[Misc] The Award-winning official "More Snow Tomorrow?" Thread [2023-24 Season]

[The Modfather]

A few flakes in BN10 this morning

 

[mlg57]

Very very light snow in MK, as in I had to go to the Window and check just to be sure it was actually snowing.

 

[casbom]

Is this what it's going to be like in England from now on? Will it get progressively worse? I need to move.

The short answer in my Opinion is yes, Winters are going to be colder than what we've been used to. There has been a "flip" from about 2007 onwards towards Winters that were common place back in the 60's. I wouldn't be surprised to see a winter like 62-63 or 47 in the next 5 to 10 years. Reasons are various as to why but the main one I think is due to how quiet the sun is, as in not very many sunspots. Some scientists think it's going to get even "queiter" like the Maunder/Dalton minimum periods, which coincidentally was when the last mini ice age was!

 

[chucky1973]

FLUMPING it down huge in Crawley, almost like a white out with the wind.

please please stop now. your no fun anymore.

 

[The Modfather]

Larger snowflakes now in BN10. Getting really bored with this waether now

 

[Papa Lazarou]

The short answer in my Opinion is yes, Winters are going to be colder than what we've been used to. There has been a "flip" from about 2007 onwards towards Winters that were common place back in the 60's. I wouldn't be surprised to see a winter like 62-63 or 47 in the next 5 to 10 years. Reasons are various as to why but the main one I think is due to how quiet the sun is, as in not very many sunspots. Some scientists think it's going to get even "queiter" like the Maunder/Dalton minimum periods, which coincidentally was when the last mini ice age was!

The latest theories suggest that the reduced snow / ice cover over the northern Polar regions in the summer, and slow recovery during winter are disrupting the usually coherent polar vortex, and also affecting sea surface temperature patterns, which leads to increased high latitiude blocking and cold outbreaks at lower latitudes. This definitely supports more cold winters for us.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

the last paragraph in this Met Office article (from a couple of years ago) supports this.

Declining sea ice - Met Office

As an aside, our 4 or 5 cr@p summers in a row might be an ongoing symptom as well

 

[Wozza]

 

[willyfantastic]

can anyone tell me if the snow is settling in h. heath and how heavy its snowing?

 

[casbom]

The latest theories suggest that the reduced snow / ice cover over the northern Polar regions in the summer, and slow recovery during winter are disrupting the usually coherent polar vortex, and also affecting sea surface temperature patterns, which leads to increased high latitiude blocking and cold outbreaks at lower latitudes. This definitely supports more cold winters for us.

Yep definitely, which contradicts with what the Global Warming people have been withering on about!

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

the last paragraph in this Met Office article (from a couple of years ago) supports this.

Declining sea ice - Met Office

As an aside, our 4 or 5 cr@p summers in a row might be an ongoing symptom as well

Thanks, interesting.

No snow in BN1 by the way, sitting in my office enjoying the sun glaring through my window.

 

[HalifaxSeagull]

Lovely and sunny oop north this morning, but still very chilly and quite a lot of snow drifts about especially on the hills. It's my birthday on Monday and I do recall a few snowy days from past birthdays especially when I was young so I'm not sure it's an entirely recent thing.

 

[e77]

Currently snowing at Hove, keeping the covers on.

Snow is impacting the Cricket season!

 

[gripper stebson]

Seaford = FLUMPAGE.

 

[Hillian1]

Papa, make this weather stop or I will hunt you down.

It's in your hands now, know what I mean?

 

[WATFORD zero]

There's about 15 foot of snow here



but I am in a cafe in La Rosiere

 

[jakarta]

Message to Winter:

Thanks for the fun and frolics since November but you have now outstayed your welcome, can you please bugger off to the Southern Hemisphere for the next 6 months?

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

The award-winning official "More snow tomorrow?" thread [2012-13 season]

It's been changing between raining and flumping in Eastbourne - wish it would just do one now.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

It's been changing between raining and flumping in Eastbourne - wish it would just do one now.

It think this is it for the snow now... until the winter..

Having said that the latest GFS ensemble shows a huge variance in potential outcomes, even as early as middle of next week.

Meteociel - Diagrammes GEFS

there are some milder options in there, but nothing really summer like.. yet.

Meteociel - Diagrammes GEFS

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Yep definitely, which contradicts with what the Global Warming people have been withering on about!

? its exactly what the global warming people "wither on" about