Thank you so much, Daniel. You certainly did indeed do Gunner Lee Thornton proud...
THIS, is love. THIS is sacrifice.
"We will always remember them" ๐
To speak the final words of Gunner Lee Thornton at @PoppyLegion Festival of Rememberance 2026 has to be one of greatest honours of my life. God bless you Leeโฆ.for your unbelievable service, bravery and sacrifice. I hope I did you proud mate? โค๏ธ #RemembranceDay2026
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Ad-rates are serverely down this year (compared to most Novembers)
We increasingly need to move to a "fan-funding" model..
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Yes. But, we know from past experience over many years, that seasonal/climate models have a bias for mild temperatures.
That's why most Pro & Amateur-Mets (as @BigJoeBastardi explained more than 20 years ago) we have to focus on MSLP and 500z height, anomalies) ๐
EC 12z raising the heights (high latitude blocking) going into late November...
May be something, may be nothing... but the weather patterns we're seeing at the moment (and projected) are NOT typical of previous "Super El Nino Novembers (1877, 1982, 1997, 2016) #WatchThisSpace
Probably already noted by most WX accounts (they're nearly all young guns and I'm an old geezer, so it's take be 12hr longer to get going ๐ )
Earliest ever official SSW (Sudden-Stratospheric-Warming) event is confirmed with zonal winds at 10hpa, 60N in reverse.
Now we wait...
Battle-lines are being drawn next week between mild and cold air, with a "slider low" marking the boundary.
Latest hi-res UKV shows this bringing a risk of rain, sleet AND snow (don't take snow area literally at this stage)
#SnowWatch next week, perhaps? ๐
Thanks for all your lovely messages.. I'm OK. I'm fine
You are all so lovely to me, all of the time โค๏ธ
I'm relaxing with a bit 60s cool from The Animals (and remembering my mum) House Of The Rising Sun
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JMA MSLP (Mean-Sea-Level-Pressure) anomaly for Jan 2027 is a bit of a beauty for cold and snow lovers..
Loads of northern blocking and winds likely from a cold north or east direction!
Myself and @MarkVogan will go through the entire #Copernicus suite LIVE ๐ด on Sunday at 6pm๐