Snow Weather Facts and Trivia
Even though we don't get much snow in Crondall (our local records and history are here), we nevertheless get asked lots of snow related questions, so we've tried to pull together answers to [...]
Even though we don't get much snow in Crondall (our local records and history are here), we nevertheless get asked lots of snow related questions, so we've tried to pull together answers to [...]
Here's a really neat dynamic tool that shows a view over Crondall from just over 22,000 miles above, so you can see the progress of night and day as it actually happens! [...]
If the weather is a bit humid then just check the maps below to see where the latest lightning strikes are happening. We have a global map available first which you can them [...]
'Jet streams' were first discovered during the Second World War. Pilots were regularly flying between United Kingdom and the United States of America and they noticed that it was quicker to fly to [...]
Earth is 8,000 miles (12,800 Kilometres) in diameter and 93,000,000 miles (148,800,000 Kilometres) away from the sun. We receive only 1/2,000,000,000 or .00000005 of 1% of the sun's energy. However, [...]
Latest Weather Alerts from the Met Office And if you would like to see those alerts that are more directly focused on Crondall and Southern England then please click [...]
We have a wide selection of forecasts available for not just Crondall and the Farnham / Aldershot surrounding area, but also the UK. The forecasts cover a very local forecast for the next [...]
The scale was created in 1805 by Sir Francis Beaufort, a British naval officer and hydrographer. At that time naval officers made regular weather observations, but there was no scale and so they [...]
The number of sunspots observed on the "surface" of the Sun varies from year to year. Visible sunspots are caused by magnetic disturbances in the sun that displace its bright outer layer and reveal the slightly cooler [...]
If you would like to know more about the Aurora Borealis then click here otherwise here's the latest UK status: and here's the latest graph: and if you'd like to sign up for direct [...]
Don't you just wish that we could see these from Crondall? Before we cover more about what causes the Northern Lights, the frequency that they can be seen and even how likely are [...]
If you are wondering how the rain is right now, how it developed over the last hour or so or how the rainfall is expected to develop over the next 3 hours, then [...]
Dotted around the UK are various moored weather buoys which are also collecting weather data continuously and feeding it back into the Met Office systems. As well as the usual weather climate statistics [...]
We are fortunate to have access to various suppliers of weather data - all of which tend to interpret the weather patterns and data bases slightly differently! The Visual Crossing folks are first [...]
The UV Index provides a daily forecast of the expected risk of overexposure to the sun. The Index predicts UV intensity levels on a scale of 0 to 10+, where 0 indicates a [...]