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![]() "Michael Di Bernardo" wrote in message . uk... I must say, the best tool when i did work experience there, was the Sferic activity detector. I remember the storms building up and sparking off over Northern France all week. Mike http://www.metoffice.com/aviation/samples/atd.html All yours for £56.40 a year. |
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![]() "Michael Di Bernardo" wrote in message . uk... I must say, the best tool when i did work experience there, was the Sferic activity detector. I remember the storms building up and sparking off over Northern France all week. Mike http://www.metoffice.com/aviation/samples/atd.html All yours for £56.40 a year. |
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I must say, the best tool when i did work experience there, was the Sferic
activity detector. I remember the storms building up and sparking off over Northern France all week. Mike www.dudleyweather.angelcities.com "Joe Hunt" wrote in message ... "Robin Wilson" wrote in message news ![]() Hi all, I'm looking for some free rainfall radar images for the UK. I recently went to the Met Office's branch in Birmingham for some work experience - and saw their Rainfall Radar display. Theirs is very detailed - and the only one I can find online so far is the BBCs tiny little one - which could not be described as detailed at all! lol Are there are any rainfall radar images available online? If so, where? and how often are they updated? Thanks, The highest resolution you will find on the web is 5km. Hourly, compressed images are free at www.metoffice.com but uncompressed, more frequent images are available on a pay per view basis. What you'd have seen at MetO is the combined 1km/2km/5km radar image (Radarnet IV IIRC) all superimposed onto one UK map. Good isn't it ! Joe |
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I must say, the best tool when i did work experience there, was the Sferic
activity detector. I remember the storms building up and sparking off over Northern France all week. Mike www.dudleyweather.angelcities.com "Joe Hunt" wrote in message ... "Robin Wilson" wrote in message news ![]() Hi all, I'm looking for some free rainfall radar images for the UK. I recently went to the Met Office's branch in Birmingham for some work experience - and saw their Rainfall Radar display. Theirs is very detailed - and the only one I can find online so far is the BBCs tiny little one - which could not be described as detailed at all! lol Are there are any rainfall radar images available online? If so, where? and how often are they updated? Thanks, The highest resolution you will find on the web is 5km. Hourly, compressed images are free at www.metoffice.com but uncompressed, more frequent images are available on a pay per view basis. What you'd have seen at MetO is the combined 1km/2km/5km radar image (Radarnet IV IIRC) all superimposed onto one UK map. Good isn't it ! Joe |
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![]() "Robin Wilson" wrote in message news ![]() Hi all, I'm looking for some free rainfall radar images for the UK. I recently went to the Met Office's branch in Birmingham for some work experience - and saw their Rainfall Radar display. Theirs is very detailed - and the only one I can find online so far is the BBCs tiny little one - which could not be described as detailed at all! lol Are there are any rainfall radar images available online? If so, where? and how often are they updated? Thanks, The highest resolution you will find on the web is 5km. Hourly, compressed images are free at www.metoffice.com but uncompressed, more frequent images are available on a pay per view basis. What you'd have seen at MetO is the combined 1km/2km/5km radar image (Radarnet IV IIRC) all superimposed onto one UK map. Good isn't it ! Joe |
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![]() "Robin Wilson" wrote in message news ![]() Hi all, I'm looking for some free rainfall radar images for the UK. I recently went to the Met Office's branch in Birmingham for some work experience - and saw their Rainfall Radar display. Theirs is very detailed - and the only one I can find online so far is the BBCs tiny little one - which could not be described as detailed at all! lol Are there are any rainfall radar images available online? If so, where? and how often are they updated? Thanks, The highest resolution you will find on the web is 5km. Hourly, compressed images are free at www.metoffice.com but uncompressed, more frequent images are available on a pay per view basis. What you'd have seen at MetO is the combined 1km/2km/5km radar image (Radarnet IV IIRC) all superimposed onto one UK map. Good isn't it ! Joe |
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Thanks for all the replies I've recieved.
Sadly I can't afford t he £56 option - but the other one from the Met Office is def better than the BBC one. I remember seeing the sferics on top of the rainfall radar display when I was at the Met Office - which meant that you could see where the rain was turning thundery. I had a great time at work experience there - learnt an awful lot - and I can really see myself doing what they do! Possible career plan there! lol. I was especially impressed with their computer systems - the program Nimbus was so powerful - even though it sometimes misbehaved. The responsibility I was given was nice as well - I was allowed to make up the forecast sheets for the BBC Midlands Today forecasters by my self - as long as they were checked before they were sent out! I spose this is a good time to introduce myself. I seem to have been looki estershire. I'm doing A Levels at the moment - hoping to go to uni and do a degree in Geog. After that, who knows, maybe some meteorology and then a career in the Met Office...you never know! I don't have a proper weather station at home (sadly I can't afford it). But I can (and will - assuming I have the time) post visual Weather Reports. It will be interesting to compare my reports to the chap from Worcesters - and see how they match! Thanks again for all the replies, Robin On Tue, 03 May 2005 17:27:51 +0100, Robin Wilson wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for some free rainfall radar images for the UK. I recently went to the Met Office's branch in Birmingham for some work experience - and saw their Rainfall Radar display. Theirs is very detailed - and the only one I can find online so far is the BBCs tiny little one - which could not be described as detailed at all! lol Are there are any rainfall radar images available online? If so, where? and how often are they updated? Thanks, Robin |
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On Tue, 03 May 2005 23:08:51 +0100, Robin Wilson
wrote: Thanks for all the replies I've recieved. Sadly I can't afford t he £56 option - but the other one from the Met Office is def better than the BBC one. There's also Avbrief 15 minute radar at £25.85 a year. www.avbrief.com (sample animation here): http://www.avbrief.co.uk/information...anim_small.gif Their static images are more than double the dimensions of the animation images (1100 x 1100 pixels) and if you know how, you can go back for 24 hours. There is no control over how the animations play, although they auto-repeat. There's also WeatherOnline http://www.weatheronline.co.uk at £19.90 a year but I'll have to leave it to others to describe and compare that one (I'd like to know myself, actually!) -- Dave |
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![]() There's also WeatherOnline http://www.weatheronline.co.uk at £19.90 a year but I'll have to leave it to others to describe and compare that one (I'd like to know myself, actually!) -- Dave Hi Dave, I find the weatheronline radar very useful with updates around T+12,"local maps",plus a couple of nice animation's and the ability to show major roads/your own location. The downside is that they display un attenuated data on all but one of the maps and therefore there is a lot of clutter. Also unlike Avbrief you cannot tell if a radar station is off line but of course the same is true of the Met Office aviation briefing radar ;-) But it is quite a good service for £19 a year. Alan -- Wirral,Merseyside. 53.1 N 3.0 W 40m amsl http://www.wirralcam.com/frame.htm |
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![]() There's also WeatherOnline http://www.weatheronline.co.uk at £19.90 a year but I'll have to leave it to others to describe and compare that one (I'd like to know myself, actually!) -- Dave Hi Dave, I find the weatheronline radar very useful with updates around T+12,"local maps",plus a couple of nice animation's and the ability to show major roads/your own location. The downside is that they display un attenuated data on all but one of the maps and therefore there is a lot of clutter. Also unlike Avbrief you cannot tell if a radar station is off line but of course the same is true of the Met Office aviation briefing radar ;-) But it is quite a good service for £19 a year. Alan -- Wirral,Merseyside. 53.1 N 3.0 W 40m amsl http://www.wirralcam.com/frame.htm |
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