The Official snow watch thread (17/02/16)

[OwlHoot]

#uksnow Map - See where it is snowing in the UK right now!

That link shows nothing, in either Firefox or Chrome, just a dark map of the UK and surrounds.

Try this instead.

(It currently shows a small flurry of snow clipping the South East corner of Kent.)

[NickFitz]

That link shows nothing, in either Firefox or Chrome, just a dark map of the UK and surrounds.

Try this instead.

(It currently shows a small flurry of snow clipping the South East corner of Kent.)

It shows nothing because there are no recent reports of snow falling. It works by tracking the hashtag #uksnow on Twitter, which people tweet along with an n/10 estimate of how heavy it is and the first part of their postcode. If the people of Kent aren't tweeting, possibly because the radar is detecting snow clouds but the snow isn't making it to the ground, then there'll be nothing to show on the map.

[OwlHoot]

It shows nothing because there are no recent reports of snow falling. It works by tracking the hashtag #uksnow on Twitter, which people tweet along with an n/10 estimate of how heavy it is and the first part of their postcode. If the people of Kent aren't tweeting, possibly because the radar is detecting snow clouds but the snow isn't making it to the ground, then there'll be nothing to show on the map.

So it's a kind of modern version of those WW2 spotters, such as retired schoolmasters, phoning in sightings of enemy aircraft.

I think I'd rather rely on radar

[DodgyAgent]

What happened to global warming?

One of the longest running climate prediction blunders has disappeared from the Internet | Watts Up With That?

[DimPrawn]

Save for future generations to point and laugh at.

https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpr...ndependent.pdf