Jane Louise

I had four Ladybirds huddled together on the kitchen ceiling but they've disappeared now.Next time we will make sure to put them outside into the garden.

Good luck all, hope you get some snow this winter and spring I'm usually quite lucky when it comes to snow but never storms as you all know!!

Two of my pear trees have leaf buds and my red roses have flowered! I'm also seeing bees, wasps, and butterflies still!

Welcome to Netweather Jonny Enjoy your stay .

Wow, 5 minutes of thundersnow. :oAww, you're so lucky! I've never even had the pleasure to experience this amazing phenomenom. If it felt like a storm to you ,and you thought it good enough to be a storm we can discard your membership here. :winky: On the other hand you can remain here if vice versa. :lol:

I If it's a proper thunderstorm ! Yes Lauren. I expect you have more chance than me. Let's say. about half hours worth, but I guess that's very rare. :lol:

Please can you keep on topic and stop this silly bickering!! It aint even winter yet!! calm down.

A rumble of thunder will do me, I've not even had that for centuries Lol

I think I'll go check mine, in fact there was some type of alien thing in there yesterday but didn't take much notice at the time . http://hw.nwstatic.co.uk/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png

Whatever next!! http://hw.nwstatic.co.uk/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png

Well, what a rubbish year for Thunderstorms here again ! not even had a autumn storm here. :smiliz23: I suppose it's best to look to 2012 now. Maybe it's thundersnow I'm gonna get lol to make up for all the other lack of storms I haven't had. Will let you all know in winter if I do lol.

Flowers in bloom late in Autumn indicate a bad winter. A heavy November snow will last till April. As November, so the following March.As November 21st, so is the Winter. Snow coming two or three days after new moon will remain on the ground some time, but that falling just after new moon will soon go off. It takes three cloudy days to bring a heavy snow. When the fieldfare, redwing, starling, swan, snowfleck and other birds of passage arrive from the North, it indicates the probability of an early and severe winter. When the white swan visits the Orkneys, expect a continued severe winter. to be continued......

Hmmm, I did have a heavy shower of rain just now, but that's about it. Roll on storm season 2012 I say. :lol:

I thought it may probably come to nothing much but thought I may mention it just in case lol wishful thinking. :lol:

Just thought I'd mention this from estofex even if there's a slight chance it's worth being aware. Nothing from ukasf yet, maybe something in the morning! -------------------------------------------------------------------- General thunderstorm areas ... At 21 Z [10th Nov], a mature low is placed SW of Ireland. A pronounced warm conveyor belt aims towards UK and Ireland and affects that area during the daytime hours. Convective activity is sporadic beneath an ill defined dry slot . We expect a gradual increase in DMC probabilities during the morning hours onwards, as cold air at 500 hPa overspreads the warm sector and a cold front moves in from the west/southwest. The main problem seems to be a marginal BL moisture quality , so main CAPE signals right now are confined to the offshore areas and SW-UK. LL shear is enhanced with better LL CAPE offshore and along the coasts, so wie don't want to rule out an isolated tornado event. Current confidence in a more robust severe risk is limited by very low-end CAPE, so we did not issue a level 1 for that event. Strong wind gusts and marginal hail accompany stronger thunderstorms. The activity slowly diminishes during the evening hours onwards. http://www.estofex.org/

Ahhh cool . Time to set-up the telescope again just in case lol. Obviously it's going to be cloudy again. :unsure: Seems we always miss these exciting sky events because of the cloud over here grrrrr.

Right ok we're all still here and survived that one!! Now.... what one's next? ahhhh yes, we mustn't forget about those EU Scientists that are working On a Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime.. :wacko: grab yer tinfoil hats again. http://www.science20.com/alpha_meme/eli_super_laser_tear_space_time_apart_so_ghost_particles_can_enter_other_dimensions-84405 by the way I've already started another thread for that one lol

Keep yer fingers crossed for me please wimblettben. :winky:

And according to Cosmic log.... YU55 is on course to miss the moon as well as Earth, and even if it did hit the lunar surface, the only thing that'd happen would be a fantastic fireworks show. If YU55 did smash into Earth, it could conceivably turn a city into a smoking crater, or stir up a destructive tsunami. But the asteroid's orbital path doesn't pose any risk in the foreseeable future. It's not expected to have any effect on Earth's tides, or on seismic activity. From the cosmic perspective, this is no big deal. In fact, YU55 has come even closer to Earth over the centuries, but went undetected until just six years ago. The fact that YU55 went unnoticed for so long does raise a question, however: What else are we missing out there? http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/07/8688912-your-guide-to-the-asteroid-encounte

Could Asteroid 2005 YU55 Destroy the Moon? An asteroid four football fields long will pass near Earth on Nov. 8. A space rock this big hasn't come this close in 35 years: It will fly by at a distance of just 201,700 miles (325,000 kilometers), which is actually inside the orbit of the moon. NASA has assured the world that the asteroid, officially named 2005 YU55, poses no threat to our planet. But what about our planet's loyal sidekick? Is the moon in danger? Don Yeomans, director of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said 2005 YU55 will not hit the moon. While the space rock whizzes past the planet at a clip of 30,000 miles per hour (13 km/s), the moon will be about a fourth of its way to the opposite side of Earth. Like two ships passing in the night, they'll miss each other by more than 150,000 miles (240,000 km). But, out of curiosity, what if 2005 YU55 were on a collision course with the moon? Is it big enough to do major damage? "It would be a significant event on the moon, certainly," Yeomans told Life's Little Mysteries. "It wouldn't move the moon around at all, but it would cause a significant impact crater … at least 4 kilometers [2.5 miles] wide. That's significant, but still a pretty small crater in terms of the hierarchy of lunar craters." For comparison, the moon's biggest impact crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, measures 1,600 miles (2,500 km) in diameter. http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/asteroid-2005-yu55-moon-impact-2153/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=LLM_11082011

Well I'm all prepared for tonight. Gonna head off to my bunker under the ground lol. It's now being said that the Asteroid is the size of a city block :o But there's definately no chance of an impact with us lot on Earth or on the moon. fingers crossed though eh ! lol Anyhow, I found this article which may be of interest to all you asteroid fans lol ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Earth Impact by an Asteroid: Prospects and Effects scientific and sociopolitical history In history up to the 1970s, there was little interest in asteroids, including near Earth asteroids. They were considered low class astronomical objects. Indeed, the small comet which destroyed hundreds of square kilometers in remote Siberia in 1908 was an event little known to the general public. A small asteroid which skimmed the upper atmosphere in the 1970s, as detected by a US military satellite, received little publicity. In the 1970s, things started to change. A small but increasing number of astronomers interested in asteroids began to realize the abundance of asteroids which passed close to Earth, by instituting processes to catalog asteroids accidentally seen on telescopic plates and previously not recorded (in most cases) but seen as a nuisance, as discussed in the PERMANENT section on discovering and cataloging asteroids. Theoretical models, assisted by computer calculations, revealed that the gravity of the planets caused a sizeable number of asteroids from the Main Belt between Mars and Jupiter to cascade down into lower orbits approaching or crossing Earth's. Further, a significant fraction of comets passing through the inner solar system would be diverted into orbits near Earth due to gravitational encounters with the inner planets. As a result of these discoveries, the estimated numbers of near-Earth objects (NEOs) dramatically expanded by about 1000 times! Scientists started to take note and interest. http://www.permanent.com/a-impact.htm

Yes me lol, it's very annoying too. Everytime as interesting event arises you can always guarentee it'll be cloudy. Same luck with the storms grrrr.

Aww thanks RS... I'm beginning to think there is a massive storm shield in Glos and Bristol. These areas used to do really well for storms, I'm talking many years ago mind you. All the storms seem to prefer it over on the eastern side of the country especially the North east..they even get thundersnow up there tooo :excl: I'm not going to jinx it for next year 2012 yet, so I shall keep quiet for now. Oh well, back to stamp collecting I go lol :winky:

Two chances of a storm I had on Thursday and Friday! but did I get one ? nooo !! :doh:Had some nice photographic CB'S that almost looked like it may have produced a storm well.. the rest you can imagine .All I ended up with was one light rain shower grrrrr. typical :lol: and very sad I'm not even going to look forward to any potential next week, Why you say?? obviously because of bad experiences . It looks like I'm going to spend my lifetime in the NSC for good now .

Could you add North Gloucestershire please lol