Jump to content
Will it snow? 7 day forecast Weather Radar Will it be cold?
Snow?
Local
Radar
Cold?

alr1970

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    776

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by alr1970

  1. alr1970
    Rain stopped in Trafford Park, looks like the sun will be out soon...
  2. alr1970
    This is pretty impressive around the 4:40 mark:
  3. alr1970
    Patience. There's a pronounced westerly to northerly breeze across much of England right now. Until it goes easterly later in the week it will remain merely much nicer than last week. Here in Manchester it looks to be blowing quite strongly.
  4. alr1970
    Remarkable hail in Trafford Park 10 mins ago. Pea size, and beautifully lit by the sun breaking out as the shower moved away: millions of little white spots all over the sky. Should be over MAN airport by now, I think they'll pause take-offs until that's cleared.
  5. alr1970
    Remarkable hail in Trafford Park 10 mins ago. Pea size, and beautifully lit by the sun breaking out as the shower moved away: millions of little white spots all over the sky. Should be over MAN airport by now, I think they'll pause take-offs until that's cleared.
  6. alr1970
    Another hopeless rainfall forecast from the GFS again today. Totals of 15-20mm were showing in the last couple of days. Total at Old Trafford cricket ground? 3.3mm since midnight. The local forecast right now, based on the 1200 run, shows 4mm in each 3 hour period. It just has no handle on the fact that south Manchester is low-lying, surrounded by hills, and we get the opposite of orographic lift: the rain just fizzles to drizzle as the airflow descends the hills. One day I'll learn and not rely on it...
  7. alr1970
    Thunder heard in very heavy rain/sleet shower in Manchester.
  8. alr1970
    Let's face it, we're not going to see a Mini looking like that here this winter!
  9. alr1970
    Wet in Manchester, cooler than yesterday, but still nowhere near cold. Is that a wave developing on the front?
  10. alr1970
    It certainly is. It went absolutely wild in Manchester at about 13:15 for about 5 minutes. Torrential rain, being blown about so hard that the air was filled with spray, visibility terrible. Windows on all 4 sides of the office are soaked due to eddies and turbulence.
  11. alr1970
    I'm missing the dropdown navigator that used to appear at the bottom of each page, with all the forum folders listed in it. It was very useful for navigating without having to drill down from the top every time. Any chance of getting it back?
  12. alr1970
    15C, windy and chucking it down. That should keep the looters inside tonight.
  13. alr1970
    Hail, heavy rain and a couple of flashes and bangs in Trafford Park, Manchester now.
  14. alr1970
    Have a look at the article here at Highly Allochthonous. It essentially notes that the areas where most damage and deaths occur are not the same as those with the most tornadoes. Where tornadoes are commonest, people do build to withstand them, or at least have a secure reinforced or underground shelter. Elsewhere, is it worth building something for a once in 40 year event? There are photos here of totally destroyed brick houses too. Andrew
  15. alr1970
    Light rain in Manchester now. Not much, but it's a start.
  16. alr1970
    Several fires in parts of Ireland that would normally be far too wet to burn: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0501/breaking15.html while Lancashire is burning for the third day: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-13252340
  17. alr1970
    Miserable in Manchester, the temperature has steadily dropped all day under a thin blanket of freezing fog. Now -1 at Old Trafford. Andrew
  18. alr1970
    They're very localised, dry here. Andrew
  19. alr1970
    Well, after more than an inch of rain this week, the soil here is still quite dry, below the top layers. So another wet week would be useful, but can it stop then please, the kids are off school now! Andrew
  20. alr1970
    Most locations in south Manchester are at just 13mm for July so far. Yesterday gave 2 torrential cloudbursts that lasted about a minute each. We're in a very dry spot, we get the opposite of orographic lift, being in a basin, surrounded by hills to the NW, N, E, S and SW. The last few days have finally given rain that penetrates the soil, but we need a lot more before another dry spell comes along. As long as the hosepipe ban lasts (1995-96 lasted 14 months), we will always need the rain. Andrew
  21. alr1970
    Still waiting for real rain in low-lying south Manchester. Saturday's rain to the west never made it this far, and this morning's rain has almost missed, the heavy stuff has all passed to the east. Light rain all morning, but I doubt it's more than a couple of mm. The garden is parched, my allotment is dust, glad I bought a barrow bag to shift proper volumes in the wheel barrow. Andrew
  22. alr1970
    Woohoo! It's raining in Manchester. Enough to help the lawn, but not enough to fill the reservoirs. Andrew
  23. alr1970
    Sewers here in south Manchester are starting to stink, no rain running through to wash it all away. Andrew
  24. alr1970
    http://www.lccc.co.uk/weatherstation/ shows an increase in rainfall of 62% since Friday at Old Trafford. From 0.8 to 1.3mm. Andrew (The yearly figure of 18.5 mm is since the start of April.)
  25. alr1970
    Still a pile in the car park at Old Trafford: Photo taken on Monday, but it was stil there yesterday. Andrew
×
×
  • Create New...