Best Places in the UK to Watch the Geminids Meteor Showers

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/best-places-to-watch-the-geminids-meteor-shower.html
As the name suggests the best places to watch the Geminids meteor shower tonight weather permitting will be in the constellation of Gemini. This is reported to be the best meteor display of the year.

The National Trust give a full list of the best places to see this display. Please click link for details.
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-visits-walks/w-visits-dark_skies/w-visits-star_gazing_spots.html


Another chance to witness this display tonight,should the clouds part.:)

Roll of cloud along shore line

Dramatic picture of a roll front along the shore line.
Photo Copyright to Juan Manuel Hernandez Jimenez. may not be reproduced

Earths Twin Planet Kepler-22b

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/scientists-discover-earths-twin-planet-010419253.html
Scientists think they have found a twin Planet to the Earth with similiar conditions to a Spring day on Earth and a very similiar orbit. This is still being observed as to whether it is an orbit they are seeing or possibly another star moving across the planet.

Pink Sunset and Lobster pot

Lobster pot with beautiful Sunset Copyright Chris Boutilier. May not be reproduced

Double Rainbow Llanelli

These double rainbows are becoming increasingly more common in the UK.
Picture taken at Llanelli by Danny Davies

Newest Planet being formed

Picture copyright Adam Kraus

An astronomer has captured on camera the newest planet to be formed around a star ,something that has until now not been possible.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/astronomer-captures-image-planet-042921856.html

Galaxy Smash Up Pictures from ALMA

Wonderful pictures and information from Nat Geo as usual.

The Antennae Galaxies glow with psychedelic colors in the first publicly released picture that uses data from the Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimetre Array, or ALMA, a new telescope high in Chile's northern desert.



http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/10/111003-alma-radio-telescope-antennae-galaxies-picture-chile-space-science/http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

First Ever Image Of Fourth Order Rainbow

Image copyright to Michael Theusner

Double rainbows became an internet meme when a man placed a video of one on YouTube - complete with his hilariously exaggerated reaction, and sobbing voice, in the background.

Now a German sky photographer has gone not just one, but two, better: this photo reveals the first fourth-order rainbow ever reported - and only the second third-order rainbow to be photographed. It comes hot on the heels of the first ever photograph of a third-order rainbow - taken by another German sky photographer.
Please click link for further information.

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/10/third-and-fourth-order-rainbow.html

Guardian Angel in the Clouds

This is copyright to the person that took the picture. whom I'm not quite sure at present but will make reference later

October UK Record Temperatures

October UK Record Temperatures issued by the MET Office

The maximum daily temperature record for the UK as a whole for October has been broken with 29.9C recorded at Gravesend at 14:42 BST. The previous record value was reported at March in Cambridgeshire on 1st October 1985. The Wales maximum temperature value for October has also been exceeded with Hawarden reporting 28.2C at 14:12 BST. The previous was 26.4C at Ruthin in Denbighshire (1st October 1985). Issued at 1915 on Sat 01 Oct 2011.

Record Breaking Temperatures UK 30/09/2011

Record breaking temperatures in the UK exceed temperature in Mexico.
Last minute heatwave sweeping across the Uk over the last 3 days is the hottest recorded for over 100 years
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/record-breaking-britain-hotter-mexico-111720608.html

Dogs do go to heaven

Photo copyright to pets pardons

Lightning Strikes CN Tower Canada 23/09/2011

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/theweekinpictures/8785090/The-week-in-pictures-23-September-2011.html
Click link above for picture

Click link below if you love storms this is a cracker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCm2UCj6eDU

Nightsky for October 2011

What we can expect to see in the nightsky during October 2011
http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/astronomy/nightsky/

October Meteor Display Due 08/11/2011

CREDIT: Alex Tudorica/Argelander Institute for Astronomy


Unfortunately the western hemisphere will not be able to see the meteor shower similiar to the one in 2008 as it will be between 1-2pm on the afternoon of October 8th 2011

http://www.space.com/13027-draconids-meteor-shower-2011-skywatching-preview.html

Night Sky Watch September 2011

Picture NASA
Please click link for details for the September nightsky
http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/astronomy/nightsky/

Crop Circles

photo copyright Steve Alexander
http://www.popsci.com/technology/gallery/2011-08/gallery-crop-circle-artists-bring-fractals-fields?image=0
Crop Circles 6 works of unsigned crop art.Please click link for further information

First Picture Of Planet Earth Taken 1966

Credit NASA

First picture of the Planet Earth taken from Orbitor 1 1966
http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/first-earth-photo-space-1901/

The Night Sky During August

Image copyright Nik Szymanek
All photographs are copyright to their authors and may not be reproduced or copied.
Excellent overview on what is happening in the night sky throughout August 2011 Please click link for relevent information.
http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/astronomy/nightsky/

Chicago Asperatus Clouds

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/July-2011/Chicago-Asperatus-Cloud-Update/

Sunset Cornwall - August 02/08/2011

Glorious sunset in Cornwall with the sundog causing a cross like picture on the horizon

UFO discovered on the Ocean Floor

An ocean exploration team led by Swedish researcher Peter Lindberg has found what some are suggesting is a crashed flying saucer. Lindberg's team, which has had success in the past recovering sunken ships and cargo, was using sonar to look for the century-old wreck of a ship that went down carrying several cases of a super-rare champagne. Instead, the team discovered what it claims is a mysterious round object that might (or might not) be extraterrestrial.

Have scientists discovered a relic of a flying saucer whilst scanning the ocean floor. Will we find out. No I don't think so it would be far to big and expensive an operation to undertake to find out.
http://www.livescience.com/15311-ufo-ocean-floor.html

400 Years of Magnetic North Pole Shift

http://www.newsbad.com/story/alarming-noaa-data-rapid-pole-shift/july20113348

Nightsky StarwatchJuly 2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jun/27/starwatch-july-night-sky?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

Winter Weather Prediction 2011- 2012

http://www.exactaweather.com/UK_Long_Range_Forecast.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=push7IO4fCg&feature=share

Earthquake Portsmouth 14/07/11

Please click link for details

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14153116

Newton Abbott Earthquake 23/06/11

Click link for details
http://sciencythoughts.blogspot.com/2011/06/newton-abbot-earthquake.html

Tsunami Devon 29/06/11

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-13955321

Dummies guide to climate change

http://ecopreservationsociety.org/site/index.php/the-news/environmental-social-media/236-understanding-climate-science-simplified
A must easy read

June Skywatch

please click link below

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/may/30/starwatch-june-night-sky

Air Pollution,Smoke

keeping global warming to safe levels Photograph: Dave Reede/All Canada Photos/Corbis

Despite years of warning in regard to carbon emissions the output increased to a record high last year

Nuclear Hits Worldwide since 1945

http://youtu.be/LLCF7vPanrY
This map is amazing showing artists impression of 2053 nuclear tests on a worldwide map since 1945.Click above link for the map.

Joplinx Tornado

Charlie Reidel
A receipt from a tire store in Joplin, Mo., turned up 525 miles away on a front porch in north-central Indiana, a record distance for apparent tornado debris to travel, a Purdue University storm researcher reports.

"This paper traveled more than twice as far as the longest distance recorded for debris from a storm," said Ernest Agee, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences and tornado expert. The previous record was a canceled check that traveled 210 miles after the 1915 tornado in Great Bend, Kan.

The receipt, which was dated May 13 from Joplin Tire Center and folded into a quarter of its full size, landed in Royal Center, Ind., about 45 miles from West Lafayette, home of Purdue. The receipt was found Wednesday by Tia Fritz and her husband; she contacted Agee.

He told the university's news service that to reach Indiana the receipt would have to have been sucked into the tornado and then carried by the jet stream for 12 1/2 hours.

He explained that the distance paper travels is directly proportional to the intensity of the tornado. The Joplin tornado registered EF-5, the strongest, with winds topping 200 mph.

Icelandic Ash Cloud

Iceland Volcanic cloud
Latest from the Icelandic volcanic eruption the ash cloud is now coming across the UK on the prevailling Northerly winds, The ash is thought to be heavier than the last eruption so may well fall into the sea before creating to much disruption in the UK.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/may/24/volcanic-ash-cloud-travel-disruption?CMP=twt_gu

Updates from the Met Office

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/latest/volcano

Ash Moves towards UK Aero space

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/23/iceland-volcano-ash-uk-tuesday

Volano runs out of puff

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1390558/Runs-puff-Hope-holiday-makers-Iceland-volcano-stops-erupting-skies-UK-clear.html

Eruption In April

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8621407.stm

Roll Cloud Uruguay

Roll Cloud

Photo Daniela Eberl.... Las Olas beach

This type of cloud form ahead of a cold front and can stretch for miles.
They are most common when an advancing storm front causes moist air to rise, then cool to the point where it becomes a cloud known as the dew point. These do not form into tornadoes

First New Cloud Specie Since 1951

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/new-cloud-pictures/

http://www.meteorologynews.com/2009/06/06/new-cloud-type-discovered-undulus-asperatus/

Gavin Pretor -Pinney, Put the name of Undulatus/Undulus Asperatus forward as a new cloud specie in 2009 it now has official recognition as such

Sunset in Moray by Mark Hamblin

Noughts and Crosses,Contrails

Bald Eagles January 2011 Missouri

Aurora Arctic Circle

Stunning pictures of the Aurora taken at the Arctic Circle by Mark Hamblin, Photos are copyright of the photographer please do not copy or reproduce without express permission.

Coal Pits Yorkshire March 2011 Julia

Julia Managed to find the famous stone today, as ever in the field researching myths and legends for her striking well acclaimed paintings of Yorkshire Myths.

Below
Coal Pit landfills from a bygone era that dot certain areas in Yorkshire look like mini meteor strikes

Cloud -Weather -Planet -Information

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Brilliant website for Cloudscapes
http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/

BBC Weather Map
http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/10209
http://www.yourweather.co.uk/weather-Europe-United+Kingdom-1-1-48.html

This is a link to a brilliant sight and I recommend anyone that is studying the weather and cloud formation to view the site and it's associated links.
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/parhelia.htm

Torro Storm chasers
http://www.torro.org.uk/site/index.php

Atronomer Uncle Rod useful no how for looking further afield
http://uncle-rods.blogspot.com/2009/07/zen-and-art-of-telescope-collimation.html

The Sky day and night
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_sky

What Planets are in view tonight
http://www.astronomy.co.uk/

Phases of the Moon 2001-2025
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/phase/phase2001pst.html

Lunar Phases
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_phase

Super Moon on 18 th March 2011
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/16mar_supermoon/

Mountains and Hills UK
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mountains_and_hills_of_the_United_Kingdom

NASA launches Glory 24/02/11
http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/nasa-glory-earth-climate-satellite-110223-1147/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

NASA Goddard Centre
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=48574&src=eoa-iotd

Lighting Strikes UK
http://www.nowcast.co.uk/lightning/

April 2011 warmest on record since 1659
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulhudson/2011/05/april-2011-warmest-since-1659.shtml

Sunset Christmas Day 2010

2010 Second warmest year recorded Gateway to Cornwall