A colleague in the office here just sent me two images...

1. 24th January 1947
http://www.eppingweather.co.uk/ (Go to Winter of 1947 bottom RH)

2. 26th January 2006
From Met Offices very own charts.
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather/charts/index.html
T+72

There not a million miles apart.

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net

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"Keith (Southend)G" writes:
A colleague in the office here just sent me two images...

1. 24th January 1947
http://www.eppingweather.co.uk/ (Go to Winter of 1947 bottom RH)

2. 26th January 2006
From Met Offices very own charts.
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather/charts/index.html
T+72

There not a million miles apart.



But one is actual, the other only a forecast, If you wind back 3 days,
does the chart for 21st Jan 1947 look similar to today's?
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Never eat at a place called Mom's.
Never sleep with a woman whose troubles
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On 23 Jan 2006 02:27:56 -0800, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote:

A colleague in the office here just sent me two images...

1. 24th January 1947
http://www.eppingweather.co.uk/ (Go to Winter of 1947 bottom RH)

2. 26th January 2006
From Met Offices very own charts.
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather/charts/index.html
T+72

There not a million miles apart.

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net

I've been looking at this 1947 section for a couple of weeks now - and
indeed the charts and readings have been remarkably similar.
Of course the Camden Square site, even in 1947, would have been a lot
warmer than rural areas.

It would be interesting to see how much warmer an identical synoptic
set-up would be compared with 59 years ago!

On 23 Jan 2006 02:27:56 -0800, Keith (Southend)G wrote in
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A colleague in the office here just sent me two images...

1. 24th January 1947
http://www.eppingweather.co.uk/ (Go to Winter of 1947 bottom RH)

2. 26th January 2006
From Met Offices very own charts.
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather/charts/index.html
T+72

One striking difference between conditions in the middle of last century
and now is the sea temperature. The current chart:

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/brack5.html

shows the North Sea about 2 degrees warmer than the "mean" then, and
between 1 and 2 degrees warmer to our west and north e.g. the 5 degree
isotherm near Iceland then seems to have been replaced by the 7 degree now!

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Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 23/01/2006 10:59:26 UTC