Quite an active CB just north of me now at 14.15 shows on the webcam at Shoreham Airport http://www.shorehamairport.co.uk/webcam.asp Robbie

31 December 2005 Wokingham 0900z 240 09/18kt 27km 3Cu020 5Ci200 +7.0/+4.7 QFF 994.5 RMK 1Sc035 2Ac150 present. Showers overnight, but dry since 06z. (09-09) Max 9.8 Min 2.3 Grass min 2.4 Rain 10.6 Sun (00-24) 0.0 --

Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Friday 30th December http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_image/METEOSAT-8-1200-EUR.jpg NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.19 UTC on Friday 30th December http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/etc30/nl30-1219-b-uk.html Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC...

The indications for the next two weeks seems very depressing.... both warmer and wetter than normal it seems, yet again (see 1988, 1990, 1993-95 inclusive, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004). Often a change of weather around new year seems to set the pattern for the rest of the winter. So is it time to dismiss the Met Office forecast, forget about winter and start looking forward to spring? Nick

The 1cm snow cover I had overnight is now disappearing but it stillo counts as a day with snow cover. It's cold, it's raw, there's heavy rain with an unpleasant gusty wind and sloshing through slush on treacherous pavements isn't my idea of fun. Mild weather? Bring it on, anything's better than this! Oh, and there's a hole in my shoe which is letting in water, letting in water......

Gratuitous attempt to say something positive about the weather :) I have no empirical data to work with, but it seems to me this winter is shaping up as a much more "normal" one than recent years. Hereabouts, I don't think we've had more than one or two days since mid November with a day max in double figures. Even today, in the "mild" air that the forecasters have been promising us, Marham...

Will It? The new snappy name for uk.sci.weather forecasting service. Will suggested it a while ago so deserves to have his name included and there seemed a pretty positive response at the time. In light of recent events I'm fairly certain that we could have provided much more accurate local updates and interpretations to severe weather warnings, if nothing else. Was it just a tongue in cheek...

Happy New Year Please to say that I have a weather Cam now on line updating every 60 secs, on test at the moment. Need to add the time, yet to figure that out. http://www.wincantonweather.co.uk/page67.html and on front page www.wincantonweather.co.uk

Last night's min +6.6 deg. C Currently: Temp +8.2 deg. C, DP +4.4 deg. C. Wind 260 04 KT, Pressure 997 hPa (steady), RH 77%, precip. 2.6mm (so far today). We have escaped most of the showers so far, but currently -SHRA. Best wishes, Richard.

Brussels on Friday 30th December Bright for much of the morning - weak sun through altostratus. Gradually overcast by early afternoon with a fresh and gusty S to SSE wind. Slight snow from about 14.00 Brussels time. Snow got going in earnest at 15.30 and a real snowstorm raged for the next couple of hours or so: continuous moderate snow swept along by the wind. Snow changed to freezing...

The Frosted Earth forecast for January is as follows: January 2006 Quite a changeable month with low -pressure systems giving around 20 per cent above average rain. The month will be about average temperature wise or even slightly warmer than average so no prolonged frosty spells. Very changeable first half. Drier later on but some snow from north to north east winds towards the end.

Noting how quickly this mini cold snap is disappearing again,got me thinking about the longevity of similar past events. There's the usual big buildup from the Met Office announcing a Siberian blast on the way,the then ensuing North/Norwesterly,and three days later the change back to the Atlantic stuff....why?. And another thing ,what's happened to winter Lows moving up the Channel,giving...

I think that just about sets a record - it's been snowing here in Leysdown, north Kent for around two hours now. The temperature's currently 0.4C, having fallen from 1.5C at 6z this morning. The end must be near, but going by the GFS upper air charts it's currently -1C at 850hPa: http://217.160.75.104/wz/pics/Rmgfs032.gif http://217.160.75.104/wz/pics/Rmgfs062.gif

988.4 mb @ 01:17 31/12/2005 **** Happy Christmas **** & All the very best for the New Year -- James (ukjay) http://www.ukjay.co.uk

Today's max +1.3 deg. C Current (20:50 UTC) Temp -5.9 deg. C Dew point -7.2 deg. C RH 91% Wind Calm Pressure 1021 hPa

After the temperature being in double figures for 24 hours, it's currently down to 5.3 degrees (09:30). That compares with around 12 degrees at the same time yesterday, and as cold as it was at the front edge of the rain on the morning of 28th. Also 45.6mm of rain in 48 hours ending 09:00, (no longer a dry month) and a gust of 51mph last night. Graham

I just read the thread slapping the Met Office. I am sure that things have changed for the worse since the closure of many local area offices. On the other hand the move to automation means that the data for setting up the runs, comes in a lot sooner and a lot handier. It's just (and I am guessing) that the local areas when manned, supplied a moderation that was useful to the men higher up the...

http://theyr.net/cg/cny/I6a44b6/F=js*NA Just stumbled across it..... may be common knowledge but it's a new one on me. Les -- Remove Frontal Lobes to reply.

UKMO have brought a whole new meaning to the term "Lying Snow" Mark my words.

A slow thaw. Quite murky. At 9:30z:- 8/8 Sc/St, base of lowest layer c.450 metres. Temperature 1.1°C falling from a high of 2.0°C at 07:15z. Dew point 1.1°C.