Timmead

99.1 mm this April for me (177% of 1971-2000 average). A staggering 58 times more than last April (1.7 mm).

Their forecast for last April is hilarious http://wsi.com/fe0744ce-5919-47ba-bed6-5a6856c6553f/news-scheduled-forecast-release-details.htm

947 hPa pressure in western isles. Nice

Gusts are an odd thing; they can indeed be very localised, making it difficult to ascertain true windiness from gust readings. I therefore tend to stick to average wind speeds, which show more regional consistency.

Official figures for Heathrow confirm my suspicion... It wasn't that bad. In fact, Feb of this year had 2 windier days.

Rainfall stats are available from hundreds of both official and amateur stations (including mine) around the country. Is there something special about your rain gauges?

To be though, Netweather have cocked up many a forecast in their time (notably this summer, of course). So let's not get too high and mighty over the Daily Mail's output.

Just had 16mm in 30 mins from that squall line. Still going as well.

Ensembles still stuck for me

Thanks. Probably not enough for the farmers then - though I guess some will be luckier than others

Anyone got access to the cumulative rainfall radar? Would be interesting to see from a 'drought' point of view.

http://www.environme...ught/31749.aspx If the EA are not concerned, then nor am I. Scaremongering is the biggest threat we face, not water shortage. Also read their report for April: reservoir and groundwater stocks are excellent and it's a long way off to any potential issues, so let's try to keep things in perspective if at all possible.

A bit off topic, but it is a force as far as most physicists are concerned (albeit a "fictitious" one in that it does, as you say, originate from relative rotation of different co-ordinate reference frames), as it must be considered in dynamics calculations in a rotating frame. For example, a stone dropped perfectly vertically from a helicopter at the equator in totally calm conditions will experience the Coriolis force and thus drift slightly eastwards. If you ignored it, experiments wouldn't match your theory. Therefore it is a "real" force

Fair enough! Good to hear that you are approaching this from a neutral/sceptical observation point. I've seen too many people on these forums bending data/observations to suit their beliefs.

I'll be surprised if you get a decent PMCC based on that graph of predicted daily temps. However, as I said before, it's probably more interesting to see how well it works over the years, so I'm glad to hear you're going to have a look at past years. Admittedly you won't get as much praise for correctly predicting the past as you would the future, but I'll be impressed if anything does show up. Edit: The reason I'll be surprised (putting aside my general scepticism of lunar-based prediction) is that its far too regular - I don't see how it would out like that; cold and mild don't alternate in such a way. But I'll hold back any further comments until I see some more data.