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  1. alr1970
    From my desk I can see several towers going up and drifting southwards in your general direction. Nothing on the radar yet though.
  2. alr1970
    Torrential rain in Manchester, no thunder yet. All my gutters were overflowing, even the good ones. I went out to clear the gutter along the garage and got soaked. An inch of standing water on the lawn.
  3. alr1970
    Nice heavy shower here, and maybe a rumble of thunder, though it's hard to be sure with the container lorries rumbling past the office.
  4. alr1970
    That line's not electrified. I think the difference with this storm is that the lightning is very low so the thunder is louder that is often the case. Tons of chatter on FB about it, more than last year's more intense storm.
  5. alr1970
    It certainly has. The first thunder sounded like a sofa falling downstairs, shortly followed but lightning and almost instantaneous thunder, must have been very low in the cloud. Less than 1 second, so less than 300m away.
  6. alr1970
    Is anyone trying to observe the transit of Mercury? Here in Manchester it's wonderfully sunny, but windy, so much so that both my binoculars and the bit of paper I was trying to project the sun onto were shaking and flapping like mad. Still, I made out a wee dot. I'll try again later at home, I have a bracket to hold binoculars on a tripod somewhere.
  7. alr1970
    It's lovely out, but so windy! It makes it hard to observe the transit of Mercury, both my binoculars and the bit of paper I was trying to project the sun onto were shaking and flapping like mad. Still, I made out a wee dot.
  8. alr1970
    I think a reality check is needed here. Look at the scatter on the ensembles: Based on that I take predictions of 24C in Manchester in May and knock off 5 degrees. GFS always exaggerates temperatures, both for cold spells and warm ones. It will still be very pleasant though.
  9. alr1970
    Max temp at Manchester Airport on Christmas Day? 14C Right now? 3C https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/EGCC/2015/12/25/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Manchester&req_state=&req_statename=United+Kingdom&reqdb.zip=00000&reqdb.magic=6&reqdb.wmo=03334
  10. alr1970
    I think we had the last flash out of that right over my house. All the spark has gone now judging by the lightning maps. Some proper hail bit not as heavy as the radar lead me to expect.
  11. alr1970
    Greenland sees record-smashing early ice sheet melt
  12. alr1970
    Heavier now. If only this was January. Local weather station reports 15mm precipitation since midnight, 3 degrees colder and it would all have been snow. https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=ISTRETFO2#history
  13. alr1970
    4+ hours of constant snowfall here now, small flaked but plenty of them. 1.5C on my thermometer probe hanging out of the office window. I think it is falling as fast as it's melting, the snow cover hasn't changed since I got in to work: just a covering on roofs and grass but the roads are wet.
  14. alr1970
    Moderate snow in south Manchester at 30m asl. Sticking to the roads now, half an hour ago it was trees/roofs only. Mmmmm. Nice.
  15. alr1970
    Breezy in Cornwall. Showers on the radar are crossing 50 miles from the Bristol Channel to the English in 45 minutes.
  16. alr1970
    Lucky you, it's overcast and 4C here, as it has been since Sunday afternoon.
  17. alr1970
    We have a very wet cm here, which will likely melt unless the temp drops.
  18. alr1970
    Still rising on http://www.gaugemap.co.uk/#!Detail/668/680 and 3.3m above the previous highest level of 4.6m. Edit: just seen on the equivalent EA page that the previous value is from 2011, must be a new station since the last 1 in a 100 year event 6 years ago.
  19. alr1970
    Looking at the river levels on the EA website, all the stations around Kendal are at least a foot higher than 2009. Around Keswick they seem to be all offline. Astonishing.
  20. alr1970
    Meanwhile, just 50miles away in Manchester it's been mostly dry all morning. Overcast and very windy, but only a few drops blowing about in the wind.
  21. alr1970
    Indeed. A Facebook friend lives in Guadalajara, which is almost 200 miles inland, right in the path of this thing. Weather.com gives them a 91% chance of sustained 58mph, which is force 10. It's Mexico's 2nd biggest city. Winds like that will tear the poorer areas apart. From what I can tell from Google, the city's mostly flat, on a plateau, so mudslides shouldn't be a big threat there.
  22. alr1970
    Researchers have found 421 words for snow in Scottish dialects. I think my favourtite is “skelfâ€, a large snowflake.
  23. alr1970
    We've taken ourselves off to Anglesey camping for the weekend, and have been rewarded with a beautiful sunny morning, and it's forecast to stay that way. A lovely day.
  24. alr1970
    Back now from the beach at Formby, where it was mostly cloudy, but very warm, until the cold front came though, then it felt like someone had opened a fridge door. The temperature dropped about 5 degrees in a few seconds, remarkable. The wind swung around so it was off the sea too, which must account for some of the difference.
  25. alr1970
    Looks from the radar like you're all stuck under a rain train this morning. Fortunately I'm away in Dublin where it's dry for once. I think this happened last August too: the UK got a soaking while Ireland stayed dry.
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