Weather-history

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.

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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."

Approaching thunder cell over Cheshire Another Cheshire thunder cell approaching Evening convection time lapse

Yes I saw it and it looked odd to say the least. I was half expecting a funnel cloud.

Right dolly mixture with cloud and rain, then torrential rain in afternoon, sunshine, cumulonimbus, thunderstorm.

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Number of loud rumbles of thunder. Torrential rain has eased off now.

Loudest rumble of thunder so far but still not raining.

Louder rumble of thunder, just looks as though it is absolutely going to pour it down.

Can hear distant thunder from the cell to the south.

Not in the last 4 years. I think your area has had more notable storms this year than I have had in the last 4 years.

Yep, just moderate rain and distant thunder before.Can see the Merseyside cell from here.Seems to be the story of the year apart from a fortnight ago. Storms approaching Greater Manchester dies out whilst Merseyside gets storms often developing over or before they reach that area.

Can here distant thunder from the cell to the south.

Now brilliant sunshine and a lot of blue sky to the west although I can see cumulus congestus towards N Wales.

Torrential rain here

Sun has broken through here. Not quite the washout it looked like.

Symon's Meteorological Magazine from September 1914 on the outbreak of war