Paul

Ok thanks, it's obviously very intermittent as it's not flagging any monitoring at all. Will spin an extra server up to see if that helps.

Can't say I've spotted any issues and have nothing flagging so it may have been just a very isolated instance of it, will keep an eye on things though.

Nick has started a regular blog analysing the models and synoptic patterns - first one here: http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=news;storyid=6167;sess=

The first of a regular series of analyses of the synoptic pattern from Nick here: http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=news;storyid=6167;sess=

We've started receiving ECM data again, so the chart viewer is back up to date http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=ecm;sess=

Bear in mind that although the model will run at that resolution, the available output will be a bit different from that - currently the output is 0.5 degrees (around 55km), that'll be bought back to 0.25 degrees - which will match the current output of the ECM as well.

Gem is unrelated to the ecm issues, that's something on our side (a server error) which we're also going to have to wait until monday to get fixed.

Have heard back from them, it's not likely to be fixed until Monday I'm afraid.

Just looking into this now, looks like a problem on their side so will get in touch with them to see what's happening.

For those who may be interested - the GFS is getting a major upgrade at some point in the next few months, improving the resolution to 0.25 degrees (from 0.5 degrees) among other things. Will be interesting to see how it affects it, and just in time for winter too!

Hi Jason, thanks for joining us on here. Feel free to drop me a pm if you have any questions about booking or the tours

It's updated now, 00z a few hours late today unfortunately.

Jo's updated her hurricane blog to take a look at Edouard http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=news;storyid=6153;sess=

They're not based on GFS - they use our NMM models

Yeh, sorry we have an autumn thread and we have a winter thread, I can't see where this fits or what it can add, so will lock it!

Hi Ben, there is already a whole discussion around this over on the ENSO thread, so will lock this one. https://forum.netweather.tv/topic/79367-enso-discussion/ Paul

It's a bug which we'll fix but it's simply because there is no rain whatsoever within the radar coverage, not a pixel. so you're not missing anything!

It's been eagerly awaited through the summer by some, and now the time's arrived for some winter chat! (Last year's winter thread was also started on the 1st Sept, so we're on trend in case anyone is wondering). As it's very early days, it's going to be very difficult to even come close to pinning down the likely weather this winter, but that will start to change as we move through the Autumn. At this point, it's more a case of looking at what people are hoping for this winter, and chatting around that. Also, looking back we've had some notable winters in recent years, a record breaking cold December in 2010: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12119329 March 2013 was another very cold one, the second coldest in history (Ok it's not really a winter month!) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22010852 On the flip side, last winter was a mild one and the wettest ever which resulted in some really severe flooding http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26278995 Across the pond in the USA last year was the infamous 'polar vortex' winter with records broken for cold and snow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E2%80%9314_North_American_cold_wave So all in all, a fair bit has happened in recent winters, will 2014/15 live up to that? This thread will run through September, we'll then open a new one in October as winter draws closer...

Ideally it's best to arrive into DFW in the afternoon on arrivals day as that's when the majority will arrive + some people fly in the day before and meet us there, so arriving later in the day can delay the tour from getting away to perhaps chase or position for upcoming chases. Pricing of the flights is a tricky one, usually we tend to book ours around xmas and find that more often than not that's when the best prices are with BA and the like having sales on. But with them around that level right now I'd say it's a decent enough price and may be worth going for.

Hi Ben, there is an faq page on our weatherholidays site which will hopefully cover a lot of your questions: http://www.weatherholidays.com/faq.html In short, the £1600 covers all your accommodation and the chasing in the USA, so your additional costs are the flight to Dallas or Denver (tour 4), travel insurance and food/incidentals while out in the USA. If you need any further info please let me know. Paul

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Good point, I've not finished going through all of the entries yet - but will do so in the next 48 hours. Was a bit more tricky than I envisaged!!

Locking this for now, we'll get a winter thread up and running soon

Must admit I've never seen or heard of anything like this happening on the radar, and we've definitely tested it on firefox on Android without seeing this happen. It should work fine on whatever mobile browser you're using there. The only thing I can think of is that maybe your mobile is a bit low on storage space for the browser so when the map and radar images are caching it's filling the available space and stopping it from displaying.

As there was already a topic for the October 2011 heatwave, I've merged it and the thread started today together