[Alan Parker]

I would like to invite all interested in weather discussion to visit
http://www.ithybia.net/ -- this is an upstarting weather community for
discussion relating to current weather conditions, extreme weather,
forecasts, personal weather stations, and weather software.

We're looking for growth in this community (it's literally new, no
users yet!), and what better time to start a new community than the
start of the year? I hope you decide to drop by, and have a happy New
Year.

-- Alan

[Weatherlawyer]

Alan Parker wrote:
I would like to invite all interested in weather discussion to visit
http://www.ithybia.net/ -- this is an upstarting weather community for
discussion relating to current weather conditions, extreme weather,
forecasts, personal weather stations, and weather software.

We're looking for growth in this community (it's literally new, no
users yet!), and what better time to start a new community than the
start of the year? I hope you decide to drop by, and have a happy New
Year.

Sadly there are more weather forums than there are people to go to
them. What's wrong with the ones already established?

[Alan Parker]

Honestly, usually nothing at all. I just have a load of webspace, and
I'm trying to find some use for it that isn't completely selfish (or
worthless)...

If you have any ideas, shout!

-- Alan

[Weatherlawyer]

Alan Parker wrote:

Honestly, usually nothing at all. I just have a load of webspace, and
I'm trying to find some use for it .

On G-mail?

If you have any ideas, shout!

Why not just grab one of the weather faqs and expand on how the info on
it applies in your neck of the woods.

You might also want to compare the phases of the moon for any effect or
unusually timed data. (My pet, that one.)

What happened where you lived for example, when this occurred in
London:

The smoke-laden fog that shrouded the capital from Friday 5 December to
Tuesday 9 December 1952 brought premature death to thousands and
inconvenience to millions.
http://www.metoffice.com/education/s...ents/smog.html

(The government incidentally stepped in and massaged the figures
especially the dates. The disaster was only noticed when undertakers
began to run out of coffins.)

Sep 4 3 19 Sep 11 2 36
Sep 19 7 22 Sep 26 20 31 Oct 3 12 15 Oct 10 19 33
Oct 18 22 42 Oct 26 4 04 Nov 1 23 10 Nov 9 15 43
Nov 17 12 56 Nov 24 11 34 Dec 1 12 41 Dec 9 13 22
Dec 17 2 02 Dec 23 19 52 Dec 31 5 06

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/aa_m...r=1952&ZZZ=END

I've been meaning to do this one for ages. I couldn't make the pieces
fit at one time but I have learned a lot in the last 10 or so years.

[Weatherlawyer]

Alan Parker wrote:

I just have a load of webspace, and I'm trying to find some use for it
that isn't completely selfish (or worthless)...

If you have any ideas, shout!

The BBC recently reported on severe floods from storms off the coast of
east Africa. Cyclones hit places as far apart as Lilongwe, Maputo,
Beira and Durban. When these things hit they get almost no coverage.
Although the BBC reported it, there were no pictures and there will be
no follow up.

Did you know that east Africa has been severely hit by widespread
flooding most of this year? If you could find pictures of such stuff as
that, your website would be one of the few covering them.

People with picture sites of Western Europe and North America are not
ten a penny but much more common than that. When did you last see a
synoptic chart for China, Eastern Europe or Russia?

Something else you see vry little of is reports about afteraths several
months later. Whilst the Katrina scandal sometimes makes the news
still. Smaller regions are neglected but there are local sites
reporting on the neglect suffered by people in other industrial regions
that are not archived on weather sites.

In Britain of all places, storm damage from the tornadoes in Birmingham
and Wolverhampton or wherever it was this summer and floods in Carlisle
a year ago today aught to be archived on weather forums too.

So if you want to fill some webspace with that sort of stuff and post
links and comments that would be useful and fill a large gap online.