Weather and Climate

Penzance is relatively sheltered, but still a F7-8. Recent gust to 58mph. John Chappell's site

I went to a nearby spot today with perfectly good visibility. Indeed, I even looked from a cliff top

You cannot see your own contrails. However, in some situations, you can watch the shadow (as the

Wind left to right. Best viewed full size. Right click and copy and paste image address into address

On Thursday, 28 November 2024 at 15:00:38 UTC Freddie wrote: If you right click on the image to open

Ssshh. We had our coffees inside the cafe. Driving into sun is challenging. That's frost on the

"1 km from the coast as the seagull flies." You must have strange gulls down there if (as

I commissioned one of my favourite artists John Constable (1776 - 1837) to produce a snow scene. Not

Soon brightened up. Prom 11:00 with a rather attractive wind wave splashing over the prom Graham

One hour as the showers passed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53SMz6NErr0 At Burghead, an active

The time lapse when downloaded didn't disappoint. Superb sunrise with mountain wave (stationary

Fourth of Fifth come to mind! That place with the big railway bridge! Jack

Unbroken sunshine yesterday morning, just a little cloud in the afternoon. The amhibious vehicle

Today couldn't get close to matching yesterdays 17.3C, 2C down at 15.3C and drifting down this

The hooter was my sister's idea of humour. We seem to have inherited this silliness from Mum. The

Nothing of course to do with events across the pond. Jack

https://youtu.be/EeAxjZP5WbU And later. I watched this sunny patch but although there was a brisk

West Cornwall's done rather well for cloud breaks today. Late morning Mid afternoon Graham

In this most maritime of locations, the diurnal (and annual) temperature range is small. At this time

Alastair Mutch's in flight photos can be seen here https://bgaladder.net/DailyScores Jack

Yes, two lovely days here as well, plenty of warm sunshine with hardly a breath of wind. Maximums of

Coastal gale this afternoon. Mean speed up to 40mph at St Mary's Airport, Scilly. Gust to 59mph

...can of course manifest itself as classic lenticular clouds. But far more often, it is like this:

Where I live is not directly in the lee of mountains in a southwesterly. But this Moray Firth photo

After the locally dubbed " storm with no name" on 29th September - well worth a watch, the

The videos were the wrong way round. Thanks to the awful software of google groups, editing doesn

You wouldn't be swimming in the sea at Sennen today (though I went in just over a week ago when

The day Len posted his 33.4mm rainfall, the figure in Penzance was a mere 14.8mm Yesterday evening

Meanwhile, North Scotland. Excellent visibility, classic sunshine and showers. That particular shower

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