On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:50:24 -0000, " Jill."
wrote:

If anyone is comtemplating a walking / photographic break around here --- go
for it -- its stunning just now

Agreed.

It's another blazing blue sky day which is what we've needed for a
long time.

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow.
Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
Web cam at http://www.ufcnet.net/~alanlesley1/kabcam.htm

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:52:34 -0000, "Jennikhbm \(Suffolk\)"
wrote:

The forecasts I heard stressed the drizzle or LIGHT rain expected. Only
'nuisance value' was mentioned which is not too easy to interpret though I
took it to be small amounts!

The forecast I saw was for mostly drizzle or light rain, but with the
odd heavier burst the further south you were.

Martin Rowley wrote:

snip

Surface charts don't always show the whole story, particularly with
blocked anticyclonic features.


Or even, as in a notable event in the mid-seventies, in an apparently
typical boring warm sector. Steady SW wind, 200ft cloud base, 1500M
visibility, steady barometer, then 5 minutes later the barometer had fallen
7mb, the cloud was on the deck, visibility 500M, and the wind had increased
about 10kts. After another five minutes the pressure was about a millibar
shy of where it had been before the fall and everything else was back to
normal.

Graham

"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
...
Martin Rowley wrote:

snip

Surface charts don't always show the whole story, particularly with
blocked anticyclonic features.


Or even, as in a notable event in the mid-seventies, in an apparently
typical boring warm sector. Steady SW wind, 200ft cloud base, 1500M
visibility, steady barometer, then 5 minutes later the barometer had
fallen
7mb, the cloud was on the deck, visibility 500M, and the wind had
increased
about 10kts. After another five minutes the pressure was about a millibar
shy of where it had been before the fall and everything else was back to
normal.

25th January 1977 ... one of Bernard's gravity waves?

The effect was observed widely. I was at Aberdeen at the
time and we noted two such oscillations, one of 3mbar and
the other rather smaller.

Philip Eden