Candice

Thank you

MB - which bits did you consider I "read right". I made a couple of statements, which ones are correct

Thanks very much - should have thought of that. * Hangs head in shame*

Take what you say re planetary influences but over on UKWW he implicitly stated that he didn't use those variables - I would have thought that they had a greater bearing than anything. Will just have to wait for him to give us his answer. Like you I 'm curious as to how it pans out but hope that he's wrong, bearing in mind where I live

Can anyone point me to freely available archive pressure charts for the UK . I can go back to 1999 on wetterzentrale but want to go back to approximately 1890 if these are available. Posted this recently in the leathers area but thought it might more easily get noticed here

Can anyone point me to freely available archive pressure charts for the UK . I can go back to 1999 on wetterzentrale but want to go back to approximately 1890 if these are available.

Well I've just read through all of MB's posts on UKWW and am now a bit closer to understanding what his system is (for the past that is!), it would appear that he is matching all variables at all times across the whole globe (universe?) Where they match exactly I think he's saying that the same weather will occur. Can accept that you could match in the past. But, and it's a very big BUT - how can anyone predict the exact same variables occurring on a day in the future? MB states that he is using cycles in nature, but nature encompasses a hell of a lot of different variables. I'm making a lot of assumptions and reading perhaps between the lines of his reasoning on UKWW. I'd really like some clarification of how past analogues can be extrapolated into future weather at any point in time at any point on earth - MB could you give a clearer explanation of which variables you look at? I'd be very interested to know what these are - you'd probably need a vast spreadsheet of past data to be able to do this as there must be several thousand variables to input for each day/cycle Would the chart attached give very similar conditions to those in MB's forecast for end Jan/early Feb?

Isn't the bottom one the windchill?

That's a fascinating read, thank you John

Well I'm going for 84 mph at Valley

Great news about the iPad

Sorry mate must be a miniscule bit of anaprop - I can see it on the radar but at the mo I'm out in the garden and can see the stars, reckon the rain won't reach Norwich much before 11.00 and then on to here by 11.30 ish

There is no rain in NW Norfolk, in fact it's a good few hours away yet

East of you and we've only recorded 9mm since 1st June - we have missed absolutely everything!

Has happened to me again as well, no alerts at all today

I think it's in ruins already

The first and it could possibly be a nasty one too

Excellent!

Netweather site works fine on iPhone and iPad. If u bookmark it and put on home screen it will look and work just like an app

I beg to differ http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

The nearest is "Eystri Skogar" from that site (or hoever it' spelled)

Yes, I've also visited Solfatara and it stinks to high heaven, but that is right at ground level and on top of the fumaroles, no way can you smell sulphur from the Icelandic volcano in England.

Am bemused by the number of people saying they can smell something in the air - that's impossible in southern england - more likely the drains - lol

burst of lightening has been observed over the volcano, it is thought that significant eruption may be occurring - courtesy of @wxchannel on twitter.

That's brill - thanks for sharing. Is that unusual in Cairo?