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An excellent guide to forecasting severe convective storms, from the Finnish Met Intsitute of all places!!
http://www.estofex.org/guide0 -
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kindredspirit wrote: »Click on my signature and delve into a few links there.
It'll keep you occupied for a while.
Let me know if there'r any broken links.
Wow that is some compilation of links!! thanks for that, a definite for all sea lovers and weather lovers alike!
Thanks
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Atmospheric sounding data site, whatever that is, but it might be useful to someone.
http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html0 -
Hey all,
I'm not really interested in weather but my hobbies rely a lot on dry weather.
Anyway, I recently coded a simple java application that pulls the met.ie radar image and can be reloaded whenever you need to check it.
Yes it's simple, But serves the purpose perfectly for me so I was wondering if anyone else would like to use it(On mac only for now!).
Here's the link http://rtoolan.ie/Apps/
In a future release I'll make it auto update every few minutes,(it's very light on network traffic!)0 -
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Just click on I Dag in the top left or......try this link.The old radar only showed data for 24 hours while that one shows a full week so its very cluttered. Theres probably some way to set it for 24 hours but naturally my Icelandic isnt up to scratch
http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/i_dag_na.html?
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that works great MTM.T. Cranium wrote: »This is how you can instantly access a daily weather map for Europe in the period 1871 to present. The upper air components have been estimated by analogues for the period before 1945 (approximately).
Just take this template:
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/archive/ra/YEAR/Rrea001YEARMODA.gif
click on it and when it's in the address box, where it will generate an error message you must then change the address as follows: Change
YEAR (appears twice) to the four-digit number of the year
change MODA (appears once) to the date, month and day, two digits for each.
Try it, and you'll find it works from 1871 to present.
Don't add anything or introduce any spaces or slashes, just substitute numbers for the letters.
Here's an actual date worth checking out, which also shows an example of a specific date request (1 April 1917)
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/archive/ra/1917/Rrea00119170401.gif
A second method would be to click on the last address and change 1917 to the year you want, then 0401 to the date you want. Note that you need two digits for each of MO and DA which often requires a zero to start. Don't panic if there's no map for 29 Feb 1900 because there was no 29 Feb in 1900. 0 -
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XC Weather , excellent site showing up to date data for Ireland and short term forecasts.
http://www.xcweather.co.uk/GB/observations
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Website with all the different types of snow and frosts,
You never know , we might need it at some stage in the near future
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/frost/frost.htm0 -
pistolpetes11 wrote: »Website with all the different types of snow and frosts,
You never know , we might need it at some stage in the near future
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/frost/frost.htm
Oh lovely snow,truly a marvellous natural wonder of the world.
Interesting too that the site has had nearly 23 millions views since Feb 99.
That's a whole lotta coldies.:)0 -
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Putting this in here as I didnt want to clog up the cold spell thread
A shortwave trough can be defined in several ways. The following are characteristics that most shortwave troughs possess:
(1) Shortwaves are smaller than longwave troughs
(2) Shortwaves have a counterclockwise kink to the height contours
(3) They are associated with an upper level front or a cold pool aloft
(4) Shortwaves generate positive curvature vorticity and positive shear vorticity
(5) Shortwaves often represent baroclinicity in the troposphere (WAA and CAA)
(6) Shortwaves are imbedded within the longwave trough / ridge pattern
(7) Shortwaves are best located on the 700 and 500 mb chart / prog
(8) Rising motion occurs within the exit sector of a shortwave
(9) Their size and influence ranges from the mesoscale to the synoptic scale
(10) Shortwaves move faster than longwaves (usually more than twice as fast).
The link below has examples of shortwave troughs.
http://www.theweatherprediction.com/charts/700/
The 700 mb chart is the last of the low level charts. The 500 and 300 mb charts are considered the upper levels of the atmosphere. Many of the same processes analyzed on the 850 chart are also studied on the 700 mb chart. The trough/ridge pattern becomes more defined at the 700 mb levels as compared to lower levels. A trough is simply a southern "bulge" in height contours while a ridge is a northerly displaced "bulge". This "bulge" can be large (such as in association with a mid-latitude cyclone) or small (such as a shortwave).
One of the most common questions from beginning analysts is "What is a shortwave?". First, the height contours "kink" within a shortwave. This kink can be seen as lower heights displaced downwards from the overall height contour pattern. Second, temperature advection often occurs within the short wave. Generally, cold air advection is found to the left of the short wave axis with warm air advection to the right of the trough axis. The trough axis is sometimes portrayed as a dashed line going through the middle of the shortwave. Third, the amplitude of a shortwave is small in comparison to a longwave trough. Below is a 700 mb weather chart showing examples of shortwaves.
When examining model data at 700 millibars it is common for them to show upward vertical velocity. A good forecast strategy is to look at the 700 mb forecast panels for the upward vertical velocity distribution, then determine what forces in the atmosphere are causing the upward (or downward) vertical velocities. Below are three examples of shortwaves on a 700 mb UNISYS ETA model panel.
PANEL 1: IOWA SHORTWAVE
PANEL 2: EAST TEXAS SHORTWAVE
PANEL 3: NORTHERN ARKANSAS SHORTWAVE
WHAT TO LOOK FOR AT 700 MB:
ONLINE location of 700 mb DIFAX: 700 MB ANALYSIS CHART
ONLINE location of 700 mb Initialization: 700 MB INITIALIZATION
(1) Find areas with low dewpoint depressions. Often this indicates a deep layer of moisture. Use 700 mb chart in combination with sfc and 850 charts to determine depth of moisture
(2) Determine strength of warm air advection, cold air advection, and moisture advection. Thermal advection is a function of wind speed, wind direction, thermal gradient, and isotherm angle of intersection with height contours
(3) Determine strength of high pressure/ low pressure. Strong organizing low pressures tilt toward the northwest with height.
(4) Locate shortwaves. Determine if shortwave is barotropic or baroclinic. The baroclinic shortwave is more likely to produce precipitation. Rain and storms are generally on exit sector of shortwave. Compare shortwave with other levels in the atmosphere. Rain is likely to right of shortwave especially if dewpoint depressions are low.
(5) Weather is warmer than normal under ridges and cooler than normal under troughs.
(6) Look for the greatest height falls and height rises; these values give clues to how the trough/ridge pattern will change through time.
(7) 700 mb front is found where height contours kink; kinking height contours may also be a shortwave (especially if thermal advection is present). A short wave can be an upper level front.0 -
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