On 20/03/2015 15:33, Dave Offiler wrote:
On 20/03/15 10:17, Nick Gardner wrote:
On 20/03/2015 10:00, Ken Cook wrote:
Good view here, thank goodness for the westerlies and Pennine cloud
shadow. Plenty of blue sky and just enough stratus at times to view
without shades. Believe it or not it went dark! One of my outside
security lights came on, but the birds continued to sing throughout.
Noted, Copley birds sing during eclipses!
Temp fell by 1.6C and wind speed fell by 5KT. However, there would be
many other factors influencing the weather.
Lots of cloud but it was thin enough to get a good view. It went darker
than I thought it would.
The birds started singing just before maximum covering then went silent
as it went rather gloomy before starting their 2nd dawn chorus of the
day.
The solar radiation peaked with 177 W/mē at 08:40 and then declined to a
very gloomy 19 W/mē at 09:30. Recovering rapidly now (243 W/mē at 10:14).
Temperature only fell by 0.3C but its rapid climb from was halted and it
just levelled off from 08:40 until 10:05.
South Devon had thick cloud, though we did get 5 mins thinning around
09:55 - about 3/4 way through before totally clagging over again. Bight
sun this afternoon, of course! Only a 0.3deg dip in temp here.
A few opportunistic pics at: http://daveoffiler.uk/gallery Eclipse
South East London had 100% cloud cover all morning, it did get a bit darker
at the prescribed time then brightened up again by 10.
Sun finally appeared about 1230.
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Martin
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