Old Weather Forum

Love the rain scale!
We were away for a week to see Zion and Bryce National Parks. We live at 35 feet+/-. Made it up to 9115 feet without too many ill effects. Thought we lived in a desert- my nose forgot how dry it can really get. Also- for as dry as it was- our car was frosted over the morning it was 28 F.
Great trip- sandwiched between stopping at Las Vegas on both ends!

Zion is so spectacular. It's my favorite park.

Low this morning was 11c at 0530. Expecting 22c mid day.

The highest temperature occurred on October 07 with 23.9 degrees.
*** This sets a new October record, beating the old record of 23.5.
The lowest temperature occurred on October 28 with -2.8 degrees.
*** This sets a new October record, beating the old record of -2.1.


It's not often one month sees both a record high and a record low set. (For a station with more than 30 years of record.)

Mind you, there was a day when I was working in Edmonton, and Fort McMurray set a daily record maximum and a daily record minimum on the same day! And they had more than 30 years of record! There was also a day when we forecast a maximum temperature for the day that was below the record minimum temperature for that day. (Station with more than 30 years of record.) The next day, we forecast a maximum temperature that was only one degree above the record daily minimum for a station with 100+ years of record. We got the max temperature we forecast, so it didn't go below the record daily min.

Hi All

We have just had a significant storm pass over Southern UK. In addition to a report on damage the BBC mentioned that tea might taste slightly different due to the low pressure reducing the boiling point of water. I didn't notice that, but the item prompted me to check my barometer.
It read 968!! It probably isn't calibrated, but this is by a long way the lowest I can remember.

Apparently the Eye was 952!!



I hope it hasn't caused you any problems Caro (and anyone else in Southern England)

We're OK, thanks Keith. The coastal areas and Channel Islands have taken the brunt of the storm. We still have a yellow warning for wind and rain but we are outside the amber warning area. Stay safe, everyone.

I've never thought about barometric pressure effecting the flavor of tea before. You learn something new every day!

Cross-Channel ferry near Dover. Getty Images pic on BBC website. Yikes.

I hope the crew shut the front door.

There is a charity bowling competition on in our village being held this morning.
Rain is forecast and we have 10/10 nimb clouds.

Fortunately the rain held off for 1 1/2 hrs till Ian Moss' s song "Mr Rain" started playing on my computer and it was followed up with Lynn Andersons Rose garden with the lines
"Along with the sunshine
There's gotta be a little rain some time"

After that song finished the rain stopped. (for 10 min) but it looks like it is back and set in for the day.
Recently we finally had rain after a long dry spell the green was flooded for about a week after the rain stopped.
Just been out for a look at the green and it flooded again. Water only went down a couple of days ago. Looks like the problem is major.
Local rain monitor has not picked up the rainfall between 10 and 1030.



Yes, that's a lake on the green. Pic taken at 1033

I know that place well, but I don't remember the lake!

Dry as then wet as.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-08/ ... 103075436?

Whilst not looking forward to the predicted weather we need rain.
Also I like the way the ABC explains complicated things in simple terms.

More from the ABC on Climate Control.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-09/ ... 103073800?

Mind you, I think we're going to see an end in the Carbon Tax in Canada in the next few months. The way politicians are pandering to The People and the fossil fuel industries, we might soon be paid to burn fuel oil etc. (As well as a move to scrap the Carbon tax, they're making noise about taxing the Goods and Services Tax, GST, off heating oil.)

Off course, we can't make the Oil Sands companies pay, either. It's not fair...

Very changeable weather recently. Saturday we had our first frost of the winter and a lovely crisp sunny day. Sunday also started frosty but quickly clouded over and was cold, damp and rainy. Today we've got storm Debi with an amber warning for wind - up to 80mph gusts on the coast, 60mph around here.

Nice steady drizzle over the last 12 hrs 9.8mm.
Good soaking rain.

I hope it clears up by Saturday as I am going to the Newcastle air show.

We had a bit of snow yesterday although it melted as soon as it hit the ground.
Today we had a bit more snow, but despite below freezing temperatures all day it quickly disappeared.