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Lovely photos there - sums up what winter should be about.

Just thought I'd add to the Mammatus party! Photo from Italy this summer.

Might as well add my Dublin Mountain tuppence worth for the record from yesterday!

As usual, great pics there Jurgen.

Works well flipped if it wasn't for the legs! Interesting sky

Interesting article here on the possible connection between wild fires in the US and its effect on the Arctic - could this help explain the apparant reversal of trends? http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...k0&refer=us

Wow ! :lol: When you say battered - it looks like it!

Fantastic pic! Would make you want to jump right in. A few palm trees wouldn't look out of place there!!!

Pretty heavy snow here in Twickenham at the moment - approx. 1cm everywhere with the exception of raods/pavements. First snow on the ground I have seen this year and 1) I have to come to London, and, 2) it's April!!!

Help!!!! Anybody out there with a LaCrosse weather station - more particularily a WS 2500? This is sort of complex and mad! Attached is a current screen grab of the associated software - you see the written data to the left hand side and the line highlighted red at 2.45pm yesterday - since opneing this morning, this has travelled backwards from 11.30pm, deleting all the rainfal totals as it goes through each line!!! I started out this morning with total rainfall of 31.5mm for the period since 6pm yesterday (we had really heavy rain here in Dublin overnight), as you can see, this is now down to 14.7mm That data on the console itself is intact - it's just the software that's imploding!?! I know its a long shot, but if anybody has come across this problem before, would appreciate your help. Screen_Grab.doc

Great pics - looks almost like a sandstorm coming!

Very light snow here for approx. 15 minutes.

Just had thunder snow shower here!

Cool

Still have the satelitte image of that Jan 2005 storm saved on my computer - impressive!

Just flew over Hull, Leeds, Bradford, Perston and Blackpool at lunchtime (on my way from Prague to Dublin). What a glorious looking day down there!!!

Regarding my earlier post and the different rainfall totals - stats from Weather Online give the 24hr rain totals up to 19.00 today as: Dublin Csmt Aero (93 m) 44.0mm Dublin AP (85 m) 23.0mm A huge difference for locations only a couple (maybe 10/15 max. miles) apart!!!

I'd say the only Sun you'll see today is on the living room floor with all the other newspapers. B) Just wanted to bump myself up to 100 posts - long time coming.

Up to 39.5mm now and as Kippure has stated - the rain has stopped! I'm actually just a couple of 100 yards from Kippure in the 'Dublin foothills'. I'm pretty happy that my totals are relatively accurate (I have a conventional rain gauge as well to compare) and the totals tally somewhat with those recorded in Baldonnell. I was looking at the Met Eir hourly repots all morning and Dublin Airport appears to have got far less rain than Baldonnell. Just remember that rain events can be very localised as well.

A total of 37.5mm here since midnight recorded on my new LaCrosse WS 2500 :o

Bucketing!

Hi Mark As far as I am aware it cannot be run on 'regular' batteries - at least it does not say so in the instructions! Picture of unit below - you can see the solar cell at the bottom (vertically). In reality, this unit is approx. 4 inches high.

Thanks for that OON - those sites are really interesting. Again, the only problem is that the temperature unit is solar powered with the solar cell being integral to the unit so it has to be out in the sun to get power (or so it says) - a tad stupid when you think it through! Will have to do some experimentation and tinkering.

Thanks for the advice and video Mark - really appreciate it. The thing that's driving me mad already, just after 1 day, is that all the external devices are solar powered and it says that they (the solar elemnets of each device) should be faced south - which is fine in general - except for the temperature device, which appears not to be very well insulated from solar gain! In the sunshine yesterday, there was at least a 4.0c differnece in temperature referencing my thermometrs in the shade! When the sun went away, the temperatures sort of matched each other. Anyone with experience of this problem? I have already contemplated dismantling the unit to allow the solar cell be in the sun while keeping the unit itself in the shade. But I know myslef if I go at it I will end up with no temperature device!

Yesterday was our 35th consecutive day of rain here in Dublin And still counting - I would expect some rain every day this week. While obviously we havn't had the intensity of rain you had in parts of the UK this amount of rain days, particularly in June and July, must be unprecedented?