Mesosphere

fantastic images mate My favourite is the one with the eurofighter typhoon showing it's afterburners

a very nice storm here in the last hour loads of thunder , quite a bit of lightning , and heavy rain I aslo saw a huge flash of fork lightning to my NE at around 12.50pm it's still quietly rumbling away into the north sea all in all a fantastic storm!

i've had it a few times inthe last 30 mins

Coastal Watches/Warnings and 5-Day Track Forecast Cone :- Latest Infrared Sat Image :

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon transiting (passing in front of) Earth as seen from the spacecraft's point of view 31 million miles away. Scientists are using the video to develop techniques to study alien worlds. "Making a video of Earth from so far away helps the search for other life-bearing planets in the Universe by giving insights into how a distant, Earth-like alien world would appear to us," said University of Maryland astronomer Michael A’Hearn, principal investigator for the Deep Impact extended mission, called EPOXI. Deep Impact made history when the mission team directed an impactor from the spacecraft into comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005. NASA recently extended the mission, redirecting the spacecraft for a flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4, 2010. EPOXI is a combination of the names for the two extended mission components: a search for alien (extrasolar) planets during the cruise to Hartley 2, called Extrasolar Planet Observations and Characterization (EPOCh), and the flyby of comet Hartley 2, called the Deep Impact eXtended Investigation (DIXI). During a full Earth rotation, images obtained by Deep Impact at a 15-minute cadence have been combined to make a color video. During the video, the moon enters the frame (because of its orbital motion) and transits Earth, then leaves the frame. Other spacecraft have imaged Earth and the moon from space, but Deep Impact is the first to show a transit of Earth with enough detail to see large craters on the moon and oceans and continents on Earth. Video 1 :- http://www.nasa.gov/mov/260503main_red_green_blue2.mov Video 2 :- http://www.nasa.gov/mov/260502main_nir_green_blue2.mov

very nice pics will , well done

i sure will be watching the lunar one , dont' know about the solar one

this looks nothing like metcheck to me http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/HOME/

, god almighty bertha has exploded in intensity in the last 24 hours , this time last night , when i last looked at the thread , it was a Tropical Storm it's now a CAT 3 HURRICANE!

my mistake , sorry about that , was half asleep this morning

A Tropical Disturbance has fomred in the Central Pacific Basin :- The system has been named Invest 90C (bottom left of image) 000 ACPN50 PHFO 060755 TWOCP TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 1000 PM HST SAT JUL 5 2008 FOR THE CENTRAL NORTH PACIFIC...BETWEEN 140W AND 180 A COMPACT AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...FROM 950 TO MORE THAN 1100 MILES WEST/NORTHWEST OF THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS...NEAR 28N 176W...IS ASSOCIATED WITH AN UPPER LEVEL LOW. UPPER WINDS ARE CURRENTLY UNFAVORABLE FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT. ELSEWHERE...NO TROPICAL CYCLONES ARE EXPECTED THROUGH MONDAY EVENING. $$ KINEL sat images : http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t7/loop-vis.html

:lol:

very nice pics Michael , well done

We've currently got moderate rainfall here as the occluded front works through. Current Data : Temperature : 12.9C Humidity : 83% Dewpoint : 10.9C Wind Direction : East Wind Speed : 0.7mph Rainfall so far : 0.9mm Pressure : 1002.2mb , slowy dropping Current Cloud Cover : Nimbostratus

Invest 97E has formed in the Eastern Pacific Basin :- ZCZC MIATWOEP ALL TTAA00 KNHC DDHHMM TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 500 AM PDT SAT JUL 5 2008 FOR THE EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC...EAST OF 140 DEGREES WEST LONGITUDE.. 1. SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS INCREASED THIS MORNING IN ASSOCIATION WITH AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE CENTERED A COUPLE HUNDRED MILES SOUTH OF ACAPULCO MEXICO. DESPITE UPPER-LEVEL WINDS THAT APPEAR ONLY MARGINALLY CONDUCIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT...IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THIS SYSTEM COULD BECOME A TROPICAL DEPRESSION WITHIN THE NEXT DAY OR TWO AS IT MOVES SLOWLY WEST-NORTHWESTWARD. ELSEWHERE...TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS. $$ FORECASTER KNABB East Pacific Floater 1 has been positoned on Invest 97E http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t6/loop-vis.html

Lovely sunny afternoon here today , some cumulus to the south and cirrus overhead. Data :- Temp : 15.9C Humidity : 67% Wind Speed : Nil Wind Direction : W Pressure : 1006.0 mb , steady Sky Condtions : Clear , Few Cumulus

UK Outlook for Wednesday 9 Jul 2008 to Friday 18 Jul 2008: Rain, heavy at times, will spread northeastwards across the United Kingdom during Wednesday and Thursday, although the rain will clear to showers in the south and west later. Then on Friday, Saturday and Sunday conditions will remain generally unsettled with either showers or longer spells of rain at times, although there will also be some drier and brighter intervals in between with some sunshine. Then as we head through the following week the weather is expected to gradually become more settled, especially in southern and eastern areas where it will become mainly dry and bright. However further north and west there are likely to be further showers or spells of rain at times. Temperatures will be generally near normal, although it will become warm at times in any sunnier conditions. Updated: 1217 on Fri 4 Jul 2008

thanks Micheal

I took this image from my back garden around 2 days ago , what type of cloud is it? Sorry about the picture quality the one in the middle is the one that needs ID'ing Thanks in Advance Calum

A few rumbles of thunder were heard here at around 6.00pm , no lightning was observed and the thunder was accompinied by Heavy Rain

thank you both for the nice comments

thanks , multi cellular thunderstorm , there quite eeire to observe , it was so quiet and these silver clouds were just slowly moving southwards , lovely sight It was my first observation of this type of cloud , and i'll never forget it

i observed the highest clouds in earth's atmosphere last night at around midnight. I was heading of to bed , absolutely shattered and had a look outside my bedroom window. The window faces north and i noticed some silvery blue clouds sitting in the north , i snapped this image with my digital camera :- Info on Noctilucent Clouds : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctilucent There's a storm of them underway at the moment , be alert for them tonight! http://www.spaceweather.com/ Hope you's like the image Calum

voting will close tommorow , so if you have not voted yet , i'd do it before the door slams shut , currently in the lead in Image 2 closely followed by Image 3

2nd batch :-