Snow in December

Deadly Ferret · 7 Dec 2006 at 10:33

Will we have snow this month? There has to be some meteorology student on here with a complex equation to tell us the chance!

Whatever your affinity for the weather, do you think it will snow?

Prize of kudos to the first person to present a picture of where they have written OcUK in the snow this winter...

dayloon · 7 Dec 2006 at 10:35

I don't think we'll see much (if any) snow this winter. Hasn't it been one of the warmest winters on record so far ?

DannyDan · 7 Dec 2006 at 10:36

According to the radio yesterday: no snow this month but likely to be snow in Jan/Feb

Bitchplz · 7 Dec 2006 at 10:41

Driving Test on the 21st of December.... So aslong as the snow stays away till the 22nd im a happy dude

Helium_Junkie · 7 Dec 2006 at 10:42

I expect snow in march, earliest

Siliconslave · 7 Dec 2006 at 10:43

just had a ton of hail decent in surrey so it must be nearly cold enough, but it seems to be back to the torrential rain again

Macabre · 7 Dec 2006 at 10:44

Hope so, would rather snow than it raining all the time.

wordy · 7 Dec 2006 at 10:44

We've had a tiny amount in rotherham over the last couple of days, but it was raining before an after and not enough to settle either

Bitchplz · 7 Dec 2006 at 10:50

We actually have the sun out here....

Briton · 7 Dec 2006 at 11:29

Apparently it used to snow all the time in December when Christmas as we know it was invented...late 19th century. That's why we have the snowy scenes on the cards. Another example of continual climate change.

Red and White · 7 Dec 2006 at 11:38

just raining all the time here. no where near cold enough to snow. its around 9-10 degrees here today.

kaiowas · 7 Dec 2006 at 11:44

Proper snow never turns up this early in winter. February is your best bet.

touch · 7 Dec 2006 at 11:48

its already snowed quite a bit over scotlands hills

was enough for them to open for skiing/boarding a few weeks ago

Red and White · 7 Dec 2006 at 11:52

touch said:
its already snowed quite a bit over scotlands hills

was enough for them to open for skiing/boarding a few weeks ago

that pic looks like it was taken in 1978

leaskovski · 7 Dec 2006 at 12:12

Its a web cam! :rolleyes:

Now snow for christmas this year, but if you live up north on the hills you may see some at the weekend.

Guigsy · 7 Dec 2006 at 12:17

Briton said:
Apparently it used to snow all the time in December when Christmas as we know it was invented...late 19th century. That's why we have the snowy scenes on the cards. Another example of continual climate change.

Tis and example of climate change, but there was a known dip in temperatures for about 200 years, often dubbed the mini ice-age. Both history and some science have examples of how the temperature must have been a few degrees cooler in the 19th century. It clearly wasn't caused by humans. Thing is, we don't know if we are still recovering from the mini ice-age, or whether we're going in to a warm cycle. It's definitely warmer that it has been since modern records began at the moment.

The thing about weather is that it's very chaotic. It might drop by 10 degrees in two weeks (like it did after the summer heatwave) and we could still get snow. Predictions about it being hot/cold in a few months time are about as reliable as dice roll. Nobody can tell.

SgtTupac · 7 Dec 2006 at 12:21

Hope it snows, wanna give the Land Rover some abuse over the mountain

roboffer · 7 Dec 2006 at 12:29

I think you are are missing the point of this thread...

What happened about the escort?

Briton · 7 Dec 2006 at 12:41

Guigsy said:
Tis and example of climate change, but there was a known dip in temperatures for about 200 years, often dubbed the mini ice-age. Both history and some science have examples of how the temperature must have been a few degrees cooler in the 19th century. It clearly wasn't caused by humans. Thing is, we don't know if we are still recovering from the mini ice-age, or whether we're going in to a warm cycle. It's definitely warmer that it has been since modern records began at the moment.

...and the Romans used to grow grape vine in Yorkshire and the Vikings settled Greenland. We've had warmer periods before as well.

Guigsy said:
The thing about weather is that it's very chaotic. It might drop by 10 degrees in two weeks (like it did after the summer heatwave) and we could still get snow. Predictions about it being hot/cold in a few months time are about as reliable as dice roll. Nobody can tell.

True but that wont stop the doomsayers jumping up and blaming man made global warming every time there's 'unusual' weather.

Muban · 7 Dec 2006 at 17:54

Pfft I could have won it if you had created this thread before 17th November

As touch said we have had plenty snow up here already

(my car doesn't like the snow)