South West & Central Southern England Regional Discussion 11/1/2017 ---->

[Frosty_wsm]

4 minutes ago, Nights King said:

This was over an hour ago... How are those beefy showers over south wales doing... 

Plenty of hours left till the morning, ask me again in 7 hours. 

[karlos1983]

Just now, Mapantz said:

It looks as though it has only sent one reading, at 10:45pm

Does your laptop go to sleep? Cumulus doesn't like the sleep function, i've got all that turned off on my system, just the screensaver enabled.

Nope screen been on constant. MX is showing correct data..

[Mapantz]

2 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

Nope screen been on constant. MX is showing correct data..

It might be an issue with Wunderground, being a new station. I presume all of your settings are ok in the Wunderground part of Cumulus? You can try shutting it down and restarting it. The correct way is to do CTRL +C while the app window is in focus. Don't forget to run as administrator when you start it again.

[khodds]

When do you fly out NK? 

[karlos1983]

1 minute ago, Mapantz said:

It might be an issue with Wunderground, being a new station. I presume all of your settings are ok in the Wunderground part of Cumulus? You can try shutting it down and restarting it. The correct way is to do CTRL +C while the app window is in focus. Don't forget to run as administrator when you start it again.

settings in my standard cumulus? ive not put anything in there

[Mapantz]

1 minute ago, karlos1983 said:

settings in my standard cumulus? ive not put anything in there

In Cumulus MX..

If you're using that, you shouldn't have the standard Cumulus open at the same time.

[matt111]

Temperatures finally on the way down after being stuck just over 2°C for most of the evening. Currently 1.4°C.

[karlos1983]

4 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

In Cumulus MX..

If you're using that, you shouldn't have the standard Cumulus open at the same time.

ok sorted i think, I will see if it updates through the night now

[Mapantz]

3 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

ok sorted i think, I will see if it updates through the night now

Bingo! -0.7?

Yep - I saw it go to -0.8C

Edited January 12, 2017 by Mapantz

[Mapantz]

oh oh oh oh oh oh

[The Enforcer]

33 minutes ago, Zephyr said:

EURO4 rolling out...

 

It seems to want to offer up an overnight snow threat for CSE and one tomorrow morning. In the latter case, this is drifting towards the middle of the day, so NMM 18z says rain:

In the earlier case, the band is less organised and so the issue is more whether it gets anywhere near let alone crossing the south coast, hence it is not supported by NMM. However, Euro4 inexplicably can't help introduce a pocket of rain over here even at 3-6am. Well it's currently -0.1C, which is the coldest temperature I've seen anyone post in this region, so it can do a hike with that idea.

Update 11:55pm -0.4C, has dropped another 0.3C in the time it took me to sort that post out.

Edited January 12, 2017 by The Enforcer
Updating Temperature

[Mark Neal.]

3 minutes ago, The Enforcer said:

It seems to want to offer up an overnight snow threat for CSE and one tomorrow morning. In the latter case, this is drifting towards the middle of the day, so NMM 18z says rain:

In the earlier case, the band is less organised and so the issue is more whether it gets anywhere near let alone crossing the south coast, hence it is not supported by NMM. However, Euro4 inexplicably can't help introduce a pocket of rain over here even at 3-6am. Well it's currently -0.1C, which is the coldest temperature I've seen anyone post in this region, so it can do a hike with that idea.

Its -0.4c here. Covering of snow on the top of the car. Grass also slushy accumulation lol 

[jethro]

Evening all, well that all turned into a bit of an anti-climax, we did get snow and it did settle so I guess I've got less to moan about than lots of you. More than a little disappointed though that the METO promise of heavy snow didn't happen. Just been outside and it's blinking freezing out there, everything is frozen solid, my deck is like an ice rink. Currently it's -1.8 with a dp of -3.9 so if any of those welsh showers survive the mountains and Bristol channel, it should be snowy.

[karlos1983]

Sorry members of this great thread, you haven't stumbled into the technical thread, I is just fick!! But I'm now online and dangerous courtesy of our quad chopper flying weather data techno guru mapantz!

what that effectively means is, now that I can collect and share all my weather data, we will have an extremely benign 12 months of weather, I apologise  in advance 

Edited January 12, 2017 by karlos1983

[Somerset Squall]

It's still 2.9C here, so if the showers stop moving either side of me, they will probably only be rain anyway.

[AWD]

Is there some sort of black hole running down from Humberside, Stoke, Abergavenny & Cardiff?

Any showers that reach that line suddenly dissipate.

It's bloody hard work getting a snow grain here nowadays.  Roll on summer & the convective season, at least storms can get nearer me & be seen from hills easier.

[jethro]

9 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

Sorry members of this great thread, you haven't stumbled into the technical thread, I is just fick!! But I'm now online and dangerous courtesy of our quad chopper flying weather data techno guru mapantz!

what that effectively means is, now that I can collect and share all my weather data, we will have an extremely benign 12 months of weather, I apologise  in advance 

My turn to be thick now....all you folk with weather stations, especially those connected to wunderground, in your experience how correct is the information from stations? Are they calibrated in some way? Is there any way of verifying the reports? Asking because I'm taking stats from one down the road & NK reckoned earlier that the temp was wrong - is there a way for me to check this?

[Catacol]

1.5 degrees and raining here. Hoped tonight would be snow if anything, but clearly not. Disappointing. 5 year wait for snow continues.....

[Catacol]

1 minute ago, jethro said:

My turn to be thick now....all you folk with weather stations, especially those connected to wunderground, in your experience how correct is the information from stations? Are they calibrated in some way? Is there any way of verifying the reports? Asking because I'm taking stats from one down the road & NK reckoned earlier that the temp was wrong - is there a way for me to check this?

Without a doubt the one at Wellington School gets the temperature right, but there is a clear fault with the dew point readings. They are always several degrees off. So no - not all are accurate.

Edited January 13, 2017 by Catacol

[karlos1983]

2 minutes ago, jethro said:

My turn to be thick now....all you folk with weather stations, especially those connected to wunderground, in your experience how correct is the information from stations? Are they calibrated in some way? Is there any way of verifying the reports? Asking because I'm taking stats from one down the road & NK reckoned earlier that the temp was wrong - is there a way for me to check this?

I guess it depends on the brand as there are some rubbish ones out there. Mines an Oregon and I was informed that they are very accurate. You can get some cheap nasty stations, so unless it's your station jethro you'll never really know 

[jethro]

2 minutes ago, Catacol said:

Without a doubt the one at Wellington School gets the temperature right, but there is a clear fault with the dew point readings. They are always several degrees off. So no - not all are accurate.

Thank you. I guess I'll have to presume it's vaguely accurate, certainly more accurate than my old greenhouse thermometer and my shiver measurement. I can definitely say it's below zero, frozen solid.

[karlos1983]

Check me out then!!! Lol 

 

Really peeved I can't find my rain gauge!! One last look tomorrow, failing that it's eBay time! 

Edited January 13, 2017 by karlos1983

[Somerset Squall]

Yup, it's raining. It wasn't cold enough for snow in the rain band, then it probably became cold enough for snow when it cleared, and now the temperatures have risen again and it's started raining. You couldn't make it up lol

[Mapantz]

6 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

Really peeved I can't find my rain gauge!! One last look tomorrow, failing that it's eBay time! 

https://mendipweather.co.uk/rain-gauges/oregon-scientific-pcr800-rain-guage-for-wmr-series?language=en&currency=GBP&gclid=COGairHtvdECFe4Q0wodlroLBw

I bought a Vantage Vue console from them at a ridiculously good price.

[bradymk]

4 minutes ago, Somerset Squall said:

Yup, it's raining. It wasn't cold enough for snow in the rain band, then it probably became cold enough for snow when it cleared, and now the temperatures have risen again and it's started raining. You couldn't make it up lol

Same here in Cardiff. Not cold enough, then cold enough but no precip, now slightly milder and a massive shower of rain/sleet. Uch.