Weather thread 2010

[deschwah]

1013.25 millibars are 1 atmosphere i beleive

so above that is generally good and below is bad

[Langdale Wolf]

Pampers per hour scale is genius!! It's going to be off the scale this time in 2 weeks!!

[ukslim]

Technically it's all relative to the surrounding pressure. If you think of it as height measurements then you want to be at the top of the hill. If you're in a dip, that's bad. Typically in the UK over 1000 is good, under 1000 is bad, but the main thing is top of the hill, so that map is very good.

[3puddings]

Ha ha! That's another scale we can eagerly await then...

LW's sig PPH scale!! Love it!!

[devonhammer]

Because water flows downhill and settles in the dips, right?

[Magma]

MetCheck are definitely my friends today.

Almost moving into real weather gossip range... is anyone else harking back to GlastoWeatherWatch? Or is he around again this year?

Found my wellies last night... being prepared this early must be good encouragement for the sun.

I'm the most rational, sceptical person all year round... but this has me in superstitious overdrive!

Edit: 666 posts. I might stop talking forever now!

Edited June 8, 2010 by Magma

[Bernsville]

++++WEATHER UPDATE++++

Attention Campervanners, and travellers! Metcheck's 2 week forecast says Tuesday 22nd June will be......

GOOD!!!!!

Jizz in pants good news

BA4 is Pilton and Shepton Mallets postcode.

[devonhammer]

MetCheck are definitely my friends today.

Almost moving into real weather gossip range... is anyone else harking back to GlastoWeatherWatch? Or is he around again this year?

Found my wellies last night... being prepared this early must be good encouragement for the sun.

I'm the most rational, sceptical person all year round... but this has me in superstitious overdrive!

[Langdale Wolf]

This is almost too promising.

I'm not sure I like this. Too good to be true and all that. I need a slap. I'm letting the side down. Help me!!!!

[ampersand]

rain whilst setting up our tents? boo!

[devonhammer]

This is almost too promising.

I'm not sure I like this. Too good to be true and all that. I need a slap. I'm letting the side down. Help me!!!!

[Filthy]

I'm worried too, I can't help feeling

[sprocketrocket]

What is wrong with you people. Snap out of it. This is no trap. Its the weather we've been working so hard to create. Our sacrifices are making the rain gods happy and they are rewarding us.

[Langdale Wolf]

Pull yourself together man! Imagine if the troops see you like this. You're our leader and with your inspiration we can win this.

[devonhammer]

Stop all this worrying.

It's a well known fact, that I made up, that weather goes in 34 year cycles, therefore I can accurately predict that the weather will be like this.

[nina3d]

high pressure = no cloud so all that sky stuff is on your head thus increasing pressure

[Josepipe]

Thanks, comrade.

<picks up shield>

TO WARRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shiveringsky]

Oh no, you've awakened my inner weather-geek.

Air flows from highs to lows because of the pressure difference. If warm air flows (from the high) hit cool air they will rise above it (a front) which causes the air to cool (which reduces its ability to hold moisture) and it rains.

I would be willing to run a short field lesson, except the only time I have off work in the near future will be high pressure.

I'll get my coat

[Langdale Wolf]

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight the r**n,

we shall fight r**n on the seas and oceans,

we shall fight r**n with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Glastonbury, whatever the cost may be,

we shall fight r**n on the beaches (flagtopia),

we shall fight r**n on the landing grounds (car parks),

we shall fight in the fields and in the streets (main drag),

we shall fight in the hills (stone circle);

we shall never surrender!

[3puddings]

What is wrong with you people. Snap out of it. This is no trap. Its the weather we've been working so hard to create. Our sacrifices are making the rain gods happy and they are rewarding us.

[devonhammer]

I'd take 60 kicks in the knackers if it meant a dry Glastonbury.

[Guest blackcockerel]

No, one kick to each sixty times would result in a 2005-style downpour. That's what happened back then, it was all my knackers' fault.

[Buddhafish]

++++WEATHER UPDATE++++

Attention Campervanners, and travellers! Metcheck's 2 week forecast says Tuesday 22nd June will be......

GOOD!!!!!

Jizz in pants good news

BA4 is Pilton and Shepton Mallets postcode.

[Cooter]

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight the r**n,

we shall fight r**n on the seas and oceans,

we shall fight r**n with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Glastonbury, whatever the cost may be, (soggy spliffs and trenchfoot)

we shall fight r**n on the beaches (flagtopia),

we shall fight r**n on the landing grounds (car parks),

we shall fight in the fields and in the streets (main drag),

we shall fight in the hills (stone circle);

we shall never surrender!

Edited June 8, 2010 by Cooter

[devonhammer]

Yes but Metcheck are about as reliable as, well, the weather. Which puts them into some kind or vortex that I don't really understand. Anyway, it's Metcheck, it'll show snowstorms by day tomorrow, with typhoons in the evening and squalls of frogs by night.

I trust Jackone. He knows.

As a side note, my Dad always gets the sun when he decides to go on holiday, without fail. He told me today he's away during Glasto, in Wiltshire. So that seals it for me. It's going to be a scorcher.