Paul

When the Met Office create the composite, they may well be making adjustments to allow for the lack of coverage from the Shannon, as they're essentially stitching all of the data from the single radar sites together. It's maybe something you'd need to raise with them for the exact details, as we're simply showing the data they're providing in that respect.

It's all working - hail has never been picked in its entirety, and obviously we've not had any snow to show since the spring - that ought to re-appear this weekend. I think it's literally just more of the rain moving closer into the radar site, probably not helped by the fact that the Shannon radar site is out of action right now, which would help to smooth things better if it were also being used in the composite.

You're quite close to a radar site there, which is likely to have a bit of an effect - you can see to the north where trees/buildings etc are blocking the beam. Understanding Weather Radar WWW.NETWEATHER.TV How does the rain radar work? There is a network of radar stations across the UK and Ireland scanning the skies and outputting images showing rain, snow and thunderstorms helping the weather forecast.

@nuts - I've copied and pasted the text from the document you linked into your post, so it's easier for people to view it

The archive is still there - it's in Extra: https://www.netweather.tv/secure/cgi-bin/premium.pl?action=radararchive2;sess=

This thread is locked - fresh one here:

There's more info in the links below on what the models ingest - the first link is GDAS which is what the GFS uses. It'll use bouy data and satellite data as the primary method of getting SST's. Global Data Assimilation System WWW.NCEI.NOAA.GOV The National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) uses the Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS) to interpolate data from a variety of observing systems and instruments onto a three-dimensional grid... A bit more here from the meto: Marine Observations WWW.METOFFICE.GOV.UK The other half of surface observations. Marine observations concerns data collection out at sea.

No, it's not. SST's are definitely part of the data within the models and absolutely would be taken into account.

If you select wind or gusts on this map, it'll show the arrows for direction Current Weather - UK and Ireland - Netweather WWW.NETWEATHER.TV The latest weather conditions, temperatures and windspeeds across the UK

Interesting set of GEFS ensemble vs climatic average maps this morning - say goodbye to the positive temperature anomalies for a bit, at least, if these are correct.

The invision issue is still happening, but we've put a temporary fix in place to keep the uploads working in the meantime.

I can recreate the issue, I'll have to raise it with Invision as it's something related to their server I think.

Ok thanks, I'll have a look and see what may be going on.

Oh I see, so it's an issue on the community rather than the chart viewer?

Ok, if it doesn't work, what happens when you click the link below? https://max.nwstatic.co.uk/ecmimages2/20231008/00/ecm500.000.png

I'm not seeing any issues here Ian. Sounds like a network issue locally with you possibly, perhaps restarting your devices will resolve it.

It's the same resolution throughout these days.

We're moving the haters threads to groups soon, so I'm going to lock this one to avoid it becoming a proxy for the others, sorry.

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The meto say they'll name things if they have the potential to produce an amber. Although they also seem to make it up as they go, so who really knows..

I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until nearer the time to get the answers you want - it's just not possible to accurately predict the specific chance of rain in a single location at a single time at this range.

You say that, but it's actually 1 million sq kilometres less.. So, yep the picture looks similar and 1986 was the previous low, but clearly there's even less sea ice than even then.. https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

That chart shows they were average for much of England, not below. The blue areas are below average.

I've moved a number of posts discussing the current weather from here to the Autumn thread, please can we try to keep this topic winter related.

Yep: METAR EGNJ 231520Z 24008KT 210V280 9999 FEW030 29/27 Q1016=