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Hello all. Does anyone know where i could buy a barometer? It's something i've been looking for but i don't know where they're sold (if anywhere)
Hi mate, put simply theres loads, what type digital or traditional ?
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How come the station IWW on IOW doesnt have a link but is on the map?
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this looks interesting. a quick google came up with some very technical sites, not much for ordinary folk. the prospect of having an anemometer that records gusts accurately is appealing. hope someone writes sumething useful in here
Yes, you can build an entire weather system from using this. You can buy all sorts of sensors that are quite cheap and update instantly. Something that caught my eye was the $33 lightning detector you can get, better still all of these devices work with weather display including the extremely cheap lightning detector. However yes, you do need to do a bit of DIY on the electronics but as i linked, you can by kits that come with everything you need. I am going to buy the wind sensor as tbh as i said mine updates evgery 3 minute which is worse than useless in a Gale scenerio or in a storm etc. I'll post here how i find set up etc, thanks for the interest.
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Hairy Celt 1 gets my vote, excellent photo
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Wouldn't that scorch the plant?
Yes i would have thought so :blink: . I feel sure there was some sort of solution (water based) that wouldnt harm the plant but kill the greenfly?
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Hi Paul!
Its been a long time since I've been on the forum, quite simply because I have not been able to get on Net-Weather without Internet Explorer crashing!, this has been happening on my computer at work too as well as my home computer, other working colleagues Macs too have not been able to log onto this website! Do you have any clues possibly why? (this has been happening generally for the last month).
regards
Timmy H
My interent Explorer has also been crashing, even worse sometimes rebooting my computer without the shutting down phase. I think it may well be a new strain of virus sweeping the web, but i dont think its on this website.
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Hi all, after looking around i found that you can build your own weather station by using Dallas 1 Wire devices that all connect into a box, which then connects into your PC. I already have a Weathwr station but the wind updates only every 3 minutes with an average, which is not usueful when trying to measure gusts. However i found this little gem: http://www.audon.co.uk/1-wire_weather.html
You can buy any sensors you want, it alos comes with complete weather software and it updates around every 0.5 seconds as it uses a direct link to the sensor via a Networking cable. It also will work with weather display so i could carry on using my curent sensors bar the wind, and use this new one which has no downtime at all, its basically instant. Has anybody on here used them, and before i go and spend about £70 upgrading to it any information i should know before hand? Cheers.
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Does anybody know of a good 'beginners' gardening book?
We have a blank canvas of about 5m x 10m (already grassed), and havent got a clue where to start or what to do. We have ideas, but not sure if they are the best ones for our garden.
MrsL is good on plants, and what to use, but its the design layout etc that we are not sure on.
So any recommendations would be appreciated :o
Water Feature :blush: Thats what they always do on groundforce :blush:
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I think we've strayed from the point. It is 7C at the moment in the Bering sea - a full 6C above the norm. That's an astonishing and deeply disturning anomaly which is not the stuff of future nightmares, but happening now.
No it's just an idea. No-one knows if fresh water in that concentration will 1. have much effect and 2. have enough effect to outweigh the other factors. It's pure conjecture.
Lets take the worst case scenerio in that the whole cap melts, the Salt water would soon get dilated, and instead we would have a 'cold water' mix, there is current evdience of the fresh water degrading slightly, areas of the stream. Ofcourse we wont know exactly untill it happens by which time it'll be too late anyway -Sad fact of life. I for one am going for this theory as it seems the most realistic in my view, but i guess that in the next 10 years we will have a better understanding of what dynamics and effects are starting to take place.
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Sure, not really disagreeing with what you write more with what the thread to some extent misses - the general LACK of ice this sping in the Arctic (as shown by the NSIDC data and others). We live in sea ice deficient times, though I do take notice of the shortness of the satellite data record and the paucity of data from say the 1930's when sea ice may (with each recent decline this surely become less likely) have been at similar low extents.
7C! Lets get some perspective here
. A cooling of 2C would plunge us into something worse than a Little Ice Age, 7C warming would, I'm quite sure, be disasterous.That was more of a 'if this happens, therefore this would result' statement, although i would say that projection would be about 250-300 years away.
a 7c climb would certainly be disasterous to say the least! Sorry, but this way lies madness methinketh. We're playing with fire. There is absolutely no guarantee that this warm-up will actually shut down the gulf stream. It's one theory that is as yet totally untested. Pinning our hopes that ice-melt will stop the gulf stream is like a rival team hoping the winning driver is going to run out of petrol on the peunultimate lap. It might happen, but it's a hell of a risky strategy.The gulf stream will eventully stop becuase of fresh water overbalance, and there is of course the laws of science backing this theory up. As fresh water has less energy it absorbs alot more before becoming self contained, where as salt in water can carry heat exchange fr alot longer. Its happening whether people like it or not, its just a question of how much of the polar cap will melt and how strong the current state of water can resist the mixing of fresh water.
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i carnt really see global warming affecting our (u.k) climate much really. Rising temps melt Icecap, this shuts down the gulf stream. Our weather shifts to what should dominate at this Long Lat (i.e cold long winters, rubbish summers), but an overall cooler climate. Now if global temps go up by say 7C by the time the Gulf shuts off, surely it would counterbalance?.
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Severn Valley weather Station @ 16:06pm
Sky Condition - Hazy, Increasing Ns 6/8 (3420ft) few Cu 2/8, overcast As 8/8
Temp - 16.5 Dropping
RH - 58%
Baro - 1005mb Falling
Dew - 8.0C
Wind - 5.3 MPH Easterly
Windchill -15.8C
Cloudheight -3420ft
Light Level - 8.06Klux (decreasing)
Station Prediction -Cloudy and Rain next 24hrs.
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Current Weather - Severn Valley Weather Station - @1:21pm
Sky condition - HAZY, 8/8 As, 2/8 Cu
Temp - 15.9C
RH - 56%
Baro - 1006 - Dropping Sharp
Dew - 9.8C
Cloud base - 3696ft (Cu level)
Rain today - 0.00mm
Wind - 6.0mph Var
Lux - 52.9 Klux
Weather Station Forecast - Rain within 24hrs.
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Final highest temp today was 18.1c at 17:13pm.
Cool breeze all day but compeltely dead stick now
wx @ 19:00pm
15.6c
40%
Clear
1012
dew - 1.8c
0.3 mph NW
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Clear (few Cu Hum)
@ 4:11pm
18.0C
35% RH
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Dew - 2.5C
Wind - 6.8 NW, chill - 16.2C
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Thank you CB
No problem, there a good price to :unsure:
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try this website (skyview systems) http://www.skyview.co.uk/mailorder/acatalo...g_Detector.html
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Don't worry, it's the shattered comet due in May you should concern yourself with!!!
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Well after 4 weeks of troubleshooting i still havent got it to work. I have literally opended most of my ports now, and tried the software on each and no joy. It just seems like theres no way possible of opening my router up to allow people in. Its quite annoying as well.
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The teddy bear dog has now chewed through the cables connecting my integrated sensor suite to my office. I've temporarily repaired them by using some connecting blocks and wrapping it in self-amalgamating tape, but eventually water will get it, so I want to replace the cables. Do you think normal telephone cable would suffice or do you think the Davis cables have some special quailty? I could, of course as Davis themselves, but I think they'd tell me their cables (which are expensive) are a lot better.
Well you should have wireless then.
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April Showers
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Averages\Extremes for the month of March 2006
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Average temperature = 5.7 °C
Average humidity = 76 %
Average dewpoint = 1.5 °C
Average barometer = 1009.9 mb
Average windspeed = 10.5 mph
Average gustspeed = 10.5 mph
Average direction = 228 ° ( SW)
Rainfall for month = 49.7 mm
Rainfall for year = 86.4 mm
Maximum rain per minute = 1.4 mm on day 21 at time 21:00
Maximum temperature = 18.2 °C on day 30 at time 14:36
Minimum temperature = -7.7 °C on day 04 at time 07:23
Maximum humidity = 97 % on day 08 at time 02:07
Minimum humidity = 35 % on day 23 at time 12:42
Maximum pressure = 1030.0 mb on day 23 at time 03:56
Minimum pressure = 984.0 mb on day 24 at time 11:51
Maximum windspeed = 33.4 mph from 200 °(SSW) on day 26 at time 22:18
Maximum gust speed = 34.5 mph from 180 °( S ) on day 26 at time 22:06
Maximum heat index = 25.8 °C on day 30 at time 14:36
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Day, Sunshine hours, ET, max solar, max uv
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01 06.3 ,ET :2.1
02 06.4 ,ET :1.5
03 05.6 ,ET :1.5
04 15.7 ,ET :1.6
05 24.0 ,ET :1.9
06 04.2 ,ET :1.8
07 07.1 ,ET :1.8
08 06.5 ,ET :3.3
09 04.4 ,ET :2.1
10 11.0 ,ET :2.1
11 05.4 ,ET :2.1
12 07.3 ,ET :2.1
13 04.7 ,ET :2.1
14 04.3 ,ET :1.9
15 05.3 ,ET :3.0
16 07.7 ,ET :2.9
17 13.8 ,ET :2.4
18 07.1 ,ET :4.1
19 05.3 ,ET :4.1
20 03.4 ,ET :4.5
21 05.3 ,ET :5.2
22 06.8 ,ET :5.2
23 08.4 ,ET :5.1
24 08.0 ,ET :4.6
25 08.0 ,ET :5.7
26 08.4 ,ET :5.3
27 00.0 ,ET :0.0
28 00.0 ,ET :0.0
29 00.0 ,ET :0.0
30 00.0 ,ET :0.0
31 00.0 ,ET :0.0
Sunshine hours month to date= 8.9 hrs
Sunshine hours year to date= 262.5 hrs
Frost days= 10
Ice days= 2
Avg daily max temp :9.1 °C
Avg daily min temp :1.6 °C
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I don't know if perhaps I am totally misunderstanding comments made above, but there is no possible way that the UK experiences more tornadoes than the USA on any comparative scale, whether it would be events per square km, events seen by people, or events in total. In fact, I would estimate the relative chance of a point in the central U.S. seeing a tornado in a given period as 100 to 1,000 times greater than the chance of a point in the UK seeing one. There might be more of a 1:1 ratio if you took areas outside the main tornado zone such as the New England states. I'm sure nobody would advance an argument comparing intensity, but this argument regarding frequency has been advanced here before and also on other UK weather sites, and frankly I find it entirely inconceivable.
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Per Square Kilometer the u.k on average has the same frequency as the plains.
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Remember that fantastic night-time display that occured last year?
It was set-off as a cell moved northwards from France and was very impressive.
It gave Bristol a brilliant electrical show and reports of damaging hailstones.
Further north, very heavy rain formed as the cells exploded in size very rapidly.
The CAPE, I remember, was much lower than would usually be expected for such a storm (around 800 or so).
Yep May 1st
Stayed up from 1:30am till 4:30am, and by the time i decided to go to bed it was still lighting the sky up. High level storms, the thunder is faint and has an odd sound to it, lightning was almost constant. :huh:
. A cooling of 2C would plunge us into something worse than a Little Ice Age, 7C warming would, I'm quite sure, be disasterous.
a 7c climb would certainly be disasterous to say the least! 
. yes 6 million miles is quite close, but its not going to hit us thats for sure. 
Barometers
in Spring Weather Discussion
Posted · Edited by ¤CloudBurst¤
Most Digitals are around £30+, but offer a few more features such as history. I have found a traditional for about £22, and does everything you need it too :blush: . here
found a digital for 19.99, and its a mini weather station : http://www.outdoorgb.com/p/oregon_long_ran...hygro_baa898hg/