Go have a look on Metcheck..
www.metcheck.com
Could see the end of the whitefly........ :o
brilliant site, I don't know about whitefly, could be the end of our plot, or at least top half :o :o ;D ;D
As soon as I post they change it!
T'was forecasting severe cold and heavy snow last night!! >:(
I could cry. All I want in the world is some decent digging weather ::)
Liked the site put it onto favorites ;D ;D ;D ;D
Pah, time to gather wood for an ark and bring in animals 2 by 2 in our area!
I would rather have frost than this wind and rain, like Laura, I just want to get out in the garden and dig! :'( :'(
Back to snow again now! :o
Seems like only a few weeks ago that the weather men were predicting the coldest winter on record, think we have had about 5 frosts up to yet
But one of the really bad ones ?47 didn't kick in until feb!
::)
Now in my favourites too. Thanks.
Blimey, it's like a quagmire out there already - I will need a boat to get to the chickies :)
The cold weather didn't start till late in 1963; late feb or early March (I was only 9 at the time). I remember going out sledging in the local park; I only had shorts, and wading around in knee-deep snow really hurt.
I remember that winter well too, my mum made me wear so many clothes, I couldn't move my arms, but I still wore shorts too. Deepest snow I ever walked through. Conjures up images of chilblains and hot soup by the fire.
Derek
Blimey it is going to be a cold week in Essex, with snow forecast on Sunday! Wow the kids will be chuffed. Lots of heavy frosts next week. As for this rain, it appears that tomorrow will be a dry day, but rain coming in until the end of the week after that. Typical....I will be working!
Well we are at what is traditionally the coldest time of year, so I am not surprised to see any nasty weather at all.
It said in our paper today that the north-west has has 146% of the usual rain for December :o No wonder it's seemed as if it never stops. We get enough of it normally never mind half as much again!
Have found Metcheck a bit unreliable at times. (Their cartoon showing big suns whilst I am looking out of the window watching the rain!) This site might help as an alternative or backup
www.metoffice.gov.uk
Thanks Shirley, that's a new one for me :)
Well thats great news!! just looked at our area...not too bad, all the time I'm at work or asleep (nights again) then its horrid when I`m off.
Looks like the porch roof will have to stay leaking for a while longer yet I'm sure OH will be very happy with that!
Regards
Matt
I've just booked the double glazing guys to do their thing, so I can comfortably predict sub zero conditions and gales in Cheshire 26th to 30th Jan. :-\
Don't remember '63 was only 18mths at the time... but we lived on a farm at about 800' and some roads were cut off for five weels...
::)
Froglets, I am having my windows done this week, hence all this horrid wind and rain at the moment, you can blame me! :(
I remember the snow of '63 too, I was only little, only managed to walk to the end of the road and came home again, it was so deep - never seen snow like it since! It would be lovely for my children to experience it sometime!
Just realised that it will probably be really warm & sunny the weekend afterwards as I will be stuck indoors wallpapering & painting.
I was born late on in '63 & mum said she couldn't get me out in the pram until April - We used to regularly get cut off in the Scottish Borders, hence my store cupboard still even through the supermarkets are pretty much 24hr.
You youngsters have some odd memories of the winter of '63 :D. It didn't start late, the snow in the midlands began in the evening towards the end of December 1962 and it snowed continuously (and very heavily) for over twenty four hours. The temperature dropped and the same snow was still lying in places at the end of March. Roads were blocked and where the snow had drifted some of the lanes on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border were filled to a depth of about eight to ten feet :o
Working outside was not funny for the whole of the three months but people who had worked ouside during the winter of 1947 claimed that of 1963 was not as cold.
I was coming up to eight at the time (my birthday's round about now) : I think that's the year it snowed on Christmas Day and later on didn't the sea at Whitstable partially freeze?
We certainly were able to toboggan for a lot of the winter months.
The only other thing I remember is that 1963 is a very good year for vintage port!
am i the only one who's quite glad about global warming, only because of the warmer weather, obviously, I don't like what it's doing to the planet but it's better for me and my joints, and all the people who have mobility problems, :) :)
Larkspur is right the cold weather started on Boxing Day 1962 and it never got above freezing point until some time in March.
Must have been boxing day back in the early sixties, I was home on leave from the navy and I had a telegram telling me not to attempt to get back to my ship unless I could be sure I could make it. Went back in march, thats when the last of the snowman on the front lawn melted. ;D Me and a few others had the same idea, so we did not get put on a charge. Got flown down to Gibralta to rejoin the ship. Which then set sail for an Artic patrol. Now that was cold :(
Looks like it might get cold down here soon
Weather for Cowes
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2100 12°C SSW 23 mph 34 mph Moderate
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0000 12°C SSW 25 mph Moderate
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0600 11°C SW 23 mph Moderate
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