CNN) -- Hurricane Isabel pushed ashore with winds of 100 mph Thursday, knocking out power to more than half a million homes in North Carolina and Virginia, and dumping heavy rain across hundreds of miles, from South Carolina to New Jersey. The storm made landfall at about 1 p.m. EDT near Drum Inlet, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the National Hurricane Center in Miami,...

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These images were taken at 1800 UTC, facing approximately west from here in Coleraine: http://www.mtullett.plus.com/rays/ -- Mike posted to uk.sci.weather 16/09/2003 18:29:16 UTC Coleraine Seeking information about the Internet and the way it works? - Subscribe to news:uk.net.beginners

I know Metcheck have posted a link to allow comparison of GFS runs for a particular period but only now did I notice that the Wetterzentrale TOP KARTEN site provides a link to an even much more extensive comparison of runs from the past 9 runs for any period T+12 out to T+180. Reference: http://www.gfs-vergleich.at.tf Apologies if this is old news but I obviously missed it!

I've just read that Isabel is unusual because "Very few hurricanes can maintain that intensity" . This, along with the size of it, would anyone care to take a guess to what, if any, influence this will have on the UK weather? Jimmy Osram

I'm gonna be around cambridge over the weekend - anyone fancing guessing (sorry, forcasting ;-) the weather? The BBC only goes up to friday at the moment. cheers Dave.

yep, the 100 days forecast is out at metcheck covering the 25th Dec to the 2nd Jan. it is of course a premium service at which you have to pay a tidy sum each month. Yo! Ho! Ho! the models can't even agree on the next few days, what are they on, must be making money i suppose. it's given me a laugh anyway all we need are the polar bears to make it complete.

I wasn't able to switch on my computer yesterday so I have announced it today. 29.5C on 17 September is certainly the highest temp I have known after the middle of September. I can remember 28C on 20 Sept or thereabouts in 1982. This weather this month must make everyone wonder what we will get in October. I would not be surprised if we had a 27 or 28 in October. After all we had a 38 in...

As at 18/0900GMT, total rainfall Aug/Sep = 14.2 + (3.2) = 17.4mm / ~15% of eLTA (1971-2000): Looking at the Beaufort Park record (since 1971), cannot find a similar pairing of such-named months with less rain. -- Martin Rowley: data via: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather/metindex.htm Bracknell (Wooden Hill/Great Hollands), Berkshire. NGR: SU 854 667 Lat: 51DEG23MIN30SEC(N); Long:...

Morehead City's radar shows Isabel coming ahsore very well. http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/latest/DS.p19r0/si.kmhx.shtml The convection bands can clearly be seen around the eye, especially to the SW. http://www.goes.noaa.gov/ECIR4.html Joe --

I was pleasantly surprised to see the MetO site's archive of hourly obs from about 70 places in the UK has been increased from 7 days to 30 days http://www.metoffice.com/education/archive/uk/ :) Next on my wish list: a wider range of data (such as max/mins) and clickable links to individual station data (like this University of Wyoming METAR page) ...

05:59 18Sep2003 RTRS-FACTBOX-Deadliest, costliest, most powerful storms in U.S. MIAMI, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Hurricane Isabel churned toward the U.S. East coast on Thursday, expected to come ashore in North Carolina on Thursday. The following are the worst hurricanes to hit the United States since 1900, measured in deaths, damage and intensity, according to the National Hurricane Center. ...

Finally getting back in the garden now its cooled down to get some work done. Is it just me that finds it too hot to work in the garden between June and late Auigust? This 'glorious summer' as many describe it was just something to get through, with days on end spent cowering in the shade or in the house. How anyone can think of moving to France I'll never know.

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I was shocked to look out of the window just now, shallow thick fog (dense, really), less than 100 metres visibility at street level but the sky is visible. Temperature 13 deg C, a "warm" fog. Eerie and silent outside, with only a 2 or 3 street lamps visible in any direction. Quite a surprise, dense fog is pretty unusual in these parts, these days. Oh, I see that Southampton A/P METARS have just...

The high resolution satellite loop of "Isabel" is fascinating to watch again today. It is at http://hadar.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/RSOgeflt.html Many of the frames are only min minute apart. There are some strange developments in the low cloud to the SW of the hurricane, just outside the cirrus shield. Wind shear near the centre can be clearly seen from the movement of the...

I thought this may be of interest to some people on this newsgroup http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3100024.stm

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Haven't seen a proper storm this year! Jeremy Taunton / Reading (The two most thunderless towns in Britain)