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Old May 19th 06, 04:23 PM posted to uk.sci.weather,alt.talk.weather,uk.sci.astronomy
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Weatherlawyer wrote:

The latest BBC forecast shows that an occluded front is due to run
across Scotland (and points east) late Wednesday. That's pretty good for
a sea level forecast given over 3 days back.


Well the storm or what there was of it, blew through here earlier
today. Gusts of 50 mph maybe? And a fair bit of rain but not the storm
it could have been.

And now there is a tropical storm (Makani) out towards Hawaii. What an
interesting spell.
http://satellite.ehabich.info/hurricane-watch.htm

The Hawaiian storm isn't going to do much, I think. And it is hardly
what you might call misty weather. However:

The Low pressure area that seemed to cross Britain in the last few days
has re-established itself out in the Atlantic once mo
http://www.weather.org.uk/charts/UKCpf048.png -or will have by Sunday,
according to that site.

I wish that I could find a site that gives the phases between the
phases. There are plenty with the well known lunar phase but I need the
ones out in the middle of the gibbous and waining crescents.

If a new moon is 0% and a full is 100% and the quarter moons are 50%. I
want the times of the phases when the moon is 25% and 75% visible.

If I could get them, I bet my accuracy would go up by soem 50%. It
would be nice to catch up with this fellow:
http://earthquake.itgo.com/today.htm