AUTUMN WEATHER 2013

I don't want cold I just want some decent dry spells (yeah I want the best of everything!)

Looks like Ken Ring's forecast for the 27th of November might come true.

A few months ago he said it will turn colder on the 27th. You'll have to look at his older posts because my memory is vague.

relaxed wrote: »

But its turned colder in the last few days, so how could he be right on 27th, when its already happened.

Yeah, it's happened already. It's so cold that this station London reached a record high of 15*C yesterday.

I'm talking about real cold, daytime temperatures below average for the time of the year.

relaxed wrote: »

Sorry I thought it was winter weather in Ireland we were discussing.:P

Give me a minute while a find a foreign weather station somewhere that's colder than normal, sure that will will disprove Kens theory:rolleyes:

Are you trying to say that Ireland and England have completely different climates? You can embarrass yourself by pointing at as many weather stations across the world as you want, but there's only one country that shares Ireland's climate: Britain.

From reading your comment I think geography should be compulsory up until the leaving cert because, apparently, there are some Irishmen out there who have yet to discover that England is only a few hundred kilometers to the east.

Here I was think it was the Americans who were terrible at locating places on maps.

Anyone who has followed weather charts knows that the cold weather hits the U.K. before it reaches Ireland. London is 470km away - on a global scale, that's nothing, the jet stream can blow faster than 160km. What hits the U.K. usually hits Ireland or has already hit Ireland.

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As for Ken Ring: no-one said his theory was proven right, just that his forecast for the 27th of November seems to have some weight. I don't know how he forecasted it, I don't agree with his methods, I see him as astronomer rather than a meteorologist. When I first heard of him, I looked at his Wikipedia and laughed at how outrageous his methods are, so don't confuse me for being a fan of his work.

icesnowfrost wrote: »

Do u have a link to his weather forecast

It's further back in this thread
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=87111353&postcount=167

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Decent dry spell in the works for later next week. If dense fog doesn't spoil things, there might be some very pleasant days in most places. I would expect some fog problems at least in the first half of the morning daylight hours, but for mid-November the charts look quite benign around Wednesday to Friday of next week.

Should be a decent week once todays muck has moved off, looking a bit further
on the GSF is showing a nice slow high pressure moving in from about 20th.

Kenring wrote: »

I agree. Heavy falls this week and next week, and around 3rd-4th of November conditions may be very squally but mild. Most of November's rain is expected to be in the east. But November should be a mild month with little chance of snow. The last few days of November may bring cold rain, hail, sleet or some flurries.

mmmm

Even if you allow for Mr Ring's 3 day deviation, "the last few days of November" and in all likelihood, the first couple of days of December are going to be unseasonably mild, particularly dry and very very pleasant.

I don't think Mr Ring could have been more wrong.

I also doubt his cheerleaders will be commenting.