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Post by Met.Data on Nov 28, 2020 9:03:02 GMT -5
It's so dark outside today I can barely see a thing outside, time to close the curtains. It's only 14:02.  |
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Post by Ariete on Nov 28, 2020 12:23:08 GMT -5
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Post by Beercules on Nov 28, 2020 19:20:59 GMT -5
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Post by Benfxmth on Nov 28, 2020 19:23:01 GMT -5
This article made me lose brain cells. Fuck The Daily Fail. |
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Post by rozenn on Nov 28, 2020 20:25:12 GMT -5
QFT  "Official figures showed it hit just under 45C (113F) there, but we recorded 50C in the south with a handheld thermometer." |
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Post by jgtheone on Nov 28, 2020 21:32:53 GMT -5
I'm sick to death of the daily mail and their stupid weather articles. They have absolutely no clue what they're talking about, and they are clearly only baiting for clicks.
I swear I've seen them say "Snow in Melbourne in April" when it only snowed in the alps.
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Post by Beercules on Nov 28, 2020 21:49:40 GMT -5
Pretty much all media are hideously cringeworthy when it comes to weather. Even watching the evening news when there is heat, the dramatisation in the reporter's voice and language makes me want to punch the screen. The Daily Mail has a dumb habit of using F when the UK has a "heatwave", yet when they are reporting on a winter blast, they use C. I'm sure it's because high temps look more "impressive" in F, and cold looks colder in C.  |
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Post by Beercules on Nov 28, 2020 21:52:53 GMT -5
QFT "Official figures showed it hit just under 45C (113F) there, but we recorded 50C in the south with a handheld thermometer." Must be one of those official "heat loggers" that the desk girls at the Penroid Council use  |
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Post by Ethereal on Nov 28, 2020 22:11:23 GMT -5
I would be skeptical. When you consider historically how difficult it is to get from 49C to 50C out in the usual hotspots of SA and WA for example, as we have seen many times in the recent past, that last 1 degree seems to be exponentially hard to attain. There's dozens of 49C+ highs, but you can count the official 50's on one hand. Look at Port Augusta in Jan 2019, by all accounts that was a perfect air mass as any, but it still fell short at 49.5C. Suburban streets and any concrete within immediate proximity will modify readings so would not qualify. A screen placed on asphalt amongst buildings is not valid. A park in a suburban area would cut the mustard, but anything directly above a road or building roof, or close to a wall(s), no. True. So strange that hitting 50C is so difficult to achieve when it's just a 1C difference. Perhaps they're just too open and thus heat wouldn't accumulate? I mean that's why desert cities in other parts of the world (especially those inland) tend to soar over 50C as the UHI factor probably contributes. I'm now wondering, if the hotspots in SA and WA were modest, Baghdad or Phoenix-like cities, would 50C+ occur due to UHI? Say if the weather station were placed in the heart of the city in an airport. |
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Post by Crunch41 on Nov 28, 2020 22:48:51 GMT -5
I was looking for the latest high below 10C for some places, and found that NOWData gives me the same data for Madison and Milwaukee. Must be an error.  |
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Post by Met.Data on Nov 29, 2020 15:27:26 GMT -5
Looking like a bit of a snow event could be happening next week. Or will it be cold rain? Up in Buxton it'll be proper snow. Netweather, PLEASE stop using these bullshit "feelslike" temps on these forecasts. Put the real min/max, thanks.  |
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Post by knot on Nov 30, 2020 19:12:41 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2020 19:18:55 GMT -5
Sounds like extremist headlines from toilet paper like the Heil, where a single snowflake falling on the summit of Cairngorm is met with a headline of "UK plunged into Arctic death blast". |
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Post by AJ1013 on Nov 30, 2020 19:21:17 GMT -5
Sounds like extremist headlines from toilet paper like the Heil, where a single snowflake falling on the summit of Cairngorm is met with a headline of "UK plunged into Arctic death blast". "SIBERIAN COLD set to freeze LONDON. Find out when SNOW and ICE will arrive!" |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2020 19:23:42 GMT -5
Sounds like extremist headlines from toilet paper like the Heil, where a single snowflake falling on the summit of Cairngorm is met with a headline of "UK plunged into Arctic death blast". "SIBERIAN COLD set to freeze LONDON. Find out when SNOW and ICE will arrive!" They make it sound like London will actually experience snow, but 99% of the time it's just snow on some inhospitable subarctic mountain miles from civilisation. |
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Post by jgtheone on Nov 30, 2020 19:58:15 GMT -5
As B87 said, this is Daily Fail type shit. But it's strictly Weatherzone doing this, not the BoM. |
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Post by jgtheone on Nov 30, 2020 20:01:56 GMT -5
Sounds like extremist headlines from toilet paper like the Heil, where a single snowflake falling on the summit of Cairngorm is met with a headline of "UK plunged into Arctic death blast". "SIBERIAN COLD set to freeze LONDON. Find out when SNOW and ICE will arrive!" London WARMER than INDIA today as massive HEATWAVE SCORCHES the UK And then the place they use in India is Leh |
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Post by knot on Dec 1, 2020 1:38:16 GMT -5
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Post by jgtheone on Dec 1, 2020 3:49:46 GMT -5
A sports journalist eh? So he's used to writing ridiculous hyperbole then. |
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Post by Met.Data on Dec 1, 2020 13:25:10 GMT -5
Regarding the "London will be hotter than" crap the media do, they often compare with places like Barcelona in late spring/early summer, as being coastal Barcelona's temps can be held back by sea moderation and are very stable, so naturally London will get hotter than that a fews each season. Maybe they should compare with Seville, instead lol. They also mention Mexico City, failing to realise of course that it isn't hard for London to beat that in summer during a heatwave as Mexico City is at 7,000ft despite being in the tropics, and has stable temps too. They also mention Bangkok, which being in the tropics but coastal is constantly hot but never gets "very hot". And it's ridiculous because it's only like London would be hotter than these places for one or two days anyway.  |
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