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......

If anyone lives on the west coast, then we are due an absolute BEAST of a swell this weekend. Get your cameras out and go storm watching!

Cool Ariel!

What a shocker of a model run this time showing Christmas Day to be a mild stormy very wet affair. Bah humbug!

Btw thank you :)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO......not wet and windy.

Pah, pah and double pah.

Hope you are feeling better today oymlk.

OK Kitten - can you help with our outlook please? Leaving Southampton (on a ship!) on the 22nd for a week, calling into Bruges/Amsterdam/Copenhagen and Gotherburg. Please tell me the sea isn't going to be like a rollercoaster!

Aj, is it a big ship with good stabilisers and a well stocked pharmacy?
Are you on the ship for the whole week?

Morning all,

Looking wet, mild and very windy in parts for Christmas Day. Not the sort of forecast I like typing out!

Silly weather.

Pah, it seems the timing was out by a couple of weeks, this frosty spell we've just had would have been perfect over Christmas! I bet it's super cold and frosty the week after Christmas, it seems to swing from cold and clear to wet and rainy... I guess it's the European highs battling with the Atlantic lows

Tis exactly that kind of thing! :)

The sky is full of bloody snow waiting to attack fall from the look of things.

Arf at "well stocked pharmacy"

Is this the travelling-up-hill-and-down-dale weather thread as well Kitten?

(it's me Bucharest, from south Italy,flying into Stansted next Monday afternoon and dp on 23rd)

I look forward to you getting me home every year!

Oh dear kitten - that good eh?!!

Certainly can be the travelling-up-hill-and-down-dale thread. Luckily for you all I've been signed off work til Christmas, so apart from the fact I'm rather drugged and could spout random nonsense and need to make sure that i do the resting ive been told to do I'm all yours.

Will just have a look.....

Looking rather windy off the the south west tip of Italy on Monday and wet with a yucky low pressure. England looks fine for travel though at the moment, mild and maybe a bit showery. 23rd at the moment looks again low pressure dominated, not too bad in Italy, wet weather and windy weather moving in from the sw of England later on. Remind me closer to the time for that as things will change I'm sure.

Aj yes, Fraid so.

Very Nasty storm now showing for the south on Boxing Day. It's rare that I see one looking like that tbh and I hope the models have lost the plot a bit because if it were to happen it would be the sort that gets remembered for years to come.

Do you think people would like it if I asked mn to sticky this thread or would it be massively big headed and go horribly wrong given that I'm just an amateur?

Shit!

Well hopefully that will mean I don't have to tramp all over the country visiting all and sundry and can stay put in front of the TV. Assuming there's power

No, sticky sticky sticky! :o I'm watching anyway, but I think lots of people would be interested in this thread cos we luffs you Kitten :)

Ooh yes Kitten sticky the thread. . I love your reports as they are so much more accurate than flaming BBC or Met Office.

Now, you're sure we won't get snow in central England on Christmas Day?

Do you mean a wind type storm? And I guess you couldn't forecast the wind direction at this stage?

Actually reading that back it sounds like I'm saying no sticky.

Poor punctuation!

I meant No! Sticky! sticky! Sticky!

:o

ajandjj, that sounds like a fab trip! May I ask who you're travelling with please? Is it a set cruise,or a normal shippping line?

Very Nasty storm now showing for the south on Boxing Day

Are we talking a snow storm, rain and floods or high winds type of nasty storm oybbk ?

Poncy, very high winds unfortunately. Fortunately though there's loads of times for the models to change and I don't think I've ever known them to be anything like accurate for that sort of event so far away in time.

Singing, at this point in time I'm sure. Scottish hills would be lucky at this rate!