The weather where you are NOW!

Good scheme, Andy - I'll go with it. I've added lat+long coords for (somewhere close to) my location (google earth etc. will give you a good idea, but you'll only be within about 200m).

Yesterday (Saturday) started cold & clear, about -4°C. Later, clouded over & warmed up - about +10°C max (at a guess - I've got a project to put a few temp. sensors around - outside, upstairs, downstairs etc) but haven't got it together yet). Bit of very light rain late afternoon.

Now dry, thin cloud, big moon. About 4°C (at a guess).

Re. temperature measurements: my digital thermometer is on loan elsewhere, so I'm down to guessing. Hope to rectify this soon.

Great first post John and that idea with Lat & long is perfect. Thanks for the weather observations too....

For anyone in the UK who does not want to bother to find a nearby lat & long, the postcode does it perfectly. If you do not want to give your post code exactly, just change one of the parameters slightly and check it it on Google earth to push the point up down or left right.

Do not change it too much or you will be in the next county or the north Sea even!!!!

South side of Houston Texas, between Houston and Galveston. Pouring down buckets and about 9C (48 F). Cold nasty rain. This is winter for us. In a few days it will be in the 20's (C) again. I typically have to mow my garden lawn year round...

Lovely day here in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Temperature around 28 degrees C, blowing a warm "Nor'wester" wind from the Southern Alps (Similar to the FÖHN wind in Europe, Chinook in Canada, or Sirocco in North Africa)

A picture of a lake up in the Alps today, would look like this:

Note the typical "Nor'west" arch in the sky.

Kind Regards....

I am jealous of your weather there in sunny NZ. The weather here in Brecksville, OH (USA) is into the late autumn mess of rain/snow mix. Cold enough to make you shivver at -5C in the wee hours, because of the dampness.

My daughter is actually on her way today to a Medical conference in Melbourne Australia. She is stopping in Auckland,NZ on her way home (next week). She has a job offered to her there and is likely moving her family there next year. So maybe I will visit NZ next year. Sure sounds like the place to be during this time of year.

Hi

Local Weather Report for
Bangalore
India

Current Bangalore Weather Conditions Updated Dec 15, 2007 09:00 AM Mostly Cloudy Temperature: 21°C Dew Point: 16°C Barometer: 101.6 kPa Wind: ENE 11 km/h Humidity: 73.1 % Visibility: 6 km Bangalore Weather Forecast Saturday, December 15th, 2007 Saturday Morning Temperature: 20°C Cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Windy at times. Saturday Afternoon Temperature: 22°C A mix of cloud and sun. Windy at times. Saturday Evening Temperature: 20°C Cloudy.how do you like this climate at Bangalore

crm

Nice warm whether here in Sunny South Africa. Up to 38°C.

The previous week we almost had rain every day (almost on Monday, almost on Th.....)

Last week we had rain every day. (10 - 30mm each day)

It is warm but I don't see any sign of global warping!

Thanks for the excellent start, we seem to have in a few entries covered some areas widely separated from another.

Its working even better than I hoped.....update Guys whenever you can.....thanks for the support.

New York City: Sunny but cold. Around 32F, 0C at night and 51F during the day. Suburbs are usually about 5-10 degrees cooler at night. Concrete and asphalt tend to keep the city warmer at night.

Southern Budapest: +5 C, drizzling rain.

Here is the weather for Bangalore India you are welcome to enjoy the plesent weather.

Bangalore
India
Current Bangalore Weather Conditions Updated Nov 26, 2007 11:00 AM Partly Cloudy Temperature: 23°C Dew Point: 11°C Barometer: 102 kPa Wind: ENE 15 km/h Humidity: 46.7 % Visibility: 6KM

crm

Now that is REALLY great weather.

Here in the Frankfurt region it was about 4°C at 08:00 this morning, dry, but for how long I can't say, some blue sky, some black clouds, sunlight doing its best to find the holes between the clouds....

I am in the middle of major renovating of our kitchen, a lot of work for the next 2-3 weeks....UGH!!

BBangalore Weather to day
India
Current Bangalore Weather Conditions Updated Nov 27, 2007 02:30 AM Partly Cloudy Temperature: 20°C Dew Point: 17°C Barometer: 101.7 kPa Wind: ENE 9 km/h Humidity: 82.9 % Visibility: 6 km

Can i be of any use for your Kitchen work

crm

Home: 26°07'34.22" S; 27°55'57.30" E; Elevation 1581m

Work: 25°46'10.37" S; 28°07'50.65" E; Elevation 1400m

South Africa (Gauteng Province) today is overcast not cold but cool (temperature around 17°C = 62.6°F). We should have rain during the afternoon.

Weekend past was really pleasant, sunny days with showers late afternoon to cool down. Past week had above average rain, so the plants in my garden are taking over.

TC

Here is weather in a nut shell in Silicon Valley...

Spring is nice about 70° and no clouds to speak of. Summer is nice about 70° and no clouds to speak of. Autumn is nice about 70° and no clouds to speak of. Winter is the rainy season - cold, about 50° to 60° degrees (F). and that's about it.

There's like only one other country that has our weather pattern and it's in the Mediterranean. But that why everyone wants to live here!!!

The Mediterranean is not a country, its a salt water Sea!

Furthermore, contrary to what you may have been told, they have very definite seasons and although snow is seldom, it does actually happen from time to time, the palm trees hate it!!!

Spring in most of the countries attached to the Europe side (Satellite Picture of Med) is full of green grass and wild flowers, which give way to dry summers (mostly) with brown grass as far as the eye can see where no other water supplies (rivers, streams and lakes etc) are available till the end of September, when it cools down and is most pleasant. I prefer late spring personally.....but rain can be a bother till the middle of June sometimes.

You only have to watch the F1 race in Monaco (May each year) to realize just how much rain can fall in the Med area when it wishes too....!!

In north Africa and the middle east, it is much drier and as you can see from the Sat picture, much less green area....of course a picture taken in late summer, would not show the differences quite so great between either side I am sure!

I agree with you completely though that the med is a great place to live, we try and visit it at least once a year.....

.....but the weather is not boring if you know it well! Come and visit, you will really like it I am sure....

Hi Andy.

Here where I am at 11.04 in Sedgley (DY3 3XP), just west of Birmingham it is 8C outside with no wind. This is really warm here for the time of the year.

Spencer.

Hi Scapolie,

Have some relatives in Sedgley on Gospel End Road. Visited then some years ago. Enjoyed the Black Country Museum.

OK, let me be more specific... I am talking about the San Francisco Bay Area. If you have an atlas that has weather pattern graphs, you'll see that our weather is almost unique.

Most places get snow in the winter, spring is a crap-shoot, summer is the rainy season, and fall is usually mild. That ain't how it goes here. And as far as the Mediterranean, there's some place on the coast of Italy (I think) that has seasons like ours. Very few other places do.

Thats about right, even SF & the more southerly parts of the UK have a not too dissimilar weather in my experience to each other....west coast of a large landmass in the northern hemisphere (same planet), they should have a few similarities.....

If you're in the bay area, does that mean you could be hiding out on Alcatraz vermin ? Do they still have Pelicans , I heard the name was derived from that.

I am biding my time on this thread. Apart from anything else the batteries in my electronic weather station gadget need replacing so I can't specify daily temperature at the moment. It's German built, and I think preset for Frankfurt (where it also gets it's time signal from), though it is full adjustable for most European Countries and cities. The annoying bit is having to check local air-pressure when setting it ( I check with a mate who has an old style barometer. The thing is reasonably good at forecasting, except it sometimes looses contact with the outside sensor. Setting an exact barometric pressure is not too crucial ( I think) since it's the change in pressure that helps determine weather forecast. If only Del had thought to set a 'backyard oil drum barometer contest' !

Our weather has been cold the past few weeks (just over zero at night), but is warmer today and raining. Nearest town is sort of Ashford/Canterbury/Folkestone triangle ( Ok, SE Kent sounds clearer).

I'll report more when I've invested in some batteries.

Nice area, we visit relatively often as I have relatives in Dover & Ramsgate...

What do you guys talk about??

"Weather's a bit nice again, today, then ..."

Thats for you to decide, the Weather is only an "Ice Breaker" so to say, no more, no less. Maybe I did not explain that part as well as I should have, sorry....

Also from me personally, NOTHING will be considered "off topic", you can go as far "off topic" as you wish (if that makes sense?) as long as it does not have politics in any way shape or form......!

All are welcome, even Democrats and labour voters..... Joke Guys, only a Joke!!! Don't be so sensitive!!!

No. Our stock options.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=1492

Brrrrrrrrrrr!

As post #28, but 1 or 2°C warmer.

Brrrrrrr!

PW, I notice your windspeed drops to 0 this pm - don't see that too often in the UK!

(Hey, this is my 500!)

There's probably an icy blast in the Trossachs. Ask Scapolie!

Here in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, it appears that we have started winter in earnest. After our wonderful Roughriders won the Grey Cup on Sunday (Canadian football - only the best - Grey Cup is our national championship), Mother Nature must have figured that it was time to get cold. Our high temperatures this week are forecast to be about -17 degrees Celsius, with lows at night below -25 degrees Celsius. The windchill during the day can take it down to the equivalent of night-time temperatures as well. As I look out my window right now (10:12am), it has started snowing (My children the snow shovellers will be thrilled - Not!) and the sky is a lovely whitish grey giving no visibility further away than a couple of blocks. The great thing is - this is just a start. We can expect much colder weather in the months to come. By the way - the cold doesn't dampen the spirits of Roughrider fans. After the game on Sunday evening, people bundled up their children (except for the one guy who stripped down to his underwear) just to go out and stand on the streets cheering and waving flags. Thousands waited hours outside to greet the team when they arrived home yesterday in Regina, and the streets will be lined with the same fans today for the victory parade. Only in Saskatchewan, you say? We are crazy!

Many thanks for the updates but don't forget, you can talk about anything except politics.....only that will be considered "off Topic", by me at least.....

(Not forgetting of course things like which Racism, child pornography and such, we also do not want, but you Guys know that already.....that was just in case Del wanted to know for certain......!)

OK, here's anything except politics... Emailed to me with a request to share.

A DIFFERENT TYPE OF CHRISTMAS POEM
>
>
> >
> > The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
> > I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
> > My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
> > My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
> > Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
> > Transforming the yard to a winter delight.
> > The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
> > Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.
> > My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
> > Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
> > In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
> > So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.
> >
> > The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,
> > But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.
> > Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know, Then the
> > sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.
> > My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
> > And I crept to the door just to see who was near.
> > Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
> > A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.
> >
> > A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
> > Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.
> > Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
> > Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.
> > "What are you doing?" I asked without fear,
> > "Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!
> > Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
> > You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"
> >
> > For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
> > Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts..
> > To the window that danced with a warm fire's light
> > Then he sighed and he said "Its really all right,
> > I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night."
> > "It's my duty to stand at the front of the line,
> > That separates you from the darkest of times.
> > No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
> > I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
> > My Gramps died at ' Pearl on a day in December,"
> > Then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."
> > My dad stood his watch in the jungles of ' Nam ',
> > And now it is my turn and so, here I am.
> > I've not seen my own son in more than a while,
> > But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.
> >
> > Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
> > The red, white, and blue... an American flag.
> > I can live through the cold and the being alone,
> > Away from my family, my house and my home.
> > I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
> > I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
> > I can carry the weight of killing another,
> > Or lay down my life with my sister and brother..
> > Who stand at the front against any and all,
> > To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall."
> > "So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright,
> > Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."
> > "But isn't there something I can do, at the least,
> > "Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?
> > It seems all too little for all that you've done,
> > For being away from your wife and your son."
> > Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
> > "Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
> > To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,
> > To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
> > For when we come home, either standing or dead,
> > To know you remember we fought and we bled.
> > Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
> > That we mattered to you as you mattered to us."
> >
> > PLEASE, Would you do me the kind favor of sending this to as many
> people as you can? Christmas will be coming soon and some credit is due to
> our U.S.service men and women for our being able to celebrate these
> festivities. Let's try in this small way to pay a tiny bit of what we owe.
> Make people stop and think of our heroes, living and dead, who sacrificed
> themselves for us.
> >
> > LCDR Jeff Giles, SC, USN
> > 30t h Naval Construction Regiment
> > OIC, Logistics Cell One
> > Al Taqqadum , Iraq.
> >

Nice one.

You are right it is nice. I have some American friends that are based here at Lakenheath and Mildenhall. I sent it through to them as I am sure they will like it too.

Hi Andy,

Nice topic. I would open Panora's box by observing how meteorologists nowadays are screwing up the forecast, even the short term one (12-24 hours). It seems this industry has one of the lowest outcome/investment ratio. What are those satellites, radars, supercomputers, etc. for? Maybe we should go back to the native peoples who's culture is based on being highly connected to Nature. Wouldn't be nice to hear the weather guy on TV saying: "Chief X said will snow next week for sure up to a deer knee because the hawk moved its nest one foot higher." I would take this more seriously than all those maps, charts and photos...

You have basically just pointed out part of the reason for this Blog!

I watch a few different weather forecasts from different stations some days, you would think that each one is reporting for a different planet most of the time, they hardly ever agree!!

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows..."

Here, Crystal River, Florida (West - Gulf of Mexico side, about 70 miles N of Tampa), it is 1500 hours EST, 77 F, wind SSW 14 mph, mostly cloudy. Current highest U.S. temperature is 88 F at Plant City, Florida, which is something like 100 miles away, giving an idea of just how different it can be in even relatively small areas. There's a cool low front moving NNE across the Gulf that could bring us 20 F cooler if it moves inland, but so far it's staying some 100 miles offshore up to the Panhandle (that part of FL that points west across the north side of the Gulf).

Maybe we should understand the climate change as weather change from one TV station to another?

Thats a fresh slant on an old problem!

Maybe we should take the change(s) of clothes with us for each possible weather pattern!

You're sooo right! I'm still looking for a tornado-proof hat.

Let us not forget that old standby, the bear fat barometer!!!

How does that work???

It's a big glob of partially liquefied bear fat in a mason jar. As the pressure changes, more or less fat comes in or out of solution.

UGH !!!

Is that the result after a Bear went for Liposuction? (or whatever they call that gruesome method of making fat ladies slimmer!)

Is it anything like the seaweed hygrometer?

Kingston, New York

Winter is slowly creeping in it seems slower and slower each year. Some freezing rain this morning which quickly melted away as the afternoon hit near 45^oF. We have had a few freezing days and I personally am hoping for a white christmas.

I would have imagined (maybe wrongly) that most years you get your wish......

My wood is damp!

My fire isn't burning so well.

Me is cold.

Me needs to drain the air out of the radiators! Darn.

...bleed?

... no, that's what happens when it's so damned cold you can't hold the key properly, and your knuckles get that nasty little bit where they missed the "no sharp edges" instruction on the radiator manufacturing drawing .

Been there. Done it. Got the T-shirt.....

Current Conditions for: Kiefer, OK (74041)

Mostly Cloudy

38F

Tomorrows Sunrise Sunset
7:12 AM / 5:11 PM Temperature: 38F Feels like: 38F Humidity: 84% Dew Point: 33F Wind: 1 mph NNE UV Index: 0Low Visibility: 9.0 mi Pressure: 30.38 in and steady Sunrise: 7:12 AM Sunset: 5:11 PM Observed 11/26/07 10:00 PM CST

Taken from Weather Pulse display. Weather Pulse is a program you can download and it places in your system tray the temperature and an icon repesenting sky conditions. Conditions are taken from the nearest ASOS (Automated Surface Observation System) station. In my case, that is the R. L Jones (Riverside) Airport, about 7 1/4 miles to my northeast.

When you click on the temp, a window opens up and you can choose a display of Current Conditions, 10 Hour Forecast, Detailed Forecast, Hourly Forecast, Weather Images, or Alerts. Forecasts come from The Weather Channel. I have the weather image set to a satellite/radar animation of the contiguous US.

I also have NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Adminstration) Weather Radio frequencies in the memories of all my ham radios. The weather folder in my Favorites (bookmarks) list has 12 links.

If I could afford a home weather station, I'd give you the conditions at my house.

I am a Skywarn storm spotter and storm chaser wannabe.

Hello Kiefer, I can recognize the problem with no money and the interest for weather in general, but I cant say that I have radio freq. and weatherlinks on my pc. Even so, I have made an anemometer from scratch, that is the small dc-motor of an portable cdplayer, a bad cd, 3 plastic cups for to put soap into a washingmashine (UV and acid resistable), some universal glue, a poor VU-meter from an old tapedeck and a 56k modem (the casing), all good stuff I dont use anymore. Calibration is out of the window, when I drive my car at exactly 72 km/h, (20m/s) in calm weather, then watch the reading. I will try to make an electronic windvane to tell the direction of the wind, but it seems a bit hard though. Check www.otherpower.com for other ideas.

Here(thats Denmark, northern Jutland) we've had some nice freezing cool, clear days, with no wind and a nice moon at night. But we'll get rain and wind the next 5 days, so they say in the forecast. Temps at 5C, winds W 5-10 m/s

Thats my first on this forum, have a nice day everybody!

moe

Hi, Moe,

Nice to hear from you.

You've got some good ideas there, with home-brew weather sensors. Any chance you could post a photo or two?

Here it's cold-ish (about 7°C at a guess - must get my thermometer back!), dry but overcast. Not much wind. Lots of horrible drizzly rain earlier today.

Regards, John

A few questions to people in the north.

Don't you save daylight time in summer to be used in winter?

Don't you have global warming?

Oh drat, I knew I forgot something. Yes we do save daylight during the summer to use in the winter, but I got so busy goofing off this past summer, I clean plumb forgot to close the vault each day at dusk, All the sunbeams escaped during the night while I wasn't looking and now I'm stuck with whatever drops out of the sky this winter.

As for global warming, It seems to get warmer in the summer and colder in the winter. But I can only speak for where I am as I don't know how warm it is THERE. (Where do I mean by THERE? Well, obviously anywhere but HERE.) It is now 7:34PM Mountain Time. At 40^o 31' 59.90" N 112^o 00' 48.74" W Give or take .78M Where my butt is planted just now. The temperature is -4.1^o C The official Temperature at this moment in our town is 3.9^o Colder. In warmish weather the official temperature is a few degrees warmer than where I am. The sensors are located between the Southbound and Northbound Lanes of the Interstate Highway about 19.7 miles NE of my butt. It is in the middle of a desert away from the trees and bushes which surround my oasis.

Oh, and by the way is that spelled bum in the UK?

<Oh, and by the way is that spelled bum in the UK?>

'Kris' has a very useful glossary for translating between English and American.

Here is what it is right now at Over here (Montreal, QC, CANADA).

BRRRRR !

Visiting the Toronto Canada area. Currently -1 C where I am with occasional snow flurries.

At the sound of the beep the temperature in Laughlin, Nevada will be 57 degrees fahrenheit. BEEP!

Last weekend over Thanksgiving, I was in Cancun, Mexico. I want to go back! It's 80 there, which is about my low limit.

My Family Crest is (or should be) a lizard!

Beautifully clear sky (or it would be without the light & car pollution). Very light wind. A few degrees above freezing now - may go lower if it keeps clear.

23:00 GMT

Global cooling stepped in. Max yesterday was 19°C. Today 13 - 22°C.

Cool for the southern hemisphere.

Near Cabo de Gata, South East corner of Spain! well it started a bit nippy until about ten o'clock (Where does the o' in o'clock come from?) then the sun started warming up until the long sleeves came off and the thin teeshirt want on! Think it was about 24^oC, no clouds, no rain, no snow, no wind, no problem, I've got firewood for the cold nights, maybe down to 7-8^oC! And I'm still wearing dark glasses!!

o' is for "of the".

Mild here for the end of November - about 13°C. Overcast with light rain. Wind picking up - about 4 (Beaufort).

Old English " Of the clock"....

Hi Andy.

The weathere in the West Midlands at the moment, 12:15, 1-11-07, is slightly overcast and 8C. Usually at this time of the year we have cold and wet weather, november has been unusually dry this year but now the longrange forcast is for a wet and cold december.

Spencer.

That's because your future is so bright!

Cool (about 5 or 6°C), dry now, but heavy showers earlier. Wind about 3, gusting 5.

Newspapers warn of impending storm.

Hi JohnDG.

Here in the West Midlands we had that storm last night, it was raining so heavily that it kept me awake for some time. As for the wind, well it blew and it blew for a good 4hrs. At the moment, 11:10, 2-12-02 there is sunshine and complete calm.

Spencer.

Hi, Spencer,

It didn't get this far - not much of it, anyway.

Wet earlier this morning - dried up now. About 10 - 12°C, wind about 2 - 3. Bright, with clouds moving rapidly due south.

Here is our local weather...

Little tidily-bumps run about, while rude jellies wobble, and goony-birds still protect their nests. People are wearing coats and little else to impress the local police. Robbers are using space heaters, and are therefore, far less effective than they normally would be. Sea captains are saying, "Arg!" a lot, and parsons are clutching their robes instead of good looking young men.