Jump to content
Will it snow? 7 day forecast Weather Radar Will it be cold?
Snow?
Local
Radar
Cold?

Candice

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    511

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by Candice

    Possible seismic event in Norfolk Yesterday

    in Space, Science & nature

    Posted · Edited by Candice

    Last night about 8.00pm I felt a very minor tremor here. Some stuff on the draining board vibrated for a couple of seconds as well. No-one else seems to have felt anything including my partner who was in at the same time. I believe there's a site where you can see graphs of this sort of thing. Can anyone point me in the right direction and also did anyone else experience anything?

    Sprites

    in Hurricanes, Cyclones and Extreme weather worldwide

    Posted

    Sprites were only discovered in 1989 and it wasn't until 1994 that the official name of "sprites" was fully adopted by the scientific community. Since then researchers have identified two other types of electrical discharge above thunderstorms. They've called these "elves" and "blue jets". Elves arn't visible to the naked eye as they last less than one thousandth of a second but they appear just like sprites at the same time as positive cg lightening. They are shaped like giant expanding donuts and form 60-65 miles up and can be up to several hundred feet in diameter. If they were longer-lived and visible it is thought they would be red. They have identified the elves and blue jets by utilising camera on the space shuttle as well as aeroplanes. Wouldn't it be amazing if we could see elves. Apparently the blue jets are visible and spurt upwards from the top of cumulonimbus clouds at a speed of 100 miles per second. All that is currently known about these is that they form above storms which have very high rates of lightening, but not necessarily cg.

    Met Office Autumn Forecast

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    The Met Office have released their Autumn forecast - in a nutshell

    High pressure to the west - more frequent

    Dryer than normal - good news I would think for most of us

    Less windy than normal - goody goody - I hate wind

    Cooler than last year but not cold

    Perhaps more mist/fog toward the end of Autumn

    www.metoffice.com

    rising cloud

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    Hi Paul - When I saw the really big one last year I spoke to Sam Jowett about it - it was like a maelstrom (no kidding) - I gave him a description of what happened which I posted on here at the time, his take on it was that it was possibly a mesocyclone - there was certainly a wall cloud starting to form (very scary). It actually moved a small tree about 6 inches.

    rising cloud

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    Yes this is called "Scud" as candice says above. It happens more especially in the Countryside than in Inner Cities and Towns, plain and simple it is the moisture being sucked back up into the Storm where it has already rained, so if you see scud rising in front of you and the Storm is moving towards you, you will get pretty wet soon, Scud can also go onto form Wall clouds and Funnel Clouds. They are also attributed to 99% of all false Tornado Reports or (Sheriffnados) as we call them

    Paul S

    In the last couple of years I've seen it a couple of times - two occasions it was really vicious looking - almost like jet black smoke and on both occasions we had a massive downdraught (squall) underneath it - last year's caused a number of boats in the Wash to keel over, pots in the garden flew everywhere and in 30 seconds it was all over. I know now if I see that to get the garden chairs put away quick before they fly away.

    rising cloud

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    Yesterday whilst watching the lightening I saw what looked like dark ribbons of cloud hanging below a big black cloud. As the cloud got closer the ribbons seemed to be sucked upwards into the main cloud mass.

    Have you any idea what caused it and is this a common occurence?

    I think that's scud but not sure.

    Who was around in the 62/63 winter

    in Historic Weather

    Posted

    I was 10 in 1963, it was that winter, along with the tremendous gale in February 1962 which started me keeping weather records.

    My most vivid memories of the 1963 winter include the following; the headmaster at our local primary school calling a few of us older boys shortly before school started at 9.0am, and taking us to see the Six's thermometer which hung on the north facing wall of the canteen. It was reading 8f

    (-13.3c ) and this was on an exposed hill top, not in any sort of frost hollow, the minimum had been 5f (-15.0c ). He was wise enough to know that the exposure of the thermometer meant that it was probably reading a couple of degrees higher than it would have been in a standard location and mentioned that we might never again see such a low temperature in our lifetimes ( I was very impressed with that ).

    My mother finding a Robin at the bird table which could not stand up or fly. She brought it inside and found it had two balls of ice encasing its feet, each ball about as big as a large marble. It took about 10 minutes to thaw it out in a bowl of warm water, after which it was fine.

    The water pipes being frozen solid every morning and my mother having to spend a couple of hours slowly thawing them out, hoping the pipes wouldn't burst ( they didn't ).

    A glass of water I had by my bed having half an inch of ice on it in the morning, obviously this was in the days before central heating, when only the kitchen and the front room were heated. Getting into bed at night was like crawling into the 'fridge', except we didn't have one of those either.

    I've lived through it as a child, now I want to repeat the experience as an adult.

    T.M

    Superb post - brings it all back as though it was yesterday but I don't think I want a repeat now - can you imagine the media hype -not to mention the traffic chaos!

    Who was around in the 62/63 winter

    in Historic Weather

    Posted · Edited by Candice

    I can just about remember the 63 winter. Was very small at the time but can remember living in London and being unable to open our front door without what seemed like a mountain of snow falling into the hall. It seemed as if the snow was up to my waist but that's maybe cause I was so small at the time. One other abiding memory I have of that winter was the dead sparrows littering the streets - they literally fell out of the sky. I also remember having painfully cold feet for what seemed like weeks on end as my mum made me wear welly boots. As for 47 - forget it I wasn't even born.

    I also remember that any water left in the sink overnight froze over, gigantic icicles hanging from the eaves and thick ice on the inside of the windows - sometimes all day

    Storm Reports 16th August Onwards

    in Storms & Severe Weather

    Posted

    Cracking storms here this pm. Heavy rain, black as night - lightning actually crackled!!!! Thunder cracked - really loud and quite scary. A bolt hit a chimney on top of a solicitors office in the middle of town (Kings Lynn) -debris fell on a car - don't know if anyone was hurt but 5 fire engines, fire cheif, 3 ambulances and a couple of pandas arrived in the space of about 5 minutes.

×
×
  • Create New...