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I think it's the underground pipes outside the property, it's not just my cottage that is affected.
I think it's the underground pipes outside the property, it's not just my cottage that is affected.Nasty - can you get a blowtorch on them to melt the ice?
Further to that lesson, and the link I posted, here's a section from the same website that goes into greater detail regarding positive vorticity, which I mentioned:I thought I'd post a lesson this afternoon as I've found some information that clarifies some of the details of different types of high and low pressure areas, and I thought it might be of interest here. This is the link:
http://www.theweatherprediction.com/basic/pressuretypes/
I don't know what zone I'm in.......the frozen pipe zone!A couple of savage days in Lincs - couldn't get to work today and we're declared closed tomorrow - although snowfall not as bad as I recall in 2010. Stay in, warm and safe, all. @Blademonkey - are you in the red warning zone?
couple of savage days in Lincs - couldn't get to work today and we're declared closed tomorrow
The river Fal can be proper lumpy driving against an an ebb tide, tiz surprising! So I know what you mean about the road being easier.Managed to get to work at Immingham this morning but it was touch and go whether I'd manage the journey at one point. A bit of consolation, it was much easier driving back this evening with the roads being generally dry.
Easier than the job we did this evening on the Humber, with the wind driving the river against the ebb tide in to quite lumpy waters one doesn't usually expect on a river.
I take it you're another nautical person, BM?The river Fal can be proper lumpy driving against an an ebb tide, tiz surprising! So I know what you mean about the road being easier.P.
Time to take brief stock of the position today which is quite complex
At midnight the low is in the Bay of Biscay with the triple point south of the Brest Peninsula and a double warm front structure over southern England and in the Channel. Through the night these have continued to bring outbreaks of snow, freezing rain and rain to the south west and south with very strong winds winds, particularly in the south west where it has been gusting up to 55kts in Cornwall. A glance at the 00 soundings for Camborne and Herstmonceux quickly shows how the warm air has encroached and where the freezing rain is coming from
During the day the low has tracked north to be over the Scilly Isles at 1800 and the fronts have morphed into a wrap around occlusion which has tracked north into the Midlands along with another belt of snow which will affect Wales, Southern England and the Midlands and still very windy. Not forgetting in all of this conditions elsewhere, in particular the north east where conditions continue to be grim with a continuation of frequent snow showers and remaining very windy, and it goes without saying, bitterly cold as it does everywhere else apart from the far south west
Continuing from the above by 00 Saturday the low is slowly filling and the patchy snow continues to track north on the occlusion and by morning another widespread hard frost and still feeling bitterly cold in the strong wind The scenario of snow showers in the north east and patchy snow moving erratically north continues through Saturday but the complex upper trough is complicating matters with it's associated surface lows impinging on the south west and later in the day further snow, sleet and rain will affect that area. And by now less cold in the south than recently (not that difficult)
Over the next three days low pressure will dominate over the UK and it will become less cold generally with the biting wind abating although still cold in the north where more snow is likely. Elsewhere unsettled weather with outbreaks of sleet, snow and rain at times
This of course according to the GFS
The ecm also agreeing with it generally becoming less cold and tending towards a N/S split
No , not at all Chris but I have taken a boat from Falmouth to Truro and back a few time's and it can get some lumpy!I take it you're another nautical person, BM?
-5.5 to -6°C at mine yesterday, before wind chill.There was a new record low maximum temperature for a March day in England yesterday - Liscombe at -5.2C!
EDIT - actually Great Dun Fell had -7.7C which could be a new UK record!
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