Stormy Weather

[cloughie]

i was expecting a limerick here which never quite took shape.

Rippin' 'em would almost rhyme so perhaps that's why wisely it did not continue!

[Serial_Apologist]

Do others here look at the weather forecasts on the net?

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/

I find I now look most days, having entered my location, as I can now play a sequence of up to five day's forecast. There are various options but the map has little clouds and child's suns (as appropriate) drifting over southern England. And lots of varied information, recent and forecast to explore. I did a little meteorology at school in A-level Geography, and am able to make some sense of a pressure chart. I need to get more skilled with this as I've recently taken up an interest in sailing.

I agree, kb - and of course we're free to disagree with them when we think they're wrong!

We did some basic meteorology at school for Geography O Level, but it wasn't even touched on from what I remember at A Level. The teacher couldn't even get it right about which way winds circulate around high and low pressure systems, and in the end Your Truly had to get up in front and instruct the class!

This was back in the days we're now told about, when teaching standards were supposedly so much higher. AND it was a fee-paying school!

FORtunately, there were 2 questions about weather and climate on the A Level paper I took, and because I'd mugged up, I got a good pass.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Do others here look at the weather forecasts on the net?

Yes, I do, too, kernel - ever since the BBC changed its homepage to the bleak white, queasy shape-shifter it is now, I have made the Met Office site my Homepage: fascinating!

[salymap]

Ihave the Met office and the BBC. On the BBC one my postcode is not accepted, neither is 'Sidcup, Kent' although that is my postal address. I am Greater Londonto them but Kent for letters, etc. This apppies to all the outer suburbs now, wish they would sort it out.

[Anna]

Saly, I think maybe you need to put in Bexley instead of Sidcup? Just a guess. BBC is my homepage, so it's customised for my weather, I also check Met Office and my local weather station for current conditions. Yesterday wasn't very nice, heavy drizzle am and sharp showers pm and very windy last night. Today is bright and breezy but very cool early on, around 13, we are now up to 16 which is pleasant.
We did some meteo stuff for geography I recall cloud formations, isobars and suchlike, think it went in one ear and out the other. I failed the GCSE, it was taught in a very boring fashion but the field trips were quite fun, bit like Five Go Mad at Cuckmere Haven Having Discovered an Meander!

[mercia]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2637861

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[BBMmk2]

Well done Mercia!!

Rather a good warmish day today!!

(My back playing up at the moment!!)

[salymap]

Thanks Anna, they accepted Sidcup, Greater London in the end. We are usually a degree or so lower than London as we are a few miles nearer the coast, I suppose.

I wish I'd studied the weather at school; because of the Blitz when I wss 10/11 years old we learned very little of anything, being sent home at lunch time for the rest of the day.

[Nick Armstrong]

Phew... Lucky escape!! Started back home on the cycle with some cloud but also blue sky in between... Arrived home: ditto.

20 minutes later: the sound of mighty rushing waters.... The heaviest imaginable rainstorm :yiikes:

Would have put a serious crimp in my ride home

As it was i sipped my cup of tea smugly...

[mangerton]

Phew... Lucky escape!! Started back home on the cycle with some cloud but also blue sky in between... Arrived home: ditto.

20 minutes later: the sound of mighty rushing waters.... The heaviest imaginable rainstorm :yiikes:

Would have put a serious crimp in my ride home

As it was i sipped my cup of tea smugly...

Glad to hear you got home before the rain. (He said drily.) Dry day and a lovely clear evening here - but perishing cold.

[Serial_Apologist]

Phew... Lucky escape!! Started back home on the cycle with some cloud but also blue sky in between... Arrived home: ditto.

20 minutes later: the sound of mighty rushing waters.... The heaviest imaginable rainstorm :yiikes:

Would have put a serious crimp in my ride home

As it was i sipped my cup of tea smugly...

You were lucky with your timing, Cali! That was a very violent line squall (cold front) - accompanied by very strong winds here for about five minutes. Shows up on the chart as a bright yellow line moving south. Must admit, I hadn't been expecting anything like that! Quite a few branches and a lot of leaves down, several dustbins blown over or into the street, rubbish strewn all over the place, sound of glass smashing somewhere.

[salymap]

It may be my failing memory but surely autumn doesn't usually come so suddenly in late September? It's dark soon after 7pm and cold enough to have the heating on today.

At least we were spared Cali's and S_A's dramatic weather yesterday

[greenilex]

For the first time since the summer I felt impelled to bring firewood home from the Common after my walk. But I suppose I should telephone the chimney-sweep before using it...

[BBMmk2]

Well really struggling with work at the mOment! Got members of the LPO co
Ing down in a few weeks time, so that be great!
At least it's sunny here!

[Serial_Apologist]

It may be my failing memory but surely autumn doesn't usually come so suddenly in late September? It's dark soon after 7pm and cold enough to have the heating on today.

At least we were spared Cali's and S_A's dramatic weather yesterday

Temperature's sudden plummet from last week - 6C last night in this neck of the 'burbs, only 12C at noontime today, brilliant sunshine notwithstanding - does give an impression of rapid descent. But I could probably dig out even more sudden and extreme changes than this. The summer seems to have gone by real quick this year, because the temperatures rarely reached what they should have been until towards the end of July.