h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Could you send some snow/rain/sleet this way please?

Ivan.

....on its way....but I fear it may melt before it reaches you. I'll take some photos if it happens and email them to you wolfie

Winter is truly here. This morning on the radio I heard that one of the local roads over the moors have been shut due to snow.
Even so today is grey, windy, dry and milder than it has been for a few days.

But where are you, Phil?

Sorry I should have prefaced that posting of mine with
2004-01-15 10:45 Manchester, UK

Oh poor you, still in manchester then!

Penicuik Midlothian Scotland 15/1/04 19:31

The snow has nearly all melted now after it came down heavy on Monday Night. It is cold but no rain at the moment.

Melbourne, Australia Friday 16th 1025hrs

Lovely blue skies, no wind, expecting a top of 28C

Maz

I expect something similar at the end of April, Maz. looking forward to seeing you at the Melbourne meet up............ Rather damp here in london tonight!

Canberra, 6:12pm Friday 16 January

Rain! Rain! *does brief and undignified jig; sprains ankle*

OK, so there's not much of it - maybe 3 or 4 mm - but it's better than none. 25C and steamy. The cicadas have finally shut up, too.

Ivan.

Milan 16th Jan 7:39am
It is getting light now but the sky is covered with cloud. It is rather parky out (est 5C).

k

that should have said 8:39 - darn PC clock doesn't match my current timezone...

No idea what the real world is doing but my model is finally (after a lot of work) giving me more cloud and rain where I wanted it to be. Unfortunately, it's giving me rather too much elsewhere, but hey - that's rather typical of this job. (I work on developing a weather model.) Now, who was it who wanted more rain?

Rain, please. As much as you can spare. Just after lunch tomorrow would be good as I should be out of the garden by then. Just send it all to Canberra, if you would.

There's a lot of rain overhere in Newcastle, it's like a monsoon season!

2004-01-16 Manchester, UK, 1pm

Bright and breezy making feel cold. At least it's stopped raining.

it never stops raining in Manchester...

Luxembourg 16.19 CET

Very heavy rain over the past few days. The river Moselle has flooded riverside towns at some points, so that the swans are able to swin around the town centre.

The whole drainiage system is struggling with the volume - my washing machine and dishwasher need constant vigilance with saucepans and buckets as they overflow into the sink.

Sawbridgeworth, Herts, England. 15.37

It's bitingly cold, with a partially clear sky, with a few whispy high clouds. The sun has been shining. It makes your teeth chatter.

BCW

Los Angeles 16-Jan

Yesterday, the sky was enclosed in a very high and very thin shell of cloud punctuated by contrails and a few wisps of clouds at the same level. In the afternoon, say 3ish to 4ish, this resulted in not rainbows, but 'rainsplotches'. Rainsplotches, as now defined by me, were where the combination of the sun being low *in relation to the rare cloud or contrail*, and shining through the veil of the shell, caused an interference pattern within that particular formation. It was more like looking through a large very bright polarizing microscope objective than a rainbow. The colors were brightly visible but not in the rainbow order, and there was no arc or bow as it was confined specifically to the cloud or contrail.