Long range weather forecast from 22 Dec onwards - serious blizzards

[Judgemental]

Suggest folks have a close look at the long-range weather forecast from 22 December onwards.

Try Metcheck and go into the next 7 days and then the next 7 days and so on, for your part of the country

Snow and more snow, backed by min 35 - 45 mph winds for the whole country.

The weather this winter is identical to 1947 (not around then) and 1963 snowed in until late February.

It is going to be serious stuff.

 

[Flummoxed]

"""" I'm dreaming of a windy Christmas"""""""""""

 

[skint1]

oh total yeay! (joking!)

 

[flowerlady]

Oh Bum!! I hope they are wrong!! I've just checked this site and it doesn't seem quite as bad a forcast lets hope this ones right

http://www.positiveweathersolutions.co.uk/UK-Long-Range-Forecast.php

 

[Santa Clause]

I'm going to hibernate !

 

[Judgemental]

Oh Bum!! I hope they are wrong!! I've just checked this site and it doesn't seem quite as bad a forcast lets hope this ones right

http://www.positiveweathersolutions.co.uk/UK-Long-Range-Forecast.php

Everybody with horses should be taking appropriate action, especially if there is a risk you/they are snowed in and you cannot reach them.

Try this for Gloucester area and it's the same for the whole country

http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/14days.asp?zipcode=gloucester

Years ago the forecasting was not as good as it is now, so take advantage of the information and take precautions.

Don't sit there and hope it will not be as bad as it might be.

 

[flowerlady]

My OH is working away and not due home till Xmas Eve What if he can't get home

 

[Judgemental]

My OH is working away and not due home till Xmas Eve What if he can't get home

1. Send him some snow shoes.

2. Tell him to lay his hands on a sleigh + Huskeys + pony.

3. Better still, tell him to get home by noon on 21 December.

4. Or stay where he is with a bottle of Glenmorangie

 

[ChestnutConvert]

Oh dear...was hoping that we would miss it down it, or not be as bad but seems it will be.
Hope it's not just a ploy to get us out spending and not looking forward to the panic buying that will happen. Pa!

 

[flowerlady]

4. Or stay where he is with a bottle of Glenmorangie

Nooooooooooo he may choose this one

 

[Judgemental]

Oh dear...was hoping that we would miss it down it, or not be as bad but seems it will be.
Hope it's not just a ploy to get us out spending and not looking forward to the panic buying that will happen. Pa!

I hope you are thinking of your horse or horses?

Forget all the unwholesome rubbish that is churned out at Christmas for the madding crowd. All a complete waste of money and time.

 

[Judgemental]

Or stay where he is with a bottle of Glenmorangie

Nooooooooooo he may choose this one

LOL

 

[flowerlady]

I hope you are thinking of your horse or horses?

Forget all the unwholesome rubbish that is churned out at Christmas for the madding crowd. All a complete waste of money and time.

I'm still waiting to get to the place I buy haylage from as van is still stuck in snow on our back. I have plenty but just like to make sure I don't run out.

 

[Gilbey]

Oh god I do hope not! This past few weeks have been bad enough, but blizzards.....

 

[Judgemental]

Oh god I do hope not! This past few weeks have been bad enough, but blizzards.....

Just take precautions.

Have a least a month's feed laid in before 21 December?

Because, if these met boys are right - 'you aint seen nothing yet'.

 

[Jingleballs]

I tend to find that Metcheck aren't very accurate for longer term forecasts - in fact very few are but I agree that it's better to prepare for the worst! We still have over a foot of snow at home and more at the yard and today will be the first time since the weekend that the roads are safe enough to travel to see my horse!

 

[ChestnutConvert]

I hope you are thinking of your horse or horses?

Forget all the unwholesome rubbish that is churned out at Christmas for the madding crowd. All a complete waste of money and time.

I promise i'm thinking of said horsey getting provisions in for him too.

And will avoid commercial material rubbish on the high street, people will get gifts that they actually need not just desire!

 

[Bertthefrog]

Oh hell.

We still haven't got water in East Yorks. Spent all morning yesterday waiting for a 10,000l water bowser to fill from a hose pipe linked to my bathroom tap - as the 18 horse yard where I help out didn't have a drop of the runny variety. The poor YO lives in a static on site, has 3 children and her water is a frozen as that on the yard. She even has properly frost bitten toes for pity's sake.

I think we may have just nudged 0 degrees now but it was -10 again this morning!

I think we need to work on the community spirit - not just for our elderly or infirm neighbours, but our equine ones too.

 

[soulfull]

oh holy cr*p I hope they got it wrong, what i have noticed with metcheck is often looks bleak ahead of time and as it gets closer it improves, lets hope this is one of them!!

Off to feed store feed is not our problem water is!!! although hoping it is thawed a little today

 

[Pipkin]

Met check is the biggest load of crap!!!!
For the last 3 weeks it`s meant to have snowed where i am! The one day it snow it said it was going to be dry and sunny

Positive weather solutions predicted last years big freeze, the wet summer of 2009, the warm may of this year and this years big freeze.....trust them!

 

[Simsar]

Everybody with horses should be taking appropriate action, especially if there is a risk you/they are snowed in and you cannot reach them.

Try this for Gloucester area and it's the same for the whole country

http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/14days.asp?zipcode=gloucester

Years ago the forecasting was not as good as it is now, so take advantage of the information and take precautions.

Don't sit there and hope it will not be as bad as it might be.

JM can you do dorking for me it won't work.

 

[Judgemental]

I am the first to be sceptical of Metcheck.

However all the old timers, those who remember the 30's 1947 and 1963 in particular, are saying the weather pattern this winter is exactly the same.

What we all that, they did not have, is this fabulous forum to post warnings etc. Largley so the young entry can be warned see that their ponies are prepared and if the wind gets up to be mindfull that they might not be able to reach them.

I become a real softee when I see a couple of small ponies looking cold and lonely in a snow bound field without any hay.

Feel for the yard owner without any water in Yorks.

I am a ways south and was grumbling about knocking a hole through four inches of ice on the trough the morning.

However, it all has it moments. That late night feed of build-up nuts at 23:00 hrs - the clear azure sky and the bark of a fox across the field. All the horses neatly tucked up, a little snort here and there and just running one's hand underneath the rugs to see they are warm enough.

Then one steps outside the stable and it cut in half by the wind!

 

[L&M]

I can cope with the weather but how are the hunts going to cope?

Our hunt is already feeling the financial affects of just being off for the last 2 weeks, and as with a lot of smaller farming packs, run on a shoestring. This could be the end for ours.

Please let the forecast be wrong......

 

[Judgemental]

JM can you do dorking for me it won't work.

http://metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/14days.asp?zipcode=dorking

Simsar seems it's going to start snowing with wind behind it on 22 Dec at midnight around Dorking and the whole country.

Still we can all take comfort that we can lament together, with upteen horses standing up in the yard and no where to go!

It will be a question of discussing the whisky or tipple that keeps the cold at bay. Indeed that could be a whole new thread!

 

[Bertthefrog]

J and Sidney - all the more reason for us equine peeps to show a bit of unity. What about fundraisers for the hunts that are struggling?

And making the effort to help those that are really suffering in this weather!

Oooh - and have now seen the dripping variety of water - please, please, please may at least one tap work tomorrow.....

 

[rosie fronfelen]

is it going to be a case of early roughing off, i sincerely hope not, we can cope financially as the hounds are here and we have generous benefactors, but i do fear for other hunts-----

 

[Judgemental]

I can cope with the weather but how are the hunts going to cope?

Our hunt is already feeling the financial affects of just being off for the last 2 weeks, and as with a lot of smaller farming packs, run on a shoestring. This could be the end for ours.

Please let the forecast be wrong......

Good point Sidney. It is a time when those that can afford it, develop a generous position and take the view - well it's the first time for many moons that the hunting has been effected and quietly hand the secretary a donation.

Don't forget the hunt staff at christmas.

It's very dispiriting when the weather knocks the job on the head and it's not just money - in kind is always very welcome and a way of showing one's appreciation. Especailly the miles they are all walking at the moment.

 

[Simsar]

http://metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/14days.asp?zipcode=dorking

Simsar seems it's going to start snowing with wind behind it on 22 Dec at midnight around Dorking and the whole country. Fingers crossed max my son has already cancelled one driving test!
Still we can all take comfort that we can lament together, with upteen horses standing up in the yard and no where to go! OMG Mares due in march, you can bet the hay runs out after such a bad year for hay.
It will be a question of discussing the whisky or tipple that keeps the cold at bay. Indeed that could be a whole new thread! PORT without doubt.

Thank you J. The broodies had better come in early then!

 

[EAST KENT]

My two are hugely furry with ad lib haylage reel available,the hogged and skinned cob..is`nt..and she`s staying with the protection of a mane shag and leggings till it warms up a bit.I don`t rug thewm ,as I prefer to see at a glance that their condition is right.
Snow?Love it!

 

[Simsar]

EK nice picture on front of H&H. xx