"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.

"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.

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

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

"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

"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

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

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

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

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