Stormy Weather II

[Serial_Apologist]

This chappie who lives up near Manchester issues a fairly regular timelapse cloudscape online diary via Youtube, from which I have posted various links here in the past, mainly of stormy sequences, each "episode" of approximately 4 minutes' duration. From what I can make out, his camera points to the north-west. Here by contrast is his entry from yesterday, depicting in clear motion a day of capped inversions, suppressing convective cumulus growth. The first half of the day shows clouds buidling up in the low-level turbulence, producing drizzly showers, only then to flatten out and spread into stratocumulus "infill", while in the second half the cap has descended in the stabilizing air as high pressure has approached, so that all that are to be observed are fair-weather cumulus ("cumulus humilis") forming at the rising boundary layer, and building hardly at all before dissipating completely at sunset, when the descending sun can be seen sinking into a mass of approaching upper-level cirrus thickening out into cirrostratus - advance signs at sunset of the approaching warm front which is today producing the wet weather being experienced across northern England and Scotland.

Weather presents one of the few instances where nature "in the large" can be observed as it changes, and I think this footage is really beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=kuuU3JVAGNs&feature=emb_logo

[BBMmk2]

Knee joints still acheing a bit 2 days on, BBM, but I was able to make it down to Brixton Tesco's. Their on-site baked Multigrain is better than most, and they have tinned pear quarters, I was told - and they did. FYI only, there are more pear quarters than pear halves per tin of the same size. Not many people probably know that.

I asked the checkout girl if she maybe thought Hermesetas had been a Spanish prince or something. "I haven't a clue", she said.

Nice one SA! Hope your knees get better soon!

Temperature 23C today. With occasional cloud in HH today.

I’ll have to change my details by the looks of it soon. As we be moving house! Going into sheltered accommodation, for my benefit really. The call alarm has already been tested twice!

[Joseph K]

Powerful gusts of wind here in Redditch. Sun's out though.

[DracoM]

Wild wind overnight dropped, and in its place, we have total 100% fog / mist / rainy yuk down to the very base of the fells. Like late October.

[Constantbee]

Knee joints still acheing a bit 2 days on, BBM, but I was able to make it down to Brixton Tesco's. Their on-site baked Multigrain is better than most, and they have tinned pear quarters, I was told - and they did. FYI only, there are more pear quarters than pear halves per tin of the same size. Not many people probably know that.

In natural juice, too From concentrate. Not syrup. Less sugar

[BBMmk2]

It’s 26C now. So quite warm for me!

[Serial_Apologist]

It’s 26C now. So quite warm for me!

Quite steamy too, so this afternoon's wiill be my last substantial trip under my own propulsion. Tomorrow I shall be up and off to E Dulwich Sainsburys, early morning temperatures being expected to be in the range of 15-16 Celsius, because I am fed up with never finding Iceberg lettuce available in the smaller local branch, thus having to make do with tatty produce, presumably of local origin.

This time the very high temperatures are expected to peak on Day 1 (tomorrow) at about 34/35 C in the London area, but remain very high in the SE at least until next Thursday. or maybe more appropriate. It looks like there could be a lot of thunder about next Tuesday and Wednesday!

[LeMartinPecheur]

It looks like there could be a lot of thunder about next Tuesday and Wednesday!

Yesterday my online forecast was predicting, IIRC, four days of possible thunderstorms next week. The novelty was that the first one also said it had a 0% chance of rain!

Today they're giving us just two days, but both still with a pretty low chance, 10%. Outlook hot and frosty perchance??

[cloughie]

Yesterday my online forecast was predicting, IIRC, four days of possible thunderstorms next week. The novelty was that the first one also said it had a 0% chance of rain!

Today they're giving us just two days, but both still with a pretty low chance, 10%. Outlook hot and frosty perchance??

Mizzle here today!

[LezLee]

Quite steamy too, so this afternoon's wiill be my last substantial trip under my own propulsion. Tomorrow I shall be up and off to E Dulwich Sainsburys, early morning temperatures being expected to be in the range of 15-16 Celsius, because I am fed up with never finding Iceberg lettuce available in the smaller local branch, thus having to make do with tatty produce, presumably of local origin. !

Have you tried, if available, Chinese leaves? Very like iceberg and really nice.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Mizzle here today!

Up here the eastern slopes of Bodmin Moor have just come into view for the first time today

[PS Just noticed you're about to overtake me in number of posts! }

[Serial_Apologist]

Have you tried, if available, Chinese leaves? Very like iceberg and really nice.

I haven't actually, but thanks for the pointer, Lez. I may have overlooked those on the shelves, first thing on Friday mornings. Ready chopped and bagged lettuce, for the important busy people, usually is available, but, apart from preferring to chop my own, (thank you, St Spree), it usually turns brown and manky by about day 3, whereas I always make do with one lettuce lasting through to Thursday.

[Serial_Apologist]

Two miles was more than far enough for my afternoon walk. It may only be 27 C but the high accompanying humidity makes it feel much more. Just up the road, a path with a gradient of about 1 in 5 takes one the last 400 metres to the "summit" of Sydenham Hill; a young lady of not particularly athletic build was jogging up the entire 120 feet climb! Obviously hadn't been watching Michael Moseley's weight loss methods recommending programme last night on Channel 4!

[LMcD]

Mizzle here today!

Any to spare, guvnor?

[Serial_Apologist]

Any to spare, guvnor?

If you haven't already, you should try experiencing the misting system in operation in the Tropical House in Kew Gardens during summer. 100% humdity at a temperature of 29 C probably approximates what it would feel like in the jungle in, say, Borneo or Sumatra.