Badkitten's 'will it snow at Christmas?' thread

[OhYouMerryLittleKitten]

Just for fun

GFS had Christmas Day in sight now. Of course it's massively a long way off in forecast terms and it can't even make its mind up what is going to happen on Friday yet!

disclaimer: am only an amateur and this is my hobby. Please don't rely on it for any crucial decisions - I don't want you to get into pickles cos I got it wrong!

And now for the forecast......

[DamnDeDoubtance]

Any possibility of snow for the south east? I am in east kent.

[tak1ngchances]

Vanished the Pest from the West, kitten ? I thought it was a dead cert that we'd be wet & mild by Friday all over the country

[DamnDeDoubtance]

What about the beast from the east?

[OhYouMerryLittleKitten]

Now GFS is going for a full on raining pouring day with temps ranging from 3c in the east to around 10c in the west. awful!

Basically, the pest wins from this weekend :(

[BelleDameSousMistletoe]

Rather rain than snow...

[Snazzyfeelingfestive]

Marking place to hear more. Light snow from Christmas Eve but clearing up by the 27th would be my ideal. North west.

[TeWisBeenNargledByTheMistletoe]

Boo, come on snow!

[TobyLerone]

It can snow now but it needs to clear up by the New Year. I'm getting married on 12th Jan and it would be awful if people stayed away because of the weather :(

[SledsImOn]

Rather a blizzard in parts of Kent this morning apparently. Not here - but down the road.

I'm

[HoHoHoMoreBaubles]

i really really want it to snow but i doubt it will here in the NW... to all of those who do get snow!

[fatsatsuma]

Kitten, what has happened to the lovely cold weather we were supposed to have for the next two months??
AIBU to be totally depressed by the turn the forecast is taking?

[OhYouMerryLittleKitten]

YANBU fatsatsuma.
I'm not quite sure what is going wrong at the moment, other than the euro high is drifting away a bit and allowing the Atlantic to move in more. I need a bit more of a brain to analyse why that is ( a bit too drifty on co-codamol just at the moment to make my brain work properly)

[TeWisBeenNargledByTheMistletoe]

It is very very cold and pretty foggy here in the middle bit. Just no precip!

[OhYouMerryLittleKitten]

freezing fog here. ugh.

[TeWisBeenNargledByTheMistletoe]

At least we're inside!

And I saw a crane (bird!) on the roof of our house this am - it seemed very out of place in England in December.

[OhYouMerryLittleKitten]

oh wow! A crane and not a stork? I'm sure that means something in Poland, but cant remember what....

[TeWisBeenNargledByTheMistletoe]

I'm pretty sure! It was massive, flew off before I managed to get a picture. We are near a small wetland nature reserve.

[BelleDameSousMistletoe]

Wow! We've got some herons nearby - they are huuuuuge!

OYBBK - sorry about the co-codamol requirement. Hope you are ok?

[OhYouMerryLittleKitten]

Herons are funny creatures. Our neighbour once declared war on them cos of his pond and strung the whole of his garden with fishing wire. How they could walk around without being garroted I'll never know!
belledame - I'm not great, but attempting to muddle through. I shant litter this thread with moans!

[mathanxiety]

Give me rain any day. Not a downpour, more a light drizzle.

[fatsatsuma]

Sorry you're having a bad time kitten. I would give you a [bunch of flowers] but I don't know how to do it on my phone.

[BelleDameSousMistletoe]

I like the herons. I like crows and magpies too though. I put food down for little birds at one end of the garden and big birds at the other.

Hope you're better soon.

[mathanxiety]

One of my mum's favourite Christmas memories is from the Christmas when I was about 3 months old. She heard a bird commotion in the garden and discovered a huge flock of migrating waxwings feasting on cotoneaster berries. It must have been a bad year for berries in northern Europe that year.

and Kitten..

[denialandpanic]

[Labradorlover]

Had a flock of waxwings hang about the garden for an hour last winter. Had never seen them before...they are beautiful......