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March-April Review: March and April have produced some of the most fascinating and contrasting weather I have ever observed as an amateur meteorologist! Almost overnight we moved from an incredibly warm and dry March to the wettest, and one of the coldest, Aprils on record. Have a look at the facts and figures in our latest March-April SpireWeather Review.
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Great web-site you’ve built up there, Simon – highly informative and extremely useful – congratulations!
We view it regularly.
Many thanks for your comments PH – if you have any suggestions then do let me know.
First, great website! Can’t believe I’ve not seen it before.
Second, I wonder if you have a view on this: http://lifehacker.com/5896281/use-your-coffee-cup-as-a-basic-barometer – using bubbles in a coffee cup to predict the weather. Does it work ?
Regards
Matt
Hi Matt, thanks for your kind comments!
I think it’s purely down to basic thermodynamics – warm fluid naturally rises in the centre and moves towards the cooler fluid around the edges. Some amusing comments after the article though!
Good work weather man!
Thanks Georgia!
Hi How long do you think this very mild spell will last?
Hi Dave, several models are predicting a cold spell from this time next week, Friday 27th Jan., and into February, but there is still some uncertainty. Follow us on @SpireWeather on Twitter for updates.
Thank you for showing everyone my Dubrovnik waterspout photo.
It was a fantastic sight, only wished I’d had something better than a mobile phone to take the picture.
Have lots more but this was the best!
It’s a pleasure Mo, it’s a fantastic photo, especially for a mobile phone. Thanks for allowing me to publish it.
Hello my unknown friends! Every morning first step is to open ‘spireweather’ and I am very happy when you are reporting a good weather. I am from ROMANIA and I am living temporary in the beautiful and expensive Medieval Cathedral City of Salisbury. Can you not prolong the summer?
:):) Thank you for your professional website. Best Regards from me and my family.
Hi Lucian, thank you for your kind comments – unfortunately I cannot prolong the summer but the next few days will be dry and warm! I’m glad you are enjoying our beautiful medieval city – I am sorry it is so expensive but like our English summers, I cannot do anything about it!
Hi SpireWeatherMan! Just want to say how good your new website looks! It looks really professional and I love all of the information in the bar on the right – especially the map where you can see who is visiting. It seems you have worked really hard and it has definitely paid off! Well Done
Thanks Jessica, my wife calls me her weather widow but I love my hobby & I’m glad people find the site useful!
Good work Weather Man! This is a very smart and comprehensive site. I particularly like the Astronomy section and the option to download an iPhone App (which also looks very smart & concise). You might want to consider an Android app, as I would certainly use it!
My only slight critisism is the blue font on top of black background used in the SpireWeatherMan Twitter section of your site. This makes the headers/links difficult to read compared to rest of the site. I would be tempted to lighten the blue slightly or even add a highlight. Also, (and I’m being fastidious here!), I might change the shade of blue used for your Sky Map too, but to be honest, even without a change, it is a fantastic feature!
Hi Charlotte thanks for your comments! I agree the links in the Twitter feeds were a little difficult to read, so I have lightened them, but those widgets are provided by Twitter and I can only set the colour. Likewise with the star chart, the default colours are blue during daylight hours and black at night – they are set by Your Sky and cannot be altered.
You know me – I like fastidious, so any further comments do let me know!