The Weather thread

[Eisegerwind]

Well, that's been a great May, and a good start to June, even getting some of that warm rain they get abroad. I'm still depending on the BBC for my forecasts although I have heard tell of someone on twitter or whatever called Windy something who is really good. Hopefully might get some nice thunderstorms in the next couple of days.

[hampden_loon2878]

18 minutes ago, Eisegerwind said:

Well, that's been a great May, and a good start to June, even getting some of that warm rain they get abroad. I'm still depending on the BBC for my forecasts although I have heard tell of someone on twitter or whatever called Windy something who is really good. Hopefully might get some nice thunderstorms in the next couple of days.

The weather patern this year has been completely different to any i can remember, in so much that the Atlantic has had very little influence, hence why there has been more winds from the east/continent. The water temperature in the noth sea is 4-5c lower just now than this time last year which is very strange. The last model runs have the weather much the same for the next two weeks, with high pressure having a massive influence, i hope this weather pattern keeps up as we will have a dry ofren hot summer and not the washouts ones of the past decade

[Eisegerwind]

Where are you getting this info?

[Toepoke]

Two great bank holidays in May. Long may it continue, although the jetstream will budge at some point.

However the settled high pressure looks like being with us for the next week too

[Lairdyfaeinverclyde]

Whatever happened to Heather who done the weather on STV. Think Sean Batty took her gig?

[Eisegerwind]

4 minutes ago, Lairdyfaeinverclyde said:

Whatever happened to Heather who done the weather on STV. Think Sean Batty took her gig?

This post is useless without pics.

[Lairdyfaeinverclyde]

3 minutes ago, Eisegerwind said:

This post is useless without pics.

Will a video do you?

BBC not STV

Edited June 2, 2018 by Lairdyfaeinverclyde

[Toepoke]

9 minutes ago, Lairdyfaeinverclyde said:

Whatever happened to Heather who done the weather on STV. Think Sean Batty took her gig?

She was on the BBC.  Now works in education...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Reid

(Both her and Sean are Paisley Buddies though).

 

[Lairdyfaeinverclyde]

1 minute ago, Toepoke said:

She was on the BBC.  Now works in education...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Reid

(Both her and Sean are Paisley Buddies though).

 

Cheers, she was always a chirpy girl.  

[Eisegerwind]

9 minutes ago, Lairdyfaeinverclyde said:

Will a video do you?

BBC not STV

Cool, Ive seen Batty, mother in law likes him.

[hampden_loon2878]

13 minutes ago, Eisegerwind said:

Where are you getting this info?

The weatheroutlook is a great site once you find you way about the site, xc weather  is easy in your face forecast, heres hoping the Atlantic doesnt charge up and keeps idle as it has been for the 6 months

[Eisegerwind]

What a fantastic evening. Warm, light,beautiful.

[Eisegerwind]

Raining.

 

 

[Orraloon]

8 hours ago, Eisegerwind said:

What a fantastic evening. Warm, light,beautiful.

 

8 hours ago, Eisegerwind said:

Raining.

 

 

You do know that telling us what the weather is like now, isn't exactly forecasting (or even interesting), don't you?

[TDYER63]

I am in Ibiza 🎼ooncha ooncha ooncha🎼so dont give a fook 🙂, and nae hornets so even better, though we have had some of that warm rain Eisergerwind mentioned last night. 

But yes, the weather at home has been great , the evenings with actual heat, makes me think I did not just dream up the summers of my childhood.  

 

[Eisegerwind]

1 hour ago, Orraloon said:

 

You do know that telling us what the weather is like now, isn't exactly forecasting (or even interesting), don't you?

Firstly I never said it was forecasting, secondly I find it very hard to believe its not interesting and thirdly its very warm but a bit damp at the moment.

[Mox]

I've nothing to back up this assertion, but in the last 10 - 12 years, it has always felt as though May has been the best month for warm weather and then it takes a nose dive for the rest of the summer.

[Orraloon]

1 hour ago, Eisegerwind said:

Firstly I never said it was forecasting, secondly I find it very hard to believe its not interesting and thirdly its very warm but a bit damp at the moment.

Thanks for the update.

That was an hour ago, what's it like now?

[Toepoke]

3 hours ago, Mox said:

I've nothing to back up this assertion, but in the last 10 - 12 years, it has always felt as though May has been the best month for warm weather and then it takes a nose dive for the rest of the summer.

Aye the aforementioned jetstream has a tendency to head south in July.  One exception I can think of was in 2014 at the start of the Commonwealth Games we had a lengthy spell of taps aff weather.

 

[Toepoke]

Looks like the high pressure is going to be stuck over us for at least another week

How long til we can declare a drought?

[Squirrelhumper]

2 minutes ago, Toepoke said:

Looks like the high pressure is going to be stuck over us for at least another week

How long til we can declare a drought?

When was the last hosepipe ban?

[sbcmfc]

On 6/3/2018 at 10:48 AM, Mox said:

I've nothing to back up this assertion, but in the last 10 - 12 years, it has always felt as though May has been the best month for warm weather and then it takes a nose dive for the rest of the summer.

I’d go back to the mid 90s. Always seemed to be decent weather around exam time through School and Uni.

IIRC we got it nice earlier, in April last year, then a crap summer.

2013 I remember was nice June and July.

[Toepoke]

21 minutes ago, Squirrelhumper said:

When was the last hosepipe ban?

Widespread in Scotland, probably 1976?

 

[Squirrelhumper]

3 hours ago, Toepoke said:

Widespread in Scotland, probably 1976?

 

Must be after that as I can remember them as a kid in the late 80s/90s but maybe not widespread across full country.

[hampden_loon2878]

4 hours ago, Squirrelhumper said:

When was the last hosepipe ban?

I said to the wife about 3 weeks ago that if this pattern does not change then we might be heading for a hose pipe ban, maybe a bit dramatic but I haven’t seen the Atlantic so quite.