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The Central England Temperature (CET) is a series of average temperatures representative of a triangular central area of the United Kingdom enclosed by Bristol, Manchester and London. The monthly series began in 1659 and daily figures were added from 1772 to date. The CET is the longest available instrumental record of temperature in the world. The CET series was originally constructed by the late Professor Gordon Manley in 1973, and is now routinely updated by the Hadley Centre. Since 1974 the data have been adjusted by 1-2 tenths degC to allow for urban warming.

Great stuff

Anti mild I do indeed know my clouds if I my say so myself but the description is someone else’s description as I felt the it explained the cloud type with the minimum of fuss

You are looking at a shelf cloud Below is a brief description “A shelf cloud is similar to lenticularis cloud, but on a much larger scale. A shelf cloud sometimes forms ahead of a severe, long-lasting thunderstorm such as a mesoscale convective system (MCS), multicell or supercell. Cold downdraft air surges out along the surface and lifts the (usually conditionally stable) warm air ahead of the storm up to condensation level. A smooth shelf-like cloud forms, skirting the thunderstorm. The shelf cloud is usually accompanied by a gustfront and sometimes also a roll cloud.”

Open the image in you photo editing software. Most image software is the same so go to “image” then look for resize or image size click on that and change the longest side of you image to 550 pixels and change the dpi to 72 if need be. Then save as so you save the smaller image as a separate image.

I don’t blame you mate

Thanks for sharing that with us John

Good to see you back mate We are all looking forward to hearing a little more about your trip

Some stunning images, well done Matt

Hi John that’s probably a very good idea having it as one post but I would imagine that it will be like writing a book if you are planning to cover everything that skew-t’s covers. I for one will look forward to reading it.

Hi guys, it looks as if your have in the time of your lives. Some informative reports and great images, keep up the good work. Well done Oh I have the GPS coordinates of that cache of clean underpants if you need it

Thanks John that’s an interesting diagram that dose certainly put it into perspective

Glad you guys have had a great day let’s hope you have plenty more. I know you are very busy but come on lets have some pic’s posted up.

Haha John I love the way you said “a long way down the line”. I only asked because unlike those that live inland us people that live on the coast have too factor in the constant effects of day time sea breeze and night time land breeze. I thought I was told years ago that the skew-t’s could predict whether the breeze affect would be strong or not (i.e. go a long way in land / out to sea or stay close to shore), I am probably wrong it was probably some other measurement. John believe it or not I was in the Artillery and I actually did a basic course on meteorology, that course was based up at Larkhill and twice a day we sent a weather balloon up and we would track it (I think they still make soundings on Larkhill). And, yes we used to produce and look at these charts but I don’t remember them being called Skew-t, I thought they were called something else. The thing is I have always loved the weather but back then I was more interested in learning how to play war games, sending balloons up in the sky really was not important for me although I understood the relevance of it all. Now I only wished I concentrated and took it in.

John I live right on the coast so apart from a decreased temp would that have any effect on the skew-t’s i.e. sea breeze? Tell me if I am jumping too far ahead again, I need to learn to be patient. You must be pulling your hair out with all our questions