Poll: Winter 2021/22 - Will we see lots of snow?

What will we see this winter?

  • Snow blizzards and minus 50 degrees

    Votes: 60 15.5%

  • Drizzle and wind

    Votes: 241 62.4%

  • Hurricane Pancakes

    Votes: 72 18.7%

  • Highest xxxx since records began

    Votes: 78 20.2%
  • Total voters
    386
bingham67 said:
Is it going to snow in the next few weeks we need @Rroff

Hopefully not as im off to Liverpool.
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I'm leery of making much of a call on it at the moment - aside from the UK Met most of the models have been hopeless beyond 24-30 hours this year to the point it makes little sense they've struggled so much. Met generally goes for cold patches but not super cold with little snow except over high ground and sporadic snow showers.

Generally with the strength of the polar vortex/jet stream it seems to be keeping the cold mostly away from us and that likely won't break down in the next couple of weeks - if we are going to have any wintery weather of note it will probably be back loaded.
 
As your faithful reporter from near the Arctic circle, i can safely say I am still seeing lots of snow.
Enough snow that I'm am considering buying a snow spreading machine to help speed up the clearance :p
 
... mens moguls temp was -18C , but it's dry like the arctic so, all, artificial snow ... unlike the arctic ?

Cambridgeshire roads regularly receiving lots of salt ... which the bike chain testifies too.
 
Efour said:
As your faithful reporter from near the Arctic circle, i can safely say I am still seeing lots of snow.
Enough snow that I'm am considering buying a snow spreading machine to help speed up the clearance :p
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Spread some of it this way please, it looks like being the second (or is it third?) winter in a row where not a single flake has fallen from the skies

jpaul said:
... mens moguls temp was -18C , but it's dry like the arctic so, all, artificial snow ... unlike the arctic ?

Cambridgeshire roads regularly receiving lots of salt ... which the bike chain testifies too.
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Aye the gritters are diligently shotblasting the stuff everytime it feels a bit nippy though it hardly ever gets cold enough for even a touch of frost on the grass anymore, but its happily eating its way through the car's underseal, got to get all those nasty CO2 emitting machines off the road and into a scrapyard by 2030 I guess
 
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Looks like Friday could be interesting for some - parts of Scotland and to a limited extent northern England could see some proper blizzards.

Doesn't look like much on offer for us in the south though (though those wind speeds look nasty with some 80+MPH gusts for parts of the south...).
 
Doesn't sound fun at all - was meant to be out on a site visit just to the west of the New Forest and yeah travelling down Friday morning from London will be dangerous so hopefully it'll be postponed!
 
Latest UK Met data has the gusts at around 100MPH as it hits the South West, with it still holding in the 90s along parts of the South Coast... not looking good at all.
 
Rroff said:
Latest UK Met data has the gusts at around 100MPH as it hits the South West, with it still holding in the 90s along parts of the South Coast... not looking good at all.
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Well that will be the damned roof pulled off the shed again then, happens every darned storm we get on the south coast. Have to re-felt it each time.
 
I'm in South Wales.
Dudley is bad enough.

Dudley - 50mph gusts
Eunice - 80mph gusts.


Bringing the chickens in to the house on Thursday night. If it is 80mph gusts the neighbours newly installed wooden fence is in danger of going for sure.

And so are my hens
 
Eunice is bringing very strong / severe winds inland for a majority of England and Wales...not just the exposed or coastal regions.

I live on the South Coast and I've just seen a weather model suggesting that 90mph gusts are now possible. I do not recall it ever getting near that within the last 20 years. I've witnessed 70-80mph at most and that was ferrous enough.

The strongest winds will also coincide with a local high tide around midday of 7.1m.

I remember being evacuated from primary school during 'The Burns Day' storm of January 1990. Watching a work trailer being slowly tossed across the playground.
 
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