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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: clydesdaleclopper on October 15, 2012, 01:04:31 pm
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I can't believe it - it snowed here this morning :o
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remind us where here is?
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Aberdeenshire - sorry I though it used to display our location :-[
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its still early for the white fluffy stuff!!!
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Nooooooooo
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we had hail stones yesterday in the middle of Wiltshire
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That settles it - I'm hibernating. :cold:
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It did here (Cumbria) this morning while I was milking but it didn't settle and it's warmed up since.
Too early for snow! :cold:
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Not even had a decent frost yet....I think the squashes gave up with a chilly wind (although there was still quite a few flowers on the butternut squash when it was pulled on sat)
PLEASE NOTE I AM NOT COMPLAINING
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Not even had a decent frost yet....I think the squashes gave up with a chilly wind (although there was still quite a few flowers on the butternut squash when it was pulled on sat)
PLEASE NOTE I AM NOT COMPLAINING
I am. Why can't we have an Indian summer?
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this morning at 6 and on caingorm
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Wow, I sooo love snow. It's difficult to do day to day adult things but great to replay those childhood memories :excited: :excited:
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Valid from 20/10 to 19/11 2012
Thermals at the readyIssued: Saturday 20th October 2012 Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling & Captain BobIs it time to rummage in the bottom drawer for the thermals? Any stand up comic will admit that the secret to delivering a successful gag is.....'err...mmm...timing'...well maybe that advice is perhaps well suited to formulating a longer range forecast too, as much as its 'inflections' can be correct...the forecast all falls apart when you try to deliver this within a reasonable time frame. There have been consistent indications of a cold plunge of arctic air in all the patterns for a while, the global models are now picking up on the possibility of this through the middle term, following by comparison a rather short spell for some of pleasant late autumn anticyclonic conditions. These contracting scenarios are likely to be brought about by the development of high pressure whose shifting distribution will bring marked contrasts in fortunes for the whole UK, the possibility of a very sharp drop in temperature and the appearance of wintry precipitation to higher ground in the north of Britain. The only 'nagging doubts' I have at the moment is how long this first taste of winter may hold before loosening its grip? High pressure looks set to control the pattern close to the UK through the beginning of November, so settled and generally remaining on the cold side, the likelihood of unsettled weather returning through all areas into the middle of the month. *.............26/10/12* The weather in the short term look set to rather autumnally benign in character....beneath or close to the influence of high pressure it'll be settled, variable cloud amounts will limited the distribution of sunshine, but where this does appear it'll be pleasant enough, where it and misty or foggy conditions persist it'll be cooler and dull, chillier here in comparison to the brighter areas benefiting from late autumn sunshine. Towards the end of the period, high pressure is likely to drift away and allow developments to take place to the north and east which brings the potential for a marked change in both temperature and characteristic as polar air begins to seep southward, turning colder everywhere with some wintry showers appearing across northern high ground, frost becoming widespread overnight. *27/10/12......05/11/12* It is here that the arrival of colder polar originated air penetrates southward across the bulk of the UK, wintry showers across northern high ground, perhaps at times appearing on lower elevations in the heaviest outbreaks. Rain and rather cool conditions for a time across much of England and Wales, pressure then recovers and the whole UK becomes drier and brighter, sunny spells and a distinctly chilly feel to the weather by day. Overnight with clear skies and light winds conditions are ripe for the formation of frost and fog, this slow to clear through some central areas where it'll remain dull, overcast and rather cold, mainly dry with sunny spells appearing across sheltered southern areas of England.
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Just checked our weather for next week...some low nightly temps coming to Suffolk :(
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Oo we're in suffolk, better cut some more logs for the wood burner, and get the winter coats out. It's been mild so far.
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My car gave me an ice alert this morning at 10.30. Don't know how far temps dropped last night but it must have been low.
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According to Country File weather forcast....I'm going to be snowed in on Friday!
:snowman: :snowman: :snowman:
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an arctic plunger according to the news. great.
i KNOW i dont get it as cold as you guys up in the north but cold is cold and its good to be ready for it, and this year i am, got 250kg of coal coming teusday, got my woodshed as full as its ever been, got a stash of big lumps of oak and ash stashed in the woods. and a spare gas bottle for emergencies. bring it on. this will be my third winter in this house with no central heating. im already planning next years improvemnts.
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UP DATE 22/10 The weather during the coming week will be notable for its contrasts. During the first half of the week temperatures will be well above the seasonal average in southern regions, possibly pushing up to about 20C (68F, but this isn't set to last. Things will begin to change during the middle of the week, as pressure rises over Greenland, blocking the flow of weather system from the Atlantic. This in turn will allow very cold air to begin pushing south from the artic towards Britain, and it looks as though by next weekend it will have made it all the way to southern counties. This will bring an increasing risk of widespread overnight frosts, and there could even be some snow in places. The snow risk will be much higher in the north and particularly over high ground. However, the cold plunge looks set to be quite notable for the time of year, and it's not possible at this stage to rule out the possibility of snow falling further south for a time. :gloomy:
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Thanks, VF. Couldn't you find one that predicts a heat wave? :-J I know we'd be disappointed when it didn't happen but at least we'd have something to look forward to for a bit. After the 'summer' we've had, don't we deserve a good winter? :(
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Oh €#%$¥{ -5C forecast and it'll be colder up here.
Not sure I can afford a coal delivery on top of everything else right now :-\
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an arctic plunger according to the news. great.
i KNOW i dont get it as cold as you guys up in the north but cold is cold and its good to be ready for it, and this year i am, got 250kg of coal coming teusday,
Oi, get yer bum up here I got 3 sacks of coal I can't burn on me new gas bottle burner, no sense them sitting here :thumbsup:
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UP DATE 22/10 The weather during the coming week will be notable for its contrasts. During the first half of the week temperatures will be well above the seasonal average in southern regions, possibly pushing up to about 20C (68F, but this isn't set to last. Things will begin to change during the middle of the week, as pressure rises over Greenland, blocking the flow of weather system from the Atlantic. This in turn will allow very cold air to begin pushing south from the artic towards Britain, and it looks as though by next weekend it will have made it all the way to southern counties. This will bring an increasing risk of widespread overnight frosts, and there could even be some snow in places. The snow risk will be much higher in the north and particularly over high ground. However, the cold plunge looks set to be quite notable for the time of year, and it's not possible at this stage to rule out the possibility of snow falling further south for a time. :gloomy:
VF - what height are you in your place? we are only at 600ft on our hill above Cawdor, when I go to work I drop 550 feet to the airport!!!!
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we are 1200 ft and 4 miles from caingorm ski area lowest temp minus 24 2010 .we have weeks when we Carnot use van tractor or car and can be 6 weeks from salivation .
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The last day of german summer time and we've got almost a foot of snow
Its now monday and although the depth of the snow has dropped so too has the temp ! Minus 3 this morning and obviously a lot colder last night. the small animal waters froze and the large buckets got ice on the surface....and thats in my hot horses stable.
I wasn't ready for winter just yet. Its wierd seeing sun flowers and sweet peas covered in snow.
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We have 2 weeks till UK moves into proper winter .I'm saying that in 2 weeks we will be in a very cold situation December will be the coldist month of winter and January miield with wind and rain