shuggee
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Mist and cloud unfortunately here - general humidity/dampness in the air. Looking good for someone up here though.
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1200 noon:
Temperature 22 °C
Weather Mostly Cloudy
Pressure (MSL) 1009 mb
Pressure trend Falling
Wind speed 6 knots
Wind dir NE
Visibility 15.0 km
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TM - Ozzy is a respected Geographer and Scotch fan. You can tell with his posts.
EDIT: Can I just comment that the map used is superb - bang up to date and accurate. Just hope there's no-one in the Northern Isles.
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He'd like the Scottish TV (ITV) weather then, good 3D land graphics but simple 3D sun/cloud/rain symbols as per the old BBC forecast (but in 3D). If that makes sense!! You have to see it to believe it! Any fellow Scots back me up on this!!
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Aye you're right CMD. The STV forecast with the fly-through across from Fort William/Ben Nevis down to Ayr and back up through Glasgow across teh Lowlands to Lothian/Fife is, and always has been superb. The detail of the land is similar to Google Earth.
However, the accuracy of this forecast after 48hrs has a poor track record.
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Beautiful sunny start to the day - W'ly 9mph, 13C/7C, so feeling fresh, but the sun is still strong.
Cloud building a little now - but the sky is still only 50/50 obscured.
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The big graph with the left (y) axis showing the kp index:
Realtes to the furthest south it is likely to be seen:
So KP9 and nearly all of the UK's in with a shot.
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Now, I'm a complete rooky on this subject, but with a forecast kp7 - and the kp7 line over the borders of Southern Scotland - is it worth pottering up to a N'ly vantage point tonight?
How often do the indicators change - and is it worth keeping an eye on this through the evening?
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On the BBC1 Scotland - Reporting Scotland national forecast at 18:55 (fondly known as 'Heather's Weather'), the senior forecaster, one 'Heather', last night made a telling comment.
The newscaster cut to the weather with a witty comment about addressing any complaints to her - she retorted 'I get enough letters in my postbag about our 'lovely' new graphics - thank you very much!'.
The sarcasm in her voice was spectacular.
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Sunny, not too cool but windy morning.
18mph Sw'ly - 16C/8C. Clouds scuttling by...
Beautiful.
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Temp 20C, dew point 6C
Wind NW - 9mph
Beautiful and sunny; with cummulus cloud building.
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What's wrong with downloading the UKMO charts this evening? Or is it me?!!!
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Funny how the psychic didn't forsee the blaze.
<groan>
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Rain, grey, low cloud. Not at all inspiring today :-(
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There's been a lot in the news recently about historic catastrophic weather events such as this.
Very interesting reading - and in the days before GW... Ken?
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... With two of the most reputable and accurate newspapers of this country reporting this I don't see how it can't happen, all we need now is for the Mirror and Daily Mail to join in and it will be a certainty.
JJB
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Good to see wit and satire is alive & well JJB!
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Has anyone else noticed the dispropotionate mentioning of Lincolnshire?! It has to be the most mentioned county of the whole of the UK. For instance, when was the last time the BBC UK forecast mentioned say, Dorset or Buckinghamshire?!
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News reader, 'And now it's time for the weather with Gareth Smithe - Hello Gareth, when will this gloom and rain end?'.
Gareth, 'I know <laughs> still a couple more days to go I'm afraid...'
Belfast 23C and sunny. Carlisle 22C and sunny. Abiemore 25C and sunny...
How many times have we had this charade?!
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July - from the train on the way into Fort William - on the NE face of Ben Nevis! (But that's cheatin eh!?)
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Megalightning brings down aircraft.
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That's exactly what it is Jackone:
Foehn (or Föhn) effect: mechanisms which give rise to a warm, dry wind on the leeward side of mountains or significant hills. Broadly, there are two: (i) the 'subsidence' type where air at & just above the hill/mountain crest descends by lee-wave action, becoming even drier & warmer than when it started out; (ii) all air in a moist airstream on the upstream side of the hill/mountain rises, leading to cloud/precipitation formation, thence lowering the humidity content, this air then descending/warming adiabatically on the leeside.
Taken from a good glossary of weather terms at:
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I have to agree Mr Sleet - how can there not be a thunderstorm graphic; it's like not having a graphic for snow. As we move into autumn I'm interested to see how fog will be represented...
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Those '68 charts, with 1045mbs over to the North and West illustrate the achilles heal of the modern winter - how not having a stable, strong Greenland High leaves us with little more than SW'ly and W'ly zonality.
Anyone remember those pesky little 'Channel Lows' or an equivalent say across the Midlands - introducing an artic or E'ly blast behind as they move off into the Low Countries?
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I think that generally, the BBC Breakfast programme is complete rubbish these days. Obscure actors/authors, pathetic celebrities or charity workers as guests - and what's worse is that you can't put News24 on in the morning nowadays to get proper news and weather.
Washing a dog - LOL.
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But by accepting that attitude you are generalising and simplifying. For instance - why do I have to listen to 'Market Reports' on the news about share prices etc. Most people don't care about them.
Or what about niche news items in general; about a solar plant in Tazmania, or a riot in Brazil?
Of course 'most people' aren't interested in pressure charts and isobars - but the BBC is a public service provider and it is its job to cater for specialist or minority audiences.
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It's typical isn't it - today is sunny and the clearest in terms of visibility it's been for quite a while - can see right up into the Mountains from here. And 'no major activity detected'.