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  • fatbelly
    fatbelly Posts: 23,138 Forumite
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    edited 27 October 2013 at 9:15PM
    Something nasty brewing in the Atlantic. This is live data from a weather buoy about 300 miles west of Cornwall.

    plot_met.php?station=62029&meas=pres&uom=M&time_diff=0&time_label=GMT

    http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=62029&unit=E&tz=GMT
  • GreyQueen
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    :( I wish I wasn't so ignorant but I have a vague recollection that low pressure isn't a good thing in this context? Is 990 an OMG moment?
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  • barker77
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    Fatbelly - where did you get that graph from looks interesting!
  • pinkmami
    pinkmami Posts: 1,110 Forumite
    It was stormier last night for me than it is now. Winds have eased a lot to what they were this morning.

    Last night I had strong wind, rain, hail & thunder & lightening.

    Its been glorious today!

    personally I think they're making a mountain out of a mole hill and just covering their backs.!

    (If not, I'll eat my hat!!)
  • Hillbilly2
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    I'm just moaning on tw*tter.

    Neighbours - not in now, have left 6 bags of garden refuse on the pavement as its refuse day tomorrow... So guess what will be over everything tomorrow.

    And just how did they get 6 garden refuse bags??

    Tidied up other refuse bags on dog walk. And also cleaned other peoples dog poops so the garden waste only distributes itself, not poop!

    I'm now so glad I took tomorrow off! Students unlikely to get in as FCC, FGW, Greater Anglia, etc not running until after 9am..
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  • Chrisblue1962
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    barker77 wrote: »
    Fatbelly - where did you get that graph from looks interesting!

    I'm sorry, Fatbelly can't reply right now as he's still swimming back from the weather buoy 300 miles west of Cornwall...:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

    Actually, Fatbelly, graph is quite impressive.
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  • GreyQueen
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    edited 27 October 2013 at 7:23PM
    :( Just been giving myself a crash course in barometric pressure at sea level. Lower pressure = higher associated winds.

    The lowest pressure recorded at SuperStorm Sandy was 940 millibars. And this thing is recording 990?! The lowest ever barometric pressure recorded was in 2005 - Hurricane Wilma - 882.

    Really hope this thing isn't getting much stronger. Can we see how to get the readings off these Atlantic buoys?

    ETA Gotcha! This is a UK weather buoy moored in the Atlantic roughly parallel to Northern France; http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=62029
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  • Grimbal
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    edited 27 October 2013 at 7:26PM
    GreyQueen wrote: »
    Can we see how to get the readings off these Atlantic buoys?

    go to http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
    click on the buoy you want data on
    click on full details n pop up window
    then cllick on graph icon next to what ever data point you want info on
    "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it" Einstein 1951
  • mardatha
    mardatha Posts: 15,612 Forumite
    All I know is that pressure dropping = storm.
  • [Deleted User]
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    bristol channel first and will get the worst!!! arghhh

    Is anyone down here going to sleep tonight?

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    Thanks for the pressure info from the buoys. BBC weather and met o are so dumbed down these days

    lol, just about to watch a film called `the perfect storm`
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