Loving the bad weather in the UK right now!

[Tuskin38 6,586]

On 12/12/2022 at 11:56 AM, EGLD said:

if there was some way to depict frozen/snowy ground when there is no snowfall

The sim does display snow on the ground when it isn't snowing on live weather. It's just delayed from the Meteoblue data. This is near EGVK - Stoke Airfield

 

I'm using the Meteoblue website to find snowcover. It's not always accurate though. Metroblue is saying there should be snow around Bristol, but I'm not seeing any.
https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/maps/princeton_united-states_5102922#coords=9.58/51.4362/-2.197&map=snowDepth~hourly~auto~sfc~none

 

Edited December 13, 2022 by Tuskin38

[Ianrivaldosmith 5,317]

15 hours ago, DD_Arthur said:

Fixed that for you😎.

 

Haha dream on. I’m in the forgotten north, that place between Leeds and Edinburgh. 

[DD_Arthur 1,069]

1 hour ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Haha dream on. I’m in the forgotten north, that place between Leeds and Edinburgh. 

That’s the magnificent North*

*unless you live in South Shields

[sonny147 581]

Whitley bay best barmaids in the world 

[Mace 1,939]

5 hours ago, Chock said:

 We had to offload these empty cans first in order to get them to the bag hall and spin them for use with the onload outbound bags, which meant that (unusually), we were offloading the front hold before the rear one (you wouldn't normally do this because of the risk of tail-tipping). So this thing eventually went out five ULDs full of bags in the back hold stations, three of these ULDs having come in on the flight just an hour before with the other two being those we had at EGCC. Everyone did a remarkable job on that flight to get it offloaded and onloaded so quickly.

Do you have some sort of stand or jack to place under the tail, to make sure it doesn't tip over?

I would have had some high anxiety about unloading the front.  But I guess you guys know exactly how much weight you can have in the rear.

[ukbadge 1]

Weather has been great for flying. Seen snow in MSFS but never ice.

[Mace 1,939]

8 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

That’s down to the Gulf Stream. All airports need to close whilst snow is cleared from taxiways and runways. Manchester closed for a few hours on Saturday but was operational in the afternoon. Same for Gatwick on Sunday.

Does England get ice storms from temperature inversions?

Here in the southern USA we get warm Gulf of Mexico air coming north, and sometimes the cold continental airmasses come in from the north central USA/Canada.  When that happens the cold air being more dense slips under the warm air.  Thus at 3,000 ft ASL it might be 55 degreesF and down here at 350 ft ASL it could be 32degF.   The result is nasty freezing rain.

[Ray Proudfoot 9,025]

13 minutes ago, Mace said:

Does England get ice storms from temperature inversions?

Here in the southern USA we get warm Gulf of Mexico air coming north, and sometimes the cold continental airmasses come in from the north central USA/Canada.  When that happens the cold air being more dense slips under the warm air.  Thus at 3,000 ft ASL it might be 55 degreesF and down here at 350 ft ASL it could be 32degF.   The result is nasty freezing rain.

Not in my memory. The country is dominated by maritime air with only infrequent spells of continental or Arctic air. We currently have Arctic air trapped over the country and it’s going to last until Sunday when Atlantic air makes inroads. How long that lasts is not currently known.

Your extremes are caused by two extremely contrasting air masses. Hence tornadoes and freezing rain. I don’t envy you.

[Ianrivaldosmith 5,317]

5 hours ago, sonny147 said:

Whitley bay best barmaids in the world 

You’ve been? It’s all closed down these days, south parade. The new bars are all cafes and micro pubs on park view! 

[Krakin 5,810]

When was the last time any of you crashed because of icing?

 

 

[Fielder 3,696]

 

 

[sonny147 581]

7 hours ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

You’ve been? It’s all closed down these days, south parade. The new bars are all cafes and micro pubs on park view! 

that's sad , went on a big stag do 10 years ago loved it 

[jarmstro 2,405]

North of Watford is really scary.

The beer is frothy and the women, hairy.

[G MIDY 101]

16 hours ago, Mace said:

Does England get ice storms from temperature inversions?

Here in the southern USA we get warm Gulf of Mexico air coming north, and sometimes the cold continental airmasses come in from the north central USA/Canada.  When that happens the cold air being more dense slips under the warm air.  Thus at 3,000 ft ASL it might be 55 degreesF and down here at 350 ft ASL it could be 32degF.   The result is nasty freezing rain.

Usually a UK winter looks like one of two things, it's sometimes like today where it's very cold, the air is dry and there are few clouds (so little chance of precipitation or snow). Or second, the Atlantic fronts drive in moisture, precipitation and increased temperatures (which again makes snow more unlikely).

To show how influential the Atlantic fronts can be here - I live around 10 miles from the coast and it's currently sunny with zero clouds but it's a relatively very cold -2°c. Next Monday however it's forecast to be 11°c but with clouds and rain.

Edited December 14, 2022 by G MIDY

[fluffyflops 1,860]

On 12/12/2022 at 4:26 PM, Jazz said:

It's a modern British tradition to make a song and dance about 2 millimeters of snow and behave as though it's dangerous and unworkable when the rest of the world manages to keep things running with meters of the stuff on the ground. Here it's used as an excuse to get out of school and work.

Frankly, I have always found it pathetic.

It's the same met office drumming up fear again like they did when we had 2 days in the summer (yes a staggering 48 hours) when it was a 'heat wave' 

Still at least when we canx flights we can put the delay code down to weather instead of crew shortage or due to the RMT. 

 

 

Edited December 14, 2022 by fluffyflops