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Old 12-24-2013, 09:06 AM
 
Location: Paris
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Tides are fairly weak this time of year. There has been flooding in Morlaix, Brittany, but I think that was because of the high rainfall. Not sure about the UK?
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But the pressure is lower than many major hurricanes. Perhaps the gradient isn't strong enough, or not enough rotation to cause a storm surge?
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Old 12-24-2013, 09:09 AM
 
Location: Yorkshire, England
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Tides are fairly weak this time of year. There has been flooding in Morlaix, Brittany, but I think that was because of the high rainfall. Not sure about the UK?
Lots of flooding and travel disruption up and down the country, but I think that's rainfall and gales again more so than storm surges.

BBC News - UK storm: Damage disrupts travel as more severe weather hits
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Old 12-24-2013, 09:30 AM
 
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Lowest Wind chill forecast next 24hrs for the U.S. Wow. Just wait until the Polar Vortex drops south of the Hudson Bay


Yup, party is over for the East Coast. No more warm fronts riding up the coast if the strat warming occurs. Even Florida will get in on the cold. This is from the UKMET

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Old 12-24-2013, 09:35 AM
 
Location: Paris
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Ben, do you know what were the highest rainfall totals across the UK? Skimming though weather stations, it looks like most of the South had between 25 and 50 mm.

Btw, from what I've read, storm surges are primarily cause by onshore winds pushing water. Pressure doesn't play as large of a role apparently. Shallow water helps, maybe the sea is too deep in the areas affected? In recent years, one of the worst storm surges we had was caused by storm Xynthia, during which pressure bottomed at around 970 hPa. The shallow waters of the Vendée coast (W France) surely helped.
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Old 12-24-2013, 09:43 AM
 
Location: Yorkshire, England
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Ben, do you know what were the highest rainfall totals across the UK? Skimming though weather stations, it looks like most of the South had between 25 and 50 mm.

Btw, from what I've read, storm surges are primarily cause by onshore winds pushing water. Shallow water helps. Pressure doesn't play as large of a role apparently.
The most over the past 72 hours looks like 93mm according to this, but 50mm+ fell in certain places over quite a wide area.

Precip., Table: UK (24.12.2013) Current Observations

I got woken up at about 2am last night by a heavy squall being blown against the windows, but it turns out my local site only had a disappointing 9mm from that particular spell of rain. Still had 13 days of rainfall in a row now though, yet only one frost this December and a miserly -0.2C at that!

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Old 12-24-2013, 09:49 AM
 
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-14F this morning here. No more talk about the Polar Vortex coming down the pike. It's bad enough now as it is.
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Old 12-24-2013, 09:53 AM
 
Location: Leeds, UK
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The most over the past 72 hours looks like 93mm according to this, but 50mm+ fell in certain places over quite a wide area.

Precip., Table: UK (24.12.2013) Current Observations

I got woken up at about 2am last night by a heavy squall being blown against the windows, but it turns out my local site only had a disappointing 9mm from that particular spell of rain. Still had 13 days of rainfall in a row now though, yet only one frost this December and a miserly -0.2C at that!

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We've had two (air) frosts here. Ridiculously low number.
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Old 12-24-2013, 09:55 AM
 
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also California's been having record breaking drought:

Weather Extremes : California Closes in on Driest Calendar Year on Record | Weather Underground

Year to date, San Francisco has received 5.6", 24% of normal.

Yep; dry as a bone. Hills are brown, air is smoggy and visibility is low; sunny/hazy warm days and cool nights with no change in sight. Hopefully that pesky ridge of high pressure goes away once we start the new year and some rain comes our way.
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Old 12-24-2013, 10:34 AM
 
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This December certainly hasn't been a good one over most of northern Europe as far as cold is concerned. Better in the southern half. We've had 6 frosts here thanks to high pressure earlier this month. A good chunk of NE France has a negative average low sor far, lowest probably being the town of Luxeuil. Coolest mean is still Dijon despite its more southwesterly location.


Our equivalent to the Scilly isles has a 8.2°C average low:
Meteociel - Climatologie mensuelle de Ouessant (29)
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