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    Storm Ciarán

    in Storms & Severe Weather

    Posted · Edited by Mizzle
    Additional question.

    2 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

    Just for reference; Most forecasts show it should be gusting to 50mph here, with 10 minute average speeds of 26mph.

    It's actually gusting to around 20mph now, and 10 minute average speeds of 12.5mph. 😵‍💫

    Family in Southampton are reporting a decidedly underwhelming event so far too.

    So is it just moving slower than forcast? NE Hants forecast was for 40mph gusts at this time, so far just a bit of rain.

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    Storm Ciarán

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    3 minutes ago, Southern Storm said:

    How accurate are mobile phone barometers this is what I'm showing at the moment. It was at 975.2 about 5 minutes ago! But it's undoubtedly not as accurate as a calibrated one, but it's fun to see it drop in real time.

    Screenshot_20231101-220704.thumb.png.5ae7818720f655a144e7ccf0785c2472.png

    My Grandad's old barometer seems to be doing well, reads 978.6mb (after doing the conversion).

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    Storm Ciarán

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    3 minutes ago, 78/79 said:

    I'm glad mine are grown up, there doesn't seem to be a great deal of common sense  coming out of the mouths of some of these teachers these days. I can remember taking my two out of school for a holiday in the mid 90s nobody batted an eyelid. 

    As I understand it, schools are now rated on attendance, which is why they are hot on it and also why they close the whole school: if weather impacts some areas and not others, all of which are in the catchment area ( snow is a good example of this) then it is better for the school's rating to close. If they stay open and only half the children can attend then they lose points so to speak.

    If they decide to stay open they are hell bent on keeping attendance numbers up.

    Many a row I had with my daughter's school over their inane policy: one snowy year they actually had teachers visiting local snow spots to catch kids out.

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    Storm Ciarán

    in Storms & Severe Weather

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    4 hours ago, Roger J Smith said:

    For a good overview of current conditions after storm enters region south of Ireland, I would recommend meteociel.fr, you'll easily pick up options available for current conditions and you can choose a map display of France or UK and Ireland, or a wider view of all Europe. Until the storm passes 20W, you can see weather maps on the Canadian met site. I will link to the 06z map around 0700 (they appear about an hour after data collection at six hour intervals. 

    There is also a buoy located around 49N 13W and another closer to Brittany, both of these have hourly data and when I post that map I will post a link to data buoys. Within those links you can navigate around to other data buoys in the storm zone.

    For now I will post a link to satellite imagery over the N Atlantic, and this link will update so later readers will probably be seeing a very recent image. Storm Ciaran is forming around 46N 25W (as of 0400) -- if you're reading around 0800 look closer to 47N 20W, it is racing along in strong jet stream. (10W is longitude near west coast Ireland and images display every 10 deg of lat, long, 50N is of course near Lands End). 

    https://www.weather.gc.ca/data/satellite/goes_sigwx_1070_100.jpg

    Thanks so much for this.

    Storm Ciarán

    in Storms & Severe Weather

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    2 minutes ago, Roger J Smith said:

    Low is 989 mbs now at around 47N 32W.

    Will be interesting to see if 00z model run displays any trends. 

    Can you point me in the direction of best place to view current status of developing lows/storms? 

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    Storm Babet

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    28 minutes ago, doctormog said:

    It will only be the low lying areas not the entire town as being (mis)reported. The area around River St and low lying areas near the South Esk river.

    BBC just reported 350 homes in the riverside area of Brechin to be evacuated. 

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    SE, London & EA - Weather Discussion

    in SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion

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    Already registering at 32.5C imby. Local weather station registering 31.2. 🥵

    3 hours ago, Mark wheeler said:

    Wow what a sparkling and lovely start to the day. Crystal clear skies and gone is the high level cloud of yesterday. 
     

    On a stag do today that kicks of a 12 so need to be careful with the hydration , especially as we are going on one of those beer bike things later on .

    I'm overheating just thinking about a beer bike in this heat 🤣🤣

    Have fun and yes, stay hydrated 💧 

    Storms and Convective discussion - August 2023

    in Storms & Severe Weather

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    9 hours ago, ChannelThunder said:

    While it's relatively quiet, I just wanted to drop a link to my Arizona Monsoon blog, that I am planning to update daily while here chasing with Paul. There'll also be pics on my FB page.

    https://arizonalightning.wordpress.com/

    https://www.facebook.com/LanceMorganLightningPhotography

     

    It's been an eventful start. My connecting flight at NYC was held for over two hours last night by...wait for it... severe thunderstorms. Now that's ironic! And just an hour ago, I was already treated to my first monsoon storm, spitting out bright pink CGs!

    I've had about two hours' sleep...

     

    Good luck with the storm chasing...I'll be keeping up with the blog. Thanks. 😊

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    SE, London & EA - Weather Discussion

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    2 hours ago, NYCSnow said:

    Doesn’t seem anywhere near as windy here as the previous windy Saturdays last month despite this being a named “storm”.  Currently quite calm here. Still, it’s yet another utterly atrocious weekend day for a summer month, very wet early and again this afternoon with a rumble of thunder. Sunshine measurable in minutes (about 3) and chilly. With almost no sun all week the house is really quite cool, more like March than August 🤮

    Not too far from you ( Fleet) and this is my August afternoon! 🤦🏼‍♀️

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    Storms and Convective discussion - July 2023

    in Storms & Severe Weather

    Posted · Edited by Mizzle
    Typo

    23 minutes ago, Steel City Skies said:

    We need some balance here because it does depend on where you live and what sort of views you have. I have to travel about 5 mins to get an uninterrupted view to the W/NW or N for example, but I have good views to the E/SE/S just a very short walk away (<2 mins).

    It's wishful thinking to expect a direct hit everytime, it rarely happens and when reading reports on the storm section of a weather forum it can give a rather skewed picture of just how many of us are really experiencing an overhead thunderstorm.

    Yes, today the storms missed Sheffield to the east but, with a decent view in that direction there was an excellent opportunity to see cg lightning as well as good storm structure. We should appreciate what we do get, rather than lament what we don't. For those with half an interest, Sheffield has done fine for storms this year - other spots have done better, some far worse 🙂 

    I must admit...watching storms from a distance is probably more fun than being under them IMHO. Unless you are directly under a cracking one ( rare) then it can all be rather grey, wet and short-lived. From a distance - and if you're lucky enough to chase - you get to see the development, the awesome cloud formations, the anvil, the fronts and the get to watch as it rolls away: beautiful. 

     

    At night, can be just as stunning: watched this one develop through early evening and as the sun came down ( 11 Aug 2020). Massive cell over Reading and an awesome view from (literally) imby. 

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