The FastDay Forum

Eeeeeeeeee! Snow in Okinawa! I never thought I'd see the day! Thanks, Moogie!

Blimey wasn't snowing when I popped in earlier
Thought it was me having a "funny" moment Lol Sue

shall we make a snowman?

The snow on the forum website looks really good, especially as that is likely to be the only chance of seeing any snow here over Christmas, going by the latest weather forecasts. Here in the UK, our winters tend to be rather mild for the latitude which we are at, and that is due to weather systems coming in off the Atlantic and bringing in mild south-westerly winds from the tropics.

That doesn't mean that cold winters can's happen here but for that to be the case, you need to have the Siberian High extending towards Scandinavia. When that happens, that area of high pressure will then often extend further out towards Iceland and Greenland. As that happens, it then blocks those Atlantic weather systems from reaching us, and feeds in cold easterly winds from the near continent.

That is where our best chance of snow comes from at this time of year, but that Scandinavian High is missing this year, and that means that there is nothing in place to stop those weather systems from bringing in that mild air. Furthermore, the latest computer forecast models are showing no signs of that situation changing any time soon and as a result of that, and with Christmas Day now being just over a week to go, it is unlikely that we will be seeing any sort of white Christmas here in Scotland this year.

It might be different in your part of the world and indeed, I have heard that there has been a lot of cold snowy weather in parts of the USA and Canada. However, this website is providing us with the only chance of seeing a little bit of snow in the meantime and so, I'm happy enough to make the most of that.

[Betsysgr8]

Thank you @moogie for the snowflakes. Very Festive! Not likely I'll ever see snow in Los Angeles (though I did hear that it snowed once in 1948 or 49, lol) So the new snowflake skin for the forum is AWESOME!

I was wondering what people were talking about as I was connected on my phone and couldn't see the snow but now I understand.... The pros of the snow without the cons

[wildmissus]

Love it.

[carieoates]

Fabulous Moogie I absolutely love it. At first I thoughts was getting a migraine.

[Moogie]

I've just put a Christmas hat on!! (well, my avatar has...)

Woohoo! Snow! Fabulous!

[carieoates]

Watch out @Moogie don't over do it on your avatar now.! Snow flakes as well .
Mind you I'm only jealous, took me ages to re learn how to do an avatar. I was without one for hours!

Well something on this site today has triggered my laptop into total overdrive with the fan.

As soon as I come out of the forum the fan stops, open 5/2, fan in overdrive I can only think its the snow !

I have been in town all day trying to get the last of the presents and at one point I logged onto my phone only to decide that there was a problem and promptly logged off again. Home now, forgot about the earlier incident and WOW, WOW and thrice WOW! SNOW, thank you Moogie, that is truly wonderful, you are a little star

Ballerina x

Love the snowflakes and the fancy borders! Thank you @Moogie

and with Christmas Day now being just over a week ago,

Someone get the brandy away from @johncs2013, as he's quite lost track of time! (and John, you'll definitely get a nomination for the geek award!)

@Moogie, I have surely fallen down the rabbit hole now. But it is indeed quite pretty down here.