So pressure has finally risen, in weather terms this means more sunshine and hot days (in summer) in Winter high pressure usually brings cold, crisp days with mist and fg and sometimes cloud (also known as cyclonic gloom)
Sadly, for myself and quite a few other year 12's and year 13's pressure is rising to results day. With university tuition fees rising it is a minefield for students, who after coming out of univeristy could have a £40,000 debt to be paid off within their life time.
I a
[b][b]Headline: Warm and mostly dry until late in the week[/b][/b]
April to July 2012 has already been the wettest such period in the 250 year England and Wales rainfall series, with an average of almost 20 inches falling in these soggy four months! At long last we are experiencing proper Summer weather with warm sunshine and dry days! It looks like the week ahead will turn even warmer with sunny spells and will be quite humid. Generally dry until Friday (start of the Olympics!) when it beco
[b][b]Headline: Unsettled, more rain or showers at times, could be a dry weekend, quite cool.[/b][/b]
Another very unsettled and sometimes wet week just gone. For the Midlands it is turning into another very wet month, with over 3 inches already at Coventry, which is a little more than has fallen in usually wetter west wales. When the sunny intervals come along they feel warmer than they actually are, the highest reading of the week was just 19c here at Llanwnnen, which is barely up to the
We are continuing to have a dry summer in Fort William though the rain has just started falling. A cool day for July and no sign of any meaningful rain here in the short term forecast. In fact the dam levels are exceptionally low with Laggan at a 9 yr low.
[b]Cool and very unsettled, further showers or longer spells of rain at times[/b]
A couple of warmish days last week, still nothing especially warm yet this summer though. Rugby has already had more rain this year than in the whole of 2011. Long range models showing little sign of improvement, and almost certainly no proper dry, warm and sunny spell before the end of July, in fact it's shaping up to be as exceptionally wet as was June. As for the coming week, we will be lucky indeed to reac
In this second part I'll present some questions that I occasionally get asked, and provide some answers.
[b]Q: Do you think Barry Hearn is doing a good job for the sport?[/b]
A. On balance yes, I think the vast majority of his ideas (e.g. expanding the number of tournaments, experimenting with different formats, promoting snooker overseas and making the ranking system more of a running thing) are all good for promoting the game and increasing interest. Snooker as a televised sport was beco
[b]Headline: Unsettled again; further rain and heavy showers at times, localised flooding mid week onwards, often quite cool[/b]
June did manage to enter the records books as the wettest ever for England and Wales overall. Final totals:
Llanwnnen, Lampeter 218mm = probably the wettest ever June locally
Coventry, Bablake School over 140mm = not as wet as June 2007, but still well over twice the average
Severe thunderstorms affected parts of the Midlands on Thursday, with hailstones of
[b]Headline: Unsettled again; drier early week, rain and showers later. Warm and humid blip mid week.[/b]
April to June 2012 has already been the wettest ever for this three month period (records back to 1766) for England and Wales overall. June itself may fall a little short of being the wettest ever, although it is up there with the wettest June's for many places. Llanwnnen is currently on 198mm (8 inches), while Coventry has had 128mm so far.
In spite of a mainly dry, bright start to l
What happend to Chris fawkes prediction of something more like summer in the final week of June? remember we had to keep our fingers crossed..
What nonsense.. DON'T give people who like summer weather false hope. Thats all i can say on the matter. The weather today and Sunday are akind to late October.. Rather than last week of June..
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For the first week of July or so, low pressure looks set to continue across the UK. However as we enter the second wave of July, the NAO looks increasingly likely to go from a negative state to a more neutral state.
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Today had the potential to be very tasty and we weren't disappointed - the chase in Minnesota was fast paced and gave us our first tornado of the tour.
We left Pierre, SD first thing and travelled East towards the general area of Watergate, Minnesota. After a quick stop at Subway for lunch, we waited at a garage on an intersection along I-29. Several stormchasers were starting to hang around the car-park as the first cumulus towers developed.
Paul picked the first cell that we would target
Day 2 was a funny old day. Everyone has a lot of negativity towards Nebraska due to previous busts there and the afternoon took a similar route.
A messy group of cells died out as we approached from our night stop in Grand Island, NE. The decision was made to head for a developing cell in Colorado before a swift U-turn to seek some evening lightning shots in Nebraska as cells began to redevelop. Some scenic shots later and we headed for an evening stay in North Platte, NE to reposition for th
[b]Headline: Drier than of late, still some showers; rather warm mid week. Unsettled end to week.[/b]
A slight respite from the cool, wet weather for a few days last week, particularly for west Wales. During Tuesday and Wednesday, we enjoyed some warm sunny spells raising temperatures to an average 19c. There were, however, very heavy showers about on these days too, but Llanwnnen missed the worst of these. I experienced a torrential shower just 2 miles from home on Tuesday afternoon, and an
I've been putting off writting this blog entry for as long as possible - simply because I don't know where to begin and feel unable to do justice to what was an incredible introduction to the world of storm chasing in Kansas. Meteorology glossary at the ready...
After a quick visit to Walmart we headed East into Kansas towards the cold front advancing Southeastward. We stopped for a typical stormchaser lunch at Burger King in Burlington before moving in on the towering cumulus and developing
So 2 months ago tomorrow, I had the most amazing phonecall - a phonecall that I doubt will ever be topped. Winner of the Netweather storm chasing competition with the opportunity to go chasing in the Great Plains for ten days.
The moment has arrived and after a slightly eventful day of traveling yesterday, I had a great night with fellow guests at a local sports bar. I'm a bit of a lightweight at the best of times without the toll of 24 hours travelling through some pretty chaotic American ai
I see,hes trying to soften the blow with his current forecast..Its ok chaps we are having a pretty wet summer.. But lets look back at the past year and how dry its been oh and then look forward to next winter incase its dry.. JUST SAY IT.. Summer 2012 is going to be dimissal.. Please dont bring up how dry the weathers been in the past as some kind of saving grace.. Facts are we have not had a decent summer for 6 whole years..
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[b]Headline: Very unsettled, plenty more rain, more flooding prospects. Cool.[/b][/b]
With just over a week of June gone most places in west Wales and the central MIdlands have already reached or exceeded the average June rainfall for the whole month. The Midlands had well over an inch last weekend, while Llanwnnen had over 2 inches falling over Thursday and Friday. These amounts, however, pale into insignificance compared with the amounts that fell over north Ceredigion and around Mach
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6th June:
Hello there folks, we've had a tops-turvy Spring and now we are in summer. The first we days were sunny but cold here in Glasgow with frosts in the highlands. Now, the Atlantic is up and running with a southerly tracking jet bring rain to all from the SW, however sunny sunny intervals between fronts are possible. It's worth following developments in the models and what the weather is like over the next wee while. Not long to the Euros soon,
[b]Headline: Very unsettled, plenty of rain, and often quite cool[/b]
The long fine and very warm spell is over, however fairly warm and humid air lingered until this weekend here in west Wales. While Rugby only reached 14c in cool drizzly conditions on Saturday, Llanwnnen managed a humid 23c. June is ushering in with a very unsettled, low pressure dominated and none too warm outlook.
May taken overall had slightly above normal temperatures, the statistics masking the heat towards the mo
I follow snooker very closely and have done since the late 1990s (basically ever since Stephen Hendry stopped winning everything in sight), though I'm sometimes afraid to admit it due to the "boring" reputation that televised snooker has.
[b]Favourite snooker players[/b]
It has to be Jimmy White and more recently Judd Trump for their all-out attacking styles and spectacular shots. Other favourites over the years have been Ronnie O'Sullivan, Stephen Hendry, Mark Williams and Steve Davis. Ro
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The first week of June 2012, is looking fairly unsettled but that should be expected with the settled period we have just had, as with any Summery weather. The further south you are is likely to promote some wetter conditions, however there is some considerable uncertainty as to the exact specifics of this upcoming short lived unse
[font=comic sans ms,cursive]So today is the last day of Spring! and what Spring it has been! Wet, Warm, Wet and Warm again! What amazes me is how quick things change in the spring. At 6am in March wake up to little sunlight, at 6am in May you wake up to rays of sunshine![/font]
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