What's Your Weather Like...? MK5...

Sunny spells today, 1C, but feeling much colder with a strong wind, now gale force. I'm glad I'm not out there!

 

Not here FC, but I must admit it's not normally this cold on the island this early in the winter season. It wouldn't suprise me if we see some snow this winter.

 

The Gulf stream switched off 2 winters ago & they didn't tell us. Have a google.

 

Not so much the Gulf stream FC as being surrounded by the sea which provides a sort of insulation. The only thing the Gulf stream does for us here - is rain, rain and more rain!

 

The temperature is on the rise here now, back up to exactly 0 degrees from -2.2 about 3 hours ago. Complete cloud cover now too spoiling any chance of seeing any shooting stars tonight....

Temperature is forecast to be up to 10-11 degrees for the next 2 days and then gradually falling back to 5 or 6 degrees by the middle of next week.......we'll see

 

It's about time you stopped playing with the switches Zigs and left well alone!

 

They can't get it right now Armandii, so there's no hope of getting a future prediction right either. I think we can safely guess it's more of the past in the future.

 

FC, it was Zigs playing with the switches, you know how he likes to experiment.

 

Watched that Big A and it was quite an eye opener. The only one I can personally attest to is the winter of 1963, my last year in school here before I moved to America in 1964. I lived in Bedfordshire at the time and walked to school in knee-deep snow ... okay, okay, I was only 4'8" tall but it was not pleasant I can assure you!

Edit: Let's change 'last year in school here' to ' last year in school there' ... forgot for a moment I am in Portugal where it is slightly warmer ...

 

I'm 37 and I must admit I do remember that we seemed to get proper snowfall with almost guarenteed regularity every winter up to around the late 80's/early 90's then we had a number of generally milder wetter winters. I remember when I was between 6 & 8 years old (1981/83) we had some horrendous snow storms, blizzards were common place, there were 6ft snow drifts covering entire hedegrows.

After several milder winters though; which were around 1990-95 we then again seemed to enter a period of colder winters again and we had heavy snow (but no blizzards and snow drifts) and temperatures as low as -12.

By the late 90's the milder wetter winters were back.

This sort of repetitive pattern has continued right up to the very cold winters of 2009 & 2010, when we experienced record low's of -18 degrees, I wouldn't be surprised if we enter another milder winter period soon.

I know this is not accurate data but personally I don't believe there is any great climate change, it seems more cyclic to me, however I've never exerienced snow like those 3 or 4 winters when I was a child again and I find it hard to believe I will again unless I visited a Country where it was common place...