A Gower Guy

http://aim.hamptonu.edu/ The AIM satellite mission will explore Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMCs), also called noctilucent clouds, to find out why they form and why they are changing. http://aim.hamptonu.edu/outreach/index.html, mission summary page, also shows the instruments used (click next on for-mentioned page)

mainly cloudy with brief heavy downpours, 12.5°c

Friday 12th May 2006: Dry and sunny start, more cloud than yesterday and generally medium to high level, had a heavy shower (in terms of rain drops) around 4pm and it has been threatening to do so again since. today was again the warmest day of the year, and was recorded early in the afternoon. Highs today of 22.4°c, min overnight of 10.8°c

Thursday 11th May Mainly sunny with an early evening thunderstorm to the west producing nothing more than a few rumbles, highs today were 21.8°c, which is my highest this year so far.

Wednesday 10th May The day was generally sunny and warm around 19°c howeve an omonus storm cloud appeared after 7pm and herolded an evening to remember. What an evening it was, just before 9pm the activity really kicked off, with some lightning and odd rumbles of thunder, with almost perfect visibility (no low cloud or rain clouds sweeping over the landscape) the lightning was great and nearly every one was visible, although we did get a power surge just before 10 (possibly storm related?). Not much rain around here although what we did get made it breezy, the storm seemed to fizzle away after coming overhead around 10:30pm, but it was interesting seeing the lightning get closer and closer as it moved over Swansea. A BBC report on the storms across south wales http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4760693.stm (above plus pictures and other storm memories will appear on my site soon)

Now: as above but showers imminent Today: Dry and sunny start, more cloud than yesterday and generally medium to high level, had a heavy shower (in terms of rain drops) around 4pm and it has been threatening to do so again since. Highs today of 22.4°c, again the warmest day of the year, that was an early afternoon high.

clouds and few sunny spells after earlier shower, 17.1°c [81%]

sunny with a lot of cloud 22.0°c

Hazy sunny spells, feels warm 18.2°c

Now: sunny spells with some distant rumbles 18.0°c Today: Mainly sunny with an early evening thunderstorm to the west producing nothing more than a few rumbles, highs today were 21.8°c, which is my highest this year so far.

rumbles of thunder to the west of Swansea (county)

Sunny, towering clouds to N/S, but miles away, 21.3°c [67%]

sunny spells, cloud build-up to the north, 18.4°c [71%]

got followed (chased :blush: ) around the garden by a wasp ealier on, one of the negitives of summer :unsure: for me.

After the storms last evening, today has started dry and sunny 15.1°c

Thunder heard,

18.9°c, sunny spells with clouds building to the north and east

Doesn't look bad, quite good for basic weather recordings, by looking at the specs.

Hazy sunny spells with temperatures around 17.2°c [82%]

Started foggy this morning, was still fairly misty an hour ago, bright spells at present with temperatures of 13.0°c [96%]

Bright spells with large amount of cloud, 15.6°c [85%]

Seen a few wasps but only recently, two were trying to get into the shed, by trying to get into a screw hole and there was a baby one (it was small) on the window. This is the first year for a while that i've seen a bee before a wasp. I'm dreading it when the y get in the house though

Brightening up, cool 12.1°c

after a fairly sunny day, it's now rather cloudy, 15.2°c

Hazy sunny spells, 15°c