The Great British Weather

Noctilucent clouds tonight!! Hopefully I got some decent pictures on my camera, need to sleep though

dryest june evar

Here's the noctilucent clouds! They've been visible the past few evenings apparently

They're pretty rare and quite mysterious.

nice!

Trippy.

Not heard of them before (I am far from a nephrologist)

Cloud thread >>>>>>>

No really, there is one!

Thought that'd be too niche for a whole thread, but will crosspost there :)

Yeah, really weird to look upwards at 2AM and see them hanging above you. Reminded me of the aurora a little bit. Took a few photos then my battery ran out so I just sat and watched them for a while. Sleepy today though but worth it...

I think there's a good chance they'll be visible again tonight, and if they are I'll set the camera up to take a time lapse

Anyone heard complaints of it being 'too hot' yet?

It is though, isn’t it.

it's fucking horrible. roll on winter.

Testify!

a happy medium between last summer and this summer

5 days sun and two days cloud and rain per week please, god can choose the days

So Mon-Fri Sun Sat-Sun cloud and rain?

the majority of the working population would be well pissed off, getting rained on every weekend and watching the sun through the office window

and thats 8 days of the week ^ you thinking of adding another sunny Sun day

just noticed wimbledon is imminent
a good chance to catch up the missing rainfall

met office issue their first thunderstorm warnings for the sw today

so just a regular summer storm then

Last week was quite hot, I rode to Newquay from Manchester but was forced to take some long cider breaks in the middle of the day or risk dying. I was camped up last Thursday night and had my eyes shut in my tent, out of nowhere there was a retina burning flash through my eye lids and the loudest noise I think I've ever heard, I wasn't sure if it was an asteroid or a nuke but waited for the inevitable pressure wave to sweep me, and all the now mentally squarking seagulls into oblivion. Turns out it was fuck off lightning right above us, 3 more slightly less apocalyptic cracks and some brief but very large drops of rain and all was quiet again.

what is a good source for a live jet stream map
or even a regularly updated one

Wxcharts shows forecast plus nowcast. The 300hPa wind speed is the jetstream. E.g. http://wxcharts.eu/?panel=default&model=gfs,gfs,gfs,gfs&region=euratl&chart=wind300kt,850temp,snowdepth,snowdepth&run=00&step=006&plottype=4&lat=51.500&lon=-0.250&skewtstep=0

Spanish Plume coming, maybe:

We had the beast from east 4 months ago, there is a potential for
there to be another beast of opposite nature. Seeing emerging evidence
of a very big build of heat moving up into Iberia peninsula possibly
could make our way and if it does we may get towards 40C!

https://twitter.com/TheSnowDreamer/status/1013865796391653378

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/250hPa/orthographic=-10.71,54.21,756

earth wind map offers a 250 or a 500 hpa view, the 250 seems to match yours a little
would that be correct for the jet stream ?

just trying to see what the difference between last year and this year is

250hPa is a little higher in the atmosphere, but I suspect broadly jetstream level. Meteorology measures atmospheric height in pressure, rather than length, because that makes more sense for the models, and predictions. But it can be a little confusing!

great, thanks

when did it last rain?
How / where can i check this?