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    August Photo Competition

    in Archived weather photography area

    Posted

    OK here goes.

    I'm sure they don't match up to what has gone before but here are a few snaps from my recent trip to Scotland:

    I was experimenting with my new camera and I found the black and white option (plus a little simulated red filter to go along with it!):

    Small%20Findhorn1.jpg

    This next one was a result of mucking around with the exposure and a good bit of timing with the cloud cover:

    SmallFindhorn2.jpg

    Thirdly - who says it's always windy in Scotland?

    SmallNaKeal.jpg

    For interest's sake the first two were taken in the Findhorn Valley near the Cairngorms and the third was looking across Loch Na Keal on Mull..

    DS

    Off On My Hols

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    Hey all,

    Wasn't sure where to post this - I hope I've chosen correctly :)

    Anyway, on Saturday (August 5th) I'm jetting off to Inverness for a holiday in Speyside and the Isle of Mull. I know it's still a bit far off (plus the models are all up in the air) but would anyone care to try to give me an idea of the weather I might expect? I'm hoping for dry and breezy to keep the midges off!

    TIA

    DS

    "odd Rain?"

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    Sounds to me like large blobs of water dripping off the building where you are, I've seen large whitish blobs of water falling - out of windows due to heavy rain, and on closer inspection it is large drips off the roof or over- flowing gutter.

    That would make sense except for the fact that the "drops" were falling at a much slower rate than the "normal" drops I could see elsewhere. Also large drops are definitely not flattened disc shaped. Plus my floor is right at the top of the building and the majority of the guttering is at the same level as us :p

    I think a fair bit of the rain which 'fell' over central london actually evaporated before reaching the ground, so I'd say the chances are that what you saw was a mixture of rain and vapour as it evaporated.

    Not sure how vapour would shape water drops in the way I saw...

    Maybe they were hail that was "falling apart" as it fell into an updraught...

    Hmmm

    DS

    "odd Rain?"

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    All,

    We've just had what will hopefully be the first of many heavy showers down here in central London (Charing Cross). I was watching the downpour from a 13th floor office. I had a more or less straight down view.

    I saw something most odd - there seemed to be a mixture of rain, soft hail and .... something else. Every now and then I would see what appeared to be snowflakes. Now, in no way am I claiming I saw snow - it's 30 degrees for heaven's sake but I know I saw what appeared to be very slowly falling (possibly floating even) precipitation. As I had a chance to look more closely at this pption I noticed that it seemed flat, almost disc like and was very reflective (almost white). As I was at the side of the building I'm thinking that this may have been an effect caused by upwards moving air causing the drops (which were larger than average) to be "squashed flat" from below.

    I can't think of any other explanation....

    Has anyone else seen anything like this or does anyone have any alternative ideas?

    I know it wasn't snowing.....

    DS

    Friday 2nd December 2005

    in Weather reports

    Posted

    The rain has just about cleared, but the Sun is now out, causing a stunning rainbow to the North-West.

    Wish I had a camera! :huh:

    We just had an awesome one over Central London - accompanied by horizontal (not to say reverse vertical) rain and very noisy winds...

    I have a camera but no way to get the pics onto the PC.

    DS

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