Just noticed on
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...l.html#warning
Backed-up by a satellite shot of a bit of lumpy stuff currently leaving the
Brest peninsula.

:-)

- Tom.

"Tom Bennett" wrote in message
...
Just noticed on
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...l.html#warning
Backed-up by a satellite shot of a bit of lumpy stuff currently leaving
the Brest peninsula.

:-)

- Tom.




The Meteogroup website shows the thunderstorm/s on the French radar picture

http://www.meteogroup.co.uk/uk/home/...ar/france.html

John

"MCC" wrote in message
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Tom Bennett wrote:

Just noticed on
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...l.html#warning
Backed-up by a satellite shot of a bit of lumpy stuff currently leaving the
Brest peninsula.


Hopefully the thunderstorms will clear away the fog from this part of
Cornwall - visibility currently 100 metres.
--
MCC

Same here. Thick fog 50m at times up here in Haytor.
Could be fun later this evening!

Will.
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MCC wrote:

Tom Bennett wrote:

Just noticed on
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...l.html#warning
Backed-up by a satellite shot of a bit of lumpy stuff currently leaving the
Brest peninsula.


Hopefully the thunderstorms will clear away the fog from this part of
Cornwall - visibility currently 100 metres.
--
MCC

Fog came down here around 16:30, currently around 100m here too.

The 17:00 rainfall radar
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather...dar/index.html showed some
bright echos moving across Penzance, but so far (at 17:35) only around
1.5mm of rain has fallen.

Graham
Penzance

In uk.sci.weather on Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Graham Easterling
wrote :

The 17:00 rainfall radar
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather...dar/index.html showed some
bright echos moving across Penzance, but so far (at 17:35) only around
1.5mm of rain has fallen.

There was some heavy rain at around that time in St Ives too, but of
course I had no way of measuring totals. No thunder though.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

Paul,
I think quite a few observers over the years can make a fairly accurate
assessment of the amount of rain from various pointers in the vicinity. For
instance 1 or 2mm of rain does not usually wet the ground under trees and it
takes at least 5mm or so to drip through. Or how much rain it takes to wet
the soil or make the gutters flow? I would make a temporary gauge from old
bottles or tin cans when on holiday when I was a lad etc.
As a youngster I used to look at the local house guttering ( 1950s council
house guttering). If they remained a light colour then the rain was less
than 5mm but over 10mm it would soak them completely and they would change
colour.
There was an area at the back of my parent's house where a puddle would form
and I would know how much rain it would take to make it a certain size or
how much rain it took to wet a local wall completely by dripping down it. I
did have a rain gauge after the age of 12. Of course it does help enormously
if you have a detailed knowledge of the area.
One can predict fairly easily by observing and timing the intensity e.g.
moderate rain say 2mm to 4mm per hour for 3 hours say but overnight rain
when one is asleep and before the days of AWS stations etc then it would be
the above methods?
So your post made me think what ways ( the mind boggles) did UK SCi members
use or still use to estimate rain without looking in the gauge?
Ian Currie- Coulsdon
www.Frostedearth.com


Paul Hyett" wrote in message
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In uk.sci.weather on Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Graham Easterling
wrote :

The 17:00 rainfall radar
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather...dar/index.html showed some
bright echos moving across Penzance, but so far (at 17:35) only around
1.5mm of rain has fallen.

There was some heavy rain at around that time in St Ives too, but of
course I had no way of measuring totals. No thunder though.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

In uk.sci.weather on Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Ian Currie
wrote :

The 17:00 rainfall radar
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather...dar/index.html showed some
bright echos moving across Penzance, but so far (at 17:35) only around
1.5mm of rain has fallen.

There was some heavy rain at around that time in St Ives too, but of
course I had no way of measuring totals. No thunder though.
--
Paul,
I think quite a few observers over the years can make a fairly accurate
assessment of the amount of rain from various pointers in the vicinity. For
instance 1 or 2mm of rain does not usually wet the ground under trees and it
takes at least 5mm or so to drip through.

I can indeed make that sort of estimate here in Cheltenham, but I'm not
familiar enough with how St Ives looks with various amounts of rain to
make an assessment. Graham would be the one to ask about that.

Or how much rain it takes to wet
the soil or make the gutters flow? I would make a temporary gauge from old
bottles or tin cans when on holiday when I was a lad etc.

I'd have had nowhere to place one - only a very sheltered tiny inner
courtyard.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

Paul Hyett wrote:

In uk.sci.weather on Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Ian Currie
wrote :

The 17:00 rainfall radar
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather...dar/index.html showed some
bright echos moving across Penzance, but so far (at 17:35) only around
1.5mm of rain has fallen.

There was some heavy rain at around that time in St Ives too, but of
course I had no way of measuring totals. No thunder though.
--
I think quite a few observers over the years can make a fairly accurate
assessment of the amount of rain from various pointers in the vicinity.

I can indeed make that sort of estimate here in Cheltenham, but I'm not
familiar enough with how St Ives looks with various amounts of rain to
make an assessment. Graham would be the one to ask about that.

85mm of rain in St Ives (but 100mm on the moors) looks like
www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk/100.html

Graham
Penzance