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27-07-18, 06:51 AM | #1 |
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I wanted a thunderstorm...
...I was so close (the storms are heading due north):
I mentioned once before - our weather here is "beige". When the rest of the country is melting, we are warm...when the rest are flooding, we are moist, et cetera, et cetera. (Image captured at 6am, 27 July) |
27-07-18, 08:29 AM | #2 |
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Re: I wanted a thunderstorm...
Beige weather grows a very nice potato though......
I want a thunderstorm as well, it got very humid and cloudy in Shropshire yesterday afternoon (as it has done several times in last few weeks) - but the clouds just sailed away without doing their job. If you like thunderstorms go to Johannesburg (or anywhere in Africa really except Sahara) or Sydney ( or most places in Australia) from October to March - they have the most fantastic thunderstorms with hail thrown in.
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27-07-18, 11:25 AM | #4 |
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Re: I wanted a thunderstorm...
I read an article a few years ago about recent lack of thunderstorm action in UK is linked to people no longer burning coal. A coal fire produced a rising column of ionized carbonised gas that made it easy for lightning to travel along it (born out by the fact that 99% of the time it was chimneys that were struck by lightning). Since everything got cleaned up and coal fired power stations / lots of industry shut down a lot less lightning and thunder than I remember when I was a kid.
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Re: I wanted a thunderstorm...
downpour for 10mins at 5 am this morning .. according to alexa there are thunderstorms at the moment with 7mm rain. The only moisture is the sweat off my forehead
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A piece of seaweed hanging up outside is a good weather forecast tool, if it is wet it is raining, if it is moving around it is windy...........etc. When the met office spent £90m on a new supercomputer a few years ago someone remarked 'well now at least they will be able to get the wrong answer a lot faster' This is interesting, the single biggest cause of our weather is the jetstream, if we are below it we get warmer more high pressure weather, if we are above it we get cooler more low pressure weather. https://www.netweather.tv/charts-and...tream/tutorial https://www.netweather.tv/charts-and-data/jetstream .
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27-07-18, 06:36 PM | #7 |
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Re: I wanted a thunderstorm...
Well, you wanted one Seeker, had enough now?
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