MikeC

X 2....I am also in Washington and roads are covered with snow, still more coming down. But looking at the radar I would say it will stop by 1-1.30pm. Mike

When are we likely to see some more snow in the Darlington area? MetO has not got anymore warnings for tomorrow :o Why do all the Southerners have to get all the snow...they moved down there to stay warm and we stay up here to get lots of snow!!! :o Not Fair! lol

What's it looking like for the weekend in the Darlington/Newcastle area? I've heard mixed reports of the "will it snow? saying 100% chance" and the MetO saying not very likely??

I'm at work up at Newcastle and told it's coming down quite heavy in Darlington now so it looks like it's heading up my way I still feel like a kid everytime it starts to snow! lol

The snow has just hit the Darlington area Roll on more snow and I'm off home before I get snowed in at work!

Met Office Winter Update Quite possibly the worst forecast I have ever seen. I think a kid could go outside, look at the sky and come up with something better than that.

I'd love a long hot summer Mainly so I don't have to wash my car nearly every day to keep it semi clean. I live out in the country and when it rains the farmers drag mud all over the roads. Roll on a boiling summer :lol:

Well unfortunately my weather station broke the other day and I had to send it back to www.weatherweatherweather.co.uk to get it repaired It's typical just as we get some 'proper' weather and I've got no way of recording it :lol: never mind lol. I thought I'd post some pics up instead, hope this is the right place and mods don't mind These are from Hamsterley, Co Durham: And it wouldn't be a snowy day without a nice big snowman :

Not sure if this was posted elsewhere but here is there forecast: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/seasonal/winter2008_9/

Having some problems with the weather station tonight...It does not have any connection with the sensors at the moment... It lost connection for half an hour at 8Pm but it got it back again at 8.30pm for just over half an hour and has lost the connection again at 9ish, I have been up on the roof and checked all the connections and everything is fine. All of them are bone dry and not a spec of water on them. I have held the main display up agaisnt the sensor too and its still not getting any signal so I dont think its that. Does anyone else know what it could be?

Wind Speed 0 mph Wind Gust 0 mph Wind Direction 247 degrees Outside Temperature 0.5 Celsius Outside Humidity 97 % Outside Dewpoint 0.1 Celsius Atmospheric Pressure 1024.7 mbars Inside Temperature 20.7 Celsius Inside Humidity 44 % Rainfall Today 0 mm WindChill 0.5 Celsius Was the first frost of the year here (well apart from earlier this year, but you know what I meen!) Looking very nice outside! Bring on a snowy winter

There seems to be alot of people on this site from the North-East which is great to see!! On other various forums that I am on the North-East seems to be internet retarded as barely anyone seems to be from the NE! I located the rain sensor on the roof along with the anemometer (which is on the TV aerial quite high up) and the thermometer is on the TV Aerial too. Roughly about 10 metres off the gorund which I found out was the best height to have them at. Do these positions sound ok to everyone? I will take some pictures and post them up so you can get a better idea. All the best, Mike

Thank you very much, I will have a go at that. I need to sort something out on my hub which at present is not allowing me to access any FTP sites for some reason, will have to have a look into it and give my ISP a ring maybe. Apart from that though, the weather station is working brilliant. It had its first bit of rain last night and showed 3.6mm of rain, also had a maximum gust of 27.1mph yesterday as it was quite windy. Can't wait to get a webpage up and going. Thanks again for all your help everyone!

Well finally got it up and running! All is working well. I have just downloaded Weather Display and I would now like to create a website that will automatically update the data but not so sure how I go about doing that. I have just setup an account with Yahoo that gives me a free website but I now need to learn how to upload the FTP onto it.... Very confusing stuff! If anyone could help me or point me in the right direction as to how I do this I would be very greatful. I would like to get something like this website up and running: http://uk.geocities.com/paulcarfoot@btinte...aulsweather.htm Cheers Mike

Well just bought myself a WS3600 and should be here tomorrow morning!! Cant wait to get it up and going now. Will have to get myself on the google map and get some sort of a webpage sorted out. I look forward to adding some results and learning more about the weather. Will have to go and check out some of these charts that are availible and try to get my head around them.

Cheers for the quick replies guys! I saw the Davis Pro weather stations on the net when I was searching but just can't justify that amount really for the extra I would get from it. Although maybe one day if I got into weather abit more I would probally look at something like this. Looks like an amazing bit of kit! Does anyone know what weather the WS3600 will predict and also how does it show it? ie. Does it just show a picture of a cloud for cloudy, or rain coming from a cloud when its raining etc. Also can it be linked up to your computer for real-time monitoring of the weather or is it just for past results? Cheers again guys!

Hey all, Just thought I would quickly introduce myself. My name is Mike, from the North East, live just next to Hamsterley forest (if any of you have heard of it...) We get some pretty extreme weather up here as we are quite high...think we are at about 1000feet. Always get some good snow in the winter round here too!! Recently thought about getting a weather station, I am mainly getting it for the run up to christmas as I just want to be able to tell when some snow will be heading my way After having a good read through some of the topics on here it seems that most of you guys (and gals) also love it when it snows! Brings back all those childhood memories and all that! So any advice on a weather station would be brilliant. I have seen one that I quite fancy, its a LaCrosse WS3600 and it looks to do pretty much everything I am after. Just a few quick questions, do you know if it will predict snow of it its just got the normal "Rain, Sun, Cloudy and Overcast" type forecasts. Also one more thing, how often does it record wind speed so I can get an accurate idea for gust speeds. Hope this was not posted in the wrong place, please dont flame me, I am new ! Cheers Mike