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Much like yesterday - still, with intermittent sun while out on my walk this morning turning sunnier in the afternoon.
So far this week is turning out better than the forecast had forecast...Comment
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Very foggy this morning as forecast, but it cleared before 10 am with the sun appearing soon after to leave a good autumn day - dry, sunny and not too chilly except in the shade where the lingering dampness was uncomfortable. Interestingly the figures from the Met Office recording station paint a very different picture - overcast virtually all day with periodic showers, but it's not that far away. Happy to have had our version as Wednesday is volunteer gardening day, and one of the tasks was a much delayed start on tackling a badly overgrown pond, which would have been miserable if it was raining - we got quite wet enough as it was!Comment
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... a friend writes : "For some reason when I use the BBC on my phone to check the weather forecast, the site defaults to Irish.
When I ask it to translate into English, I get rather melancholy descriptions such as:
'Light rain and tear stains'
'Sunny with periods of mourning'... "
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Melancholy but very apt.Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
Some years ago I had the foreign language default, only it was to Welsh . When I tried to find out why it was happening I was met with a level of unhelpfulness, and blame apportioned to me for not using settings correctly( I had, quite some time previously, including for location, but they had been over-ridden, and re-setting only lasted for an individual session), such that my increasing inclination towards the Met Office version became a decision to ignore the BBC site.
I wonder if the translations would have been equally poetic? Wouldn't have changed my decision to switch though.Comment
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Utter autumnal filth up here - thick rain, chilly NE breeze, no cloud breaks, and England committing cricket suicide in India...........blimey!Comment
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As already mentioned (I think) somewhere I switched to Met Office from BBC when the Beeb decided to go with some foreign outfit (MeteoGroup) for their broadcast forecasts.Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
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OG, I give you myOriginally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
As already mentioned (I think) somewhere I switched to Met Office from BBC when the Beeb decided to go with some foreign outfit (MeteoGroup) for their broadcast forecasts.
for your . I tend to check both sources when I have time, or when it's a matter of pressing importance.
All of this morning's anvil cloud debris has now cleared here in the south, allowing the sun to trigger convection, and some telltale cumulonimbus clouds which have given thunder in the vicinity of Chichester and to the north of Brighton are now encroaching this way from the south coast. It will be interesting to see if they reach London in the next hour. The maximum temperature will in any case be down on yesterday's exceptionally mild 16C. Hopefully it will be dry enough tomorrow morning to make it over to E Dulwich for my major weekly shop at the large Sainsbury's!.Comment
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Good discussion on increasing blocked weather patterns (like the one we're getting right now) over on the UKWW site I visit regularly. The language used includes some technical jargon but should mostly be understandable (if it is by me!!):
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Fair enough, S_A. MyOriginally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
OG, I give you my for your . I tend to check both sources when I have time, or when it's a matter of pressing. was not for the forecasting, but for the BBC's ditching of the Met Office as provider.
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Not unpleasant weather for walking - hardly any wind and pretty mild.Comment
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Oh I gathered that.Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
Fair enough, S_A. My was not for the forecasting, but for the BBC's ditching of thre Met Office as provider.
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The expected shower turned into a thunderstorm by the time it passed over Woodford in NE London. In another month's time in this sort of unstable weather set-up, lower air temperatures would prevent the necessary convection for that to happen inland, away from coastal situations where showers have been generated over relatively warmer sea surfaces. Inland thunder can otherwise occur only under conditions of "forcing", i.e a convergence feature such as a cold front or surface trough line where increasing winds push in, or upward motion (orographic uplift) where winds ram into mountains or high cliffs and are forced upwards. So-called "thunder snow", which has been a topic of conversation of recent years, occurs where cold fronts introduce air of sufficiently low temperature to maintain precipitation as snow rather than melting into rain at low levels, often accompanied by a sharp veer in wind direction. it is noticeable in British winters that showers formed over the sea that make it any distance inland tend to raise near-surface temperatures as they cross sometimes frosty surfaces - one of our causes of so-called "black ice". It is of course worth mentioning that most of our precipitation starts off as snow and then melts on its way down.Originally posted by Joseph K View PostComment
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