For anyone who missed this story, the largest ice shelf in the Arctic (the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf) has fractured, releasing all the water from the freshwater lake it dammed. Fortunately for us, it's far away in NW Greenland. Otherwise, perhaps the release of fresh water over the last three years would have had adverse implications for the North Atlantic...

Overnight snow settling above 350 metres, thick above 1000 metres. Current (0640z) weather, temp. +3.4C, wind NW F2-3. Phil. From the Kyle of Sutherland - 175 feet AMSL (40 miles north of Inverness)

Saturday 20 September to Friday 26 September "This looks like a week when the rains will finally get to the far southeast of the country as the ridge of high pressure slips away to allow low pressure to move in and dominate the weather" http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/30day.shtml The Bill Giles Outlook: Has he got it wrong again? I think perhaps yes he has. How unsurprising. Send your...

I finally installed a La Crosse 2300 rigged up a week or so ago. Today was the first measured rainfall so I thought I'd post some values for comparison.. For 21st Sept Min temp = 10.5 Max temp = 25.5 For 22nd Sept

For us peopel that look forward to the autumnal wind'n waves yesterday was most interesting see below copied from a weather section on a windsurfing / kite forum. "Well as we alluded to first thing this morning, - we did advise on getting out early before wind backs around to the NW - and never have I quite seen it do it with such avengance!!! I was driving along the seafront (16:40) at...

Hi All On the weather forecast at 7pm, the MO are saying that central england may get an air frost with temps down to 0c tomorrow night. If this happen would it be the earliest air frost for the midlands? Joe Wolverhampton

Here is a summary of the latest NWP output, for noon (GMT) on Saturday. Issued 0559z, 23/09/03. ECMWF: http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Recm1201.gif A ridge covers the UK, bringing light easterlies for southern England and light northerlies elsewhere. The ridge declines over the UK at T+144, although a small low over Brest brings moderate easterlies to southern England and Wales. By T+168 the...

Amazing drop in temperature here as the rain moved in. About 5 minutes ago the thermometer was recording a warm 19.8c, now it is showing 13.6c. A drop of 6.2c. Heavy rain has started to set in and it's gone very dark. Barometer showing 998 mb. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.520 / Virus Database: 318 - Release...

A few screen grabs from the BBC SW report last Monday. http://www.metbrief.com/exeter/exeter.html Hopefully the BBC won't wind :-) Jon.

Cold front also went through here at Wokingham at 1450 GMT. Really spectacular cloudscape, with a very sharp dividing line between the SW'lies and NW'lies evident in the lower clouds. Temperature dropped from around 20C to 12C in 15 mins. It seems a long time since we had such an active cold front here. -- Bernard Burton Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

Just noticed on the Lapland traffic cameras some white stuff http://www.tiehallinto.fi/alk/english/kelikamerat/kamera-LR.html Chris Kempston, Bedford --

Hi, our local weatherman Paul Hudson, tonight, showed us the weather forecast for the next 3 days, and the high pressure that should have been here over the weekend is or will be here for the next 3 days. So we will be in for some dry settled weather, but cooler at nights now.....down to 5C tonight apparantley. Time to get the hot water bottle out! Cheers Bob H

The council have lost their minds they have just gritted the local main road here in Sheffield. Although skys are clear I suspect they are just testing equipment.

Just in case you've forgotten what they look like... single cells in deep cold air. It's all set to fizzle out again for a little while... Facing South: http://82.39.122.1/Images/i1spy0332.jpg http://82.39.122.1/Images/i1spy0333.jpg ten minutes later Facing North:

As the sun crossed to the south of the equator today a cold front brought the first proper rain since July. It was very warm this morning but as the season change the front cleared south and temperature have dropped significantly. The continent will be cooling off now so the only chance of seeing warm air again this year would be a southerly.

Beautiful double rainbow over Wokingham around 6.30pm today. The perfect backdrop to take your mind off the *terrible* train service. -- +-------------------------------------------------+ | Nick Humphries, , Reading, UK | | Little Fluffy Clouds (timelapse MPEGs + webcam) | | http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/webcam.htm | +-------------------------------------------------+

Data Z Temp Rain Press 12:00 18.7 0 1002.7 13:00 18.2 0.5 1002 14:00 18.4 0 1001.6 15:00 17 2.3 1001.5 16:00 14.9 1 1003.8 17:00 10.5 1 1004.8 18:00 9.6 0.5 1005.6

A sleepless night ahead for some on the NG. The dreaded "m*ni tornado" was mentioned on the BBC just before 7.00 pm weather forecast! Dave

Wind is picking up and what looks to be a lower based cloud ahead of very black skies, and also the black clouds at the back seem to be going different directions. Perhaps this is the cold air overriding the warm air? Very heavy rain looks to be affecting this region soon! se england

Well, the cold front made its presence felt here in Leysdown, north Kent. All times GMT: 1622 20.9C Big gust of wind - the action starts :) 1623 19.4C 1624 18.6C 18.2C 1625 17.9C 17.6C Rain started