On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 9:16:05 AM UTC, Dawlish wrote:
On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 7:16:11 AM UTC, Dawlish wrote:
On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 10:50:02 AM UTC, Kerr Mudd-John wrote:
Provisionally the forecast is for a clear start here in the morning.


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Bah, and indeed, Humbug

8/8 Cloud in Dawlish, clearing around 11.00 to leave a sunny afternoon. Rats. Hoping the forecast is wrong!

Good news: sky cleared for a while to show the start.

Bad news: couldn't find eclipse glasses and looked directly....suffering!

'Eclipse wind' experiment:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/arti...?cache=disable

On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 9:35:53 AM UTC, Dawlish wrote:
On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 9:16:05 AM UTC, Dawlish wrote:
On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 7:16:11 AM UTC, Dawlish wrote:
On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 10:50:02 AM UTC, Kerr Mudd-John wrote:
Provisionally the forecast is for a clear start here in the morning.


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Bah, and indeed, Humbug

8/8 Cloud in Dawlish, clearing around 11.00 to leave a sunny afternoon. Rats. Hoping the forecast is wrong!

Good news: sky cleared for a while to show the start.

Bad news: couldn't find eclipse glasses and looked directly....suffering!

'Eclipse wind' experiment:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/arti...?cache=disable

Lucky. Good views through gaps in the stratus all through the eclipse. Getting lighter. Birds singing again.

Lovely and clear, an hour ago but overcast now. However a nice clear ish slot just arriving in Driffield, just as I head into the doctors surgery.

"David Mitchell" wrote in message
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Lovely and clear, an hour ago but overcast now. However a nice clear ish
slot just arriving in Driffield, just as I head into the doctors surgery.

I hope you get fixed what needs to be fixed David for the benefit of all of
us!
:-)

Will
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http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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On Friday, 20 March 2015 09:41:29 UTC, David Mitchell wrote:
Lovely and clear, an hour ago but overcast now. However a nice clear ish slot just arriving in Driffield, just as I head into the doctors surgery.

Hi, David,
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.

Ken
Copley
Teesdale

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/m² at 08:40 and then declined to a
very gloomy 19 W/m² at 09:30. Recovering rapidly now (243 W/m² 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.

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Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:50:03 -0000
"Kerr Mudd-John" wrote:

Provisionally the forecast is for a clear start here in the morning.



I was going through my morning ritual of doing the newspaper puzzles
when I decided I needed to put the light on and then thought "it's
getting pretty gloomy out there, wonder why?" [Checks watch] "Oh!"

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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks. [Retd meteorologist/programmer]
I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.
Posted with Claws: http://www.claws-mail.org/

On Friday, 20 March 2015 10:17:12 UTC, 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/m² at 08:40 and then declined to a
very gloomy 19 W/m² at 09:30. Recovering rapidly now (243 W/m² 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.

--
Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk
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Good view here of 85% eclipse.
Had kept my black out specs from 1999.
I was surprised at how bright it stayed.
Would not know one was going on unless told.

There was no wind before, during or after.

Quite boring really.

Len
Wembury, SW Devon

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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/m² at 08:40 and then declined to a
very gloomy 19 W/m² at 09:30. Recovering rapidly now (243 W/m² 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

Dave

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Dave Offiler
daveoffiler.uk
chudlleighweather.info

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/m² at 08:40 and then declined to a
very gloomy 19 W/m² at 09:30. Recovering rapidly now (243 W/m² 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.

--
Martin

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