http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2010/090710.html It's also now very close to reaching the second-placed year, 2008. http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.recent.arctic.png The eastern Arctic has been looking very swiss-cheesed, particularly north of Svalbard and there's an open area at 87N 160W. Not the first time that's happened, I think it was about four or five years ago...

Hi all I am researching climate at the moment and I was wondering if somebody could point me toward a source of historic charts (North Atlantic, similar to what used to be printed in summarised form in Weather magazine back in the day). Ideally would like to type in a date to get the chart(s) for that day. Many thanks

Hello, This is my first post. I was trying to understand the coupling between the conditions at the surface condition and aloft. So far, I got to the following: - An imbedded short wave disturbs the upper airflow creating cold and warm air advections and intensifying the trough/ridge - The polar jet stream creates areas of convergence aloft (supplying air to the surface high pressure) and...

This is a little bedtime reading for Dawlish (Paul Garvey). Author(s): Riemer M (Riemer, Michael)1,2, Jones SC (Jones, Sarah C.)1,2, Davis CA (Davis, Christopher A.)3 Source: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY Volume: 134 Issue: 630 Pages: 69-91 Part: Part A Published: JAN 2008 Abstract: The interaction of a tropical cyclone undergoing extratropical transition...

Quite a difference between the output at 10 days from the ECM 12z - which models a continuation of the wet and unsettled weather for the UK and the gfs, which has shown 3 successive runs in which a possible anticyclonic influence again has grown with each run. Last night, the JMA was supporting this at T192 and GEM shows high pressure at T240 on the 00z. No more than interesting, but the...

breaking news. bbc and meto have decided to stop issuing daily weather forecasts. according to insiders, weather forecasts will only be issued when the met office think they will be correct. this will leave the public to fend for themselves when forecasts are not issued.

Here is a summary of the latest NWP output for noon (GMT) on Sunday. Issued 0433z, 8/09/10. The southernmost areas of the UK will see settled and warm weather to start next week, with rain further north. The models are split after that: GFS shows the warm, dry weather spreading northwards while MetO and ECM show a trough moving across the UK instead. The far south looks like staying largely dry...

Some very interesting discussion on the programme this morning (still available on iPlayer). Good to hear Prof Sir Brian Hoskins stressing the great uncertainty in future climate predictions. He said that "we" have no idea what will happen to the Indian monsoon in future and very little idea about how many summers like 2003 there will be in Europe in future. He clearly has little time for the...

On 3 Sep, 00:58, Hatunen wrote: On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:46:38 -0700, Meh wrote: On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 19:34:09 -0700 (PDT), kolldata wrote: As you know hurricane name lists are predicted years in advance. As I ALSO know, this is an earthquake newsgroup, not hurricane.

07/0850 Z Sep 10: SSW F3 40KM 1CB015 3AC070 13.4/11.7 Q0998 Rmks: Overnight rainfall 1.2 mm (28.0 mm in last 24 hours.....highest 09-09 total here since 29 Jul 09). Min 9.1, grass min 3.4 C. Andy (near Romansleigh, 200 m)

I understand that the long-predicted move from alpha-numeric codes such as SYNOP is now very imminent. The target date for the end of the use of the SYNOP code is currently 1st Nov 2010. Some countries are struggling to make that date so there may be a bit of slippage. Currently, the Met Office plans to cease the transmission of UK observations in the SYNOP code onto GTS on 1st Nov. -- Norman...

Tuesday 7th September 2010 Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk’s site at 12.00 UTC http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_image/MSG-1200-EUR.jpg Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton’s site at 12.00 UTC http://www.woksat.info/etcsi07m/si07-msg-1200-uk.html NOAA 19 satellite picture from Bernard Burton’s site at 13.15 UTC http://www.woksat.info/etcsi07/si07-1315-b-uk.html

Brussels on Tuesday 7th September 2010 Overcast morning after a wet night. Brief spell of moderate rain around 10.00 local time. Brighter with broken cloud and sunny intervals from early afternoon but cloudy again in the evening. Light S wind in the morning backed SE and then E during the afternoon. Brussels Uccle 20.7°C - overnight minimum 12.2°C - and 16 mm rain Brussels Airport...

"In the spirit of transparency, I was wrong about global temp dropping in August The global temp DID NOT FALL in August as I had predicted it too. Whether this a delay of my idea, or denial will be settled in the spring. In the meantime the .51 was slightly cooler than the .52 in August of 1998 and means this year still trails the warmest satellite year on record, 1998"

heading up past Lochearnhead to Killin and Loch tay

.... in south central France. After a week or more of temps in the high 20s (C), and no appreciable rain since June, looks like a deluge on the way. CK

7 September 2010 Wokingham 0900z 190 04/11kt 15km 3Cu010 6Ci220 +16.3/+13.7 QFF 1000.6 +0.4 in 3hr Total 7 okta RMK 2Ac180 Cu med Period od mod/hvy rain 1715 to 2110z, max rate 17 mm/hr at 1924z. Cloud becoming well broken overnight, with Cb tops to the SW at 06z, and Ci increasing from the SW in the past hour, as well as Cu forming and developing quickly. 09-09 Screen max 20.9 min 11.7 ...