On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:57:51 -0700 (PDT)
haaark wrote:

I take back my knee-jerk reaction to PG's surprise at our present
synoptic set-up. The reasons for it are obvious. The climate norms of
he and his colleagues budding youthful interest in the weather
coincided with the relatively benign couple of decades that ended in
2007. The norms of my youth were the late 50s and 60s. The Marches to
September of 1956,57,58,62,63,65,66 and so on, were dominated by
disturbed weather-often severely so. No-one would have remarked on a
deep depression with buckets of rain sitting directly over us in any
month of those years.
Sadly the 20-odd relatively pleasant years are now a distant memory,
and I think their return is pretty unlikely while I'm around.
The new norm is the old one, so we'd all better get used to the
idea.

The following may be of some interest. It seems this situation of a
deep, slow-moving low over the country is the worst since 1981.
Elsewhere, it is noted that the lowest pressure so far recorded is 973.

http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2...her-to-the-uk/

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