today :thumbs:
(I'm in the Wirrel area for a couple of days)
Would you believe that it actually was snowing at about 6am this morning,
as I passed north of Birmingham?
(although it didn't make any impression I might add ;))
Global what was that?

Oh and apparently, according to the radio earlier,
2012 was the wettest, and yet driest, on record (for some considerable period)

Bloody weather!
 
Cobra said:
The sun even broke through late afternoon here today :thumbs:
(I'm in the Wirrel area for a couple of days)
Would you believe that it actually was snowing at about 6am this morning,
as I passed north of Birmingham?
(although it didn't make any impression I might add ;))
Global what was that?

Oh and apparently, according to the radio earlier,
2012 was the wettest, and yet driest, on record (for some considerable period)

Bloody weather!
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Hi Chris! That bit of snow was probably part of global boring. :D

But indeed, last year was unusual that it started off as being exceptionally dry with even drought orders being in place over the South East - then it was as if a switch has been flipped and it turned wet from April onwards. As a result the western side of the UK saw to very wet conditions towards the end of the year - 2012 was a year of real contrast in terms of dryness and wetness.
 
Hard shadows? Eyes stopped down? Big glowing orb above the mist? Bloody hell, it's the Sun!
 
Been feeling rough all week, weather was great, sunny and warm, so now I have a day off, feeling ok and it's bloody raining :bang::bang:
 
Quite a mixed bag for us over the next few days.

Locally heavy rain is likely to affect Southern England tomorrow and into Saturday, then the cold air over Scotland will start to dig southwards on Sunday and into Monday turning some of that rain into snow in the process.
That'll then lead to a cold start to the working week with snow showers peppering East England and the South East as they rattle in from the North Sea under a bitter cold NE wind.
But the showers should start to fade away on Tuesday leading to drier and brighter conditions for the second half of the week but staying cold with frost and fog by night.
 
Been snowing all day down here. Not hard and not enough to settle, just bloody cold and grey! Just wish they'd hurry up and finish the conservatory so we could sit out under the snow...
 
As for the "Accrington area",
there have been several "white-outs" today, with very strong winds and horizontal snow
at times, -3oC and a wind chill of about -30oC well it bloody felt like it :(
 
And here, winter has arrived with snow lasting the whole day. There's a good 4 inches covering with drifts of up to a foot. It's still snowing but has eased off as the French channel low pressure system begin to move on.
March snowfalls are quite common but this one is unusual in that it was accompanied with freezing cold temperatures all day (around -1 C), extraordinary for so late in the season.
Yet this time last week I was cutting the lawn in sunshine and 17 C temperatures.

My front garden about an hour ago:


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Ian exactly!! I didn't put the snow in my trolley and I'm sure as hell not paying for a blizzard!
 
Pants here at the moment!

....and I am supposed to be going to Crowborough tomorrow!


Heather
 
Only a couple of inches here

-7 and some lovely ice

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It snowed all night, went to work at 6 this morning and nothing to do, seems Crawley was gridlocked so nothing got in or out, no mail came down to us so we eventually got sent home at 11am, bored silly :(
Sun is out now and thawing fast so hopefully thinhgs will start moving again
 

Blimey Ian!

'Tas been a gorgeous day up around the Wirrel / Merseyside / Mancherster area today :thumbs:
Just a few flakes of snow when I arrived back In the UK in MK though
 
Upon awakening at 6 am this morning, I had a quick measure up and it came to 9 cm of level snow in the front gadren but there was drifts over a foot tall in the back yard.

Then later on in the morning, I walked up to them thar hills about three miles inland from my home, with camera in hand of course and got this.

Facing east:

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Facing west:

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The sun came out by midday and a fairly rapid thaw kicked in as we went into the afternoon. The strengthening March sunshine certainly made easy work of it, however any slush and meltwater will refreeze tonight - if it isn't already doing that right now - as temperatures falls down to -3 C quite widely. That will result in black ice by morning so have that to mind when doing the usual morning commute.

Hope springs enternal?

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Excellent Ian the last picture is a belter lol enjoyed that just had a look outside the window mist is down below 500m on the mountains currently 4'c and very damp here.
 
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