Dale Hay

EGCN's on there, just isn't reporting any weather information at the moment, so it's on the "No WX data" page.

:o Oh wow... *fingers crossed* ... sadly for me, it's just rain. :/

Thanks for the information jamesbhx. I'll get around to adding the registered wind speeds to the "blocks". Maybe also have it so you can order them by descending speeds too. I was thinking about doing something along those lines yesterday, as looking at it now, I'm only seeing two stations reporting, so it's quite a bare screen. Once again, thank you for the info and I'll get around to making the changes and additions to it during the night.

(Note to Admins/Mods: Apologies if this is in the wrong place) Hey folks, I got bored yesterday and usually when I get bored random ideas pop into my head, and one did so, which I thought might be of use to fellow NW members (and the rest of the WX community elsewhere on the internet), maybe not so at this time of year, but definitely during the year it may have potential to be handy. I think the main reason this idea popped into my head, was because earlier this year when various storms were happening and we had quite a few funnel cloud and tornado reports, a lot of people usually refer to METAR reading and I am yet to come across a site that has them all listed in one go. (The US's NWS require you to search each one individually and so do many other places) Which is the reason I decided to make an all-in-one "dashboard" for all the places that hand out METAR readings within the UK. At the moment it seems the METAR data is released every 30 minutes [xx:20 and xx:50] (I will modify my stuff if various stations do release data more frequently), so I harvest all this every 30 minutes and have it cached and then relayed onto a dashboard like so: Now if a METAR reading from one of the stations does not contain any weather information, the station's block will turn black, like so: If however you don't want your screen full of locations reporting no current weather conditions (for whatever reason), then if you clicking "NO WX DATA" in the bottom right corner will switch between showing them and not (however by default I've got them as not showing), then you'll see a more cleaner list of stations: Now, even though in the "legend" at the bottom of the screen some things listed probably will never happen, I've included them anyway. To test my stuff, I entered some "dummy data" and this is how it would look if one of the METAR reports flagged up any of stuff within the "legend" (full view and cleaner view): Then, once a box has been assigned whatever colour corresponds to the event it's reporting, you can click the title or code and a little box will appear showing you the current METAR reading: I am also keeping all the METAR reports too from all 99 stations on the list, and will be adding an option soon to view all the METAR data (only dating back to when I first put this project online). I think I've waffled on a fair bit too much for something quite simple. I hope this is something that people would use (there's no adverts on there and also the design is as simple as simple can be - because I like things to run as quick as they can). Few final things: - The page does automatically refresh (set to every 5 minutes) - The "full" page weighs in at 9.9KB (that's if jQuery is cached, if not 40.8KB), so it won't eat your mobile data - For better viewing (if you have it on a spare monitor), press [F11] to view it fullscreen. Any questions, comments or queries? Pop them below... oh and along with if you have an idea for something else, I'd love to hear it as I've been doing computer and web programming since I was 12 (so a good 15 years) - obviously just a hobby - and I'll see what I can do. UPDATES 10th December 2014 - Wind speed and direction, along with gust speeds also now being reported. - Removed "Dust Devil" from legend. - Added "ORDER BY WIND" option to the legend. - Changed the "NO WX DATA" blocks from black to a grey colour. PREVIEW LIVE VIEW: http://dalehay.me/metar/ "DUMMY" VIEW (Showing what it'd look like if something was detected): http://dalehay.me/metar2/

That's some swelling for Wednesday (40ft+), cheers for the link BurntFishTrousers.

Afternoon all, I've just got around to taking these off my phone. They were taken around 1220 on 28th October 2014 and as with the last photo I took a few months back and put on here, they didn't seem to show exactly what I saw with my eye. I'm mainly wondering what type of clouds these were? They had a slight "bumpy" look to them (only *very slightly* similar to Mammatus(?)), then when I looked a bit harder, I noticed a slight wave-looking pattern in there too (it can be seen a bit better in picture 5).

Just walked back from the other half's and my goodness, the gusts were strong (not as bad as a couple of months ago) but still slowed my walking down to a stand-still. When I was at his, we had the window open and there was nothing... so it seems for us down South-West that it suddenly has spiked up in the past 30 mins. No rain here either - which is good. Just wind.

Shall I get the suntan lotion ready then?

It was visible here (Taunton Deane), fingers crossed for you. The rain's calming right down now though.

Bright lightning and LOUD thunder here. 2 visible flashes so far. Chucking it down too!

The wind's starting to slowly pick up here. Can hear the odd roar every now-and-then down the old mankey chimney.

Can hear the wind picking up every now and then. Still no rain. Unsure if to drift off for an hour or not. This was the 0415 radar:

Was nice to wake up to a chilly start and fog. Makes me feel all festive inside.

Not sure if it's anything, but I've never seen the clouds have this weird looking (albeit faint) line in them. (You can just about see it) Location: Ruishton (TA3), Taunton Time: 1135 (BST)

Absolutely lovely and nippy outside - still got my windows wide open. Nearest three weather stations to me are showing: ISOMERSE40 [2km] (06:12) - Temp: 7.5C - Feels: 5.6C - Dew: 5C ISOMERSE42 [3km] (06:14) - Temp: 6.7C - Feels: 3.9C - Dew: 4C ISOMERSE44 [4km] (06:17) - Temp: 6.0C - Feels: 4.2C - Dew: 6C

Currently in Minehead - looking up the B. Channel. Nice breeze and sun is fairly warm.

Heavy rain has started here from this cloud coming over.

Lightning and loud thunder! Wahooo! (Although, it was just one strike - can still hear distant rumbles though)

Got four little videos on YouTube from earlier... sadly didn't get when I was right on the sea-wall (as the phone died), but from when I was in Weston-Super-Mare earlier with The Mother. Clip 3 and 4 were about 7pm (so I think it was near full "proper" high tide time). The wind was amazing too... could barely walk in it! Now I know our wind speeds weren't massively high, although enough to stop a human from walking, but I must say from what I experienced today, I really do feel sorry for anyone who is usually in the direct path of hurricanes* in the States (Florida, etc..) (* - I know today's events are not a hurricane, far from, but am using a higher wind speed event as an example)

It's dry, slight bit of cloud and mainly blue skies with the sun shining outside. It's also fairly windy. Today's total rainfall for here so far... a very poor 6.6mm. What a crock of shi...

This the "hook shape" you mentioned?

Viewed the good olde wind thingy at 0610 (put an arrow of where the stronger wind seems to currently be at that time)

0615 - Rain starting again, light shower and wind at a moderate breeze. 0630 - Rain picking up a fair bit.

Absolutely no rain and wind very calm. There was a small amount of drizzle around 0030 when I popped to the 24/7 for some fags, but even then, it was eerily "still". Suppose I'll have to wait for a few more hours. *grabs more coffee* [EDIT] 0505 - Gusts of wind starting to increase (light ones though) 0535 - (Very) Light rain has started 0545 - Wind dropped once again 0600 - Rain stopped

From BBC Weather about 20~ minutes ago (Sorry about the quality - my internet connection seems to go naff when I need to screenshot something :/)