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15.7ºC (Can I sneak that in - completely forgot!)

22ºC here now. Equal warmest day of the year. You wouldn't have thought that with the tv forecasts - none of the models suggested it, and it's not 32ºC so doesn't get a mention...

My personal award for the most accurate weather forecast for the rain goes to STV - last night's forecast had it bang on going by the radar.

It's going to be close Blitzen. The trajectory of the main pulse of rain heading NNE is now crossing the border out of Morecambe Bay/Irish Sea and the Lakes - but where will it affect?!

Tomorrow's rain positioning and intensity changes significantly still with only 18 hours to go. Imagine the drama if it was forecast to be 0.5ºC with a cold front. BBC forecasts fluctuating more than a ScotRail estimated arrival time. GFS 12Z: NMM: GFS 18Z: My gut feeling on the front from the south - dry except south and east of a line from North Berwick to Carlisle...

Crikey - it's all happening Sheffield! And quite right too - my home town. Lovely shots SW

16.9ºC

Bah. Glad you saw it Calum

Oh CR - don't say that! When I'm up at 7am for work, I'll not care. At 7.10am when I see photos from East Anglia I'll be gutted. I do have a view north west and north east from the house going out over the Firth of Forth (behind houses etc.), so that'll do.

Blimey, Bz at -12 South. Scottish magnetometer at amber, and Kp at 6. And too knackered to go out again.

Home from a not unpleasant run around Fife and ended up not far from Cupar (a great name for a town in Polish) with reasonable clear skies. Saw nothing except the 'lingering twilight'. Ho hum.

Indeed. What's more, the magnetic Bz is south. Car being prepared.

Aye, when I was having dinner with Professor Higgs a few weeks ago, it was a badly kept secret around the table then *ahem* :winky:

Entertaining piffle. I say entertaining, when of course I mean tiresome.

Heavy heavy downpours here this evening. Slate grey sky earlier - with interesting darker formations hanging down. Gave hope of thunder, but alas not to be...

Hi Global - welcome to posting on nw. The colours and numbered black dotted lines on an 850hpa temp & SLP chart do not relate to pressure - they relate to the temperature at that height, which is approx 1.5km in the atmosphere above surface. Hope that helps.

Hellfire!

What a beautiful afternoon. Wall to wall sunshine now. Shan't post that elsewhere on the site

Lucky Ross! West Lothian is thunderstorm central today

Crikey - not thought about this this year yet. Thanks for the reminder - love NLCs

Was fun to watch - well done to the Duke of Rothesay :winky:

For those of you who missed snow raven's post earlier, or perhaps have difficulty understanding, I've made the important bigger for you to read.

Just an observation from watching so many weather forecasts over the years: It appears to me that since the change to 3D graphics in BBC UK tv weather forecasts, the northwest of England gets the least coverage. The fly through around the British Isles is a wonderful application of technology, but would anybody agree that with the position that forecasters stand, and the direction of travel of the fly through, it is the area north of Birmingham to the west of the Pennines and south of Dumfies that is least mentioned, is never fully in the picture and is therefore hardest to see and understand what is predicted?