michael N123
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Collies where useless for some reasonTerrier earned it's keep that winter!
Collies where useless for some reasonTerrier earned it's keep that winter!
I think @MrNoo follows these things.He might have an idea.I think this story has legs , many were forecasting a cold winter , now the wind is coming from the East , best get some logs cut
Yes, SSW happened, downwelling normally takes a while but they seem to think that due to the lack of strength of the jetstream then downwelling will be quicker. Models are pretty much all over the place currently (due to this, they dont know how to deal with a SSW) but I suspect they will eventually sort themselves out, there is supposed to be another SSW in mid/late Jan too. A SSW can lead to a split in the polar vortex and wind reversal for us, so instead of a normal Westerly we get an Easterly but it isnt an exact science.There was a SSW detected about 2 days ago.It displaces the very cold air over the Arctic about 2-4 weeks later,but they cant really forecast which unfortunate area will end up with the extreme cold.Sometimes the cold air mass splits in two.
Collies where useless for some reason
I thought northern ireland got drifting snow in 2013Have never had drifting snow here in my life. Not since '64, I think it was dad said. His aunt and uncle live in a lane hedged on both sides for about half a mile, full of snow. That was a long dig with nothing but shovels.
Mind you, I'm a lot less worried about snow than I am about cold. That week of -16 nights and -8 days we had in 2010 was a complete ballox when running a milking farm plus babies. All drinkers frozen for ages. One tap supplied 400 cattle with water that week via shifting it around in an Ibc on the forks. Insane the length of time it took for water lines frozen underground to start moving. Some of them were another week after the thaw began.
The French may still continue to supply you with nuclear power. Vive la France!!They soon stoked up the massive Aberthaw coal power station in the last event.
Being decommissioned now so stuffed.
The lights will be going out!
Have a lab here that sniffs out walnuts that the squirrels bury, digs them up and eats them!!have spaniel cross now that can sniff out moles
I thought northern ireland got drifting snow in 2013
Sheep get shut in for the first few storms up here, once the deep bits are drifted in itās ok to throw them back out.
Thatās a fairly tame day.That view out the door would make a cracking lockdown jigsaw puzzle !
Any update on the possibility of a ācolder than average period towards the end of the monthā.
I do realise that the UK does have winter and that it beggars belief how the media successfully hype society up in to an almost frenzy when temps below freezing are forecast and thatās before mentioning the word snow!!!
Aye, during the beast from the east, son & I set off to get milk to some of our outlying shops.in the farm pickup.Driving by watching out the side window at the edge of the road is quite entertaining!
Driving by watching out the side window at the edge of the road is quite entertaining!
Yeah... if you are able to put your head out of the window, it isnāt too bad.Aye, during the beast from the east, son & I set off to get milk to some of our outlying shops.in the farm pickup.
Got hairy at times.Couple of occasions he had his head out of the window shouting left a bit , right a bit. Which silly twit abanded their car there. & other similar comments