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Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) April 3rd 10, 03:11 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 732
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
Easter hols are a week too early?

Of course, the actual date of Good Friday and Easter really doesn't need to
be fixed, it's just the holdiays attached to them that should be (this
year's Good Friday Bank Holiday was like any other...
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) March 1st 10, 09:04 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 146
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
Birmingham Winterbourne: Feb2010 & DJF

Winterbourne Summary



February 2010:

Mean min: 0.15C (1881-2009, 1.53C)

Mean max: 5.38C (1881-2009, 6.46C)
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) March 1st 10, 09:01 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 851
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
How Does the Winter of 2009-10 Rank?

For Birmingham Winterbourne it was the coldest winter since 1978/9 and the
9th coldest since records began in 1881.

Chris



"John Hall" wrote in message...
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) February 23rd 10, 06:57 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,157
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
Interesting flight path

Yeap, same on Friday (DBX-BHX) - didn't acutally see Baghdad, but did fly
right above it according to the inflight map. Also worthy to note that on
the Dubai-Delhi part the flight avoided Iran and...
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) February 21st 10, 04:33 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 208
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
Cold

Mas,
BTW, the riased beaches are nothing to do with past ocean levels -
they are a consequent of the retreat of the ice sheets, removing the wieght
of the weight of the ice over the land...
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) January 17th 10, 09:28 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 298
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
Icy pavements

The 30cm soil temperature at Birmingham Wintyerbourne is currently 0.5C - so
little heat to keep the surface from freezing. Certainly last night the
surface froze pretty easily even though the air...
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) January 17th 10, 09:17 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 152
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
"Weather" - Jan 2010 - Front cover

A good selection of photos at:

http://www.stridingedge.net/Walks/2009/11.November/20.11.09.htm
http://www.stridingedge.net/Walks/2009/11.November/21.11.09.htm

Chris



"Tudor Hughes"...
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) January 13th 10, 04:36 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 361
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
[WR] Bewdley - deepest snow cover since the 20th century!

A good 11-12cm at Droitwich with ~7-8cm of newo snow overnight.Still light
snow/snow grains at 17:30.

Birmingham Winterbourne had 16cm this morning (10am).

Chris


"David Buttery"...
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) January 9th 10, 02:33 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 248
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
OCEAN COAST - WHERE WINTER IS WARMER!

Out photographing things today - came across the following poster at Bewdley
station from GWR days...
(interesting to note not only the "climate" descriptions, but also the
precision of the...
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) January 9th 10, 11:02 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 404
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
AWS Vesus Traditional Daily Means

As John said, in Winter the mean min/max will tend to be warmer than the
1s/1min average. Conversely I would expect that in the summer the mean
min/max will be cooler than the 1s/1min...
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) January 7th 10, 06:36 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 156
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
MODIS image of the British Isles

TERRA MODIS image is far better:

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/single.php?2010007/crefl1_143.A2010007115000-2010007115500.2km.jpg




"Mike Tullett" wrote in...
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) January 2nd 10, 07:53 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 129
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
Today's Tideswell snow

Did a cross-country transect today from Worcester to Grantham and return:

Outward via M5/M42 up to Castle Donnington was generally cold - although E
of Birmingham was seemed to be a rain shower had...
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) January 1st 10, 12:11 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 209
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
Birmingham Winterbourne 2009 Summary

2009 monthly mean temperatures (C) (& departures from climate)

2009 d1881 d1961 d1971

Mon temp -2009 -1990 -2000

1 2.48 -1.22 -1.24 -1.54

2 4.10 0.18 0.45 -0.05
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) December 29th 09, 09:07 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 248
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
[WR] Bewdley - an unexciting start!

Plenty of rain on the radar over the W.Midlands - but none reaching the
surface - most of it is 1-6km altitude but evaporating on the way down,
which is odd since the dew points are not that low....
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) December 28th 09, 06:21 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 460
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
Decadal mean temperatures since 1900

Steve,
Here are the similar values for Birmingham (of course, made up from
several sites, including Winterbourne) - showing a similar trend.

1881-1889 8.85

1890-1899 9.18

1900-1909 ...
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) December 26th 09, 09:09 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 149
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
[WR] Bewdley - a pleasant day

Uhm - shows what time I get to bed...

Although the air temperature is currently ~4C, plenty of ice still about and
reforming due to a lot of surfaces that have been in the shade being below
zero -...
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) December 26th 09, 04:28 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 149
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
[WR] Bewdley - a pleasant day

David,
I suspect the 'Birmingham' white Christmas was really
'Nottingham' - I've had to contact the MO before when they (conversely)
wrote down "Winterbourne, University of Nottingham"...
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) December 23rd 09, 04:44 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 218
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
[WR] Bewdley - snow now

Moderate to heavy snow in Droitwich and settling - first main snowfall of
the year. Falling onto frozen ground - earlier light rain made things pretty
icy, so will be interesting...
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) August 1st 09, 09:57 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 197
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
Birmingham Winterbourne: May/June/July 2009

Birmingham Winterbourne:



Mean minimum temperatures/anomalies/lowest

May: 7.25C (1881:2008 +0.36C; 1961:1990 +0.18C) 3.3C on 17th

June: 10.22C (1881:2008 +0.37C; 1961:1990 +0.12C) 2.8C on 12th
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) July 29th 09, 01:08 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 189
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
Snow on the way...?

With all the talk of changing summer forecasts and the torrential rain
today, the final straw came upon seeing a couple of snow ploughs heading
south on the M5 through Worcestershire - maybe the MO...
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) June 29th 09, 03:30 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 209
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
Vigorous TS, Droitwich

16:00 (BST) - vigorous thunderstorm just to the East of Droitwich -
torrential rain for ~10 minutes with a dozen or so lightning/thunder
'events'. More suprisingly was the sudden gusty, even...
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) June 28th 09, 09:19 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 255
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
Winterbourne rainfall totals 26th/27th June 2009

All,
Yeap 'Winterbourne' is the University site - and yes, the rain on
Friday was pretty torrential, so the 32.6mm is about right. On Saturday a
cell developed over Birmingham itself...
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) June 10th 09, 10:02 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 263
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
Torrential rain Worcester-Droitwich

Haven't been able to get out to read the gauge yet, but the vertical radar
notes an accumulation of ~50mm over a 3 hour period, of which 40mm fell in
just 30 minutes (17:41-18:21 GMT): maximum rain...
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) June 10th 09, 06:11 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 263
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
Torrential rain Worcester-Droitwich

Currently torrential rain in the Worcester-Droitwich area - and not moving
anywhere fast. Road outside house torrent-like - will update when I can get
out to measure the leftovers in the...
Forum: uk.sci.weather (UK Weather) June 7th 09, 09:54 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 160
Posted By CHRIS KIDD
Cool on Saturday

10.7C maximum temperature at Birmingham Winterbourne on the 6th June - not
the coldest (which was 9.0C set in 1985), but takes second place (records
running since 1881). Interesting that D-Day only...
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