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Old June 17th 07, 12:36 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default June's not bad so far in Devon

Missed all the storms here in N Devon. Not very good, since i'm a fan
of storms
Had a couple heavy showers, and plenty of lighter ones.

Meanwhile, up the country, people have had multiple storms in one or
two days.
Not fair at all

Now i have a decent gaming PC, i've been playing with Flight Sim X,
and Active Sky X add-on
(it can import TAF's and METAR data files, with the weather in Flight
Sim X changed accordingly)

Attempted to fly around a few locations yesterday. Thunder at
Heathrow, as i took off, i went north.. then east into the North Sea,
then i turned south, until the north coast of France came into view.

More distant lightning out over the North Sea, during sunset, looked
very nice. Then i flew into yet another storm on the north coast of
France. Accuracy is not quite there yet i feel... sure there was some
thunder yesterday, but not this much. Still it's very ambitious when
you consider the whole planet Earth is simulated