Nephology

[motorbiking]

I love looking at the sky and trying to predict the weather. You can be pretty accurate, with a bit of practice. I'm not an expert by any means, but I can normally work out what's going on from the sky. Does anyone else do this?

 

[Trazor]

This is my method.....

 

[Dork Lard]

I have a book called "Air Riders Weather" which aims to teach hang gliders, para gliders etc how to recognise from the cloud formations what the weather is about to do. Quite an interesting book if you into that sort of thing.

 

[motorbiking]

I was given a book by Olly Perkins

Reading the Clouds: How You Can Forecast the Weather​

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reading-Clouds-How-Forecast-Weather/dp/1472960181

turns out he was 14 when he wrote it.

 

[Dork Lard]

turns out he was 14 when he wrote it.

I've never seen someones age as a barrier to their achievements.

I pump a LOT of my £cash into motorcycle sport . . . . . & I can name quite a few 14yr olds (& under) who can ride that bike around Donny much better than you or I ever could.

I think that by the age of 6 I was capable to define the immediate weather with an instinct to know when to head for home.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I love looking at the sky and trying to predict the weather. You can be pretty accurate, with a bit of practice. I'm not an expert by any means, but I can normally work out what's going on from the sky. Does anyone else do this?

I just use my weather station, combined with rain radar web sites, if rain might be an issue.

 

[Old Salt]

I just look out of the window.

 

[Justin Passing]

I just look out of the window.

Pretty much.
MOst weather comes from the west and you usually know if it isn't, so look the right way.
You can often see a front, and the clouds & wind speed give a reasonable idea. I think it becomes largely intuitive.

If it's morning, wait until 9 and it'll change if it's going to - surprisingly often!

 

[gant]

Bit of a given in Manchester.

 

[Deleted member 18243]

If you can see Pendle Hill it means that it is going to rain.

If you can't see Pendle Hill it means that it is already raining.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

If can just hear the trains, the wind is from the north and it's going to become colder. If instead I just 'sense' their passing, it's fine.

 

[Deleted member 18243]

Has anyone experienced the Helm Wind in Cumbria?

 

[blup]

Our old Irish neighbour who immigrated from the west (atlantic) coast of ireland read the weather and the clouds almost infallibly. He could predict rain from the cloud structure and formation and temperature. I don't remember him ever getting it wrong.

Blup

 

[Lazzy]

How do you do that at night ? Wid a big torch ?

 

[crystal ball]

Has anyone experienced the Helm Wind in Cumbria?

The only named wind in the UK I believe , but no