Weather 2016

[stuartbert two hats]

12 minutes ago, warriormonk said:

Yeah the thing is that article is written for those who already know the jargon.

[stuartbert two hats]

1 minute ago, Mezhyp1 said:

yr.no for Shepton Mallet 

Acceptable!

[tjfish]

I'm liking what the predictions are ... if only it stays this way!

[The Nal]

17 minutes ago, SwedgeAntilles said:

I don't want to come over all 'The Nal' 

I don't want you to come all over me either.

No issue with that sort of thing but its not my buzz. 

[devonhammer]

4 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

To be fair, it wasn't my best joke, but at least someone got it 

[jparx]

8 minutes ago, Mezhyp1 said:

yr.no for Shepton Mallet 

I was just looking at that too. If you search for Pilton it looks worse though. Is Shepton Mallet closest?

[SwedgeAntilles]

11 minutes ago, The Nal said:

I don't want you to come all over me either.

No issue with that sort of thing but its not my buzz. 

[big__phil]

12 minutes ago, Mezhyp1 said:

yr.no for Shepton Mallet 

Charge your phone you maniac!

[Mezhyp1]

2 minutes ago, jparx said:

I was just looking at that too. If you search for Pilton it looks worse though. Is Shepton Mallet closest?

There's a few Piltons on it 

http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Pilton~7292387/long.html

this is the right one, it's fairly similar except a light shower on Thursday. I've always just checked it for Shepton Mallet

[General Lee]

They're about a mile apart unless that's a different Pilton

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

Saturday on metcheck looks pretty cataclysmic, or am I reading it wrong?

http://www.metcheck.com/UK/7days.asp?zipcode=Shepton Mallet&locationID=56888&lat=51.2&lon=-2.5&findtype

The rest looks ok though

[nban2010]

14 minutes ago, jparx said:

I was just looking at that too. If you search for Pilton it looks worse though. Is Shepton Mallet closest?

Pilton (the correct one) is the best to look for - or the postcode BA4. 

But there's about one mile in it, so there would only be a difference in forecasts if there was just an isolated small cloud shower, which is probably not even worth talking about.

[richroet]

18 minutes ago, big__phil said:

Charge your phone you maniac!

One of the best posts EVER

[devonhammer]

28 minutes ago, jparx said:

I was just looking at that too. If you search for Pilton it looks worse though. Is Shepton Mallet closest?

Pilton is closest as long as you've got the right Pilton. This is the one: http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Pilton~7292387/long.html

They're not much different really.

[jparx]

...

...yeah I was definitely looking at the wrong Pilton.

Cheers for the responses 

[devonhammer]

Best not to look at the web cam for a while.

[ten2doc]

How is the site holding up at present? 

[bennyhana22]

Just now, devonhammer said:

Best not to look at the web cam for a while.

They're having some...er...weather 

Ben

[richroet]

1 minute ago, bennyhana22 said:

They're having some...er...weather 

Ben

I bit

I looked

Jesus

Better now than in a week though

[alibear]

12 minutes ago, bennyhana22 said:

They're having some...er...weather 

Ben

Christ... 

[jparx]

I've just been for a walk on my lunch break and after relentless rain for the past few days, including a load this morning, the ground was nowhere near as wet as you'd assume. Granted it hasn't had 150,000 people walking on it, but it seems like the ground will dry fairly quickly considering how much rain we've had.

[Junglist1981]

16 minutes ago, alibear said:

Christ... 

That ain't too bad at all, you can still see the tor.

Exposure on that cam is set to look good on bright days, it makes clouds look really moody.

[devonhammer]

18 minutes ago, Junglist1981 said:

That ain't too bad at all, you can still see the tor.

Exposure on that cam is set to look good on bright days, it makes clouds look really moody.

Yep, not too bad now. For a while it looked like someone had smeared the lens with vasoline. On the plus side, this rain was predicted by the same weather models that are predicting it to be largely dry from Saturday, so it's not necessarily a bad thing.

[big__phil]

3 minutes ago, devonhammer said:

Yep, not too bad now. For a while it looked like someone had smeared the lens with vasoline. On the plus side, this rain was predicted by the same weather models that are predicting it to be largely dry from Saturday, so it's not necessarily a bad thing.

The most optimistic view on a downpour I've ever heard. Well done.

When's the next run?

Edited June 15, 2016 by big__phil

[Junglist1981]

2 minutes ago, devonhammer said:

Yep, not too bad now. For a while it looked like someone had smeared the lens with vasoline. On the plus side, this rain was predicted by the same weather models that are predicting it to be largely dry from Saturday, so it's not necessarily a bad thing.

I've only just realised that the image you posted updates every 5 minutes...

Cor the internet eh? Well clever.