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Is it raining at Dunkeld right now?

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Tim Chappell 05 Jul 2011
Anyone who's actually there, or within sight of it-- please let me know what it's doing this arvo.

(Everyone else, there's no need to point me to the online forecasts, thanks: I know about them.)
 CurlyStevo 05 Jul 2011
In reply to Tim Chappell:
are you aware of this very usefull tool
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/
Tim Chappell 05 Jul 2011
In reply to Tim Chappell:


Anyone who's actually there, or within sight of it-- please let me know what it's doing this arvo.

(Everyone else, there's no need to point me to the online forecasts, thanks: I know about them.)
 CurlyStevo 05 Jul 2011
In reply to Tim Chappell:
this is not a forecast it's live rainfall information based on a radar
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/
 Stuart S 05 Jul 2011
In reply to Tim Chappell:

Hopefully dry - my wife's supposed to be climbing at upper cave just now, and she's not returned home or texted to say she's bailed to Ratho!
Tim Chappell 05 Jul 2011
In reply to Stuart S:

Thanks, Stuart, that's useful.
 jamscoz 05 Jul 2011
In reply to Tim Chappell: ha.
Its pretty nice in Perth, some blue skies trying to break through. It did rain here this morning but dried up. I would head up. Looks nice.
Tim Chappell 05 Jul 2011
In reply to jamscoz:

Good omens... fingers crossed

 tony 05 Jul 2011
In reply to Tim Chappell:

It's just starting to rain in Crieff.
Tim Chappell 05 Jul 2011
In reply to tony:

<jogs around in small anti-rain dance>
 JLS 05 Jul 2011
In reply to CurlyStevo:

Don't be coming on here with your techno wizardry. We are old skool, we believe in rain dances, omens and other such truths as told to us by our ancestors. Now feck-off.
Tim Chappell 05 Jul 2011
In reply to JLS:

First-hand evidence is a lovely thing.
In reply to Tim Chappell: Chucking it down in Blairgowrie for last 20 mins.
 MG 05 Jul 2011
In reply to Tim Chappell:
> (In reply to JLS)
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> First-hand evidence is a lovely thing.

You really should use the radar too. It not only shows you what is happening now but also how it is changing and has changed. Better than "first-hand".

Tim Chappell 05 Jul 2011
In reply to graeme gatherer:

Looking grimmer and grimmer here in Dee too.
Tim Chappell 05 Jul 2011
In reply to MG:

I do use the radar, but as I began by saying explicitly, that isn't what I'm after on this thread.
 MG 05 Jul 2011
In reply to Tim Chappell: No you didn't, you mentioned forecasts. Radar isn;t a forecast.
 MG 05 Jul 2011
In reply to Tim Chappell:
> (In reply to graeme gatherer)
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> Looking grimmer and grimmer here in Dee too.


Now, if you used the radar...
Tim Chappell 05 Jul 2011
In reply to MG:
> (In reply to Tim Chappell) Radar isn;t a forecast.

Literalist. As was perfectly obvious, I was asking those who could see with their own two eyes to report back. All clear now?
 MG 05 Jul 2011
In reply to Tim Chappell: You are in no position to critize pendantry
Tim Chappell 05 Jul 2011
In reply to MG:

That would be "criticise".

OK, you lured me in... again...
In reply to Tim Chappell: Damp-ish but quite bright and not currently raining on the Fife Riviera Tim, if you need a plan B
 MG 05 Jul 2011
In reply to Tim Chappell: I thought you were a fan of Oxford?
 franksnb 05 Jul 2011
In reply to Tim Chappell:

ring one of the shop in dunkled
Tim Chappell 05 Jul 2011
In reply to MG:

Fan, but discerning fan. "Whoreson zed, unnecessary letter" has always been my motto.
 CurlyStevo 05 Jul 2011
In reply to JLS:
haha
 CurlyStevo 05 Jul 2011
In reply to MG:
Personally I find if you watch the animation on the rain radar you can sometimes get a much better guess on rainfall for the next few hours than the forecast.

BTW it is raining in dunkeld just now, I know that and I'm 600 miles south!
 Simon Caldwell 05 Jul 2011
In reply to CurlyStevo:
The radar's not always right, it says that we had rain for over an hour this afternoon but it's stayed dry.
Tim Chappell 05 Jul 2011
In reply to Toreador:
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> The radar's not always right, it says that we had rain for over an hour this afternoon but it's stayed dry.


Exactly. It says it's raining here now, but it isn't. Hence my original post.

Talking of which, what's it doing in Dunkeld right now, anyone who's actually there?

 Simon Caldwell 05 Jul 2011
In reply to Tim Chappell:

It's still dry in Wetherby if that's any help
Tim Chappell 05 Jul 2011
In reply to Toreador:

Thanks very much; it isn't in the slightest
 malky_c 05 Jul 2011
In reply to Tim Chappell: Not raining in Inverness just now. Glad to be of assistance.
Tim Chappell 05 Jul 2011
In reply to malky_c:

Hello, Reykjavik? Come in, Reykjavik...
 MG 05 Jul 2011
In reply to CurlyStevo: Exactly'
 CurlyStevo 06 Jul 2011
In reply to Toreador:
The rain radar can quite often be wrong when light blue is shown or no rain is shown, in the former it may actually be dry and in the later it can be drizzling. When it shows heavier rain (as it was yesterday) it does tend to be raining.
 Simon Caldwell 06 Jul 2011
In reply to CurlyStevo:
> When it shows heavier rain (as it was yesterday) it does tend to be raining.

Agreed. Only yesterday it wasn't raining here despite showing oranges and reds - the exception that proves the rule
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