On 5 Oct 2009 06:15:29 GMT, "Norman" wrote:

A small low west of Spain/Potugal has a very distinct eye and looks
suspiciously like a small tropical storm. Clearly seen on the satellite loop at


http://wind.met.fu-berlin.de/cgi-bin...&intervall=30&
refresh=10&playmode=Endlos

Watch out for the line-wrap on the above.


Norman



It is also good on this animation catch it beofre it has gone

http://www.yr.no/satellitt/1.5941760


Andy

Norman wrote:
A small low west of Spain/Potugal has a very distinct eye and looks
suspiciously like a small tropical storm. Clearly seen on the satellite loop at


http://wind.met.fu-berlin.de/cgi-bin...&intervall=30&
refresh=10&playmode=Endlos

Watch out for the line-wrap on the above.


Norman



Although Grace has been swallowed up by the front the circulation of
this small TS is still very discernable on Bernard Burton's and the
Meteox satpic pages at 0900BST this morning - and it looks like this
feature is going to cross the UK.

Les

"Les Crossan" wrote ...
Although Grace has been swallowed up by the front the circulation of
this small TS is still very discernable on Bernard Burton's and the
Meteox satpic pages at 0900BST this morning - and it looks like this
feature is going to cross the UK.


.... indeed! At the very least, it must be enhancing the humidity
environment within its circulation - so rainfall totals are going to
be pepped up as it comes east; a possible source of cyclonicity (if
you look very closely at the last few frames, an 'eye' of sorts is
reforming): it'll need watching until it is well out of the way!

Martin.


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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
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"Les Crossan" wrote ...
Although Grace has been swallowed up by the front the circulation of this
small TS is still very discernable on Bernard Burton's and the Meteox
satpic pages at 0900BST this morning - and it looks like this feature is
going to cross the UK.


... indeed! At the very least, it must be enhancing the humidity
environment within its circulation - so rainfall totals are going to be
pepped up as it comes east; a possible source of cyclonicity (if you look
very closely at the last few frames, an 'eye' of sorts is reforming):
it'll need watching until it is well out of the way!

Martin.


We've already received around 17mm in the last 24 hours,
7 of which have fallen in the last 2. I hope this tropical
feature has the 'grace' to pass us by because the ground is
not soaking up the rain very well. Local flooding/running
rivulets look more like the result of a 30mm fall than 17.

Nigel (Romsey, Hampshire)

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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

Les Crossan wrote:


Although Grace has been swallowed up by the front the circulation of
this small TS is still very discernable on Bernard Burton's and the
Meteox satpic pages at 0900BST this morning - and it looks like this
feature is going to cross the UK.


Circulation still showing over SW Ireland on Meteox at 1400Z -
http://www.sat24.com/.


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"I wear the cheese. It does not wear me."

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Graham P Davis wrote
Les Crossan wrote:


Although Grace has been swallowed up by the front the circulation of
this small TS is still very discernable on Bernard Burton's and the
Meteox satpic pages at 0900BST this morning - and it looks like this
feature is going to cross the UK.


Circulation still showing over SW Ireland on Meteox at 1400Z -
http://www.sat24.com/.



Has Grace something to do with the umcommonly high temperature this
afternoon in SE London? My weather station sensor high was 19C at 16:00
today, and the car sensor out on the street was reading 21C just now.
Humidity about 90, altogether rather horrible.

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Kate B

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want to reply personally

Looks like ex Grcae is SE of Ireland now. Eye is visible even on radar.

"Kate Brown" wrote ...

Has Grace something to do with the umcommonly high temperature this
afternoon in SE London? My weather station sensor high was 19C at
16:00 today, and the car sensor out on the street was reading 21C
just now. Humidity about 90, altogether rather horrible.


.... Looking back at the various archive analyses (EXO & DWD), it looks
as if the origin of the air that you (and we here in Dorset) are
experiencing is somewhere in the Madeira area, or even possibly the
Canaries, but I haven't done a proper back-track on that - certainly
from somewhere south of 35 degN.

'Grace' as such isn't actually within that air mass, so it's not that
*particular* air that is impacting us, BUT, as Will mentioned
yesterday, it has got caught up 'in the mix' synoptically and might
have been a factor in keeping the synoptic-scale flow in a SSWly
fashion; as I read it (but others will want to come in I fancy),
'Grace' has 'broadened-out' the main vortex north of the Azores
region, so that we have the aforementioned SSW/long-fetch flow, rather
than a more classical (but still mild/Tropical Maritime) SW or WSW
flow.

It's important (the distinction between SSW & SW or WSW), because as
has been pointed out through the summer/early autumn, SSTs are
above-average (roughly +0.5 to +1.0C 71-00) looking back towards
Madeira, rather than +0.5 or less back to the Azores. Oceanic heat
storage at work!

Martin.


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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

.... amazing wee beastie! At 1800Z, according to XC-Weather, the
Marathon oil platform (north Fastnet / west Celtic Sea) is reporting a
full gale ... 36 knots, G41 from the NE.

Martin.


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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

On 6 Oct, 20:08, "Martin Rowley"
wrote:
... amazing wee beastie! At 1800Z, according to XC-Weather, the
Marathon oil platform (north Fastnet / west Celtic Sea) is reporting a
full gale ... 36 knots, G41 from the NE.

Martin.

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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N * Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

It's been a very windy evening on the tip of Cornwall. Mean speed at
Sevenstones 34knots at 18:00, 33 knots at 20:00. (SSW) . Force 7 on
Scilly, Force 6 in west Cornwall, but very gusty.

Graham
Penzance