The Great British Weather

no it's water coming the other way that the barrier is raised for
water from the north sea / essex

It's just past two in the afternoon, can the weather please lighten up just a bit?

It's as dark as dusk.

The sky just went black in east london. End times are a-commin'.

Got this great new app yesterday called Dark Sky. Does really good live precipitation radar which is accurate almost to the minute. Best bit is being able to zoom out in 3d and watch weather systems all round the globe. Oh it has an alert setting you can give yourself up to an hour's warning of rain wherever you are. Pretty handy for commuting by bike I reckon.

http://darkskyapp.com/

i'm going to make an app that just tells you whether or not to leave the house with a brolly or not.

Look like this week gonna be wet.

Why not just make an app to encourage you stare at the windows instead?

Worst commute of the tear so far for me. Gale force headwinds and driving rain, the joys of living on the coast.

the daily mail said this will continue for the next 20 years ... that goodness i don't read that paper i could get quite suicidal

in other news, this has been officially the wettest january in recorded history

although we have only been taking measurements for 0.0000025% of the time the earth has existed ... so it may not be the wettest EVER

Got this great new app yesterday called Dark Sky. Does really good live precipitation radar which is accurate almost to the minute. Best bit is being able to zoom out in 3d and watch weather systems all round the globe. Oh it has an alert setting you can give yourself up to an hour's warning of rain wherever you are. Pretty handy for commuting by bike I reckon.

http://darkskyapp.com/

Is this available in the UK now? It used to be US only

Yup

.FORCE 12

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/marine-shipping-forecast/#?tab=map

hold on to your tweed merino gore tex rapha caps on the journey home tonight people

Got this great new app yesterday called Dark Sky. Does really good live precipitation radar which is accurate almost to the minute. Best bit is being able to zoom out in 3d and watch weather systems all round the globe. Oh it has an alert setting you can give yourself up to an hour's warning of rain wherever you are. Pretty handy for commuting by bike I reckon.

http://darkskyapp.com/

Is this available in the UK now? It used to be US only

Its from the same people as forecast.io - which is awesome.

red alert issued by the met office for wales

http://darkskyapp.com/

Seriously fucking useful, thank for the head-up dooks, now's my favourite apps as my commute is an hour long.

Few force 12s "hurricanes" on the forecast a couple of weeks ago. I can't recall ever hearing one before. Was a mark of quite how weird the weather's been of late that it passed almost unremarked upon.

^^nae worries Ed. I'm mildly obsessed with it at the mo'.

.FORCE 12

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/marine-shipping-forecast/#?tab=map

That is way down west, should dissipate a bit before it gets here. Looks like Friday/Saturday is going to be a bit blowy too. If this carries on much longer I might be investing in an aero helmet and skin suit for my morning commute.

would / wood

would / wood

Can I have a little rant? I'm getting sick of smuggo bandwaggon jumping ignorami (including several people I really otherwise like) banging on about individual instances of weather as definitive evidence of climate change. Or worse, sarcastically mocking those who don't constantly make these spurious links as being "frogs in boiling water" or just generally backwards climate change deniers.

I am not a climate change denier. Given the available evidence and current scientific consensus it does rather look as if man's contribution to climate change is undeniable and potentially rather worrying.

I will admit however that I still have several lingering questions about the solidity of current predictions over tens and hundreds of years in the context of pre-existing cycles of tens of thousands and millions of years. But given the scientific consensus and lack of evidence to the contrary I have decided to take a rational approach which says: the apparent lack of disbenefit from doing what we can to limit our impact says to me, even if we turn out to be wrong we might as well do everything we can to limit our impact. That's the scientific, rational, logical, morally best approach right? Do least harm to ourselves, other people, the planet and everything on it. Or at least Do whatever it is that is most likely to minimize harm? That's where I've landed up after years of wanting to jump whole-heartedly on the climate change train but having niggling, lingering questions that I've never had an entirely satisfactory answer to.

But what gets on my tits is people who purport to be on the side of the planet in the name of science all that's enlightened, altruistic and great who go about laughing at informed and well meaning people who say things like "you can't link the current bad weather directly to climate change". Or earlier this week, Cameron's bold statement "flooding is linked to climate change" statement was greeted on twitter by thousands of fucking irritating twats responding "Duhhhh! You think?!" etc. These dullards do their cause no good at all.

No you're an ignorami.

Yeah, but what about the CONTRAILS!??! that the NWO GOVERNMENT are PUTTING IN THE SKY!?!???!!

i have a black belt in origami.

It's a very nice belt... Linky?