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The outside broadcast tv vans transmit a signal from wimbledon to a satellite 35000km's away over the equator .... unless the first 10km's is blocked by heavy rain!! If its a blue screen, that will be your sky box loosing its satellite reception for exactly the same reason. If i remember correctly, the satellites only transmit 35 watts. (Less than most cb'ers did in the 80's).

"Good things come to he who waits". Late last night i posted about the surface wind forecast to change from sw to nw ... my weather station shows it did during the early hours. For several hours now this northerly has been wedging itself underneath the plumes coming up from the south, now we appear to have a little fight going on. My home town (wisbech) seems to be in a strange kinda rain-shadow, as so many showers seem to fizzle literally on our doorstep, then re-activate over the heights of norfolk, for the first time this year we've had several c-g's over the town, plus we've had a few sharp showers. Hopefully some more storms will creep along that cold front later, as wisbech (and north cambridgeshire in general) needs a damn good soaking!! FYI my weather station is on twitter as: wisbechweather

Possibly ... the range for 3 beeps is 12-24 miles. I think the device measures the delay between the direct radio signal and the high-altitude reflected signal, then works out the distance from the received rfi.

My strike alert keeps doing 3 beeps as well here in cambridgeshire? Very strange as I can see stars outside. Maybe there's a high-altitude storm nearby?

Haha ... my smartphone spell check does comedy. East Angular! Brilliant!!!

I went on my little storm chase drive .... 14 degrees inside my 24 year old bmw (modified aircon). Anyway, after a big mac in the next town I gave up and went home. :-( Back to the weather ... look at thr gfs wind direction charts. The East Angular will see a distinct shift from sw to nw over the next 6 hours. It's not over yet........

Ok, I've been sitting around all day on the computer, now going out for a drive with the aircon on full. Heading south from north cambridgeshire into the fens and maybe across to suffolk ... it all depends on the weather sat and radar. Will holler on this thread if I get wet.

Long time since i've posted ... but still take a daily interest in netweather. Sorry to hear of so many people "miles" away from the forecast action sites. Last week i had a very pleasent cycle ride from castle acre to kings lynn along the "nar valley way" ... and after seeing so much wildlife (adders, water voles, etc) decided to go back tommorow (sunday) with the cameras. How very convienient the highest storm risk in the whole of east anglia is actually around castle acre. (81%) Will post pics if i snap any decent cg strikes.

Firstly ... apologies about the size/quality of these. Somehow i had my camera set for an extremely low resolution!! Looking towards downham market from walpole highway: Looking towards kings lynn from walpole highway:

Heavy shower just crossed wisbech, cambs ... dumping 13mm of rain between 1600 and 1630hrs!! Three flashes of lightning, one was seen to be cloud to ground. .... Then a call from my works alarm receiving centre, one activation ... keyholder response required. It was nothing more than water running down the wall in front of a dual-technolegy pir.

Hi all, I'm a bit of a lurker on this site, but thought i'd post my comments on this thread. If by some miracle the jet stream continues pulling low pressure over the uk, we will see a mix of freeze and thaw, every five days or so. If it stays north as in previous years, mild, damp, mild, yuk, drizzly, blaaargh!! But, i suspect this year the jet stream may actually run south of the uk, giving us a mainly easterly airflow. Also, if this current "mild" weather continues, with the air temperature peaking at 18-20 rather than 25-30 during the daylight hours, surely the landmass and seas in the nothern hemisphere are not being topped up with heat to the extent of previous years. Dryer but colder??

My september submissions: Loch Eil, Looking west at dawn, watching the moon set. And a barn owl flying over the cambridgeshire fens at dusk:

The convergance zone over norfolk this evening provided very dark skies to my east ... but to my west it was virtually cloudfree ... with the sun at 10 degrees above the horizon. These pictures were taken on a nokia n73 camera phone ... 3.2 megapixel producing 1mb images at 2048 x 1536 (obviously reduced before uploading here). Also ... one "non-weather" picture, taken last week after sunset.

A couple of light flakes in the wind here in wisbech (north cambridgeshire). I think the eastern edge of that front will pass by the western side of wisbech ... peterborough should get some though. P.S: I've got a low light camera up one of my amateur radio masts ... looking forward to seeing a wintery scene literally "over" the town.