Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..

[Uncle D]

Chucking it down up here in Lasa, by looking at the pool I guesstimate around 10mm and counting so far, couldn't get to the car to close the slightly open windows

[trevnhil]

Back to being sunny up in the hills now. But the fire helicopters are out .

[LouiseCastricum]

Back to being sunny up in the hills now. But the fire helicopters are out .

Fire in Kritou Terra

[Uncle D]

Back to being sunny up in the hills now. But the fire helicopters are out .

Fire in Kritou Terra

Not too far from us, I wonder if the lightening caused it

[trevnhil]

It did seem to happen at the same time.

[Kili01]

Like Trev,
I heard in my case (!) distant rumbles of thunder but over the hills! But unfortunately, not a drop of rain....
I hope it will come soon, everywhere is so parched.

Dee

[trevnhil]

The 'Windy.com' weather site predicts thunder and lightning for our area this afternoon..

https://www.windy.com/34.886/32.508?thu ... ,m:eDjag3l

[Dominic]

Our pool is very full now, and it shows no signs of abating.

[cyprusmax47]

No rain here near Minthis hills, sunshine, but I can hear thunder from your direction Polemi/Lasa.... Just finished my lunch outside...

Max

[Devil]

It's stotting down here, 1.2 mm here on both gauges so far but falling quite heavily at 0.77 mm/min. At this rate, the Aercus is having a little difficulty to cope, but the Davis has no problem. It's eased off, now - after a further ~5 minutes - at 3.0 mm total but I don't think it's finished yet.

[Arrowhire]

Stoating is a good Scottish word for a very heavy downpour amongst many other things eg the rain is stoating down or marvelous ( these shoes are stoating )

[Devil]

Stotting is when the falling rain is so violent it splashes up again. It plays havoc with rain gauges which are notoriously inaccurate in very heavy rain. The gear I have has a deep funnel on the Davis but the Aercus is more a fairly shallow dished tray, both feeding see-saw transducers. I hope to have a new system with no moving parts, IF the German Post (DHL) release it (2 weeks in Frankfurt, sitting there!). It consists of a dome and each raindrop falling on it makes a sound whose characteristics are a function of the drop weight and velocity; all the drop sounds are integrated to calculate the rainfall. Yes, I'm a little sceptical, too, but we will see! It is part of a new hi-tech weather station where the wind speed and direction are calculated from static sensors (no moving parts like the vane and anemometer of my current systems); I understand the technology of this and I'm not sceptical for wind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY_9l4Ewecg

[memory man]

Stotting is when the falling rain is so violent it splashes up again.

Hi Devil,

What's "dingin' doon" rain ?

I'm sure Maggie will know this one!!

[cyprusmax47]

Stotting is when the falling rain is so violent it splashes up again. It plays havoc with rain gauges which are notoriously inaccurate in very heavy rain. The gear I have has a deep funnel on the Davis but the Aercus is more a fairly shallow dished tray, both feeding see-saw transducers. I hope to have a new system with no moving parts, IF the German Post (DHL) release it (2 weeks in Frankfurt, sitting there!). It consists of a dome and each raindrop falling on it makes a sound whose characteristics are a function of the drop weight and velocity; all the drop sounds are integrated to calculate the rainfall. Yes, I'm a little sceptical, too, but we will see! It is part of a new hi-tech weather station where the wind speed and direction are calculated from static sensors (no moving parts like the vane and anemometer of my current systems); I understand the technology of this and I'm not sceptical for wind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY_9l4Ewecg

Ha,Ha, that's why my measuring of rainfall is more accurate than all the fal-lal. I have a normal 20 l bucket in the garden. 9 buckets have the size of a m2. So its easy to measure the water in the bucket times 9 = l/m2 = mm.

Max

[Dominic]

We just measure the water level of the pool.

[Devil]

For me, dinging is heavy rain but not necessarily bouncing back up.

[Maggie B]

Stotting is when the falling rain is so violent it splashes up again.

Hi Devil,

What's "dingin' doon" rain ?

I'm sure Maggie will know this one!!

You've got me there Brian with your lovely Doric?!!! I definitely understand what 'dinging doon ' means in 'my head.' Hammering it down. ⛈. . . . . . . . . That would probably be one of the West Coasters' nearest translations. But, I bet you have a more precise description.

Maggie B

Dinging off a tin roof.

[trevnhil]

The weather forecast said nothing abut rain this morning. But we had a deluge here in Polemi around 6am

[Mrblobby]

Wunderground told me we might have some rain , but have had none yet .

[Dominic]

We had rain last night and early this morning.