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  1. 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.

  2. Just for a bit of fun, and thanks to Jo for coming up with it, it's competition time!

     

    It's a bit like pin the tail on the donkey, except it's a game of pin the tail on the bertha.. Quite simply just download the blank map below, then use an image editor to mark where you think the remnants of hurricane Bertha will be centred at 12:00GMT (midday) on Sunday (free online one is available here: http://pixlr.com/editor/ ).

     

    Then post up your marked up map with the depth in mb that you expect Bertha to be at that time.

     

    Closest guesses on both location and depth get a 3 month NW Extra sub - if the same person gets them both then the prize will be a 12 month sub.

     

    Good luck :D

     

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    You can also download the image from here:

    http://max.nwstatic.co.uk/images/pinthetailonthebertha.png

  3. Cloud quite thick here, hadn't noticed the wind direction until your post, but yes, you're right, the surface winds are from the NE, interestingly, radar shows showers heading North.

     

    Case of storms heading against the wind?

     

    Storms/showers/clouds are steered by the winds higher up. Can see how they veer with height on this set of maps

     

    Surface

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    Up through levels of the atmosphere

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  4. I think we need to be careful comparing the impacts of weather events and the actualities of those events. For instance, water supply infrastructure has been much improved since 1976, road infrastructure, heating in homes etc has been much improved since 1963 and so on. So if you're purely looking at the impact of the weather events in those times then the chances are those impacts will have been wider and more severe, but not in every case will the actual weather event have been any worse than one more recently. 

  5. Certainly pretty damp overnight for many of us, as shown on the radar totals. 

     

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    As Supacell mentioned above, it's the northern half of the UK and across parts of of Ireland and Northern Ireland where the highest storm / hefty shower risk exists today. A couple of charts from our new (still in testing) NMM model.

     

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    TT index is something some of you may not be familiar with, it's a simple index which gives a rough guide to the storm risk - higher the index the more likely storms are. Anything above 45 means convection/storms are possible, above 50 and there's the risk of some more intense storms.

     

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