PersianPaladin

It was the 'catapulting from 0 to 100kph' that got me worried. lol.

Quote from Altontowers.co.uk: - "Rita - Queen of Speed is faster than a shuttle take-off, speedier than a Ferrari, boasts more lift than an aeroplane, and is more explosive even than Nemesis and Oblivion! She catapults from 0 to 100 kph in an awesome 2.5 seconds – and never really slows down. Throughout her dipping, tilting loops, the average speed is an incredible 60 kph. Fasten your seatbelts: this is speed as you’ve never experienced before. Start your engines for pure edge-of-the-seat racing with the prophet of propulsion." Okkayy....I hope that doesn't bear any relation to hurricane Rita...otherwise a lot of people are going to be in serious trouble.

Your damn right u would change your opinion...u'd be screaming for the damn thing to sod off southwards and glad to see the back of it. (Unless of course u lived well inland and are spared from the life threatening flooding..then u would enjoy some big thunderstorms and heavy downpours! )

I think u may be kicked for that....

I heard Alex Deakin on News 24 say that Rita will be passing further south than New Orleans latitude and is likely to miss. But i reckon it really depends how much ridging is extending southwards from the mid-west and whether that retreats northwards.

Rob McElwee is the don-mega of forecasters.

Sun's back out! :unsure:

Damn...temperatures were really starting to rise in the sunshine, now its clouded over from the west... :unsure:

Lovely, sunny and pleasantly warm here at 16C...

Brr....cold night. Temperature dropped to 1.8C! That's cold for the time of the year...and probably the coldest in England. Current obvs: - Glorious sunshine, light westerly, and temp. at around about 7.8C.

Oh well....could be for the night...but too warm for it by daytime temps.

I think it's just frost....it's not quite cold enough for snow up there. Daytime temperatures reaching a minimum of 6C with a windchill factor of 2C.

Still dafodiling it down...

Scorchio!

Temperature hovering around 12C and light patchy rain falling...Some heavier bursts earlier last night and in the morning....Humidity at 96%

Shade temperature is now at 22C....Lovely and warm....

Temp. in Durham has now reached 20C....

A lovely sunny and bright day in Durham...a few cirrus cloud streaks about but lots of sunshine. Light NW breeze...16.3C.

The heavy drizzle and light rain that has fallen since 10pm Thursday has finally stopped......for now. Cloudy at 13.8C and with a light easterly breeze at 4-6mph at the mo. Very damp..... I can't believe how much cooler it is here than further south...feel's like autumn!

That north-easterly wind has picked up throughout the afternoon, and the drizzly rain has continued...getting heavier and turning to very heavy drizzle and gusty winds. Temp. is only at 13C here....my prev. reading at 16C was in fact, an error.....sorry guys.

Cloudy, soaking wet with drizzle, cool north-easterly winds....not very warm altho temp. reads 16C... :lol:

Light to moderate intensity rain (no heavy bursts recorded or heard yet)....no thunder either. Dissapointing. Yet again the met-office overstates a forecast rain-band and we get over-excited for nothing.... Temp. 15C, chilly NE breeze taking the edge off things...air-pressure at 1013 and rising slowly.

Yep...temp. and conditions are not that different down in Durham City either. Here are pics of current weather: -

Yep...temp. and conditions are not that different down in Durham City either. Here are some cloud pics of current weather: -

Because the BBC have been inefficient with spending of resources as well as lazy in their implementation of the new graphics. I also miss the old rainfall radar they used to have before the new graphics. The old radar had more colours on to denote intensity, and it just looked neat. The new radar often shows heavy rain as misleadingly light, i.e. all blue. The only coloured parts it shows is if the rain is exceptionally heavy or torrential, it does not represent moderate or sharp rainfall as well as the old legend.