Hi
WOW, its on the front page of one of the papers tomorrow!
Thats really going to cause me some problems with the planting season!
???
cambourne7
Quote from: cambourne7 on November 11, 2006, 00:11:19
Hi
WOW, its on the front page of one of the papers tomorrow!
Thats really going to cause me some problems with the planting season!
???
cambourne7
what paper's that? i'm trying to that the article
A friend of mine works on the railways, they get a long range forecast and this cold weather was due towards the end of this month along with heavy snow...not sure of the accuracy to be honest!
Regards
Matt
We've got hail showers forecast for today. Time to see how the g/h holds up. :-\
I've been waiting all week to get out there and do some digging. Not much chance of that, absolutely cats and dogs and blowing a gale atm.
:'(
Newspapers spouting utter sensationalist nonsense as usual, 3 day forecast is roughly 70% accurate, 2 months....ha
this is true....but then surely they can only go by what the met office says?
i remember a month or two ago the met office released a statement saying we're going to have a mild and wet winter.
and last Winter was going to be dreadful...
::)
I also read somewhere we were to have -14ºC at the end of this month ::) I'd better consider protecting my tree ferns :o ;D
They cant get the weather right the next day let alone Feb March.
May the corn be with you.
I don't take any notice of long-range forecasts. At the moment they seem to be vacillating between mild and wet (we still need the wet) and cold. We've had brief spells of those sort of temperatures before; it was unpleasant at the time, but it soon passed. Last time it happened, rabbits came up the railway to the site, and devastated my parsnips. That was in early April if I remember right. Late spring that year, but things soon caught up.
Typical Daily Express. They said the same thing last year. They seem to be obsessed by Extreme weather and the Princess Diana Coverup. I'm waiting for them to say that MI5 created the hole in the ozone layer just to do the poor woman in
I am more worried about the fact that i have had to sleep in the office twice due to snow. I was going to put the cold winter bags in the car a the end of the month but i might just bring that forward!
I also remember the weather 'forecasters' saying that August was going to be hotter than July this year, and look what happened there!
we go out and look up, best way to get a forecast :D
Quotewe go out and look up, best way to get a forecast
Yes, couldn't agree more
Quote from: cambourne7 on November 11, 2006, 11:34:16
I am more worried about the fact that i have had to sleep in the office twice due to snow. I was going to put the cold winter bags in the car a the end of the month but i might just bring that forward!
I remember the last time it snowed on a weekday round there 'ere parts (2003) my 45 minute journey took 5 hours (london traffic and a huge inability of the majority of road users to drive effectively in slush ::)). I've since moved another 15 miles up the dual carriage way with no side roads to mention (due to the flood plain). The weather reports are watched with horrified fascination and I try to wangle the use of the 4x4 if snow is due.
We can't sleep in the office - it's in one of the roughest areas of east london, the central heating will go off, there's a crack in the wall by my desk that lets in a draught and some daylight and I may have to socialise with my managers... :o :-X.
I just hope that the snow is forecast for weekends only!! ;D
i dont mind if its feb/march so much just booked the last week in feb off :-)
I have hardly used any holiday this year ( might explain my knackeredness ) so i have carried over 5 days to next year :-)
more allotment time!
When the Met office cannot even get the CURRENT weather conditions correct, what chance do they have of 3 months ahead. The other day I happened to catch the Weather forecast. The female type person announced gleefully that the Satellite picture showed clear skies over the whole of our region, so we should go out and enjoy it if we could. Great, except that there was not a blue piece of sky to be seen anywhere outside and it was raining arrows and spears as they say in France. One wonders where the Satellite aiming its cameras, definitely not here!
the forcast here are not usualy that wrong
Just taken one of the boys' friends home... it is still 10C out there!
::)
.....and the Weedin forecast for 2007 is:
Winter - cold-ish and dark-ish
Spring - wet-ish and windy-ish
Summer - warm-ish and dry-ish
Autumn - cooling down-ish and mellow fruitfulness-ish
And that is about as accurate as you can get. ;D
like it :)
After last winter and spring we need a more 'normal' (as in climate geting warmer normal). The trend until last winter was for milder winters wint ocasional cold snaps. I am hoping last winter was just a 'blip' in this trend. I certainly couldnt hack another winter like last, so cold for so long, with little usefull rain.
I agree they cant know that far in advance, and you cant believe some of the stuff some newspapers come out with. I wonder where they got their info from.? I am willing to bet its from the oh so accurate metcheck people. They were a bit off the mark about last winter, it was cold but nowhere near as bad as they predicted. Even if its part true, a prediction of -14c is far too generalised for th whole country. It does not allow for local climates. Yes some places it might get to -14c but other places will be colder (scottish glens maybe) and others will be not so cold. For instance in my area the absolute coldest it gets is -8c, and that only rarely. Generaly no lower than about -5c in the real cold spells. So I wouldnt start panicing yet!
Weather is unpredictable but I admit trends and patterns are noticable. For instance last November we had an unusual cold snap (this week to be exact). We then had an unusualy cold winter. In past few years the first real cold snap did not arrive until Christmas, and the winters were generaly mild ones. This year this week in november is set to be wet and windy but quite mild. We have had frosts but quite moderate 'autumn' frosts not sharp 'winter' ones. Does this mean that the winter will be mild? Who knows for sure, but I think it will be different to last year. Hopefully it will be short and sharp followed by an early spring!
Quote from: saddad on November 12, 2006, 19:22:20
Just taken one of the boys' friends home... it is still 10C out there!
::)
According to my greenhouse thermometer, it got up to 14.9c her in dorset today. Rather mild for the time of year!
I don't think you can tell what the winter's going to be like from autumn weather though. We had a mild autumn in 1962, it stayed mild till March, then it turned arctic. I'll never forget going to the local park with my father and younger sister, in long trousers, and being ridiculed by my father because I couldn't handle knee-deep snow wearing shorts.
the records seem to pedict a trend, very hot summers are followed by hard winters, look at 1976 for instance, just my 2 penniths...
When Julie Reinger forecasts -14 I'll believe it might happen.
The only time I've experienced -14 was on a journey from Kinloss to Hardwick (540 miles in 12hrs 40 mins) between Aviemore and Pitlochry.
I`ll stick with my seaweed
Quote from: weedin project on November 13, 2006, 13:00:24
.....and the Weedin forecast for 2007 is:
Winter - cold-ish and dark-ish
Spring - wet-ish and windy-ish
Summer - warm-ish and dry-ish
Autumn - cooling down-ish and mellow fruitfulness-ish
And that is about as accurate as you can get. ;D
love it weedin ;D ;D ;D
I am off on holiday soon and its going to be -22f
;D
Blimey cambourne that's not what i'd call a holiday lol - where you going?
Sounds like serious skiing temp to me!
::)
10.30 pm and it’s 13.2°C
An old saying .... If November ice bears the weight of a duck, the winter will be slush and muck!!
i am off to the ice hotel but dont worry the vodka will keep me warm.
The rooms are a balmy -5
8)
Ooooh Cambourne, do make sure you post pics on your return.
(if your digits haven't dropped off with frost bite that is)
i am more worried about a piture i seen of the toilet - completly made of ice !
Quote from: Toadspawn on November 15, 2006, 23:10:58
An old saying .... If November ice bears the weight of a duck, the winter will be slush and muck!!
Theres another bit to that saying isnt there toadspawn. I cant remember what it is. Something about a wet/mild november leading to a cold dry winter? Care to fill us in?
Cambourne7: I dont envy you those temperatures one bit! Brr! Although thats nothing compared to something i heard about on the radio last night. Some kind of new 'therapy' that involves exposing the body to seriously low temperatures. How does -50c and lower strike you? Called 'cryotherapy'. I didnt think the human body could withstand such temperatures. Ouch!
Quote from: cambourne7 on November 16, 2006, 09:47:47
i am more worried about a piture i seen of the toilet - completly made of ice !
That's you for a numb bum then. ;D
I don't like the sound of cryotherapy one little bit. A small dose won't kill you, but really cold temperatures hurt, they really do.
Sorry GC
I only ever knew the first bit.
That should bring the colour to your cheeks Cambourne
Hi
I cant wait!
If you want to check on the weather go here
http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/02044.html
Pictures go here
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=ice+hotel
hotel itself
http://www.icehotel.com/
Were just trying to decide how to get from Kiruna ( airport/trainstation) to the village Jukkasjärvi where the hotel is. i am up for a Dog-sled from the train stain to the hotel i think the hubbie wants to get a taxi!
Even the plates are sheets of ice, and i cant wait for a hot tub out in the snow!!
We fly into stockholm and we have a day there then the overnight train thought the wilds of Sweden :-)
Cambourne7