Paul Ashford

Welcome Cold Toes - If you have any problems with your WS. I'm sure someone on here will be able to help.

Jon Ta very mucho

Jon am i going to be warm and dry on Hythe beach tomorrow morning, or am i going to get blown off the beach with 15ft breakers! ;-) Happy new year (and to all) Best Paul.

Sign me up! John, I think i speak for the non posters on here who view your fax charts every morning. Please keep them going, its nice having a 3/4 day local forecast (esp the wind direction for us planning fishing trips!)

Fab meteor storm outside, lots of shooting stars - LOOK UP. http://www.sen.com/feature/the-geminid-meteor-shower.html

Welcome to the Mad house.

Feeling for you with no heating, haven't you got an electric heater you could plug in?

Showers tonight and tomorrow not of Snow but.... http://www.meteorwatch.org/2012/12/0...012/#more-3969 The Geminid meteor Shower is the grand finale of astronomical events in 2012 and is the most reliable and prolific of the annual meteor showers. This year we are in for a special treat as the Moon will be absent when the Geminids are at their peak on the evening of the 12th/ 13th of December. This means that the sky should be at its darkest when the shower is expected and many more of the fainter meteors may be seen. The Geminid meteor shower is expected to yield in excess of 50 shooting stars per hour at peak for those with clear skies, the meteors it produces are usually bright with long persistent trains. If observing opportunities aren’t favorable or possible on the 12th/ 13th, meteor watchers can usually see high meteor activity a day or so either side of the peak. As well as being the grand finale of 2012, the Geminids are special in another way; unlike the majority of all the other annual meteor showers the Geminids are thought to be from an object known as 3200 Phaethon – an asteroid not a comet. To celebrate this long anticipated event, there will be the Geminid Meteorwatch and anyone with an interest in the night sky can join in on twitter, facebook and Google+. The event will be an excellent opportunity to learn, share information,experiences, images and more whatever your level of interest, wherever you are on the planet and will run for approximately four days. All you need to do is follow along using the #meteorwatch hashtag. As well as the wealth of information exchanged and shared on twitter etc, there are helpful guides and information available on meteorwatch.org so you can get the most out of your meteorwatch. To get the ball rolling there is a hollywood style trailer for the event, purely as a bit of fun and for people of all walks of life to feel inspired and to go outside and look up. You don’t need a telescope or anything, just your eyes and a little bit of patience to see Geminids. Good luck http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ElQ3iOCjsTw

Gritting Kent â€@GrittingKent "@KentHighways: Primary routes will be gritted again in the early hours in the East of Kent due to the risk of snow fall." #KCCwinter

Current alert level: Level 3 - Cold Weather Action Issued at: 0826 on Mon 10 Dec 2012 There is a 90% probability of severe cold weather/icy conditions/heavy snow between 0900 on Monday and 1500 on Thursday in parts of England. This weather could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services. Please refer to the national Cold Weather Plan and your Trust's emergency plan for appropriate preventive action. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/cold-weather-alert/#?tab=coldWeatherAlert Showers will move across eastern England today, most frequent and heaviest along the coast, but possibly wintry inland. Overnight many areas away from the east coast will have a sharp frost, with perhaps patchy freezing fog forming in the west. Any freezing fog could be slow to clear tomorrow, and also Wednesday, leaving to a very cold day in many places. Even where long sunny periods occur Tuesday and Wednesday it will be cold or very cold. During Tuesday the showers in the east gradually die away, leaving the rest of the period mainly dry. An update will be issued when the alert level changes in any region. Alerts are issued once a day by 0900 if required and are not subject to amendment in between standard issue times. Note that the details of the forecast weather are valid at the time of issue but may change over the period that an alert remains in force. These details will not be updated here unless the alert level also changes, the latest forecast details can be obtained at the following link: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/#?tab=map

Very cheeky from someone in Norway who i follow on twitter. An.d.re â€@AndreTheViking I heard that the south of England has a dusting of snow. Are you all ok?

Finally started snowing here in Ashford - Just in time for the school run.

Raining in Ashford for the last 10 minutes.

Thanks. Didn't want to enter for fear of being hit by flying toys!

Without wanting to try and read the madness of the Model Output thread, could someone give us an update to current thinking? Thanks..

A little windy in Reykjavik today http://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2012/11/02/saerok_a_saebraut_myndskeid/

Live streaming of the Tower crane that is about to collapse from a sky scraper in NYC. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/livesandyvideo#Sandy

From @jonathanwald, an alarming photo of damaged crane atop "new 57th St. hi-rise dangling in wind." http://instagr.am/p/RYGSPsKWiS/

HD webcam on the top of the NYT building. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/28/nyregion/nyt-webcam.html

ISS passes tonight at 19:56 from the west from @VirtualAstro Will we have a clear night?

KentStormChasers â€@KentStormChaser ÏŸ Thunderstorm risk for Kent later this afternoon and evening, possibly during overnight period too. Showers / storms will sweep W to E ÏŸ

Karin... It's a boy - does that make this storm a son of a bit.. ?

Raining in Ashford, arriving a little ahead of schedule ?

Windy and the odd v quick shower.

Thanks Steve, was booking last minute however both the parks and the tunnel had upped their prices this morning, looking at these charts i suggested to the kids we stay in the UK, so Butlins (groan for me) Yippee for the Kids here we come.