Adi F

LOL it can be frustrating especially if you over push your RAM and crash your PC. Its not to bad really.

Each image was taken once every second and in the video there are 5400 images so you can work out the time frame, I have do too much ironing to night for my brain to work. I actually caught 3 and a half hours of images but much of it was whilst I was driving which was not that exciting. I thought this video was more interesting than a video of me driving around like a nutter! Another option is I tell you the focal length of the lens and you can work out how many degrees the moved across the sky and that will tell you how long I spent capturing the images! lol

A time lapse skyscape. I hope you enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8WEjKxUdDo&feature=player_embedded Best watched on full screen and at 720p HD.

The sea wall there is only to protect the beach from washing away behind the wall there are some beach huts a huge gravel carpark and a golf course so no big deal if the sea breaches it. Waves often break over it. It was not exactly a stormy day during the winter you can often see waves breaking over the top of the unprotected beach. RainX is for car windscreens and is great when driving in heavy rain. I would not add RainX directly to a camera lens, Camera lenses have some very special and delicate coatings added to them you are best trying not to damage them. because the GoPro is inside a waterproof housing I use the RainX on the housing only.

Cheers Guys. I actually had RainX in the car but I just did not think about it. I think I am going to invest in an off camera digital sound recorder with fluffy wind shield to catch the best sound quality possible.

Here is a video taken from around 3 hours of footage taken whilst on Hayling Island beach. I had intended to go to Southsea sea front but due to a problem I had with a print job I missed high tide so just headed to Hayling Instead. I have subsequently seen some quite dramatic images from Southsea sea front so am gutted I did not get down there and missed high tide. The footage was caught on a GoPro HD Hero. The sound is not great because I had the camera inside the fully waterproof housing. I mounted the camera to a 6 foot boom arm so I could push the camera out over the sea wall, this worked well and I am going to investigate longer boom arms. The one problem I had was holding the camera steady on the end of the boom arm in the high winds but the footage is not to bad. The knocking sound you can hear from time to time is the boom arm hitting the sea wall. I forgot to put RainX on the lens hence why the water has beaded on it. I will remember to add RainX next time then the water drops should just run off. I also forgot to pack some anti-fogging stuff so stuffed some tissue into the housing to try and stop it fogging up when hit by the cold sea water, which worked well but by the end of this clip you start to see that the housing has started to fog up. The tissue did work for about 2 hours though. Because it was nice and windy I could open the housing and the wind would take away any condensation. It was no where nearly as stormy as I have seen it from other storms but then I did not really expect it to be that bad down her on the south coast. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr2_LTIwffs

We are getting a slight breeze down here on the south coast. Cambernet has just recorded a gust at F8 36.7 knots that's 42.23361 mph which is higher than what it recorded during last weeks storm.

The wind is starting to drop here now, quite fast although there are still some strong gusts blowing through.

Yeap I need to get a new blade for it. It has done me well though. I think a month in the Jungle killed it to be honest but i am sure its only the blade that needs replacing, everything else is working fine. Give them the overtime, or I will go and whisper health and safety in their ear

I have just been for a drive around and their are a number of road closers due to trees down around Chichester, Selsey and Bognor. I went down to the beach but the tide was out so no nice wave breaking over the sea walls. Some kite surfers where out having fun. I am going to pop over to Hayling Island in a bit. It is quite frustrating driving around some of the roads with little old dears driving at 15/20 mph with there lights on full beam just getting on every ones nerves. I am sure if the MetO had issued warning most of them would have stayed at home. And police officers closing roads half way along the road with the tree down and not blocking the road at the junction! I have just found out my kestrels anemometer bearing is rubbing so I am not recording the true wind strength, I was only recording 24mph on Selsey Bill and I am sure it was stronger than that. Didn't see much to warrant taking any photos although the amount of debris from trees in the road would have made a couple of good images but where it was really bad I had no where to stop.

Cambernet is recording a mean wind speed of 30.3 mph already and gusts of 36.3 mph

Follow this link http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=uk7dayx7;page=2;ct=17306~Lichfield;sess=#forecast

I just hope the new video camera turns up in the morning.If it does I will be spending the day on the beach!

The Met office iPhone app has thunder storm between 12 and 15 hundred hours tomorrow! I can't see it happening myself.

I use a free Photoshop filter Pseudo-IR it works quite well. http://freewareapp.c...do-ir_download/

Night vision come in two sorts, Image intensifying and IR. IR is poor because you need an IR illuminator to see where as image intensifiers use available light and there is always enough light for them to work outdoors even on overcast nights. IR night sights work in the real IR range but your filtered cameras only work in the near IR range. The easiest way to explain it is to look at IR illuminator. Have you seen security cameras with what look like red head lights mounted next to them? At night you can see the red light out of the head light. Well they are near IR lights.The cameras sensor in the cctv system has an IR filter over it. the reason is so the camera can be used for both day time and night time use. Real IR illuminators are pure black filters that allow no visual light through so when you look at them they you see no light at all. The way to see if they are turned on is to put you hand in the filter and feel if they are hot. Military IR work of two different frequency's one developed by the west and the other by the Russians and was used as markers. This was so that when using image intensifiers you could tell who side was who. This can be seen in the military photo above, the head lights show up bright because they give off light right across the whole light spectrum range. And there is a lighter patch on the side of the vehicle this is IR reflective paint. It was from photos like this with IR reflective paint on them that told the west the Russians had night vision technology. And by scraping some of the paint off and sending it back to the boffins back in the UK they were able to work out how their light vision kit worked and at what frequency. Once we know that we could see what they could see.

Good idea about the dissertation, come on guys what you say, do a useful dissertation and find the answer. I wonder if it because the gulf steam has shifted and weakened. Or the fact that the earth's magnetic field is in fluctuation. I am not to sure about this but I have a feeling that the tornado, water spout location has moved too. The Isle of Wight used to have loads of water spouts each year, I don't hear of hardly any nowadays. Although there was a tornado in Bognor earlier in the year but little else.

IR photography in theory is better/easier with digital cameras than film cameras. A digital sensor can see well into the true IR range but all digital cameras have and need an IR filters over the sensor. We used to have get the filters removed from our digital cameras for surveillance photography but then they can only be used for IR photography. There is a company in the States that sale cameras with the IR filter removed but if you ask your local independent camera repair man he may remove the filter without asking too many questions. IR photography is a great art medium but it is poor for detailed recognition shots. Even in the Brixmis days running around East Germany gathering intel photos of new Russian military kit we rarely used IR photography, it was often too grainy to get detailed information of the kit we were photographing. We would risk detention and use flash photography or take the shots in day light. This is an example of the quality we got from IR photography. The first ever photograph of a Russian BTR 70, until the photo was taken they were not known about in the west. This was the first knowledge of this piece of kit, photographed deep inside East Germany, photographed by a British soldier who was working on tour with Brixmis. Not one of my photos. I know you guys are not intending to use IR photography for the same purpose but you may find the information interesting. An interesting subject to study, it is probably out of you capabilities but I would suggest you take a look at UV photography too, it is amazing how plants absorb or reflect IR and UV. This is how they attract the correct insect species for pollination.

I agree with you Paul and i have been thinking it for a couple of years now. I have actually seen around 4 storms this year thats 4 more storms than the last couple of years. Damn when you were running the storm league table I believe I won it one year and came second on another now I get crap, and what I do get is not at all exciting, in fact the storms I have had this year are very poor really.

Secondly sea temperatures arnt that great so she will strengthen slightly over the next 5 or six days as she crosses a plume of warmer waters but then pass back into significantly cooler waters and her strength will drop again probably back to Cat 1.

Very few of the models have Katia making landfall on mainland USA up to the present run, most suggest the coast will feel the effects but the eye will stay out at sea. Nova Scotia seems to in for the worst weather at the moment but its still way out in FI at the moment. The only model that is throwing a spanner in the mix is UK Met which has gone off on its own track! The fact is very few cat 1 and 2 hurricanes on a similar track at this time of year have made landfall on the US mainland.

Really? She is skirting westward under the blocking high pressure to her north at the moment, over the next 7 days that high pressure will erode from the west so once that starts happens she will turn very quickly to a more north easterly track. At this time there is still some suggestion she will miss the mainland but as time goes on that chance is getting smaller and smaller. Its still a long way out yet so things will change.

Oh Chocolates, you best count me in....

The latest assembly of the track. https://my.sfwmd.gov/sfwmd/common/images/weather/plots/storm_12

Ask BMC for a quote, they insure all my expeditions including storm chasing in the past. They used to list storm chasing but they don't now but I think they still cover it. Some of my trips have been a damn site more risky than storm chasing. http://www.thebmc.co.uk/modules/insurance/Policies.aspx