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Harry Hayfield commented on the post, Santa Watch for All of Arkansas #ARWX, on the site Arkansas Severe Weather Updates-N5PKR 11 months ago
I believe I am in a position to give you an estimate, as not only is NORAD tracking him but also Sky Television in the UK with their special “Where’s Santa?” app, which since 10.00am GMT this morning has been tracking him and from what I can determine his average speed is around 15,000 kmph (around 9,000mph). At the moment of posting (9.52pm GMT)…[Read more]
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Harry Hayfield wrote a new post, Storm Arwen Reports, on the site The Weather of Wales (and other parts of the United Kingdom) 2 years, 12 months ago
And it even knocked “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!” off the air
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Harry Hayfield wrote a new post, And here were the Daily Express screaming "Snow chaos", on the site The Weather of Wales (and other parts of the United Kingdom) 2 years, 12 months ago
Yesterday morning the UK Met Office named the low pressure system that had been talked about for a while as a potential snowmaker “Storm Arwen” (a name of Welsh descent meaning “noble maiden” and given to the […]
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Harry Hayfield wrote a new post, The British fascination with all things wintry, on the site The Weather of Wales (and other parts of the United Kingdom) 3 years ago
We Brits seem to have a bit of a love / hate relationship when it comes to the subject of snow. As soon as October comes around, newspapers instantly start wishing for the white stuff with headlines such as […]
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Harry, looking at your pictures, it seems that your weather isn’t much different than our has been lately. Two tornadic days in December. That just isn’t supposed to happen.
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Harry Hayfield wrote a new post, The Return of an Old Friend, on the site The Weather of Wales (and other parts of the United Kingdom) 3 years, 9 months ago
For the last couple of days, Scotland has been living up to its status as a hard and biting land with some areas having seen six inches of snowfall (which thanks to the winds up there has been drifting) and […]
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Harry Hayfield wrote a new post, Boxing Day Traditions in the United Kingdom, on the site The Weather of Wales (and other parts of the United Kingdom) 3 years, 11 months ago
The day after Christmas Day is called Boxing Day in the United Kingdom, named, not because people went around to other people’s houses drunk from all the sherry drunk the previous day and roar “Do you want some?” […]
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Harry Hayfield wrote a new post, Forget the "October Surprise", the Atlantic Hurricane Season is about to deliver an August Surprise, on the site The Weather of Wales (and other parts of the United Kingdom) 4 years, 3 months ago
The Republican Party must hate the Atlantic Hurricane season with a vengeance.
In 2008, the convention (being held in Minneapolis / St. Paul) found itself on the forecast track for Hurricane Gustav.
In […]
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Harry Hayfield wrote a new post, I am so glad that Weather Together is working again, on the site The Weather of Wales (and other parts of the United Kingdom) 4 years, 9 months ago
because, boy, do we need it
This forecast map generated by WXCharts (a Met Desk product) shows the end result of a storm that is forecast to form on Sunday morning at 6.00am GMT (1.00am EST) off the coast […]
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Harry Hayfield wrote a new post, And on the subject of hurricanes, on the site The Weather of Wales (and other parts of the United Kingdom) 5 years, 1 month ago
Scotland to take legal action if Typhoon Hagibis forces cancellation
The Rugby World Cup (being hosted by Japan) was awarded to the nation back in 2009. In the time since that decision was made, Japan has seen […]
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Harry Hayfield wrote a new post, I think it is high time we had a serious discussion about hurricanes in the UK, on the site The Weather of Wales (and other parts of the United Kingdom) 5 years, 1 month ago
Members will know that I have long said that just because a hurricane loses it’s tropical status, the National Hurricane Centre shouldn’t forget about it and given the most recent forecast track by the Centre I […]
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Harry Hayfield commented on the post, Second Quarter Temperature Record for Llanrhystud, on the site The Weather of Wales (and other parts of the United Kingdom) 5 years, 4 months ago
Although the station collects data all the time, when you try and get it out it doesn’t come out as I was hoping. Instead of producing data where it shows the highest temperature and lowest temperature during any 24 hour period, it rather unhelpfully dumps the data in 15 minute intervals and does not seem to have a 24 hour max min option. If you…[Read more]
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Harry Hayfield wrote a new post, Second Quarter Temperature Record for Llanrhystud, on the site The Weather of Wales (and other parts of the United Kingdom) 5 years, 4 months ago
(Data Source: Netatmo Temperature Guage kindly supplied by Nathan)
Maximum Maximum
Apr 22.6°C (Apr 23)
May 20.1°C (May 14th)
Jun 26.1°C (June 28th)Maximum Minimum
Apr 15.3°C (Apr 23)
May 18.2°C (May […]
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Hi there Harry! Good to see you posting climate summaries again. I am running behind as usual, as I just posted my May summary only a few days ago. You asked for comments about your comparison between your Netatmo station and the data from Aberporth. Well a comparison of the data sets really can’t be made because you have two very different data sets posted. Aberporth has averages of daily highs and lows, your Netatmo station shows monthly extremes. You should compile the same sort of statistic for either your station or for Aberporth. That would make what is called “apples to apples comparisons, not apples to oranges”.
What sort of parameters can you collect with the netatmo station? I have seen it before, and I know it collects other types of data. You should publish the other data it collects in your summaries. It would be most interesting for all to see. Does it accurately collect rainfall data? Don’t you have a different gauge for measuring your rainfall? Precipitation makes for the most interesting comparisons of nearby stations. I hope you read my May summary recently, I have all kinds of climatic variables reported on/published for the month.
Thanks again for posting data for your station there in Llanrhystud
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Although the station collects data all the time, when you try and get it out it doesn’t come out as I was hoping. Instead of producing data where it shows the highest temperature and lowest temperature during any 24 hour period, it rather unhelpfully dumps the data in 15 minute intervals and does not seem to have a 24 hour max min option. If you would like, you are more than welcome to download the data yourself from April 1st to June 30th to see if you have any better luck than I seem to be having in getting daily maxes and mins.
The rain guage is a lot simpler to understand. The daily measurements are divided by hours, weekly into six hour chunks, the monthly into daily chunks, and the yearly by week, but as I didn’t get the rain guage until June 21st, I will start covering rainfall from this month on (which is a shame as the week before we had enough rain in a week to complete a monthly tally!)
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Harry Hayfield posted a new activity comment 5 years, 7 months ago
This user is a spammer, please ban from this forum
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Harry Hayfield wrote a new post, Today is Boat Race Day, on the site The Weather of Wales (and other parts of the United Kingdom) 5 years, 7 months ago
When the entire country’s attention will focus on a four mile section of the River Thames in London going from Putney to Mortlake which can be done in a fast a time as 16′ 19″ (10 knots) and over the last 189 […]
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Harry Hayfield wrote a new post, Little April Showers…in a manner of speaking, on the site The Weather of Wales (and other parts of the United Kingdom) 5 years, 7 months ago
In 1942 when the film Bambi was released, people always expected April showers (or lambing storms as they are known in the UK) to be brief, heavy downpours of rain, so what they would make of some of the […]
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Harry Hayfield wrote a new post, Having the builders in can create havoc, on the site The Weather of Wales (and other parts of the United Kingdom) 5 years, 8 months ago
pecially when, as they are dealing with electrics, they have to switch the power off so many times that (as was the case with me) from 11.27am GMT on St. Valentine’s Day until 1.53pm GMT on February 24th my wifi […]
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Harry Hayfield commented on the post, January Climate Data for Llanrhystud, Ceredigion, Wales, on the site The Weather of Wales (and other parts of the United Kingdom) 5 years, 9 months ago
I have been led to believe that if the amount of rain is less than 1mm (0.04 inches) it is formally announced as “trace”, the good thing is that my guage does indeed have a 1mm mark clearly visible therefore any rainfall below that is counted as “trace”. In the 17 years that we have lived on the coast it has only snowed on the following occasions:…[Read more]
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Harry Hayfield wrote a new post, January Climate Data for Llanrhystud, Ceredigion, Wales, on the site The Weather of Wales (and other parts of the United Kingdom) 5 years, 9 months ago
Thanks to Nathan very kindly sending me his weather station (so that I am now able to record the temperature remotely, which being a carer is an absolute godsend) I am now able to produce my first full climate […]
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Thanks Harry. Good to see your basic data for January. With 14 days of rain yielding only 2.10″ , you must have mostly light daily amounts. Does your weather station record trace amounts? Usually they don’t, and you have to closely observe the conditions to notice and record trace amounts. Any amount, even a few drops, counts as a trace. Can you measure snow if you get any? Can you compare your temp averages to any nearby official stations?
Thanks again for posting. I eagerly await hearing back from you and seeing your February data in about a month. I haven’t even started to compile my January data, as I record and report a lot more daily data than just the basic daily temps and rainfall/snowfall.
Kevin
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I have been led to believe that if the amount of rain is less than 1mm (0.04 inches) it is formally announced as “trace”, the good thing is that my guage does indeed have a 1mm mark clearly visible therefore any rainfall below that is counted as “trace”. In the 17 years that we have lived on the coast it has only snowed on the following occasions: November 2010 – January 2011, January 2013, February 2018 therefore it doesn’t snow enough to be able to answer that question.
The nearest official station (that is comparable) is Aberporth (a village some fifteen miles down the coast), however that station is 120 metres higher up than me and therefore is more likely to get colder temperatures than I do (and therefore is not suitable for direct comparison)
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Perhaps this concept of a trace amount being less than 1 mm is different than in the U.S.A. because our rain gauges are calibrated to the nearest 0.01″ inch. Any amount less than half of 0.01″ (0.005″) is considered to be a trace here in the U.S. So we have two different definitions of trace amounts in the world if this is true. Let’s see if we can get some discussion going on this topic. Comparing your precipitation amounts with Aberporth could be useful in certain types of events, if not the temperatures due to the elevation differences. Thanks for posting Harry!
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Harry Hayfield wrote a new post, The after effects of Storm Callum, on the site The Weather of Wales (and other parts of the United Kingdom) 6 years, 1 month ago
Storm Callum, the third named storm to hit the UK, was enhanced by Hurricane Leslie which has been churning in the Atlantic for the last three weeks, as it interacted with a strong depression in the Atlantic and […]
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Harry Hayfield wrote a new post, Storm Ali : The Aftermath, on the site The Weather of Wales (and other parts of the United Kingdom) 6 years, 2 months ago
Storm Ali officially ended at 3.00am BST this morning when the last of the winds connected to the storm reduced below gale force in the Shetland Islands leaving a vast amount of damage across Scotland, Northern […]
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