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Rain, grey, low cloud. Not at all inspiring today :-(

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?

Good to see wit and satire is alive & well JJB!

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?!

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?!

July - from the train on the way into Fort William - on the NE face of Ben Nevis! (But that's cheatin eh!?)

Megalightning brings down aircraft.

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: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather/FAQ/AF.htm

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...

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?

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.

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.

I am increasingly annoyed by the inconsistency of the national forecasts. Many 'presenters' now show the additional place names and the wind speed arrows. But others don't. So some days the full pisture is presented, but others is back to the simplistic - will it be sunny, cloudy or raining limit of information. Surely all presenters should be told to show a minimum of information - and build fromt here that includes the wind and smaller towns?

That's a wee bit unlucky!

The events/sports selector is not working. If you click on a particular event, the PC opens the box asking you to open, save or cancel the file - and then if you try and open it with ie, you get an error message.

Did anyone else see Rob McElwee's zoom in on the south coast a couple of days ago? He was illustrating the cooling effect of the forecast sea breeze and pivotted round the Dorset coast to look east along the coast up to Kent. Was a very nifty graphic - well done Rob.

Very hot and still day here. Not sure what the max temp was - about 26C I would imagine. But what was very apparent above the city today was a layer of smog. It was a brownish-orange colour and was clearly visible from above the city (where I work). Even more unpleasant was looking out over East Lothian where the power station at Cockenzie was chucking out a thin layer of yellow/brown smog right over Eastern Edinburgh. It looked like a slick of pollution in a lake at about, say 2000ft. Very unpleasant. Glad I don't live in LA.

Currently 24C W'ly 7mph wind 1025mbs and rising Very high cloud obscuring sky - bright though with shadows.

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I can see it on this machine now - for the first time today... Might change it since it's as reliable as Easyjet...

Hi Ash. They're already ticked mate - thanks for the tip though!

It's working on here now. Honestly, bloody computers. I'll just shut up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think I'm not explaining myself properly (quel surprise!). The .gif animated avatars work fine on N-W on my machine at home. However they don't work on this one here at the office. They do work here in the office on the source page of the animated avatars - but not on the N-W pages. Weird!

Can anyone explain why this machine won't show .gif avatars on here - but when I go to the source page of the animated avatars they all work fine?