The Far North Of England Regional Discussion

[NickR]

Quite high and very rural northumberland here with perfectly calibrated equipment

I wasn't calling your report into question. Just seems like a discrepancy between all PWS on wunderground and some non-rural reports in here.

[Isolated Frost]

I wasn't calling your report into question. Just seems like a discrepancy between all PWS on wunderground and some non-rural reports in here.

It's at meto height and it tells perfect readings, out of the sun all day and I have never had any problems with it. I can assure you it's accurate

Btw, nearby Great Lumley is at -1.3c and it is 20m higher than me so I'd say mine looks pretty good.

[NickR]

It's at meto height and it tells perfect readings, out of the sun all day and I have never had any problems with it. I can assure you it's accurate

Btw, nearby Great Lumley is at -1.3c and it is 20m higher than me so I'd say mine looks pretty good.

Fair enough - genuinely no issues here. But when a report is a good 2°C below any wunderground report and not in a known frost hollow, you can understand the scepticism. Why don't you send your data to wunderground btw?

[Isolated Frost]

Fair enough - genuinely no issues here. But when a report is a good 2°C below any wunderground report and not in a known frost hollow, you can understand the scepticism. Why don't you send your data to wunderground btw?

I temporarily did- but I turn the mac off every night; so can't keep it running all night, unless you know any other ways of keeping it up without wasting electricity

[NickR]

I temporarily did- but I turn the mac off every night; so can't keep it running all night, unless you know any other ways of keeping it up without wasting electricity

DOesn't really matter. You wunderground site will just be missing data overnight. I plan to start turning the dedicated laptop off at night in the future too.

[JP1972]

Frost starting to develop in Newcastle now.

Don't have a thermometer but feels nice and clear/crisp/dry out there.

If you ain't got snow then this is the next best thing I suppose!

[lizmartin1981]

Not the same I know, but mine is here: http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=ITYNEAND7 (until the website goes live). Wind not accurate until it goes on the roof next week but everything else should be spot on

[Alex95]

The likes of Alston should be getting snizzle now - I bet they still have snow cover from this morning

[lizmartin1981]

Same here mate! #deprived

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ok so first attempt didnt quite work lol, I was drawing your attention to my weather station in Jarrow if you wanted to check local temps etc!

Edited December 15, 2011 by lizmartin1981

[NickR]

A guide to snow reporting on netweather/TWO/etc for the forthcoming night/season as a whole.... take the snowfall rate ("blizzard conditions"; "whiteout") and the snow depth ("7" at least!"), reduce by 75%, and you might have something close to reality.

Edited December 15, 2011 by NickR

[Snowstorm1]

A guide to snow reporting on netweather/TWO/etc for the forthcoming night/season as a whole.... take the snowfall rate ("blizzard conditions"; "whiteout") and the snoe depth ("7" at least!), reduce by 75%, and you might have something close to reality.

Wonder who does that....

[Andy_]

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ok so first attempt didnt quite work lol, I was drawing your attention to my weather station in Jarrow if you wanted to check local temps etc!

ah thanks a lot! i found it by myself weirdly i just came back on the forum just now haha you only live down the road from me so this is perfect

[tynevalleywinter]

Will be fun seeing the south at a stand still tomorrow with half an inch of laying snowTemp up to -1.4

Edited December 15, 2011 by tynevalleywinter

[Snowstorm1]

This winter I will try be more accurate I just get too excited at times!

[lizmartin1981]

ah thanks a lot! i found it by myself weirdly i just came back on the forum just now haha you only live down the road from me so this is perfect

I only got it yesterday, the station I had before this one couldn't go online so hubby had his ear bashed until he got me this one for xmas, and I was so impatient when it came yesterday I couldn't wait till xmas day to set it up I think theres gonna be a story in the gazette about me setting the website up last week and I'm hoping some kind person might offer to go on the roof for me to put it on the chimney for not lots of pennies!

[Andy_]

I only got it yesterday, the station I had before this one couldn't go online so hubby had his ear bashed until he got me this one for xmas, and I was so impatient when it came yesterday I couldn't wait till xmas day to set it up I think theres gonna be a story in the gazette about me setting the website up last week and I'm hoping some kind person might offer to go on the roof for me to put it on the chimney for not lots of pennies!

Can't wait to see the website I've followed you on twitter too!

[Snowstorm1]

BBC NATIONAL

Showed wintry trough over our region mainly of snow 5am onwards throughout the morning and mentioned it down to quite low levels

[tynevalleywinter]

Will look closely at 1030 to see how far inland it gets

[Snowstorm1]

Will look closely at 1030 to see how far inland it gets

On last update it made it upto the Pennines!

[JP1972]

Another non-event lads I'm afraid, well for low lying north east areas anyway.

One can dream ...

[Snowstorm1]

Personally Im certain on the precipitation in our region pretty much but whether it will be snow or not is another question altogether!

[Snowstorm1]

Now this isn't a ramp but Local Forecast On BBC then was SNOWY for us with sleet and snow across the region but this is so marginal and one way or the other it is down to the wire....

[tynevalleywinter]

Looking like 200 mtrs could be the snow\sleet line

[Cloud 10]

At least there is some ppn over the region,so there is hope!

Plenty of bob johnson's "skitey bits" in the morning at the very least.

[Alex95]

Freezing fog, -1C. I expect it'll rise soon as the cloud increases.