Netweather Urban Dictionary

[Rollo]

Standard fireworks(remember them)-- what happens when the beast from the east appears at T+384.

[Roger J Smith]

UKGW -- Unified Kazakh Gusty Winds, blow hot southeasterlies towards Moscow and wreck the whole idea of a cold winter for Europe

ITCZ -- Italian Trapeze Chimp Zone, to be avoided especially directly beneath.

Hadley cell -- Devious subversives within the Met Office conspiring to inflate CET values by eliminating "inversions, cold nights, and temperatures between 6 pm and 10 am, plus anything else we can think of," according to their secret website, Tempinflate.org

Icelandic low -- Memories still linger in Reykjavik about that 1-0 loss to Andorra.

Bermuda high -- That rum convoy was pretty darned big, by all accounts, too bad it ran aground on Bermuda's sandy shoreline one day in 1928.

Roaring forties -- In the southern hemisphere, a zone of constant wind. In the northern hemisphere, a condition that plagues Gen-Xers as they leave Taco Bell.

Furious fifties-- In the southern hemisphere, a zone of near-constant hurricane force wind. In the northern hemisphere, well mate, wait until you're fifty something.

[donvanallen]

Standard fireworks(remember them)-- what happens when the beast from the east appears at T+384.

Of course I can Mike!! but can you remember London Lights...

Nah no beast from the east this winter!!! just a whole lotta Mild

[SP1986]

To carry from Rogers its the..... Sinking Sixties

The flooding situation where it is almost constantly 16C in November, a bit like now really!

[shuggee]

Pat(t)ernal Change - the period of 'looking up-steam' with the help of the more senior male members of a message board - hoping for a signal to cooler weather (ie below 13ºC)

Looking up-steam - nothing on the horizon, even beyond the deepest depths of FI, but mild, muggy humility.

[I can't believe it's not better]

Meatology - the study of meat.

[shuggee]

Winward - A local councillor's celebration, photographed face-on into a gale.

MOJO - a not-so-mad Julian oscillating nicely in a strip bar.

[Rollo]

Jet Stream---Passing water at high altitudes. Deepening depression- that which is affecting we SACRA members (especially Nick Sussex) at the moment.

[snowdrifter]

Polar D'oh: An area of snow-filled cyclonic north of the UK which fizzes out just as people are getting excited.

Edited November 30, 2006 by snowdrifter

[Stratos Ferric]

Nowesterly (adj) - The sort of North westerly that nowadays brings lots of no.

[Roger J Smith]

Lofted index -- A system for predicting severe thunderstorms which overestimates by 3 to 5 times their actual probability of happening.

CAPE -- What Superman wears when making a severe weather forecast.

Guestnato -- Ukraine takes out a trial membership to see if the soup in the NATO cafeteria is any better than at Kiev's Dioxin Cafe.

Global swarming -- All the countries that don't like the idea of rising sea levels push and shove in the lobby of the next big climate change conference; the U.S. delegate says "need a ride, I have my SUV handy."

Launder minimum -- While at university, RJS did about three laundries, mostly in fourth year. This was thought to bring on the Date Scarcity as well as the Job Interview Failure or JIF.

Highgrometer -- Police use the highgrometer to determine who is allowed to

drive home after the annual meteorologists' drink-up.

North Atlantic Shutdown -- Most of the bars in Galway close at 10 p.m.

[Stratos Ferric]

FI with a bullet (colloq): To look into FI, and not only make high tensile extrapolations, but actually to go so far as to see things that really aren't there.

[I can't believe it's not better]

Winters block - a temporary inability to start wintering. [citation needed].

[Rollo]

Cold Front---Scarbrough promenade in the middle of January. Intensifying High-- my feelings as pressure rises over Scandinavia.

[The Enforcer]

abingdon (vb) To pour scorn on the snowfall potential of any cold spells, no matter what the models or forecasters say will happen. Intensity of abingdoning increases directly proportionate to the proximity of said cold event. I totally abingdon that forecast.

abingdon (noun) Unit of measurement for the intensity of abingdoning. That must have been a 5 on the abingdon scale.

abingdonian (noun) Person who abingdons. Oh, he's such an old abingdonian.

abingdonish (adj) Used to describe the work of an abingdonian. Why have all the abingdonish posts been deleted?

abingdoningly (adv) Used to describe actions that are carried out by abingdonians. He abingdoningly writes off the big freeze.

abingdonisation (noun) The ultimate goal of abingdonians whereby successful abingdoning has persuaded a community to adopt abingdonish principles. I remember the days before the abingdonisation of Net-Weather.

Edited December 6, 2006 by The Enforcer

[WhiteFox]

Global Abingdonisation - Propensity for the world to tend towards Abingdon;

"Before the days of Global Abingdonisation Pesterlies were much less frequent."

[Stratos Ferric]

Froast (n) - The type of green hoar frost you get when overnight temps stay up around 12C. E.g. I awoke in Reading on Tuesday morning to find, on throwing open the hotel curtains, a very heavy froast on the grass.

Froasty (adj) - e.g. A froasty night in Reading.

[Cumulonimbus Tower]

Cyclegenisys - A fair weathered gang of friends using their love of storms and bikes to carry them all the way to their next big gig. An aging rock concert hosted by a very flatulant Phil Collins

Edited December 9, 2006 by ned

[shuggee]

Upper Statosferric Warning - The necessary warming of the upper atmosphere to support pressure rises to the north of the UK - whilst at surface temperature records continue to tumble triggering a famous member's 'Tipping Point' theory.

[Rollo]

Model Output Discussion.----- Hey what did you think of that bird on the catwalk last night.

[Roger J Smith]

Naughty, naughty Rollo. What sort of example are you setting for a young man like me? :lol:

Here's another entry for the list:

Rogue wave -- What Rollo does when he spots a nice one

[shuggee]

Long Rain Forecast (LRF) - The likely outcome of every punt into the longer-term is more and more mild and wet weather.

Modified Flaw - Cold air being modified by warmer seas inevitably means more of the same; mild. To suggest otherwise is most probably wrong.

Height Rinses - the effect of pressure building, which rather like your granny popping down the local salon, will turn the charts blue during winter.

[snowdrifter]

Greenie High A seemingly impossible to grasp bogie, way up in a nasal passage.

[Rollo]

Winter-A season almost long forgotten when snowfall used to occur now and again, now only mentioned in history books.

[shuggee]

An uncurtian track - the attempt by many who are least likely to see snow to argue that an approaching depression's direction can in some way be changed by the presence of net curtains.