sammie

how do they decide what names get retired or is it just a whim? "I do not like this name, we shall not have that one again."

*headdesk* you I spent ages looking for that and couldn't find it! *Facepalm* thanks Cookie <3

If I remember rightly though I did have Glandular Fever then and was sick in bed haha, I don't remember Hannah getting anywhere near the press coverage that Ike and Gustav is. Could it be something to do with how well they are going to stick in the publics mind? After all those two arn't going to be forgotten but for some reason Hannah just doesn't "stick out" even with the damage it did.

Why does high wind shear wreck hurricanes? Educate me lovely peoples.

Possibly they look like Altostratus undulatus clouds but they look a bit low for that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altostratus_undulatus_cloud

Why wasn't Hannah retired thats strange? These strange people. We need a Hurricane Sammie, lets se which one could cause more trouble.

Tair: 8.8C Tdew: 4.3C RH: 73.3% MSLP: 993mBar Wind speed: 7m/s Wind gust: 14m/s Weather: Just rained, nice and sunny now, was VERY windy last night gusts up to 20.25m/s think we had a hail shower as well but I was in bed and the room was cold and I didn't want to get up to check.

Tair: 8.8C Tdew: 3,.4C RH: 68.8% MSLP: 994mBar Wind Speed: 11m/s ~ 25mph Wind Gust: 18m/s ~ 40mph Weather: Sunny, nippy and just a tad windy. I'm getting nervious about the tree branch that keeps hitting my window.

Tair: 8.9C Tdew: 0.9C RH: 57% MSLP: 1002mBar Wind Speed: 14.m/s Wind Gust: 16.75m/s Rainfall (24 hrs): 0ml Solar Flux: 0.456Wm2 Weather: Bit windy...

This is what happens when I forget to check the FAX sheets for a few days haha. I hope everyone up north is staying safe looks very unpleasent.

Tair: 12.3C Tdew: 8.9C Rh: 75.5% MSLP: 1003mBar Wind Speed: 10m/s Wind gust: 14m/s Rain fall: 2ml Weather: Rain =[

Tair: 14C Tdew: 8.6C RH: 69.9% MSLP: 1006mBar Wind speed: 5m/s WX: Sunny warm and overcast

Yip I'm taking bets with a friend when the cell will be tornado warned.

Winds moving in opp directions very close together on the doppler part of the the radar scan, they indicate rotation. They are coupled together hence a couplet. I always think of two couples dancing to remember it.

Not really, we live about 20 foot from a salt forth and right on the west coast plus we're close to sea level.

Its really the only thunderstorm I can remember that is depressing. We never usualy get storms here every year, every three or four maybe and then a big one like that ever 20 years or so. My mothers been living in the area for like 50 years and she had never seen a storm like that before. Once in a life time for here, it wont happen again

The met office guides are awesome I used them for revising for uni last semester haha. Also try here: http://www.theweatherprediction.com/

3 years ago today was my last thunderstorm. We had better win this year.

:lol: my mum understands science when she is drunk, its the only time I bother to teach her anything, I managed to explain the diffrence between a single cell, MCS and supercell to her and she got it as well. I was sat there going "why can't you do this sober?" and she's like "Umm....because its not interesting sober" Science does not come from the mothers side :lol: While the airtemp might have been 1 - 2C the ground temp can often be a few degrees lower, I'd scan in the reason why off lecture notes but I'm too lazy to.

We had about an inch sitting on the grit school football pit in front of my house after it, around 4am it started really comming down, it was in sheets in high winds. Though to be honest though most of it was pretty low precip where we were, I remember my mum acually going "why is it not raining?" a couple of times, then I tried to explain the concept of a downdraught and she turned off. Though while I was home and we both got a bit drunk sitting in the living room at 2am I taught her a radar works. Only took three years.

I'm in the same boat, no car and can't drive B) so I am somewhat stuck in place. Our day shall come however, we shall chase one day!

13C, sunny, very very scattered cloud and no statistics because the university weather station is still broken. It's a bit nippy in the wind though outside.

It's Scotland we must have used the storm quota up for a good few years with that on, still, my mother was praying though that storm it was so big. It was truly amazing, I live on the top of a hill in Helensburgh so I could see from Port Glasgow right down to Dunoon from my room and the whole of the lower Clyde valley. Perfect place to watch storms from. Though in hindsight hanging out of my 4th floor bedroom window watching the stom is not a safe place B) Still, I have hope for this year! Gotta be 3rd time lucky!

It just kept going though, the storm went on for hours and hours, started about 10pm and lasted well until the daylight hours. I have a feeling it was a big MSC but I can't find much on it. The lightning was right over us the whole time, it was amazing, just kept going and as soon as you thought it calmed down BOOM it picked up again. It was insane in the membrane. You always have that moment of fear in a storm but I supose thats why we like them. I need a stooorrrrrmmm *cries*

Looks good! Though I always fear now they have said it...they have jinxed it.