The most recent (init. 06Z Thursday) GFS run has temperatures of 2°C
with heavy rain for 12 and 18Z Saturday in the west Midlands. Even
the London area is only given 8°C. This will be record-breaking
stuff if it comes off. That reason alone is enough to make one doubt
it. The forecast 850 mb temp is about -1°C but even so....

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 07:56:31 -0700 (PDT), Tudor Hughes
wrote:

The most recent (init. 06Z Thursday) GFS run has temperatures of 2°C
with heavy rain for 12 and 18Z Saturday in the west Midlands. Even
the London area is only given 8°C. This will be record-breaking
stuff if it comes off.

I could do with some here in Dorset to help bed in the new stuff in
the garden. I noted here and there predictions of rain in the Midlands
but there seems some doubt about what we get down here.
I have decided to go round with the shower gadget and anything extra
from the sky will be a bonus..
R

Hilton

On 4 June, 15:56, Tudor Hughes wrote:
* The most recent (init. 06Z Thursday) GFS run has temperatures of 2°C
with heavy rain for 12 and 18Z Saturday in the west Midlands. *Even
the London area is only given 8°C. * This will be record-breaking
stuff if it comes off. *That reason alone is enough to make one doubt
it. *The forecast 850 mb temp is about -1°C but even so....

I thought yesterday that the setup had shades of 2nd June 1975.
Didn't a High then give glorious weather before it moved NW to let an
extraordinarily cold northerly (for that time of year, at least) in
"by the back door"?

I was living in NE England then and I remember the snow starting
around 18.00 hrs - and we had a good covering by 20.00. It was gone
the following morning and by the end of that week the temps were back
into the 70s

- Tom
Blackmore, SW Essex.

Thos wrote:

On 4 June, 15:56, Tudor Hughes wrote:
The most recent (init. 06Z Thursday) GFS run has temperatures of 2°C
with heavy rain for 12 and 18Z Saturday in the west Midlands. Even
the London area is only given 8°C. This will be record-breaking
stuff if it comes off. That reason alone is enough to make one doubt
it. The forecast 850 mb temp is about -1°C but even so....

I thought yesterday that the setup had shades of 2nd June 1975.
Didn't a High then give glorious weather before it moved NW to let an
extraordinarily cold northerly (for that time of year, at least) in
"by the back door"?

I was living in NE England then and I remember the snow starting
around 18.00 hrs - and we had a good covering by 20.00. It was gone
the following morning and by the end of that week the temps were back
into the 70s


The next morning, the snow was also heavy enough to give a covering in
Suffolk.

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