Tim B

Check out all the aftershocks that quake has generated over the last few hours.

Anvil CBs to the north of me, anvil CBS to the south of me, anvil CB to the east of me, pathetic little things to the west of me. Wind direction - West. /facedesk

Been very nice here so far, a proper taste of summer! Going hazy now though, must be a weak weather system nearby.

I remember that well, I used a piece of blank x-ray film to look at it. Was a nice day where I was. Then again that whole summer was nice..

There is a documentary on UFO sightings on Netflix if you have an account with them: http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70135858

Saw them last night through a gap in the clouds after sunset, very impressive.

Whoa! Too bad it is daylight and cloudy though..

Well as we know the general consensus on the moons formation is that another planet struck Earth during its early life which threw enough debree in to space to eventually form the moon, maybe the so called February Fireballs are debree left over from that event and aren't from the asteroid belt at all?

If you have long journies to take to parties then these things are great fun this time of year, I've rented a few and rode in many in the past aroud crimbo and new year when lots of us have to travel long distance. But do you wear the seatbelts provided? If like me you let it slip even when you wouldn't when driving normally, this [u]will[/u] make you rethink.. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVdIW4p-zec"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVdIW4p-zec[/url]

Snowing here again, only light atm though. -2 degrees.

Region in general.

Falling as snow at lower levels too now.

Temperature here -1, occasional flurries blowing through making the place look like it has been coated in icing sugar. As for filming snow it is likely the frame rate that is causing your problems.

Wow server load is geting high. Temp has dropped by one more degree and the local mist has dispersed, still no sign of precipitation here and radar has been more or less stationary for hours.

Temperature is holding steady at 0 celcius and pressure at 992, the showers in the region no longer seem to be moving. Looks like this may turn out to be a non event for us up here, however we still have Jan and Feb to go and they are the coldest months so we are not out of the woods yet.

992 here and falling.

Temperature has fallen by 1 more degree in the last hour and extra radar is now showing local precipitation falling entirely as snow, I can no longer see beyond about 50 meters however as this mist has become too thick.

Yes it is falling quickly here too.

Ye I got a radar one, less than a packet of smokes. I can see those showers now, falling as rain snow mixed as I thought and are quite close to me now.

Temperature here has dropped by almost 3 degrees in as many hours, probably due to the sky clearing. Urban heating is causing a mist to cling near the ground. Edit: More showers incoming you say? Think I'll buy a months extra sub so I can follow it more easily.

Celestia, the google earth of the solar system: http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ It is free software developed by the open source community so be sure to download it, this program is based on the real mathematics of the solar system so it gives very accurate representations of orbits and such, it also has real pictures of the planets / moons and asteroids taken by various space probes. It may take you a while to get used to but once you get the basics no matter whether you are a seasoned astronomer or just a novice, Celestia will bring you hours of fun!

3 degrees here at the moment, showers falling mostly as hail with rain and snow mixed though some fall entirely as snow. Seems quite zonal at the moment as it is alternating between snow and rain pretty often. Altitude somewhere between 720 and 820 feet.

Lol thats a process error, deffo. A good one though.

[attachment=124081:images.jpg] Yes I was bored..

Those of you who tuned in to the north west local news today will no doubt have heard about this already, several roads were shut after a storm yesterday which struck around 1:45 pm producing heavy rain along with hail, high winds plus at least one tornado which flung a lot of debris from buildings and trees, etc. I did not see any funnel myself but I was caught in town at the time it blew through and I'll bet most of the damage attributed to the funnel was actually caused by the very high winds (possibly a microburst) which the storm produced as I weigh 14 and a half stone but they was strong enough to blow me around / stop me walking against them while sending wheelie bins flying through the air and throwing tiles off buildings / branches from trees and such while turning the roads to rivers in mere seconds which was quite a sight. Newspaper report on the event: http://www.lancashir...ornado_strikes/ Edit: After a look at some of the damaged areas today I personally don't think a tornado was responsible. The damage is consistent with a small tornado but the areas of damage do not follow the storms track like a tornado would had it dropped from it, the areas of the most damage were on junctions facing west / west south west which makes me think local buildings channeled powerful downdrafts in to transient air currents strong enough to produce the tornadic like effects mentioned in the report. That said I'll leave this report here given the numerous claims of a funnel, but in hindsight I don't think there was one.