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  • Old Grumpy
    Full Member
    • Jan 2011
    • 3601

    I use the Met Office weather app. I find it pretty good, on the whole. It's a shame the Beeb ditched them for Meteo https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-bbc-rejection

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    • Bryn
      Banned
      • Mar 2007
      • 24688

      Fair tipping it down here in Braccan Heal right now. It's playing some interestingly complex rhythms on the chimney cowling.

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      • Serial_Apologist
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 37624

        Originally posted by Bryn View Post
        Fair tipping it down here in Braccan Heal right now. It's playing some interestingly complex rhythms on the chimney cowling.
        Still to reach here - goodness, how slowly this front is moving: they did warn it would hang around the SE for much of tomorrow. We did have some moderate rain earlier this evening.

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        • gurnemanz
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 7382

          Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
          I use the Met Office weather app. I find it pretty good, on the whole.
          I agree on Met Office app which is the one I go to first and mostly rely on. Since the last update a couple of weeks ago the rain forecast radar map is for me now definitely the best

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          • oddoneout
            Full Member
            • Nov 2015
            • 9150

            A grey soggy morning. The rain doesn't sound or seem heavy at first sight because there is no wind but watching the quantity of water collecting in a bucket of apples by my back door (no I wasn't intending to go apple bobbing...) and the stream across my back yard from next door's overflowing waterbutt (sigh) gives a rather more accurate picture. It should clear by late morning according to the current forecast, but is looking to be slowmoving and the estimate has already moved from 10 am to 11 am so who knows. Errands will be put on hold for now; although I'll be using the car, getting in and out several times and making the brief walk to drop things off etc will get me almost as damp as walking anyway - with the added irritation of making the car damp inside so it fogs up.

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            • Old Grumpy
              Full Member
              • Jan 2011
              • 3601

              Originally posted by gurnemanz View Post
              I agree on Met Office app which is the one I go to first and mostly rely on. Since the last update a couple of weeks ago the rain forecast radar map is for me now definitely the best
              Yep, I love the rain forecast map - very useful when planning an outing.

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              • Sir Velo
                Full Member
                • Oct 2012
                • 3225

                Originally posted by DracoM View Post
                Temp here was 7C at 6 a.m., is now 5C. Wind is bitter and NW.
                Market traders already thinking of packing up early.
                And now..........?
                3.32: drenchingly wild........... Oh, yes, wild winds and seriously cold.

                This talk of temps being 12C +...?
                Still well above average (or "normal" as the metoffice insists on calling it ) for the time of year.

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                • Sir Velo
                  Full Member
                  • Oct 2012
                  • 3225

                  Originally posted by HighlandDougie View Post
                  In a word - vile. Heavy showers, windy, 7C at the moment. I was in Bordeaux exactly a week ago where it was 32C.
                  Like it or not, only one of those two weather observations is close to "normal".

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                  • gurnemanz
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 7382

                    A nearby weather station at Marlborough has total October rainfall hereabouts at 110.9 mm (4.3 in), well above the local long-term October average which is around 80 mm. Local river levels seem to be back to normal after the summer's drought. https://check-for-flooding.service.g...tton%20Bassett

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                    • Sir Velo
                      Full Member
                      • Oct 2012
                      • 3225

                      Originally posted by gurnemanz View Post
                      A nearby weather station at Marlborough has total October rainfall hereabouts at 110.9 mm (4.3 in), well above the local long-term October average which is around 80 mm. Local river levels seem to be back to normal after the summer's drought. https://check-for-flooding.service.g...tton%20Bassett
                      Interesting. Can I ask from where you obtain your meterological information? The MetOffice website appears to be completely useless, concentrating only on providing "Extremes".

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                      • Serial_Apologist
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 37624

                        Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post
                        Interesting. Can I ask from where you obtain your meterological information? The MetOffice website appears to be completely useless, concentrating only on providing "Extremes".
                        Well there was indeed exceptional rainfall over parts of an area east of a line from Southampton to The Wash, causing floods in a number of places. Here we have been extremely lucky - it leapfrogged this part of London.

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                        • BBMmk2
                          Late Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 20908

                          I don’t want to spoil the day, but, I can see something strange and yellow in the sky!!! Could it be…..?
                          Don’t cry for me
                          I go where music was born

                          J S Bach 1685-1750

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                          • DracoM
                            Host
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 12962

                            Iron hard frost this a.m.

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                            • Sir Velo
                              Full Member
                              • Oct 2012
                              • 3225

                              Lucky Man

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                              • Serial_Apologist
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37624

                                No frost here - overnight frontal cloud took too long to clear for the necessary temperature fall - but 9 degrees C at noon today is the lowest since April 9th - an unwelcome reminder of how long it takes to warm up following winter. Nice and sunny though!

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