Musings from the Merse
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
PATCHY RAIN. YOU HAVE NOT BEEN WARNED
Greeted by heavy rain all over the Small- House- in- Duns this morning I hastened to the BBC Blether Centre to enjoy the Weather Warnings at Ceefax 405. 'No Weather Warnings in Force in the UK' OK' switch to 401: Borders Region in a tasteful shade of green on the weather map : Patchy rain. Patchy Rain ? If this is patchy rain what is ordinary rain like? Patchy as raining only in Duns? The rest of the Merse balmy and arid? Switch to Borders Weather based in Greenlaw; 8 miles away. Gettable at
It has the odd combination of Light Rain and a STORM WARNING Pressure dropping like the proverbial stone By 13mb what ever that might mean. But raining so it is part of the Duns Patch.
Hutton had its own micro climate: dry, mostly-on a par with Dunbar which is the driest town in the UK. And very much dryer than its near neighbours in Paxton and Chirnside. Duns has the reputation of being wet but I notice that this month it has had exactly half the amount of rainfall than Greenlaw; hence patchy rain here and light rain in the ancient capital of Berwickshire. But our patchy rain has in a couple of hours equalled the total for the whole month so far.
And another thing: the BBC Weather gang have dumped their poets who used to compose those pages of fiction on Ceefax: No more whimsical Native American Chiefs : Broken Cloud, High Cloud and Light Mist and those occasional glimpses of Grudian type prognostications :
'Rain becoming Milk Later'
Bring back Mr Fish.
The Greenlaw site has a live webcam here This is fun as it updates every 5 secs. Nice image of a bedraggled pedestrian hurrying through the town, umbrella fending off light rain and gentle breeze- just at the corner of the turn off to Duns before the old Town hall. Press F5 and hey presto he has gone-to a dryer place one hopes. Left up the road to Duns?
To Patchy Rain and safety.
Or did the huge Timber Lorry filling the screen a couple of F5s later get him?
Hope not
Greeted by heavy rain all over the Small- House- in- Duns this morning I hastened to the BBC Blether Centre to enjoy the Weather Warnings at Ceefax 405. 'No Weather Warnings in Force in the UK' OK' switch to 401: Borders Region in a tasteful shade of green on the weather map : Patchy rain. Patchy Rain ? If this is patchy rain what is ordinary rain like? Patchy as raining only in Duns? The rest of the Merse balmy and arid? Switch to Borders Weather based in Greenlaw; 8 miles away. Gettable at
It has the odd combination of Light Rain and a STORM WARNING Pressure dropping like the proverbial stone By 13mb what ever that might mean. But raining so it is part of the Duns Patch.
Hutton had its own micro climate: dry, mostly-on a par with Dunbar which is the driest town in the UK. And very much dryer than its near neighbours in Paxton and Chirnside. Duns has the reputation of being wet but I notice that this month it has had exactly half the amount of rainfall than Greenlaw; hence patchy rain here and light rain in the ancient capital of Berwickshire. But our patchy rain has in a couple of hours equalled the total for the whole month so far.
And another thing: the BBC Weather gang have dumped their poets who used to compose those pages of fiction on Ceefax: No more whimsical Native American Chiefs : Broken Cloud, High Cloud and Light Mist and those occasional glimpses of Grudian type prognostications :
'Rain becoming Milk Later'
Bring back Mr Fish.
The Greenlaw site has a live webcam here This is fun as it updates every 5 secs. Nice image of a bedraggled pedestrian hurrying through the town, umbrella fending off light rain and gentle breeze- just at the corner of the turn off to Duns before the old Town hall. Press F5 and hey presto he has gone-to a dryer place one hopes. Left up the road to Duns?
To Patchy Rain and safety.
Or did the huge Timber Lorry filling the screen a couple of F5s later get him?
Hope not
Labels: Borders Weather, Patchy Rain, Small House in Duns
Comments:
An expert bloggee comments:
Storm Warning means the air pressure (high pressure is dry weather, low pressure is wet weather in general) has dropped by more than 10millibars in 24 hours.
In general the slower the pressure falls - the longer the "unsettled" conditions will last.
When the pressure "plummets" it usually means that we COULD get some very strong winds and very wet conditions (though whether that was the torrential rain we had earlier I am not sure yet)
The "Light Rain" is because our weather station is not ideally placed and gets a lot of shelter from the wall at the back of the house, this means that it does not collect as much rain as it would otherwise do in an open space (and that means no trees either) it therefore takes a lot longer to catch each millimetre of rain and hence it is very inaccurate reporting on the amount of rain (it can drizzle all day and the station says it is dry)
As for the webcam, there should be no need to press F5 - providing your Javascript is turned on - the image should update every 5 seconds (as should all the webcam images at www.nptohc.co.uk/webcams/ ) have you tried moving the cameras?
If you have Javascript enabled you can simply click on the links below the webcam image to move the camera and within 20 seconds the camera will have moved and the picture will of updated.
The webcam image you will see when you first enter or the page (or if you refresh it) is a cached image that is only updated every 5 minutes, and will be replaced with the "live" images every 5 seconds.....
Please feel free to email me if you are having any trouble using the site.
I am glad you found it fun though, I put it there for tourism (and recently weather - you should see how many visitors flock to the site when snow / thunder is forecast)
Many thanks for the article :)
Andy
Thanks Andy
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Storm Warning means the air pressure (high pressure is dry weather, low pressure is wet weather in general) has dropped by more than 10millibars in 24 hours.
In general the slower the pressure falls - the longer the "unsettled" conditions will last.
When the pressure "plummets" it usually means that we COULD get some very strong winds and very wet conditions (though whether that was the torrential rain we had earlier I am not sure yet)
The "Light Rain" is because our weather station is not ideally placed and gets a lot of shelter from the wall at the back of the house, this means that it does not collect as much rain as it would otherwise do in an open space (and that means no trees either) it therefore takes a lot longer to catch each millimetre of rain and hence it is very inaccurate reporting on the amount of rain (it can drizzle all day and the station says it is dry)
As for the webcam, there should be no need to press F5 - providing your Javascript is turned on - the image should update every 5 seconds (as should all the webcam images at www.nptohc.co.uk/webcams/ ) have you tried moving the cameras?
If you have Javascript enabled you can simply click on the links below the webcam image to move the camera and within 20 seconds the camera will have moved and the picture will of updated.
The webcam image you will see when you first enter or the page (or if you refresh it) is a cached image that is only updated every 5 minutes, and will be replaced with the "live" images every 5 seconds.....
Please feel free to email me if you are having any trouble using the site.
I am glad you found it fun though, I put it there for tourism (and recently weather - you should see how many visitors flock to the site when snow / thunder is forecast)
Many thanks for the article :)
Andy
Thanks Andy
