It's hailing......

[skier-hughes]

Great big massive hailstones in Staffordshire...... blooming global warming

 

[Nemesis]

We have something I think they call sunshine... sent 'im indoors outdoors to cut the grass before it rains again.

 

[Nemesis]

I query the bit on this which tells of long sunny days... can I do 'em under trade descriptions legislation?

http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/vg/movie/default.htm

 

[biffvernon]

Seems June was about 1.5 degrees C above long term average, as well as being a little on the damp side.

Here's a graph showing average rainfall in my garden over the last seven years. It shows a rolling four week average (record rain each day, sum 28 days and divide by 28, then do likewise moving on one day for each data point). So, basically, it shows a smoothed daily average. The long term average is 1.85mm per day. Left hand vertical scale is mm/day.

We had no rain from 23rd March to 6th May this year. The last three weeks have been a different story and we've had 24mm today with about 20 of that falling within 15 minutes!

It's still raining so the spike on the right hand end may get higher before the evening is out

 

[NT]

I've never much liked the idea of global worming. Who would administer it?

NT

 

[alice]

I'm leaving flash- flooding Texas tomorrow morning for damp, dank Lowestoft. I'm told that this year July is forecast to be very, very wet in the UK, so I packed my wellies. It's not so much global warming as global storming.

alice

 

[alice]

Ohh... I just noticed the "worming"... ....too subtle, NT...it went right over my head.

alice

 

[Flyfisher]

Great big massive hailstones in Staffordshire...... )

A few years ago a friend in Maryland (USA) got caught in a hail storm that wrecked some of the panels on his car. It brought the roads to a standstill, with drivers vying to shelter under bridges. He reckoned the hailstones were up to the size of tennis balls, which sounds a bit much to me, but whatever their size they were able to leave small dents all over his car.

 

[biffvernon]

Yeah, they always do things bigger in America.

 

[wobs]

Great big massive hailstones in Staffordshire...... blooming global warming

Not a big suprise. We get more hailstones in summer than any other time of the year.

 

[Penners]

July is forecast to be very, very wet in the UK

Accuracy of weather forecasting:-

24 hours - pretty reliable
48 hours - not bad
5 days - bit of a gamble, but slightly better than nothing
a month - coin-flipping territory

I recommend you do what we Brits are used to doing every summer. Pack your bikini, your raincoat and a couple of sweaters.

 

[skier-hughes]

I recommend you do what we Brits are used to doing every summer. Pack your bikini, your raincoat and a couple of sweaters.

Speak for yourself, but I'll never be packing a bikini :roll:

Graham

 

[Penners]

The world is spared.....

 

[Lime]

I'm leaving flash- flooding Texas tomorrow morning for damp, dank Lowestoft. I'm told that this year July is forecast to be very, very wet in the UK, so I packed my wellies. It's not so much global warming as global storming.

alice

You never want to pay much attention to weather forecasts if you live near the coast, particularly in the East.
I live near the Wash and I think the weather forecast has been right about 5% of the time over the last few months.
I often watch forecasters showing their maps of the weather now with big clouds over my area when I'm basking in bright sunshine coming through the window.
They haven't a clue.
Only if you live near a city, or London in particular, is the forecast likely to be right.

 

[Penners]

I think the weather forecast has been right about 5% of the time over the last few months.
I often watch forecasters showing their maps of the weather now with big clouds over my area when I'm basking in bright sunshine coming through the window.

Exactly the same here in mid-Suffolk. The forecast is always correct nationally, but never anywhere locally.

Work that one out! (or for Alice's benefit - "go figure".)