is it me or have the MO broadcast forecasters started (recently) talking about rainfall in terms of cm's and not mm's? Jay Winn did the other night. I think it is a terrible idea to introduce another metric into a confused public who have either an inches or mm mindset. That said we had 0.0208788 meters of rain overnight last night, which came as a surprise.

Missed most of the report, but damage reported to houses at Bircotes, south of Donny. -- David Mitchell, 70m amsl, Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire.

Afternoon all. Hearing about the phenomenal rainfall in recent weeks on the BBC World Service, and on Public Broadcasting radio news, and then on the latter, news about the Federal government handing out large amounts of dollars to highly profitable big farming businesses and less so to the small farmers if I understood it right, by an association of ideas I fell to wondering how the rain and...

0850z WSW F3-4 50km 3Cu020 17.4/11.8 1015.0 RMK: Cu hum/med. Also 2Ci. 09-09: Tx 21.2 Tn 10.6 Tg 7.7 RR 0.0 sss 9.8 Philip Eden Whipsnade 214m

Are there any interesting correlations between wet summers, and the weather of the following autumns/winters? OK, so I'm fishing here... :) -- Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fsavneur.html I know it's 8 days off but that's near enough to at least keep an eye on..... -- Col Bolton, Lancashire 160m asl

I don't especially want to appear very thick. But it's late and I just can't get my head around what this is about: If T = screen (air) temperature and Td = air-mass dewpoint (degC), then base of Cu (in feet) = * 410 .... sufficiently accurate to use 400: i.e. (difference T-Td) * (4) * (100) base of Cu (in metres) = * 125 .... sufficiently accurate to use 120: i.e. (difference T-Td) * (12) *

I'm without my usual Internet connection today, hence this shorter analysis. Here is a summary of the latest NWP output for noon on Wednesday. Issued 0525z, 28th July 2007. The latter half of the week still looks settled and warm over England and Wales, with more in the way of cloud and a risk of rain for Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Without meaning to windup anyone that has been affected by the recent floods (they have my sincere wishes of a speedy return to normality), I've been looking at the Met Office's England & Wales rainfall series and, 2007 may well turn out NOT to be the wettest July since 1914. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/seriesstatistics/ewrain.txt Here are the top 10 wettest July's since...

26mm since 0930 today here. Radar shows heavy rain to the Southwest down to Gloucester and Severn Valley. JT Dorridge Solihull

Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Friday 27th July http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_image/METEOSAT-8-1200-EUR.jpg NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.59 UTC on Friday 27th July http://www.woksat.info/etcpg27/pg27-1259-b-uk.html Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on Friday 27th July

Brussels on Friday 27th July Sunshine and variable Cu - tending to Sc later in the afternoon. Moderate WSW wind. Brussels Uccle 22.6°C - overnight minimum 14.1°C - and 3 mm rain from late evening showers on Thursday. Brussels Airport 22.8°C - overnight minimum 14.1°C - and 3 mm. Graph http://193.190.137.7/~celinair/maps/metevol_ok/metr012.gif

27 July 2007 Wokingham 0900z 240 10/18kt 35km 4Cu024 +17.8/+11.6 QFF 1011.9 +1.2 in 3hr RMK 1Sc030 1Sc060 1Ci280 Cu hum Total cloud 5 oktas. Dry since yesterday afternoon. 09-09 Max 18.4 Min 12.8 Grass min 10.4 Rain 5.2 Sun (00-24) 1.0 --

Chalfont St Giles - Friday 27th July 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------ 0530z SW F2-3 15km 1St005 3Sc035 12.4/10.7 1009 RMK: A fine morning. Norman. (delete "thisbit" twice to e-mail) --

0850z SW F4-5 50km 3Cu016 17.4/13.1 1011.2 RMK: Cu hum/med. Also 1Ac and 1Ci. Quite a breezy morning again. 09-09: Tx 17.6 Tn 12.1 Tg 10.2 RR 9.0 sss 1.1 Philip Eden Whipsnade 214m

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/6917167.stm "A mini-tornado was seen sweeping across part of an island in the Western Isles." Grrrrr. Jim -- Find me at http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk

I'm without my usual Internet connection today, hence this shorter analysis. Here is a summary of the latest NWP output for noon on Tuesday. Issued 0525z, 27th July 2007. A north/south split looks likely for the middle of next week, with high pressure bringing dry and warm conditions to much of England and Wales. Elsewhere there's likely to be more cloud and a greater risk of rain. ECMWF:...

Looking at the new where some had been hit by 3 times the normal monthly rainfall falling in one day, I heard one victim complaining that the local council were not helping him. As if council members and their workforce were not stretched to the limit / in the same boat (so to speak.) It is the worst peacetime disaster that emergency services have had to deal with. (According to C4 news.) Heavy...

Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Thursday 26th July http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_image/METEOSAT-8-1200-EUR.jpg NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.08 UTC on Thursday 26th July http://www.woksat.info/etcpg26/pg26-1308-b-uk.html Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on Thursday 26th July

Brussels on Thursday 26th July Bright for much of the morning - breaks in the cloud and some sunshine at first. Cloudy and eventually overcast in the afternoon - slight rain for a few minutes around 18.00 local time. Cloud broke quickly after that with sunshine at times in the evening. Shower at 22.00. Moderate SSW to SW wind. Brussels Uccle 22.4°C - overnight minimum 16.4°C. Brussels...