Very cold tonight and a giant halo around the moon. Quite spectacular.
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"Severe weather warning"
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Zero degrees C in Fife at sea level on the coast this evening!
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Horizon burns red
Finger chill through winter gloves
Rain brings warmth, relaxPosted 9 years ago # -
@chdot, very wet yesterday in Dundee and northeast Fife. I understand the west was a tad soggy too: no change there.
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Uhm... what are they talking about? It's totally dry and the forecast is for more of the same? Where on earth are they suggesting that this is going to be happening?
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"what are they talking about?"
They sent out an alert earlier saying they had withdrawn a warning, but didn't see anything on MO web site!
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Rather foggy this morning...
Well, not foggy between fimm towers and Haymarket. Exceedingly foggy as the train passed Murrayfield. Fog remained all the way to Livingston. However there was no fog at Livingston North station, and my cycle to work was fog-free. The fog has now rolled in around the office.Oh, and there were 5 bikes in the racks at 8:10 this morning. FIVE! I had to share a Sheffield stand. This is unheard of - I'm usually one of the first cyclsts there. What is the world coming to?
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It was a 0.5 degrees start this morning but no fog or ice on the route via Musselburgh
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Just watching a bank of fog rolling past Craig House.
Strange.
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Most weird fog. Clear through Morningside to the canal, then odd condensing fog that turned up like rain on glasses and peak of the helmet.
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There's an inversion out west, with only the very tops of the trees and the communication towers poking out from the top of Corstorphine Hill. It has cleared at the Gyle though, looks like the bank of mist is moving eastwards.
I'm sure it's safe to breathe...
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Fog started wisping between Craigleith and Ravelston, thickening until it smothered Murrayfield as I went over the WoL bridge.
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It's in the papers, it must be true -
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Weather forecasts make grim reading, with the Daily Express's front page predicting "a month of wild storms" as torrential downpours "threaten to dump four weeks' worth of rain by Friday".
The Times is even more pessimistic, reporting that Britain will be "lashed with rain and strong winds over the next two months as storm fronts come in from the west".
However, it's a "Beast from the East" that troubles former BBC forecaster John Kettley. He writes in the Daily Mirror that "winds from Russia could see temperatures fall to -10C (14F) around New Year".
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Medium term forecasting at its best - one says the bad weather will come from the west, the other the north east - bring back Paul the Octopus (or maybe just rely on groundhogs)
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So once we remove all the forecasts that exist to sell newspapers, we're left with:
The Met Office’s six to 30 day forecast warns of heavier than normal rainfall for the next month thanks to a series of stubborn low pressure systems lined up in the Atlantic.
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“Rainfall amounts may well be a little above average, more especially in west or northwestern parts of the UK.”
So maybe a little wetter than average.
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@panyagua exactly the thought that I had in response to @chdot's post, although thank you for following through.
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I get email alerts from ScotRail about problems with trains on my commute.
I've just had an email saying "Due to adverse weather services will be reduced tomorrow" but investigating the ScotRail site gives me nothing and there are no severe weather warnings out, as far as I can see.Does anyone know more, or has ScotRail been hacked?
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They chased it up with a quick "whoops, that was just a test" message.
Service as usual tomorrow.
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I assumed as much, but I didn't get the "oops".
Cheers...Posted 9 years ago # -
Same as Fimm, got the first message but not the oops...
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Found the "Oops" message - in my junk mail folder.
(As someone who tests software for a living, doing something like this would be somewhere between very embarrassing and a bit of a nightmare...)Posted 9 years ago # -
Frost at Edinburgh Park this morning, very chilly. Brrrrrr
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Well perhaps just back to 'normal'
Forecast for tomorrow is full-on rain.
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Oh dear so much for 'forecasting'. Looks like hardly any rain after all! -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2650225
Severe lack of wind though -
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@chdot - I downloaded that site's entire dataset for 2014 and loaded it into a database to run some stats on it. For rainfall, all I can say is that their recording of how much rain has fallen leaves a lot to be desired. They claim that in the first 10 months of the year, around 960mm of rain had already fallen. The average rainfall for the entire year is 700mm... and this year has not been wet. Also, Each month from March to June had allegedly had over 100mm of rain per month, which is again ridiculous as they are typically the driest months of the year (Feb is also super-dry), and again those months this year were not extremely wet.
Therefore, I would take anything they record with a serious pinch of salt.
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Worth having a conversation with them(?)
mviATceh.ac.uk
I've noticed times when rainfall seems to be under-recorded.
Can you get data from other Edinburgh area weather stations?
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Can you get data from other Edinburgh area weather stations?
Don't know, but if you can, it would be sweet. Data munching is sadly something I find enjoyable...
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