Stormy Weather

[BBMmk2]

Has Anna gone away?

Rather a lovely warm day today~! I hope it doesn't change!!

[BBMmk2]

Is it going to be a sunny day today, dare I say it?

[Serial_Apologist]

Is it going to be a sunny day today, dare I say it?

Therefore make the most of it if you can, I say.

I think I shall take to the Thames Path on me bike, shortly.

[BBMmk2]

I wonder what these storms will bring us?

[Serial_Apologist]

I wonder what these storms will bring us?

If you mean the huge one that's been seriously affecting Japan, the answer is nothing, directly, because their are born out of the warmed up waters along the Equator west of Columbia and other states in the NW of S America, which in turn are a consequence of El Nino, and the latter has the effect of de-energising the Atlantic (having nicked much of the energy, so to speak), so that this year the Gulf of Mexico has experienced far fewer hurricanes than would be the case were there no El Nino. The main energising zone as far as our storm systerms are concerned has shifted further north up the eastern seaboard of the States, with our low pressure systems to come reaching us mainly from there.

[BBMmk2]

Yes, what's going on in the Atlantic! Thanks as ever, SA.

Anna, wherefore art thou?

[teamsaint]

Well Hurrah,th e weather held out for our trip to the beach. Had a lovely walk in the sunshine all the way along Lepe beach, ( wish I had taken the camera), Right down to the salt marshes at the Lymington end.

Must have been about a force 6 blowing,so it made for a bracing walk, but lovely nontheless.
greenilex's dog would have loved it !!

Loads of wind surfers etc our getting a rare old work out.
One bloke with a Kite surfer (?) put an amazing shift in.

[greenilex]

Sounds great - must make the effort soon. Teddy and I are enjoying Rollesbrook in the meanwhile. The stone building at the end, near the Mayflower Theatre, is an old water house built by monks as a public facility and is now the oldest complete building in the city.

[teamsaint]

a beautiful autumn day here, sunshine all day, ( I think, working a lot of it ).

proper cloud , this.Taken just now.

not that exciting, but I kinda liked it.

[DracoM]

Well, oop 'ere, we've had unarguably the best fortnight of the entire summer. Sun, dry, crystal clear light, wonderful walking weather.

[Serial_Apologist]

a beautiful autumn day here, sunshine all day, ( I think, working a lot of it ).

proper cloud , this.Taken just now.

not that exciting, but I kinda liked it.

Lovely - thanks for sending that TS.

Cumulus - caused by simple convection. Air rises - as is its wont - until the dewpoint - the point at which any moisture in the air condenses onto convenient dust particles floating around - is reached: usually between 1500 and 3500 feet (rising as the day warms up). That level then becomes the flat base of the cloud, which continues to grow until either it reaches a temperature inversion (in stable conditions), whereupon it flattens out, or in the absence of an inversion, the tropopause, by which time its top is made up of ice crystals, giving it a feathery or fibrous edge, and if it goes on growing upwards it can spread out in an anvil or scollop shell shape. By this point it will be called cumulonimbus, and will be producing at least a shower, possibly a thunderstorm.

We might well see quite a lot of that sort of thing happening tomorrow in England if the forecasters have got it right.

It's amazing to think that the greatest surface-convected thunderstorms all started life as a little cumulus like the one above.

[teamsaint]

THanks S-A, great knowledge there as usual.

Bit cloudier here today, but a very pleasant autumn day with spells of sunshine.

[Serial_Apologist]

THanks S-A, great knowledge there as usual.

Bit cloudier here today, but a very pleasant autumn day with spells of sunshine.

You're welcome - as people around here often say. Very polite, they are, around here. I don't know why my message repeated; I've deleted the first one.

[visualnickmos]

Well, oop 'ere, we've had unarguably the best fortnight of the entire summer. Sun, dry, crystal clear light, wonderful walking weather.

....and where might that be?

[Petrushka]

Well, oop 'ere, we've had unarguably the best fortnight of the entire summer. Sun, dry, crystal clear light, wonderful walking weather.

Yes, it's been pretty much the same here. The heavy rain forecast almost daily has completely failed to materialise and, today for example, has been sunny and warm with temps reaching 23 degrees. The downside is that it's dark by 7.30 and chilly at night and early morning.