who would have guessed

[powerskipper]

In July that you would have hail stones in the Solent.
yup not those little ones you don't notice but the big 1/3 cm type, the ones that go ouch.

well we did today. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Sixpence]

Had the same here a couple of weeks ago , at the same time as a huge tornado right overhead , thankfully it stopped about fifty feet from touchdown but it was still a bit worrying . Wierd weather isn't the word for it

 

[powerskipper]

there looked like a tornado just the other side of the IOW, today could not see if it touched or not.
interesting British weather at mo /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Sixpence]

Just seen our resident weather mans report in scuttlebutt
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1509883/an/0/page/0#1509883
even he admits it's wierd

 

[pennycar9]

Ive seen tornados today. Up at RAF Marham. Lots of them, Noisey buggers though /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Sixpence]

They are when they fly over here too , I'm sure they use our barn as a waypoint

 

[Dave_Snelson]

If it weren\'t for a couple of factors...

... the weather we have now would be a permanent feature of the British Isles. Ignoring the features for one moment, we are unlucky (or lucky dependent on your view) to be at a latitude where the coreolis effect has the Atlantic delivering weather due to Earth spin that is cyclonic in nature and what we get is cyclone after cyclone etc...

The thing we need that delivers the "English summer" is a high jet stream that rips its way across Britain in summer (except for now that is) but is currently absent because it is 500 miles South of us. This jet stream then acts like a pressure cooker lid and allows something called th "Azores High" - an area of high pressure that develops from the Azores - to build its way towards, and then over Britain, giving settled weather.

Hey-Ho!

 

[Sixpence]

Re: If it weren\'t for a couple of factors...

Hence the weather forecasters prediction of changeable weather , which means they haven't got a clue what's going to happen

 

[Kawasaki]

Re: If it weren\'t for a couple of factors...

Boody H Snelson, don't pretend to be a Weather Guru from the advice I last had from You!
Anyway I thought the Coreolis effect was a Maffioso term for turbulance!
IE," it's a gonna get rough iffa ya donna paya me for der next round , cabish"!
Jet streams, pressure cookers, cyclonics?
Cylonics = Tour De France., Pressure cookers = Heat = Jets = I,m out of here Morrocco bound!
Oh! bye the way any Deals going on in Marrocco?