Local meteorologist just used mizzle in his overnight forecast. Mist and drizzle I think. That is all.

Just wanted to share that it's going to be a scorching 42/108 degrees for the second day in a row where I am in Australia. Sending solidarity to anyone else dealing with a heatwave, and hoping for some cooler temps soon.

Edit: it's currently 37c/99f at 10am!

Are these mammatus? They don’t look as bubbly and smooth as the examples I’ve seen online

Overnight we had a relative cold airmass in the north of the UK sourced from Baffin Island:

• 850hPa: -7c
• Thickness: 517 decametre
• 850hPa Theta e: 11c
• 850hPa Theta w: 2c

This yielded a temp of 3c with a wet bulb of 2c and a snow level of 200 metres.

We had sleet and hail all night long with no snow falling below 200 metres.

With such a cold airmass and a low thickness why did the cold air not filter down to the surface? I have seen warmer air masses produce snow.

If you have seen my previous posts, you know I have an autistic son who is obsessed with the weather. I think you will find this story amusing.

Today it's been snowing all day, so he got very excited from the moment he woke up and didn't want to get away from the window. At some point the intensity of the snow started dwindling, and he got very upset. As the sun was becoming visible, he became hysterical and started screaming "The sun is very hot!", which was his particular way of saying "I do not want the snow to end" (He doesn't always have the right words for what he wants to say so I have learned to decipher his language).

To calm him down we decided to take him to the science museum to distract him. First we had lunch and then we went to a couple of exhibitions, and out of the blue he took me to a part of the museum that is not among his favorites. Then I noticed that the snow storm had restarted with even more intensity than in the morning, and that area was the one with the best view of the storm. He stayed there for a whole hour, ignoring completely everything else, even the parts of the museum at which he usually spends the most time. Not even being at one of his favorite places was enough to distract him from his love for the weather. Basically our visit to the museum became a snow watching event with a better view than what we have at home.

Again, a brief question.

Just been looking at charts we have a cold pool of air coming into the British Isles with some snow forecast tomorrow night/Sunday to low levels. This is an airmass coming in from Baffin Island.

I was looking at some charts and noticed that the air was much colder out in the mid Atlantic (say about 30 w or 1,000 miles west of Ireland).

Would this location have a colder winter climate than the British isles despite being mid ocean?

There was a pop up storm in my area yesterday that produced a single lightning bolt strike a house in my neighborhood. It blew a hole in their house, fried the electrical system of the house, broke their water main and gas line, destroyed the fiber optics cables in the surrounding area including several modems, and disrupted several houses electricity (flipped breakers, blew light bulbs, etc). It was strong enough that it was seen and heard across the county (coworkers saw and heard it).

Is there anyway to estimate the strength of the bolt that struck?

It's not laggy?

I just need someone else to confirm it for me, because no one I know is online right now. Did they finally fix this P.O.S. website?! It's been god awful for close to 15 years!

Is it fast now for you guys? Is it end times? Or time to buy a lotto ticket or something?

Recently released a new weather app and are hoping to find some beta testers from the US (or southern Canada/northern Mexico). It's publicly available but for new releases it has been challenging to simulate different devices, internet speeds, locations, etc. so we're hoping to find some folks interested in being added to a private list for future pre release builds. Also interested in general feedback. Please PM if interested w/ your device type and general location!

I was looking at the NOAA hysplit model - this is a model that can backtrack the route an airmass came from.

I chose to look at the 14th December as this brought strong winds to the UK and a rapid temp drop.

At 1,500 metres the air comes from Baffin Island.

At 500 metres the air comes from fram strait (between Greenland and Svalbard)

At 100 metres the air comes from near Nuuk.

Why is this air split up like this coming from different locations far apart?

Ideally up to one year as I’m looking for something that happened at the end of last December

Hey guys, I've seen that Windy was a good choice for an app. My concern is i want to use it as a general weather app for my area and it won't do the "use my location", it just gives me wind turbine, fish, and surf options (I didn't select fish or surf).

Also I tried to change to pressure measurement to Mb but it doesn't show as one of the options, which is a bit of a turn off but we're not here to hear my opinions.

Any help would be appreciated thanks!