Re: Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 12:57 pm
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 
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Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
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Re: Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 2:05 pm
Back to being sunny up in the hills now. But the fire helicopters are out .
Re: Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 2:20 pm
Re: Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 3:28 pm
Not too far from us, I wonder if the lightening caused it
Re: Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 4:23 pm
It did seem to happen at the same time.
Re: Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 6:17 pm
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
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
Re: Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 7:14 am
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
https://www.windy.com/34.886/32.508?thu ... ,m:eDjag3l
Re: Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 2:51 pm
Our pool is very full now, and it shows no signs of abating. 
Re: Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 3:21 pm
No rain here near Minthis hills, sunshine, but I can hear thunder from your direction Polemi/Lasa.... Just finished my lunch outside...
Max
Max
Re: Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 3:36 pm
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.
Re: Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 5:37 pm
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 )
Re: Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 5:58 pm
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY_9l4Ewecg
Re: Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 6:00 pm
Re: Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 6:11 pm
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.Devil wrote: ↑Sun Sep 09, 2018 5:58 pm 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
Max
Re: Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 6:38 pm
We just measure the water level of the pool.
Re: Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 6:45 pm
For me, dinging is heavy rain but not necessarily bouncing back up.
Re: Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 7:20 pm
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.memory man wrote: ↑Sun Sep 09, 2018 6:00 pmHi Devil,
What's "dingin' doon" rain ?
I'm sure Maggie will know this one!!
But, I bet you have a more precise description. 
Maggie B
Dinging off a tin roof.
Re: Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:08 am
The weather forecast said nothing abut rain this morning. But we had a deluge here in Polemi around 6am
Re: Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:42 am
Wunderground told me we might have some rain , but have had none yet .
Re: Rain and Thunderstorms for Friday..
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:57 am
We had rain last night and early this morning.