Phil UK

Just hope this behemoth coming up from the English Channel holds strength and I'll be up all night. Predicted time to hit Solihull... About 1.00am. Still has sferics about it as I type. Phil.

Distant lightning to my west and a few heavy drops of rain some 10 minutes ago. Now watching to the south and see if this still electrified with its PPN can hold its own. Phil.

Storm season can carry on into October. (23rd September 2010 springs to mind. First night time storm since July 1994. Snow in Solihull on 28th October 2009) But that said, depending on two factors... 1... Diurnal heating which because of the heat and shortening length of the day will give storms less 'oomph'. But may work in coastal regions given the warmer sea. 2... Elevation, be low, mid or high level, the former will dissipate after sunset, high level will continue well after midnight. Phil. In that case... Maybe poor Stuart who maybe has to watch YouTube to see a thunderstorm take over us? Call it say 'Stuart's Stormless Club 2011' Phil.

Friday 29th April 2011... About as close as you can get whist Milton Keynes and surrounding areas were enjoying it when RIGHT underneath it... Meanwhile moi in Solihull had to contend with this... And talk about sitting on the outside looking in. (See attachment below!) Sighs! Oh, and Jane Louise... If you got a storm out of that seeing as it was heading directly your way, does that mean you'll have to abandon your own No Storms Club? :lol: Phil.

Nothing here in Solihull either although a few Cb towers did fire up around me from about 5pm onwards. (Typical!) Phil.

Not a bad bit of kit, OON. As much as I'd love to invest in some decent equipment as regarding astronomy, where I live would be completely defeating the issue with such light pollution. Even if every streetlamp was switched off, the security lights are so numerous that when you walk outside, it feels like you've walked onto a large stage when they all switch on almost simultaneously. Can't win, I don't drive and the nearest 'dark spot' (if you can call it that!) is about 7 miles away just outside of Coleshill. Phil.

A pretty good insight here... http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-12292852 Although the narrator does sound as though he's had a late night after a couple of sherberts. Phil.

Well, here I am again. Maybe a little too early for the time of year perhaps. And as with 2010, will happily help out Jane Louise with this thread. 2010 for myself here in Solihull, quite contrasting at times with the first major-ish but unexpected storm occuring on 1st May 2010 with some pretty large hail. The final one for 2010 and what a finale it was with night lightning on 23rd September . (Last seen in July 1994!) Hoping for more of the same in 2011. (Preferably MORE!) Good luck, and this remember is the only club we don't want members to join without valid reason. :winky: Phil.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all members on NetWeather.:smiliz19: Something, as doing my research over the Christmas period (apart from a rapid flu cure!) and wondering why. Someone seems to agree with my own thesis. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/25/do-we-care-if-2010-is-the-warmist-year-in-history/ Apart from "Warmest" as opposed to illiterate way of spelling (Warmist!). This does make for some sense. Agree or debunk it? 2009/2010 has/have so far been one of the coldest and snowiest Winters I've ever known. From memory, only 1978/79 and1981/82 came close. (In Birmingham / Solihull anyway!) Otherwise, this 'Green Tax' issue is all hocus pocus (I'd choose a better word but I'd be banned for doing so! :-D ) Phil.

Maybe Osbourne-One-Nils self-proclaimed generator exploded? Phil.

Blimey! 20 years ago. Doesn't seem all that long ago really. Still quite fresh in my mind. What began as a front coming down from the north on the Friday afternoon/early evening produced heavy rain but with the onus being that it was expected to turn to sleet, then eventually snow as the cold northerly blast undercut to the rear of the front. I remember going to bed at around midnight on the Saturday morning and when I awoke at around 9.00am, I most certainly did not expect to see what I did. One foot of level snow in white-out conditions. The front and its associated PPN moving down from the north spent most of the day stuck over The Midlands, East Wales and East Anglia and as soon as the snow moved on and skies began to clear, I could see bright green flashes to my east. Figuring it was lightning, this was not the case as there are overhead power lines over that way so I'm guessing it was those and the weight of the wet snow. I didn't think I'd see anything of the sort again for a very long time but just two months later, and as mentioned by another forum member, February 1991. Pretty much the same in snow depth but spread over a longer duration. But since February 1991, nothing has even come close since. Memories indeed. Phil.

Status at 15:26 on 1st December 2010..... Weather : Overcast with Gods dandruff falling from the sky. AKA snow. Temperature : Cold. Currently -1ºc. DP : -2ºc Wind Chill : -6ºc (And it feels like it too!) Wind Speed and Direction : 11.5Mph from the North. Pressure : 1009Mb (Steady) Much more of this then my signature for Winter for 2010/11 will be longer than my longest thread on here ever. :unsure: Phil.

Hi Weather09. No hail spotted but plenty of quite intense rain that lasted for around half an hour. And I agree with Rainbow Snow that the shower did indeed have a wintry look about it. Had it been say another month or so down the line then I think it would have definitaley produced snow/hail even at lower levels. Maybe even rivalling that classic, but short-lived blizzard on 17th December 2009. Still, todays shower was totally unprecedented. (Unlike what Chris Deakin said on Radio Five Live this morning! "England and Wales sunny but cold with showers confined to north Scotland and the east coast of England"). Phil.

This is my whole point of this thread... Does HE know that he was quoted as saying as regarding last Winter? I think not!! He was probably as off target as many of us were. 17th December - 14th January here in Solihull. (See my sig for details, and if so, Express, go take a train and find some reporters not based in London!! More than that, are the Express that desperate for weather news that they look here? (Only a good thing if they spare the BS!) Speculation and accumulation. I don't think Paul , Nick, Coast, TWS, Weather09 would ever say such speculative without model and SFC backups. Oh Dear!! I'm sorry, Paul, but I thought I'd bring this one to your attention. (I know a couple of lawyers!!) Phil.

Daily Express - 19-10-2010... Linkage... And now the weather forecast from Paul... 'Paul Michaelwaite of Netweather, which predicted last winter’s big freeze, said: “The main thing we’re going to notice is the wind chill factor, which brings temperatures down as low as minus five degrees, thanks to a north wind direct from the Arctic.†And if you're wrong, we don't have to blame Michael Fish this year. Phil.

A great new addition, Paul and thank you for it. My thoughts on LRF? Unless as mentioned here, have a crystal ball. Let's take for example, Summer 2007, 2008. "The hottest ever!" said the MetO. Turned out to be the "Wettest ever!". (In Solihull anyway! ) Should never put the cart before the horse. If I said that tomorrow will be Friday 8th October 2010. I'd be right. BUT!! Ask me what the weather will be like in, say Devon. I couldn't tell you that. Ask me what it will be like in 14 days from now in the same area... Again, I cannot premise that. Autumn in a sense, we tend to think of as wet and windy which speaks true of the south west and Scotland. But not neccesarily so. They say drought, I do doubt. They say wet, I would not bet. Hope you get my way of thinking. In short, don't trust LRFs!! Phil.

Well, it seems like an Indian Summer is about to bestow us. (As he looks outside @ 07:22am and can't see much for FOG!!) Well, according to this -----> http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20101006/tuk-britain-set-to-enjoy-indian-summer-6323e80.html This is the weekend forecast. And as regarding last Friday and Sunday. I claim my £20. That was not rain... It was almost a monsoon, on both days!! Phil.

That storm last Thursday was totally out of the blue (sorry for the bad pun!) but was still strong enough to keep going even during semi-darkness. Meant to post these last week but I sort of forgot. (Personal family issues preside. Critically ill Uncle, Mum upset so until now taking a break for a however long sabbatical. ) After 16 years of waiting, (24th July 1994) finally some night lightning in Solihull /North Birmingham... WAYHAYYYY!! Night (or semi night) time lightning. Not much. But here we go... And with that. And seeing Friday's Meto radar pic at 1pm looking like an massive explosion in a paint factory. Looks like Sunday could be too for much of England. Maybe Wales too?. (Oh dear for the Ryder Cup!)

A bit of a misjudgment methinks. Just six hours later... (Distant thunder and night lightning as it was just passing by.... First time seen since 1994 YAYYYYYY!! .) Oh, the irony!! Sammie, I'll create a badge for you. How about... "Nae Scot Sammie Storm Club 2010"? Phil. (Actually... Not a bad idea! Could regionalise, Sammie and Stuart Scotland... Jane and Phil : England, Cheltenham excluded! That's why we have a No Storms Club! )

I'm still here. Think it's all over now until next year unless we have some... (Sorry Ian for blatantly stealing your moniker! ) Thundery Wintry Showers. Only two recorded between May and August 2010. Nothing too spectacular. If anything... Nothing like the storms we used to have in the early 1980's which lasted for hours rather than minutes. A very late plume maybe as we are now officially into the Autumn Equinox? Can't see it myself. (Officially, Autumn Equinox was this morning - 23/9/2010 at 04:08am! A bit of useless information for you! ) So otherwise, join myself and Jane next Spring and Summer 2011 when we'll have lots to discuss about no storms. Phil. (What was that Jane? Ok, I'll go make us a cup of tea, sit back and watch TV as we will be on temporary redundancy. Hey!! Idea!! How about you and me have a "No snow" thread? For Winter of course?)

StormMad26 and AJPoolShark... You are free to go. I could have, of course said it in the Alan Sugar way... "You're fired!" But I'm too polite to put it like that. I'd like to fire myself from here (not literally, the price of petrol these days!) But as said, I'm helping with Jane Louise with the NSC, and will continue to do so unless Paul bans me. But I think that the inland storm potential now is coming to a close, almost mid September. Best chances of storms at this time of year are generally near coastal regions. Just ask those in Wales and Kent/Sussex. (Or unless an Ana cold front just happens to pass by, (embedded storms) or Kata, you can see storms on the horizon when the back edge is passing through... (Depending on CAPE!) I witnessed this in July 1982 and Christmas Day 1990. Phil.

Nimbilus... I think, and I omitted to mention this that occurred in early June 2009, Air France flight 477 from Brazil to Paris flew into an unprecedented thunderstorm. Electrics and cockpit dials went beserk, then disappeared off radar minutes later. MCS was developing so the plane was surrounded by electromagnetic magnetivity. Now either lightning was a cause of the lethal crash, or as said in a sense... a magnetic block. I'm not suggesting that this maybe the complete cause, but that area of Bermuda is notorious for storms and hurricanes. The ship theory with underlying gases that could erupt under the sea and knock even a cruise ship out is also a possibility. It's certainly food for thought. You be the judge. Phil.

I also watched that documentary on Channel 5 and found it very intriguing. There was something on the National Geographic Channel earlier on this year which was pretty much in the same vein. Some interesting theories produced by both shows though. Certainly food for thought. Something must be going on in that particular area. Anything from magnetic phenomena to maybe even extra terrestrial activity. (The latter probably a bit far-fetched I know!) Otherwise, who knows? Phil.

I'm still here I'm afraid. Despite what looked to be a very promising scenario on Tuesday, all Solihull received was a torrential downpour at around 7:15pm and lasted for just over half an hour. I'm beginning to wonder if Solihull has been secretly twinned with Cheltenham recently? Phil.

Enjoy. Wednesday 1st September 2010. Sundog... Thursday 2nd September 2010. Same again, but with a Parry Arc. (22º halo but Sun was more than 18º above the horizon!) Phil.