Stormy Weather

[Nick Armstrong]

Thanks sals (take care! a siesta sounds a good idea! so does a cumberland.. ) and Dr Brass! There is the remaining third of a bottle of 'Famous Grouse' winking at me in the kitchen and nodding at the honey jar, indeed!

[Nick Armstrong]

I don't know how to post images if I take a photo with digi camera!

Can you transfer photos from your camera to your computer via a USB cable? If so, do so... then create an account on this site https://imgur.com/signin

You can then use the 'computer' button on that site to look for the image, upload it, and copy the Forum link and paste it here.

*Restrains self from quoting an animated meerkat*

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

...definitely time to get the the top tog duvet on the bed and the blankets as well, freezing last night .... and today ....

[Anna]

Can you transfer photos from your camera to your computer via a USB cable? If so, do so... then create an account on this site https://imgur.com/signin You can then use the 'computer' button on that site to look for the image, upload it, and copy the Forum link and paste it here.*Restrains self from quoting an animated meerkat*

I do have a photobucket account but the digicamera hasn't been used for ages so needs charging up. Sorry to hear about your impending headcold - it was probably that nasty cold Welsh wind that did for you!! Saly's plan for staying in and eating warming food is excellent, cannot find fault with it. I'm doing another curry today (a Korma type with chicken, spinach and potato, very comforting), tomorrow will be something I'm still formulating but shoulder of lamb with Moroccan spices and some side dishes. Best wishes to saly, a lie down with perhaps a hotwater bottle for your back?

Earlier on today, we had a hard frost from last night, then fog and the sub trying to come through.

Goodness BBM, when you said you were moving house did you move from Sussex into the English Channel?

[Nick Armstrong]

Sorry to hear about your impending headcold - it was probably that nasty cold Welsh wind that did for you!!

That and people coughing and sneezing in the flippin' train. Often happens on the rare occasions I take public transport! The bike's so much healthier... but Cardiff's a bit of a stretch!

Goodness BBM, when you said you were moving house did you move from Sussex into the English Channel?

[Serial_Apologist]

At the moment they have a wired Davis Vantage pro weather station which gives all usual info plus cloudbase, solar radiation, on their live page they have dials also showing wind speed, gusts, etc.

How did you manage to find your local weather station, Anna? For mine the bbc gove me a station located five miles south of Croydon in a valley as my nearest, 2 years ago, then changed that to Hyde Park - both useless! I'd love to get reports that gave me cloud base height: even after all these years I still manage to confuse stratocumulus with altocumulus on occasion!

[BBMmk2]

Goodness BBM, when you said you were moving house did you move from Sussex into the English Channel? [/QUOTE]

Indeed, it felt like Anna!!

Last night was quite cold though.The [B]sun[B]did creep through in the end but looks as though its going to become overcast now

[Anna]

Imgur doesn't seem to work for me, and as the camera will take hours to charge, this is a photo of my latest toy taken from the website of the firm I bought it from (Barometer World, Merton, Devon) uploaded to photobucket I don't know how to make the image smaller!! As you can see, it's a basic barometer, nothing too complicated, but I think it's really pretty.

[BBMmk2]

Very nice Anna! I might get one for MrsBBM!(a Christmas presie, maybe??)

[Nick Armstrong]

I love it! It is indeed very pretty. Thank you for showing us. I understand your excitement!

(The image is a perfect size on my screen. And I find imgur really good, not sure what's happening... )

[Anna]

How did you manage to find your local weather station, Anna? For mine the bbc gove me a station located five miles south of Croydon in a valley as my nearest, 2 years ago, then changed that to Hyde Park - both useless! I'd love to get reports that gave me cloud base height: even after all these years I still manage to confuse stratocumulus with altocumulus on occasion!

S_A, it was pure chance. I knew the family in question had kept weather records for years and often contributed weather stuff to the local paper but I just put in my location + weather and chanced upon their home page. The Met Office directs me to a weather station in Herefordshire! Perhaps there are no local ones to you? Or, is there some sort of Association of weather stations? I'll contact my local one and see if they know.
Just had my sister on the phone, she left Cairo in 28° and arrived home in -2° She's quite keen to set up an automated weather reporting system with an indoor console. Any thoughts?

Very nice Anna! I might get one for MrsBBM!(a Christmas presie, maybe??)

They are a firm of enthusiasts BBM, very knowledgeable and friendly, restore antique ones, etc., and have a museum, plus loads of vids on YouTube. It cost £95, bit more than I had originally intended to spend, but I love it. And, more importantly, it works!

[Serial_Apologist]

S_A, it was pure chance. I knew the family in question had kept weather records for years and often contributed weather stuff to the local paper but I just put in my location + weather and chanced upon their home page. The Met Office directs me to a weather station in Herefordshire! Perhaps there are no local ones to you? Or, is there some sort of Association of weather stations? I'll contact my local one and see if they know.

Thanks for going to the trouble, Anna!

Just had my sister on the phone, she left Cairo in 28° and arrived home in -2° She's quite keen to ...

I thought you were going to continue, "get those long johns out!

... set up an automated weather reporting system with an indoor console. Any thoughts?

Phew! A Stevenson's screen out in the garden, a good 10 metres from any buildings/walls/hedges/overhanging trees, containing, barograph, max/min and wet/dry bulb thermometers, with a rain gauge outside and solargraph sited where it can catch sun is or used to be the traditional minimum, and that'd probably set her back a few bob, Anna.

Being not so interested in (and not recording in my diary) rainfall or sunshine amounts, just wind direction/force, cloud type/% sky covered, precipitation/fog (if any), and visibility at 6 am, 12 noon and 6 pm, and a running account of precipitation (if any) from 6 am to midnight, I personally restrict myself to barometer (which also gives humidity, but which I don't record), max/min thermometer on N-facing wall, and visual observations. On the right hand page I also give a written description, eg for today, "Cloudy and sunny intervals, very cold", a frost recording, "slight", and, for sentimental reasons, a midday temperature reading in Fahrenheit! At the end of each month I average up the temperatures - eg, November just gone: Max 9 degs C - 1 deg C below normal; Min 3.4 degs C - 0.6 degs C below normal.

[mangerton]

Goodness! A lot to catch up with here. That's what happens when you go away to St A.

Firstly commiserations and get-well-soon messages to salymap and Caliban. Famous Grouse and honey sounds like a good cure. Do not stint on the FG.

Anna, your barometer looks great, and just the right size, and I now understand why your temperature reports have gained a new level of accuracy. Pressure in Dundee is 1006 mb at present.

Back in St A today. It was a beautifully sunny but v cold winter's day. Amidst sorting out mum, I went to the farmers' market. Arbroath smokies were being smoked outside on site; the aroma was most enticing. I bought some free range eggs and locally produced bacon and sausage. I also got some bottle conditioned beer from the local micro brewery. All in all a very productive day.

[Nick Armstrong]

Firstly commiserations and get-well-soon messages to salymap and Caliban. Famous Grouse and honey sounds like a good cure. Do not stint on the FG.

Cheers!!

Soon be the shortest day anyway.

Advent Sunday tomorrow... Time to get the Christmas cards out and start writing a few for friends and family abroad, to make sure they're posted in time, to the accompaniment of the Advent carols from St John's at 4pm tomorrow....

[Pianorak]

. . . I'd love to get reports that gave me cloud base height . . .

Wouldn't we all! Alas, you'll have to work it out yourself - all you need is a Tephigram. http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/two...libgen&id=1485 and http://www.iac.ethz.ch/edu/courses/b...-Tephigram.pdf

A mate of mine has this to say on cloud bases: The cloud bases are to some degree predictable from the convergence of the reported surface temperature and dew point and there is even a formula which has been known to occasionally work: temperature-DP spread multiplied by 400ft, so if the surface temperature is +10C and the DP is +4C you might expect the bases to be around 2400ft. This works with some cloud types better than others.
DP = dew point

HTH