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The weather here (Southampton) changed from perpetual rain to sunshine almost the moment they started the Corvid restrictions. Why?
Theory 1
The weathermen are all stuck at home so can't update the weather charts
Theory 2
The weather is far more influenced by mans actions that previously thought and stopping almost all planes and massive drop in other emissions have changed the normal* weather patterns.
Please add your own theories.........
*'normal' weather patterns have only been used in weather modelling since after planes were in common use so would have counted the planes and pollution as part of normal. As polution has got worse recently we have been having more extreme weather. A month or so of shut down and the weather is calm again.
The universe has a delicious sense of irony?
month or so of shut down and the weather is calm again.
Across the whole world or just where you are 😉
Because we've got all the rain in Spain. And it's not just falling on the plain.
It's spring? I know, it's a bit out there as far as theories go.
I'm not a lawyer, but I'd say Theory 1 is more plausible
More likely it's just sods law
We've had good weather at this time of year for a while now. I've been down in Norfolk for Easter for a few years now and it's been glorious. I seem to remember temperatures in excess of 30 degrees two years ago.
*dons tin foil hat*
Air traffic reduction etc won't have had that sudden an impact on, well anything.
I believe it's called the law of sod.
April last year it was mid-20's temperature so not exactly unusual weather.
Mother nature created this pandemic to purge the real virus from her surface. We (mostly) all fought back by staying indoors.
Sunny weather is just her next chess move in response to ours.
It’s generally nice up til Mrs Zip’s birthday (May 5) then it all goes horribly wrong.
An area of high pressure?
A more mundane reason might be due to an area of stubborn high pressure forcing all the storms to go South of the UK for a few weeks
Right tin foil hats back on!!
There's been a massive high stuck over Scandinavia for about 3 weeks.
I was a bit chilly this morning in the old gilet. Makes you think.
5G CHEMTRAILS INFECTING THE WATER SUPPLY! WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!
I was a bit chilly this morning in the old gilet. Makes you think.
My gran had one of those. Can’t you have an indoor gilet installed?
UV kills coronavirus, we now have lots of UV. Makes you think.
Who cares why, make the most of it while you can 🙂
(assuming your local trails are nice)
Mother nature created this pandemic to purge the real virus from her surface. We (mostly) all fought back by staying indoors.
Sunny weather is just her next chess move in response to ours.
This. Or rather, the higher being running the simulation we’re all living in is having some fun.
UV kills coronavirus, we now have lots of UV. Makes you think.
We should inject ourselves with UV.
5G CHEMTRAILS INFECTING THE WATER SUPPLY! WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!
yeah it's always windier @ wind turbine sites, makes yer think!
it’s always windier @ wind turbine sites,
It wouldn't be if they switched those big fans off.
Seem to remember it being rather nice around this time last year too, very dry when riding until May when it got muddy again.
Looking at my Strava for this time last year and the year before says this is normal as I was doing lots of riding in places I wouldnt ride if wet.
Don't jinx it by talking about it.
Sparks in 1974 Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth, pretty good tune it's on my playlist
We’ve had good weather at this time of year for a while now. I’ve been down in Norfolk for Easter for a few years now and it’s been glorious. I seem to remember temperatures in excess of 30 degrees two years ago.
Yeah, that year we came back from a month in Oz to pouring rain (in the middle of April) then suddenly it turned and it barely rained again for the entire summer - by August our garden was bone dry and there was 2'' gaps between the lawn and the patio where it had contracted so much. IIRC we had a dreadful winter that year too, just like we have come out of this year.
Since the roll out of 5G, chemtrails are no longer needed...therefore no clouds
Yep, been decent for a while now at this time of year. Usually book a week's lads bike holiday (North Wales Scotland etc) in early may, been perfect weather for all bar a few.
After carefully waterproofing my kit it's more often we have to worry about sunburn rather than a soaking.
We should inject ourselves with UV.
Or disinfectant, as suggested by Dr Trump:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52407177
Perhaps Coronavirus causes sunshine and clear skies.
Have there been any studies?
Jetstream stuff surely?
You're unaware of how seasons work?
There is a weather effect where it rains more often at weekends* because particulates build up and give water vapor somewhere to nucleate. No pollution, no particulates, less rain.
*Strictly speaking it's the other way round, it rains less on weekdays as it's a delayed effect of less pollution, if you have enough pollution it rains late in the week and all through the weekend until the particulates are diminished then stops on Monday.
Certainly seems brighter than normal, even in a high pressure you normally get a haze as the pollution and water vapor can't rise, and after weeks of it the smog and pollution should really be building up by now? But instead it's blue sky from horizon to horizon.
Clouds are made of 100% chem-trails and it only rains every time Captain Flashheart flushes the toilet.
It wouldn’t be if they switched those big fans off.
Yeah, I often wonder how much electricity it takes to run them versus the amount of power they generate.
wrong thread
it only rains every time Captain Flashheart flushes the toilet.
That explains the good weather.
As he's working from home, he's out pissing in the garden, wearing his special slippers
Mother Nature is just twisting the knife a little now she hopes that we might actually be shocked into mending our ways?
It is quite ironic though - a holiday in the UK at easter can so easily be a miserable wash-out - its hard not to feel like we're being delerately taunted by the weather gods.
Could it be speculated that each surplus death during a global pandemic is the equivalent of ritually throwing a virgin into a volcano?
It seems Onzadog and I share the same appreciation of irony and fatalism!
You’re unaware of how seasons work?
Cos the UK season are renowned for their consistency 😀
The Corona is the sun's outer layer. It's the part where all the solar weather comes from. Due to coronavirus it is not working as normal. This has resulted in lovely sunny weather. The Corona brewery's marketing team who originally created the virus thought that the great weather would boost sales, but failed to take into account that people are so stupid they think they might catch coronavirus by drinking Corona beer, so sales have slumped and they are all out of a job.
It's been crap in N.Spain for a while. Warm and wet.
This. Or rather, the higher being running the simulation we’re all living in is having some fun.
So CV is a computer virus?
Anyway as everyone in the know knows, it's Brexit, innit. Now we've done away with the evil controlling federalists the sun will always shine on the great Empire!
Last time I remember such a swift change in weather was when the Icelandic volcano stopped all the planes. Weather returned to crap when the planes returned to the skies.
Just saying
I'm going to throw a virgin into an Icelandic Volcano then.
Anyone got Anne Widdicomb's number?
Last time I remember such a swift change in weather
Move to Scotland. We get one of those about every 20 minutes.
Anyone got Anne Widdicomb’s number?
And would anyone admit to it if they had?
Anyone got Anne Widdicomb’s number?
Anyway, it is 666.
I’m going to throw a virgin into an Icelandic Volcano then.
Richard Branson?
Just normal spring here in East Lancs, just slightly warmer than last year. 22 Celsius instead of 14 last year.
It will no doubt be interspread with cooler and cloudy days till end of may, then high 20’s to mid 30’s till end of June then when August hits it will piss it down till Christmas.
As they’ve grounded the planes that spray the rain clouds, now they’ve got 5G to spread viruses they don’t need contrails.
Last time I remember such a swift change in weather was when the Icelandic volcano stopped all the planes. Weather returned to crap when the planes returned to the skies.
Just saying
The skies have cleared up as well, definitely a different colour, same as it did with the volcano.
When 6 ghz brainfry is rolled out you won't be able to hide indoors either!
I'm gonna make a fortune fitting bedroom Faraday cages to make sure people can sleep safely.
I read that as Farage cage at first *boak*
I read somewhere that industrial activity such as planes, cars, etc. causes cloud seeding. It's hard to imagine really, but it must be millions of tonnes of particles that are no longer being ejected into the atmosphere, and that must have an effect, but whether it makes it rain less, I don't know.
What might be happening is that the Azores High has shifted north, so Spain gets the rain and we get a summer of high pressure and lovely blue skies, as we did in 2018.
Mother Nature is just twisting the knife a little now she hopes that we might actually be shocked into mending our ways?
This. She's basically taking the opportunity to give us a giant FU and show us what we are destroying. I'm waiting for the first day of restrictions being lifted to be wet and windy.
The weather is far more influenced by mans actions that previously thought and stopping almost all planes and massive drop in other emissions have changed the normal* weather patterns.
I read somewhere that industrial activity such as planes, cars, etc. causes cloud seeding. It’s hard to imagine really, but it must be millions of tonnes of particles that are no longer being ejected into the atmosphere, and that must have an effect, but whether it makes it rain less, I don’t know.
There’s a certain amount of truth in there, under certain circumstances, aircraft contrails will start to spread out and thicken, as a form of cirrus, which is a precursor to changeable weather. It’s also true that under certain circumstances water vapour can start to condense around fine particulates which can thicken into rain-bearing clouds, this is the basis for cloud-seeding to deliberately cause rain.
As there’s virtually no air traffic across the U.K. there’s no contrails so nothing to expand into cirrus, but that doesn’t mean natural weather doesn’t happen, the forecast is showing changeable weather from the weekend onwards.
The US is still having massively destructive tornadoes, which may be nature’s way of culling the sort of people who support Angry Tinkerbell, and who also seem to inhabit the big boring flat bit between the Rockies and the East Coast, and the Gulf of Mexico and the Canadian border.
5G energy weapons & chemtrails..
It's my fault.
Usually the weather pisses down whenever I build or buy another bike.
I haven't built anything this month.
What incentives can STW offer if I promise not to build any more?... 🙂
We always get a couple of nice weeks in April - fools us into thinking we're going to have a nice summer, then pisses it down for the next 4 months, maybe easing off to give us hope of an Indian summer, which despite being promised every year by those bloody weathermen/Daily Star/Facebook, never actually happens
Yep, been decent for a while now at this time of year....
A fine bright spell in early spring is not a recent phenomenon. Chaucer referenced it in the Canterbury Tales "When that Aprill with his shoures soote the droghte of March perced to the roote..." (Disclaimer: I needed to have that explained to me, so I'm taking it on trust).
That also observes that it doesn't last!!
If the weather (as opposed to climate) was overly influenced by man-made pollutants, wouldn't the weather have been universally "better" before the industrial revolution?
I think Chaucer was before jet planes so you are agreeing with me, right?
It’s because the government have placed a glass dome over the whole country in an attempt to strengthen UV rays and kill the virus. If it doesn’t work the next step is to make it rain Domestos Fresh throughout May.
I follow an aviation guy in the US on YouTube (blancolirio). It actually shocked me to see how many flights the Yanks have a day. They're down to skeleton numbers now.
A coincidental effect on our weather???
Well it rained here yesterday and looks to be grey with showers and an average maximum temperature of 14C for the next week. Should actually make working from home a bit more tolerable, rather than being taunted by the glorious blue skys of the last few weeks.
TBF I've only got myself to blame. We setup the kids paddling pool on Friday so that's why the weather has turned shite.
No it’s my fault. Took the mudguards off the bike...
I think some of the BBC weathermen have returned to work or it is all the commercial pilots flying squares to keep their hours up
In all seriousness "Global Dimming" is a thing. Atmospheric sulphates and nitrates reflect a measurable amount of solar radiation back into space and work to dampen the greenhouse effect of increased CO2.
No one is quite sure how big a role it plays on moderating temperature increases but it definitely has an effect.
Unlike greenhouse gasses which stay in the atmosphere for decades, aerosols tend to reduce significantly in the time scale of weeks or months so its possible that lockdown and reduced aviation and transportation will see a slight increase in global temperatures.
Its unlikely this is the reason we've had a month of really nice weather, that's just well, weather.
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It’s because the government have placed a glass dome over the whole country
Last April was even nicer. We had really high temperatures 25+ and remember cycling to Barmouth and having a paddle in the sea.
Besides today it’s cold, cloudy and damp
The weather in April tends to surprisingly good in the UK, in many cases better than the Mediterranean coast, which tends to be rainy season.