How to use the Daily Weather forum

Weather reports & watches

In an effort to increase the number of people providing weather comments, we have decided to create a daily weather forum thus making the reports, comments, media article and weather warnings easier to find and search.

You DO NOT need a weather station to post in any of these threads. A simple observation out of the window will suffice.

If you do have a station however, we would encourage you to post on a regular basis, particularly if the weather is changeable. On that basis multiple posts during a specific day are most welcome, especially if the data is changing or a major weather event is ongoing.

If the daily weather becomes a significant event in a particular region, posts may get moved to a seperate topic, but this is at the discretion of the moderating staff

Just a quick note on weather station reports.

With the change in layout and bringing everything together, the daily weather topics are designed for "everything weather" for that given day. The idea is that conversational weather discussion breeds more conversation, questions, discussion and interaction. On quiet weather days its quite hard to get that going and the temptation will be to just post the cut and paste from your weather station. Whilst this is perfectly acceptable and indeed encouraged, looking at the recent activity when we get long winded stats its a bit off putting and difficult to "read" or follow the days events.

To make the daily topic more user friendly I am proposing that we introduce an etiquette to daily weather reports from weather stations ( a bit like we do for signatures).

They should contain a time/date stamp and location and only refer to the salient measurements for that given day and should not be spread over more than 10 lines. (see example below)

Due to the fact we are gathering extremes and daily totals in the daily extremes topic, please refrain from including the following in the daily weather topic

• totals for yesterday/week/month/year
• averages for hours/days/weeks/months/years
• sunrise/moon/tide

All,

I'm bumping this post from Grant regarding the new format for posting daily weather station reports, please see above for the new format.

Many thanks,

I would like to remind all who copy and paste weather data from your weather station to this forum this message from Grant:

"Just a quick note on weather station reports.

With the change in layout and bringing everything together, the daily weather topics are designed for "everything weather" for that given day.
The idea is that conversational weather discussion breeds more conversation, questions, discussion and interaction.
On quiet weather days its quite hard to get that going and the temptation will be to just post the cut and paste from your weather station.
Whilst this is perfectly acceptable and indeed encouraged, looking at the recent activity when we get long winded stats its a bit off putting and difficult to "read" or follow the days events.

To make the daily topic more user friendly I am proposing that we introduce an etiquette to daily weather reports from weather stations (a bit like we do for signatures).

They should contain a time/date stamp and location and only refer to the salient measurements for that given day and should ideally not be spread over more than 10 lines."

• If you do copy and paste here directly from your weather station please could you take the time remove the lines that say for example: rainfall yesterday, rainfall this month, rainfall year to date etc.

• We wish the Todays Weather thread created each day to only have data relating to that day in question.

• We do have a daily thread in the Forecasting, Data Analysis & Weather Statistics forum where you can post your daily extremes for the previous day(s) and a thread also available for your monthly data.

This fully backs up Grant's final quote below:

"Due to the fact we are gathering extremes and daily totals in the daily extremes topic, please refrain from including the following in the Todays Weather topic.

• Totals for yesterday/week/month/year
• Averages for hours/days/weeks/months/years
• Sunrise/moon/tide"

Thanks.