has anybody got any weather summaries for 2003 in Wolverhampton, things like Max temp and what day it was on, max rainfall, total rainfall etc. this for the year as a whole mike

Quite a few anniversaries this year- 2004 and the History of Forecasting 1654 Accademia del Cimento in Florence initiated the first documented system of uniform meteorological observations. 1704 Increase Mather, "The Voice of God in Stormy Winds.” 1804 Admiral Beaufort invented wind force scale. 1854 150th anniversary of the great storm of Balaclava in 1854 that damaged allied ships during...

"TudorHgh" wrote in message ... It is exactly the same paper as used before - it is purchased in advance. Also the same printers. However, such aspects of the journal are always under review. The decision to change format was made by RMS Council with the support of the Weather Board. Thanks for your...

17:56 16Jan2004 RTRS-Cold Canada postmen probed for not delivering mail OTTAWA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Ten Canadian letter carriers who refused to deliver the mail in temperatures hovering around minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit) could be disciplined, officials said on Friday. Canada Post said it was probing why the employees in the city of Hull, in Quebec, had decided...

For many of us that are running the 'older' Davis weather stations, WMII, Wizard, etc, and have agraded to the Weatherlink v5.4 software it maybe useful to know that if you set up and register with Weather Underground you can use the data to it displays to quickly determine monthly max/mins for Barometric pressure. This is one thing that is ommitted from the earlier stations that the Vantage Pro...

News 24 outlook: Cold air threaening from the east midweek. JPG

"Nigel Morgan" wrote in message ... On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 12:44:45 -0000, "Col" inspired by Deep Thought wrote: ............Don't bother looking! http://grads.iges.org/pix/temp4.gif

In the Countryfile forecast, the term "fingers of rain" was mentioned. What the hell is a "finger of rain"? I think he meant to say..."two fingers to rain" :-) Brendan

What are the chances of having a thread in this newsgroup with my name in the subject-line? Brendan ^ a high chance ;) oooops sorry

.............Don't bother looking! http://grads.iges.org/pix/temp4.gif That huge mass of red over Russia is hurting my eyes. Having said that, just recorded my first air frost of the month today at -2.0C. Col

At Waddington :- SPEC M EGXW 171622Z 35014G25KT 7000 -SHRASN FEW009 SCT016CB BKN050 03/01 Q1008 WHT BECMG 9999 NSW FEW015 BLU and a bit earlier at Humberside :- METAR EGNJ 171550Z 02009KT 3500S SHRAGS SCT010 SCT015 BKN030 04/04 Q1007

Here is a summary of the latest NWP output for noon on Thursday. Issued 0653z, 18/01/04. ECMWF: http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Recm1201.html High pressure lies to the SE of the Azores and over Scandinavia, with a trough over England. This leads to WSW'lies for Scotland and Northern Ireland, with NW'lies for SW England and Wales. The winds become westerlies and WNW'lies at T+144 due to a weak...

Rodney Blackall wrote: The December meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society will be an open discussion meeting on: EXTREME WEATHER AND CLIMATE EVENTS snip Rodney, the RMS meetings always seem to have such interesting topics

Looks Like I have been beaten to it. I was in the process of compiling a reply to this topic and many have got there first. I am glad we are all in agreement on this one as obviously a lot of trouble has gone into changing the format of the magazine As a member of the Royal Met Society I have just received the January issue of Weather and I wish to say how good the new format is. It is...

A bit off topic, but interesting. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/ISSAurora/iss_aurora.html is a series of photos of the Aurora taken from the international space station. Interesting to see them from above. Chris

Brussels on Saturday 17 January Bright start but cloudy for much of the morning. Sunny spells alternated with cloudier periods in the afternoon. Slight rain at times in the evening. Moderate WSW wind veered towards north in the evening. Brussels Uccle 5.1°C - overnight minimum 2.3°C. Brussels Airport 6.4°C - overnight minimum 3.6°C - and 0.1 mm rain. Graph ...

MSG-1 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Saturday 17 January http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_image/2004-01-17-1200-eur.jpg NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 10.27 UTC on Saturday 17 January http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/wwp/ma17-1027-b-uk.JPG NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 13.42 UTC on Saturday 17 January

Charts analysed are for T+96 hours - 12Z Wednesday 21st January 2004 unless stated. UKMetO: SLP: http://www.wetterzentrale.com/pics/Rukm961.html High pressure (1025mb) lies over the Azores, with another high (1030mb) over Scandinavia. Low pressure (1000mb) lies over Western Russia and Southeastern Europe, with another low (970mb) well to the west of the UK in the Atlantic. Winds across the...

Cold rain. Don't you just love it! Dave, 21.15hrs, 3.3C

Lots of black ice around Wolverhampton this morning at 7.30am until about 9am, was fairly clear sky when I went out at 8.30am , though fog developed at about 9.15am. Joe