This site provides viewers with all sorts of weather related information. It includes live weather data, from the weather station here in Mumbles;
information on sun/moon times; tide times and heights for Mumbles; how to identifying clouds; broadcast materials from weather forecasts to the shipping forecasts; thunder storm locations; explanations of weather phenomena and links to the World Meteorological Organisation, Cloud Atlas.
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Rain Data (all)
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For information related to moon rise/set times please follow this link …. moon rise/set times ….
For similar information on sunrise/set times follow this … sunrise/set times.
For local tide times and heights, please click the following link which will take you to the …Admiralty Easy Tide … website.
Information on inshore waters and shipping forecasts
The shipping forecast and the inshore waters reports.
These two services are provided by the Met Office; the Shipping Forecast is aimed mainly at professional sea users, along with the amateur sailing fraternity. The Inshore Waters forecast is aimed more at the general public, farmers, for whom weather conditions are important, and other people who live near the coastline and could be affected by adverse weather conditions.
The Shipping Forecast is split up into sea areas, 31 in total. The forecast is broadcast by the BBC at 0048 and 0520 (long wave and FM) 1201 and 1754 (normally long wave only). It always starts with the sea area known as Viking, which is located off the southwest coast of Norway. It continues in a clockwise direction describing the predicted weather information of the next sea area and so on, ending with South East Iceland. Click here for the map of the sea areas and current shipping forecast.
Inshore waters forecast
Similar to the shipping forecast, the UK coastline is split up into sequential areas starting in the north east of Scotland at Cape Wrath going clockwise and ending up in the Shetland Islands. The inshore waters forecast provides similar information to the shipping, but on a more localised basis for the particular segment it covers. T see the latest inshore waters forecast click …here.
This service is provided by the Met Office.
How to identify clouds
This area of the site will provide you with a relatively easy way to identify clouds you see on a day to day basis.
A good starting point is to estimate the height of the lowest cloud, then go to the picture below, look for that particular height and see what clouds could be visible. Click on the green circle nearest to the cloud you think it could be. The link will then take you to the World Meteorological Cloud Atlas, which will show you real examples of the cloud and more info on it.
Aurora borealis
The aurora borealis, also known as the Northern Lights, is a natural light display in the night sky caused by solar activity.
Click here to see current conditions and more info.
- What causes it
The sun releases electrically charged particles, called solar wind, which travel towards Earth. Earth’s magnetic field captures some of these particles and directs them towards the poles. The particles collide with atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere, which heats them up and produces light.
Thunder storm tracking.
https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;y=51.82https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;y=51.8273;x=-2.476;z=9;d=2;dl=2;dc=0;73;x=-2.476;z=9;d=2;dl=2;dc=0;The following comes from the Met Office
What causes lightning?
As warm air rises it cools and condenses forming small droplets of water. If there is enough instability in the air, the updraft of warm air is rapid and the water vapour will quickly form a cumulonimbus cloud. Typically, these cumulonimbus clouds can form in under an hour.
As the warm air continues to rise, the water droplets combine to create larger droplets which freeze to form ice crystals. As a result of circulating air in the clouds, water freezes on the surface of the droplet or crystal. Eventually, the droplets become too heavy to be supported by the updraughts of air and they fall as hail.
As hail moves within the cloud, it picks up a negative charge by rubbing against smaller positively charged ice crystals. A negative charge forms at the base of the cloud where the hail collects, while the lighter ice crystals remain near the top of the cloud and create a positive charge.
The negative charge is attracted to the Earth’s surface and other clouds and objects. When the attraction becomes too strong, the positive and negative charges come together, or discharge, to balance the difference in a flash of lightning (sometimes known as a lightning strike or lightning bolt). The rapid expansion and heating of air caused by lightning produces the accompanying loud clap of thunder.
Where do thunderstorms form?
Thunderstorms are common occurrences on Earth. It is estimated that a lightning strike hits somewhere on the Earth’s surface approximately 44 times every second, a total of nearly 1.4 billion lightning strikes every year.
Owing to the fact thunderstorms are created by intense heating of the Earth’s surface, they are most common in areas of the globe where the weather is hot and humid. Landmasses, therefore, experience more storms than the oceans and thunderstorms are also more frequent in tropical areas than the higher latitudes.
In the UK thunderstorms are most common over the East Midlands and the southeast.
Info supplied from the Met Office.
Click here for thunderstorms in the UK.
This area of the site will give you access to various broadcast stations, which transmit weather forecast and other weather related information.
Weather from the BBC for Mumbles,
Met office weather forecast
Windy.com
Time and Date
Thunder storms can be very exciting to watch, they can also cause severe damage and can be a serious threat to life. Luckily, this country does not suffer thunderstorms on a regular basis. Click …here… for live , UK thunderstorm locations.
The following link will take you to The Tornado and Storm Research Organisation …click here… which will give you some more facts about thunderstorms in the UK.
Tide Times
21 November 2024
| Time | Type | Height |
| 03:10 | low | 2.6m |
| 09:37 | high | 8.2m |
| 15:43 | low | 2.86m |
| 22:11 | high | 7.64m |
22 November 2024
| Time | Type | Height |
| 03:57 | low | 3.11m |
| 10:30 | high | 7.68m |
| 16:43 | low | 3.3m |
| 23:09 | high | 7.19m |
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