Stormy Weather

[Serial_Apologist]

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

Aaaaargh! I'd need to get a wet bulb/dry bulb thermometer, and there's nowhere here to put a Stevenson's screen!

[Anna]

Thanks for going to the trouble, Anna!

Voila! Here is a list of weather stations.

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/ListStations.asp?selectedCountry=United+Kingdom

It's a very long list and not arranged very logically so you'll have to read through it all (the London ones are not all grouped together) There are two in Dundee (for mangerton) and one in Bexley (for saly) but I cannot see any listed in Dulwich for you! - but my geography for that area is hazy, to say the least.
Barometer still rising slowly, 1014, not too cold overnight at -1° but very frosty.

[BBMmk2]

Thank you Anna, for that information, regarding the barometer! It has really inspired me for a Crimbo pressie for my wife!(What you think??)

Hope Caliban and Salys get better soon! As Mangerton says, no stinting with the FG!!

Another hard frost last night but at least the sun is out with bright blue sky! So I expect it be rathedr cold today as well! havnt ventured out yet but I am going for sunday lunch to parents'place later!!

[Anna]

Thank you Anna, for that information, regarding the barometer! It has really inspired me for a Crimbo pressie for my wife!(What you think??)

Difficult question as I don't know Mrs. BBM but certainly it's a gift that lasts forever and they are very decorative items but only you would know if she'd appreciate it or want to use it. Have a browse online at the different types. This is the link to where I bought mine. I chose them because others I looked at were not temperature compensated, which gives greater accuracy http://www.buybarometers.co.uk/

[mangerton]

Anna, I must add my thanks to BBM's for that list. What a fascinating list! I scrolled down the whole thing, and you begin to think there's a pattern, then it goes off at a tangent. I found two more for "Dundee" near the end, one very close, on top of the University Tower Building.

Anyway, another v cold (-1°C this morning, only 3°C now) lovely sunny day. I see snow is forecast for parts of the country. Dundee is probably too low/near the coast to get much, but the ski-ing areas will get some, I should think.

[Anna]

Anna, I must add my thanks to BBM's for that list. What a fascinating list! I scrolled down the whole thing, and you begin to think there's a pattern, then it goes off at a tangent. I found two more for "Dundee" near the end, one very close, on top of the University Tower Building.

Anyway, another v cold (-1°C this morning, only 3°C now) lovely sunny day. I see snow is forecast for parts of the country. Dundee is probably too low/near the coast to get much, but the ski-ing areas will get some, I should think.

Glad you found it interesting mangerton, I was really surprised that there are quite a few weather stations near here that I didn't know about. You can compare your barometer readings with the one at the University!! (Then you'll be a proper anorak! )
I really hoped the list would show a site near to S_A.... Shall we have a whip round to get him his very own weather station?

[Serial_Apologist]

Glad you found it interesting mangerton, I was really surprised that there are quite a few weather stations near here that I didn't know about. You can compare your barometer readings with the one at the University!! (Then you'll be a proper anorak! )
I really hoped the list would show a site near to S_A.... Shall we have a whip round to get him his very own weather station?

THanks v much Anna - v busy today (Sunday my busiest day of the week!), and will check when I get back from the afternoon Grape & Grain sesh (v friendly lady vocalist of N Ireland origin accompanied by my ever-glum friend at the keys!).

[BBMmk2]

Well Anna, yes mrsBBM does like that kind of thing! It has my brain cells working now! I will starting perusing this afternoon!

[marthe]

Just checking in and I see that saly and caliban are not well so I'm sending good wishes across the Atlantic to both. If I were in the neighbourhood, I'd pop in with a get-well-soon treat. Weather here is milder (50s F), windy, with intermittant showers. HH, fooled by warmish temps, took the MG out and got caught, top down, in a downpour on his way home from the pub! It's nearly time for the MG to hibernate in the garage. Yesterday, I cut greenery in my garden and filled the garden urns with said greenery to decorate for Christmas. Overseas cards went out on Friday.

[Nick Armstrong]

Just checking in and I see that saly and caliban are not well so I'm sending good wishes across the Atlantic to both. If I were in the neighbourhood, I'd pop in with a get-well-soon treat.

marthe, how sweet you are!

In fact I think I've repelled the virus so it remained a headcold and didn't turn into one of those really annoying sore throat / endless cough things!

But your treat sounds good!!

Happy Advent!

[Serial_Apologist]

Just checking in and I see that saly and caliban are not well so I'm sending good wishes across the Atlantic to both. If I were in the neighbourhood, I'd pop in with a get-well-soon treat. Weather here is milder (50s F), windy, with intermittant showers. HH, fooled by warmish temps, took the MG out and got caught, top down, in a downpour on his way home from the pub! It's nearly time for the MG to hibernate in the garage. Yesterday, I cut greenery in my garden and filled the garden urns with said greenery to decorate for Christmas. Overseas cards went out on Friday.

Yes I see it's really mild with you, marthe, but it cools down from mid-week. Chilly here: frost all day on the tables outside a nearby pub.

[Serial_Apologist]

But your treat sounds good!!

Definitely not to be sneezed at!

[marthe]

marthe, how sweet you are!

In fact I think I've repelled the virus so it remained a headcold and didn't turn into one of those really annoying sore throat / endless cough things!

But your treat sounds good!!

Happy Advent!

Caliban, so glad to hear that your virus is not virulent and hope that your headcold gets better soon. Many thanks for the Advent wishes. I lit the first candle on my Advent wreath (custom from childhood recently revived by me) while trying to recall all the wonderful hymns, all in Latin, that my parents used to sing when we were children. I shall have to see if I can do a listen-again with the Advent service from SJC. Happy Advent to you and all who celebrate it.

[marthe]

Yes I see it's really mild with you, marthe, but it cools down from mid-week. Chilly here: frost all day on the tables outside a nearby pub.

S_A, I heard it here first! Thanks for the advance weather report. I'll have to see how Anna gets on with her new barometer. It might be a comforting ritual to tap the barometer everyday. During my last year in high school, I was the stage manager for the Drama Club's annual production. The play was Noel Coward's Hay Fever for which I had to procure a barometer because one of the characters had to tap a barometer. I had a hard time finding one until a classmate's great-uncle kindly lent his.

[salymap]

Thanks marthe for your kind thoughts and a happy Advent to you and yours.

I'm very slow now but have sent my cards to the US and Oz in good time. local cousin is running me up to the supermarket today so I shall just have to walk home. {And it's 'downhill all the way'- what is that verse/poem ?]

Your greenery for Christmas sounds lovely. I'm ashamed to say I just have a little artificial tree now, but every ornament or bauble from people no longer with me bring back good memories.