Weather-history

It was a fine morning and early afternoon but it has been a drenching under that shower train

Still under that shower line. Drenching here and yet a couple of miles either side, sunshine and blue skies.

Line of showers running from the Mersey to the Humber. Caught under it at the moment. Torrential rain and hail

That's a certainty now. 51mm up to the 9th and that doesn't include any of the totals from yesterday.

Last night's time lapse as Bertha moves away. Brilliant full moon made the time lapse seem like daytime at times.

It was a mix bagForecasts from that month

Last day of August 2005 was a scorcher in the SE

Very squally now Time lapse of Bertha remains passing through

For all the attention it is getting and looking at the radar, it doesn't look a lot, IMO. Put it this way, if you didn't know it was the remains of a hurricane and you were shown that radar, I have seen similiar radars in the past and I have seen a lot worse. See how this pans out.

Sinking to new depths by Express http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/497171/Supermoon-triggers-end-of-world-Sunday

The way things are panning out, it looks as though August could be the wettest month of the summer for England and Wales.

It was quite dark at 9.30 last night. Lovely sunset

Quite an interesting day with cumulus, cumulonimbus, altocumulus castellanus, floccus, lenticular, pileus

I posted a thread in the historical section of instances where hurricane remains pass close to or over the UK. 30th October 2000 storm developed rapidly and deepened over the south of the UK.

Why on earth did they build part of that building on that outcrop of rock?

Lughnasadh today. The half way point between the summer solstice and autumnal equinox. We are now exiting the period in our orbital cycle we receive the most light. We are now entering the period where the length of daylight decreases rapidly.

6th August 2014: improving weather day

Caught it on the time lapse last night. Also between 16s and 22s near the horizon in the bottom right you can see some flashes.

This was the thunderiest month that I can remember but it was also very wet. Manchester Ringway recorded 8 days of thunder. At times, it felt tropical, with the high humidity and temperatures, torrential rain and thunder. BBC forecasts from that month http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWbt7RniF2aqyEBw8NnxTo9pZOMCPITTk

What a beautiful mid afternoon. Clouds have virtually vanished.

First pre 9pm sunset for Manchester since mid May this evening.

Since nightmares are dreams as well.NightmareFirst half January 1996Second half January 2002First half February 2002Second half February 1997First half March 2002Second half March 1988April 2012First half May 1991Second half May 2006June 1987July 1988August 2008First half September 2008Second half of September 2000October 2000November 2000First half December 2000Second half December 2006

I found this little ditty from 1914 in my archives. I doubt it is meant to be sung to a rock beat! The Ballad of the Stratosphere I am the rolling stratosphere I long to perturbate So I tickle the top of the troposphere To make him undulate My temperature is 215 (two fifteen) On Kelvin's absolute scale, Though it's never been taken in a louvred screen It has in a comet's tail I rule the air beneath my feet, I'm in a stable state, When the sun is shining through a cirrus sheet My base I elevate I was discovered, most men agree, By Teisserenc de Bort, From Trappes his balloons he sent floating free Through my "Great Inversion" floor. In England Dines has found me out With instrument so light; And my secrets he's sought with courage devout, And correlation might. But no correlation ratio, For kilometres nine, Can explain to me why a small shallow low Brings rain from the land of wine. Where Simpson made a dash for me Antarctic East wind blows; So he tried calm days when (Admiral B.) Smoke vertically rose. I am the rolling Stratosphere, I keep, need I relate, By the radiation of the Atmosphere In a thermal steady state. Professor H. H. Turner

From that edition of Symon's Meteorological Magazine "The Daily Weather Report of the Meteorological Office as issued during the past few weeks, reflects an interesting manner the progress of events in Europe. The earliest symptons of interference may be seen in the absence of the Vienna observations on July 26th, followed on the 27th by St Petersburg and on August 1st by Berlin. During the next few weeks the German stations disappeared one by one from the list. Swedish records also failed on the 1st and all Scandinavian ones on the 7th. From the 4th, part of the French records, including Belfort, were absent, on the 5th the Faeroes and Southern Europe were cut off. Brussels appeared regularly to the 16th but from the 17th to 22nd the Continent was practically unrepresented. The French observations mostly reappeared on the 23rd and on September 5th, the Norwegian records brought back something of the customary appearance of the Daily Weather Report."