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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 845 ✭✭✭tylercollins




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    They just can't help themselves

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/569946/Weather-Britain-sun-three-month-heatwave-summer-spring
    The UK will be HOTTER than Bondi Beach with a five-day heatwave starting on Monday - smashing the record for the hottest day of the year.

    Forecasters predict temperatures to reach 23C before they soar to 28C - bringing revellers the country's hottest ever early super-summer.

    Sun-starved Britons are expected to flock to the beaches over May bank holidays and festival goers will bask in the glorious sunshine over Glastonbury from June 24 to 28 and other major events including Wimbledon from June 29 to July 12 and the FA Cup final on May 30.

    The Met Office said Wednesday is shaping up to be the hottest day of the year so far beating the 71.4F (21.9C) recorded in London on Friday.

    Roasting air sweeping in from the Mediterranean on Tuesday will lift temperatures higher than Mallorca, the Costa Del Sol and even rivalling Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia (24C).


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    The Mirror and The Sun have also reported the same nonsense. I hate these articles that pop up EVERY Summer, and how many three month heatwaves do we experience? The same number as the biggest blizzard on record we should get every winter according to their sources!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 306 ✭✭lovelyhurler


    Fancy that... temperatures rise during the months of June, July and August, and falls during the months of November, December and January.
    Who knew???????????????
    :rolleyes::


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Hooter23


    One killed, several injured as summer storm sweeps across the Netherlands
    One man was killed in the severe summer storm which swept across much of the Netherlands on Saturday. The man died when a tree was blown down and hit the car he was sitting in next to the Bilderberg hotel in Wolfheze near Arnhem, news agency ANP reported. Other people were injured in Amsterdam, Apeldoorn and Rotterdam, broadcaster Nos said, and there was severe disruption to public transport. Winds of up to 110 kph battered the country on Saturday afternoon, with the strongest gust – 121 kph – registered at the port of IJmuiden.  Weather bureau Weeronline said the gales were the strongest recorded in the summer since official records began in 1901.

    http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2015/07/one-killed-several-injured-as-summer-storm-sweeps-across-the-netherlands/


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Hooter23


    Iran city hits suffocating heat index of 165 degrees, near world record
    Wherever you live or happen to travel to, never complain about the heat and humidity again.

    In the city of Bandar Mahshahr (population of about 110,000 as of 2010), the air felt like a searing 165 degrees (74 Celsius) today factoring in the humidity.

    [Iran’s heat index is literally off the charts, and this is what it feels like]

    Although there are no official records of heat indices, this is second highest level we have ever seen reported.

    To achieve today’s astronomical heat index level of 165, Bandar Mahshahr’s actual air temperature registered 115 degrees (46 Celsius) with an astonishing dew point temperature of 90 (32 Celsius).

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/07/30/iran-city-hits-suffocating-heat-index-of-154-degrees-near-world-record/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,684 ✭✭✭Darwin


    I read that article about Iran somewhere else - they interviewed some guy who said his clothes were dry by the time he had them hung on the washing line :eek:

    On the subject of heat records, Nice (France) had it's warmest ever night on record last night - 28c at 3am.

    http://www.nicematin.com/nice/meteo-la-nuit-la-plus-chaude-jamais-enregistree-a-nice.2305066.html

    Not in the same ballpark as Iran obviously. Same again tonight, not looking forward to it without any AC!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    The heat in the Med is presumably being trapped by the jet stream pushing south at the warm air. Meanwhile we sit in the ****e. :( Not that I want those temps of course. 20 would do me! :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Hooter23


    SHOCK WARNING: Strongest El Nino in HISTORY could bring SIX MONTHS of storms to BritainTHE STRONGEST El Nino in recorded history could lead to Britain being battered by SIX MONTHS of violent storms....
    Climate scientists warned temperatures in the Pacific have increased by THREE degrees Fahrenheit in recent weeks as ocean winds have weakened. 

    The so-called El Nino phenomenon, which has a huge impact on the world's weather, has only been stronger twice before in recorded history - the last time in 1997, when a series of violent 100MPH Atlantic storms slammed into the UK. 

    And experts claimed this year's El Nino is STILL strengthening and could soon break all historical records with the extreme weather patterns lastng until next Spring - meaning Britain could face one of the worst winter storm seasons in living memory. 

    Meteorologist Leon Brown, of The Weather Channel UK, said the super-strength El Nino could even dislodge the jetstream, leading to more unstable weather in the UK this autumn. 

    He said: "A more mobile weather pattern through winter increases the risk of a wetter, stormier season in the UK. 

    “The biggest impact of El Nino is around the tropics as we have started to see with a greater number of tropical storms

    “However it is a very powerful phenomenon and has knock-on effects across the globe in America, Asia, Australia and Europe.

    “There are signs that this year a significant El Nino is building. We think it could drive a strong jetstream which can lead to a more mobile weather pattern and  very changeable and stormy weather as we head into winter."
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/593648/Weather-Warning-El-Nino-storms-autumn-winter-Britain


    I think last time this happened winter 97/98 was the year we got that big storm after christmas day was worst storm i can remember..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Oh stop. the Express and its pathetic weather porn.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Hooter23


    Oh stop. the Express and its pathetic weather porn.

    Haha :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭BuilderPlumber


    Hooter23 wrote: »
    SHOCK WARNING: Strongest El Nino in HISTORY could bring SIX MONTHS of storms to BritainTHE STRONGEST El Nino in recorded history could lead to Britain being battered by SIX MONTHS of violent storms....

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/593648/Weather-Warning-El-Nino-storms-autumn-winter-Britain


    I think last time this happened winter 97/98 was the year we got that big storm after christmas day was worst storm i can remember..

    1997 was surely the worst year of weather I remember. Awful wet summer and awful wet and windy winter. That Christmas hurricane force storm was the worst storm I remember along with the February 2014 one. However, I do not remember a conclusive warning about either. Or if it was caused by el Nino. I was in Clonmel the time of that storm in 1997 but recall talking to people from Cavan, Leitrim and Longford and my home area of Offaly/Laois saying it was not as bad there as further south.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭BuilderPlumber


    Loughc wrote: »
    The Mirror and The Sun have also reported the same nonsense. I hate these articles that pop up EVERY Summer, and how many three month heatwaves do we experience? The same number as the biggest blizzard on record we should get every winter according to their sources!

    Very right. Yeah, I recall that after the awful prolonged snow and ice period of the end of 2010, there was talk it would come back in January of 2011. And then February. And then March. It didn't. Then, in around this time in 2011, there was predictions the coming winter would be worse than 2010. 2011/12 was a very mild winter. 2012/13 the same. 2013/14 was the worst one since 2010 but not for snow reasons: hurricane force winds. And 2014/15 passed off without incident. But a bit of cold weather before Christmas sparked off once again the media to predict a repeat of 2010 that did not happen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,810 ✭✭✭Calibos


    IIRC, those following Winters were indeed almost as bad as 2010, 100 miles
    >thataway

    I remember being incredibly frustrated at the time. Wales snowed under just 50 miles across the Irish Sea

    http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/snow-and-ice/snow-cover/ea/20121001-20130331

    Feb 2012 and January 2013 a week or two of snow across the water.

    Going on the short amount of time I've spent on Netweather during Snow events, one got the impression that the British snowbunnies feel shortchanged when it comes to snow events. They don't know how lucky they have it. Only one out of every 3 they get make it that last 100 miles or so west over to us.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Hooter23


    This headline from april and as usual its turns out the opposite of what they predict...

    UK weather: Britain to sizzle in three-month heatwave with temperatures reaching 28C

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-weather-britain-sizzle-three-month-5504384


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Hooter23 wrote: »
    This headline from april and as usual its turns out the opposite of what they predict...

    UK weather: Britain to sizzle in three-month heatwave with temperatures reaching 28C

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-weather-britain-sizzle-three-month-5504384

    Same as for the usual winter headlines, Britain set to FREEZE over with coldest winter on records. And the coldest it gets is -2. :P


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Hooter23


    “We Are Now Starting To See A Dramatic Cooling In The Arctic”, Says Former NOAA Meteorologist …”Extremely Cold” From 2025 To 2050!
    Trillions are being spent on the completely wrong scenario, an independent veteran meteorologist implies. Instead of warming, we need to worry about the coming 125-year cool period, which has already begun.

    A former National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist has spoken out in a just released 49-minute video that looks at climate change and what lies ahead.

    The recent cold winters and expanding polar ice caps are ominous signs of a global cooling that has already begun, maintains David Dilley, now President and Founder of Global Weather Oscillations, Inc. Claims of warming have not been properly founded.

    Photo right: David Dilley, Global Weather Oscillations

    Dilley has forty-two years of professional experience in the meteorology and climatology and many publications. He was with NOAA for twenty years. Not only is the government wrong with its claims of a coming warming, Dilley accuses the federal government of fiddling with global temperature data with the aim of producing a false picture of what is going on.

    In his must-see video presentation dubbed “Is Climate Change Dangerous?“, he examines the many drivers and factors behind climate change and why we need to focus on the real problem of a coming cooling.

    Video included in link - http://notrickszone.com/2015/08/12/now-starting-to-see-a-dramatic-cooling-in-the-arctic-says-former-noaa-meteorologist-extremely-cold-from-2025-to-2050/#sthash.rQNLcA7Z.dpbs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭BuilderPlumber


    Hooter23 wrote: »
    “We Are Now Starting To See A Dramatic Cooling In The Arctic”, Says Former NOAA Meteorologist …”Extremely Cold” From 2025 To 2050!



    Video included in link - http://notrickszone.com/2015/08/12/now-starting-to-see-a-dramatic-cooling-in-the-arctic-says-former-noaa-meteorologist-extremely-cold-from-2025-to-2050/#sthash.rQNLcA7Z.dpbs

    One minute, it is global warming. Then, it is global cooling. But what is true and what is not? :confused:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,892 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    weather program on bbc news 24 now


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,892 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    weather watch bbc news 10.30am today


  • Registered Users Posts: 514 ✭✭✭gerrybhoy




  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Schadenfreudia


    gerrybhoy wrote: »

    That's not scaremongering....that's making promises that won't be delivered!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Schadenfreudia


    Meteorologists and oceanographers warn plunging ocean temperatures in the Atlantic are at the root of the crisis.

    It seems the "crisis" is already upon us.....I really liked this picture which apparently illustrates "plunging ocean temperatures"

    t124r8K.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,238 ✭✭✭Oneiric 3


    It seems the "crisis" is already upon us.....I really liked this picture which apparently illustrates "plunging ocean temperatures"

    t124r8K.jpg

    Indeed. When I see that image I just think 'plunging temps and food shortages'

    New Moon



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Every year the Express makes the same two predictions - 3 months of winter ice and snow, and a scorchio and/or drought summer. Every year the same people complain me included ! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,867 ✭✭✭sparrowcar




  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Schadenfreudia


    sparrowcar wrote: »

    Yep, apparently some swan from Siberia arrived in England triggering this panic! :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭Totofan99




  • Registered Users Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Hooter23


    The ice age is coming now according to The Express:P

    After reading this you realise no one has a clue and their just waiting to see what will happen:pac:

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/612369/SHOCK-CLAIM-World-is-on-brink-of-50-year-ICE-AGE-and-BRITAIN-will-bear-the-brunt


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 12,066 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    El Niño Paints the World's Driest Place with Color ( Chile’s Atacama desert ).


    AwV4fbz.jpg?1


    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151103-atacama-desert-flower-bloom-el-nino/


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Hooter23


    Hurricane Kate remnants to hit UK after Storm Abigail?
    Storm Abigail is taking all the headlines in the UK but across the Atlantic another storm is making the news. Tropical Storm Kate has been upgraded to a Hurricane – and its remains could affect the UK weather too!

    Kate formed in the central Bahamas and has since tracked northeast, currently located a safe distance from the east coast of the US. 

    Latest observations show sustained winds of 75mph and even higher gusts but Kate is expected lose strength on Thursday.

    Kate, which will then become an ex-hurricane, is forecast to track northeast across the Atlantic, passing to the northwest of the UK later this weekend. 

    Due to the strong jet stream set-up we’re experiencing at the moment, the UK will see rain associated with ex-Hurricane Kate way before the low pressure arrives later on Sunday.

    Saturday looks like a washout for many with strong winds in central and southern parts of the UK. Then, as the low-pressure approaches, the most unsettled conditions look like being in the northwest.

    It’s still too early to predict exact rainfall and wind speeds but we could see up to 65mph gusts for ex-hurricane Kate. One thing we can say for sure is that the UK will see plenty more unsettled weather in the coming days! 


    http://www.theweathernetwork.com/uk/news/articles/uk-weather/hurricane-kate-remnants-to-hit-uk-after-storm-abigail/59611/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,187 ✭✭✭mikeecho




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,187 ✭✭✭mikeecho




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,625 ✭✭✭prunudo


    To quote Eamon Dunphy 'the guys a spoofer'

    Didn't realize The Mirror and Examiner were the same, both articles are word for word.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,892 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    mikeecho wrote:
    And


    It amazes me the amount of people that believe this crap. I gave up at the headline


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,187 ✭✭✭mikeecho


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    It amazes me the amount of people that believe this crap. I gave up at the headline

    Last year I saw a collage, that showed the front pages of the Daily Mail, and every year they were predicting the coldest/snowiest! Winter in 20/50 years.

    I had a look but I couldn't find it


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Schadenfreudia


    jvan wrote: »
    To quote Eamon Dunphy 'the guys a spoofer'

    Didn't realize The Mirror and Examiner were the same, both articles are word for word.

    It was in the Journal.ie or one of those online "papers" yesterday; I guess they both just lifted it.

    Happens all the time....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,031 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    When wind storms hit Dublin, the noise is bad enough as it is, but if you live in central Manchester, there's a building which likes to sing along:



    :eek:

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Schadenfreudia


    bnt wrote: »
    When wind storms hit Dublin, the noise is bad enough as it is, but if you live in central Manchester, there's a building which likes to sing along:

    :eek:

    There was a bridge like that in Limerick once but they managed to stop it singing....somehow :)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 541 ✭✭✭weatherfiend


    There was a bridge like that in Limerick once but they managed to stop it singing....somehow :)

    We were talking about that bridge tonight - the whistling bridge. My husband lived in Limerick when he graduated from college as an architect for a year. He said they fixed it by filling the hollow posts


  • Registered Users Posts: 541 ✭✭✭weatherfiend


    We were talking about that bridge tonight - the whistling bridge. My husband lived in Limerick when he graduated from college as an architect for a year. He said they fixed it by filling the hollow posts

    Sorry - filling the posts with concrete


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Schadenfreudia


    Sorry - filling the posts with concrete

    Ah memories!

    I remember being down working on the docks one stormy night in the early 90s having heard about the bridge and being very disappointed to be told it didn't whistle anymore!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,466 ✭✭✭Lumi


    Should be worth a look:

    Britain's Wildest Weather 2015 - Channel 4, Sunday 13th Dec, 7:30-9:00pm

    '115mph winds, enormous waves, tornadoes, lightning strikes - seen through the eyes of the people who faced it'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭BuilderPlumber


    It was in the Journal.ie or one of those online "papers" yesterday; I guess they both just lifted it.

    Happens all the time....

    Every year, the papers are writing the same old rubbish. Fair enough: this November was one of the worst Novembers ever when it came to rain and late October and December so far are not any better. There has been 6 weeks of unsettled, miserable weather. BUT the papers no doubt will have everything from a December 2010-style prolonged spell of snow to a Christmas Eve 1997 or 12 February 2014 style hurricane force windstorm planned for the next few months. The fact that these awful events do happen and could happen does not mean however anyone can predict what will happen.

    In a month's time, there may well be snow. Or there may be springlike weather. Proper forecasters say they cannot predict beyond 10 days. Remember 2010 and someone saying that the snow would go on St Stephen's day and would come back with a vengeance in early 2011. We are still waiting for it! I remember in October 2011, they saying winter 2011/2012 was going to be worse than 2010 and they have been saying this ever since. Most of what is predicted never happens and the bad weather events that do come are seldom predicted.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Britain to be hit by BLOOD RAIN: Sahara dust cloud heading for UK today as bookies slash odds on the hottest Christmas EVER!!!!!
    Daily Mail


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,791 ✭✭✭JJJJNR


    is this going to effect us, or just the UK, its already fairly mild .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,810 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Every year, the papers are writing the same old rubbish. Fair enough: this November was one of the worst Novembers ever when it came to rain and late October and December so far are not any better. There has been 6 weeks of unsettled, miserable weather. BUT the papers no doubt will have everything from a December 2010-style prolonged spell of snow to a Christmas Eve 1997 or 12 February 2014 style hurricane force windstorm planned for the next few months. The fact that these awful events do happen and could happen does not mean however anyone can predict what will happen.

    In a month's time, there may well be snow. Or there may be springlike weather. Proper forecasters say they cannot predict beyond 10 days. Remember 2010 and someone saying that the snow would go on St Stephen's day and would come back with a vengeance in early 2011. We are still waiting for it! I remember in October 2011, they saying winter 2011/2012 was going to be worse than 2010 and they have been saying this ever since. Most of what is predicted never happens and the bad weather events that do come are seldom predicted.

    In fairness I think it did hit the UK again the following year or two, it just stopped at the coast of Wales. Didn't the North and Cavan get huge amounts then as well. Seem to remember stories of thousands of sheep and cattle lost to the snow. So 'they' were right in the grand scheme of things, just not right for a few counties in a country that's the first port of call for the warm gulf stream and jetstream.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    It's forecast to be 20c in NewYork and the US east coast today.
    Weather forecasters point to El Nino
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35162919


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,466 ✭✭✭Lumi


    Inside the Met Office - A Look Behind the Scenes of the Met Office Weather Forecasting HQ
    Starting on More4 tonight at 1:15am


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