SEVERE WEATHER PHOTOGRAPHY
FROM MID-WALES:
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JOHN MASON'S WEBSITE
A
website dedicated to all aspects of Welsh weather but
especially to storm-chasing - the art of deliberately
intercepting thunderstorms, floods, tornadoes, hail,
blizzards and the like, armed with a camera and a certain
amount of caution!
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above: incredible sheared
thunderstorm anvil with mammatus - near Machynlleth,
May 2003.
SITE-NAVIGATION:
PART 1)
IMAGES FOR SALE: THE MID-WALES IMAGE-LIBRARY:
CLICK
HERE
The
Image-Library is a collection of several hundred weather,
wildlife and landscape photographs from Mid-Wales. They
are arranged by subject in a series of galleries for easy
searching. All images are available as prints
on archival-quality photo-papers/canvases. They are also
available in digital format (hi-res TIFFS or
JPEGS) for digital media purposes.
PART 2) JOHN'S WELSH
WEATHER PHOTO-DIARY:
The
diary pages, indexed below, are the product of my passion
for Wales, its landscapes and its weather. They also
follow the steep learning-curve I have been upon since the
year 2000, in pursuit of the complex sciences of
meteorology, forecasting and more recently climatology.
Wales has a "tabloid" reputation for just being wet all
of the time. To put it politely this is totally untrue!
We have an amazingly varied climate here, from the
tranquil beauty of a seascape summer sunset to the full
fury of an autumn "Atlantic Bomb" cyclone. The
combination of the beautiful landscapes and dramatic
things going on in the skies overhead is enough to
challenge any serious photographer.
The diary currently contains 223 pages of wild and
not-so-wild weatherpix, stormchase accounts and
weather/climate-related information - so, while the rain
hammers against your window on a winter's night, scroll
down and enjoy Mid-Wales, its seasons and its
weather!
John, Machynlleth, Mid Wales.
Email enquiries: Click
HERE.
above: stunning
Noctilucent Cloud display over Aran Fawddwy,
0230BST, July 3rd 2011
WEATHERPIX
- LATEST POSTS:
NEW! SHORE
FISHING - A GUIDE TO CARDIGAN BAY: A MAJOR PROJECT
COMPLETED
NEW! SPRING 2016: AERIAL WEATHER - SPECTACULAR
THUNDERHEADS FROM ABOVE
NEW! NOVEMBER 17th
2016: SERIOUSLY DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS IN
MID-WALES, BUT TORNADOES?
NEW! 2017: ICE CRYSTALS, LUNAR
PHOTOGRAPHY, THUNDERSTORM SUNRISE: THE YEAR SO FAR
NEW! 2017 PART 2: THE RE-FINDING OF THE ELUSIVE
"MAGNIFICENT URALITE PORPHYRY", IN COED Y BRENIN, NORTH
WALES
NEW! 2017 PART 3: ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE ON THE DYFI
VALLEY
NEW! 2018 PART 1: JANUARY-AUGUST
ROUND-UP
(INCLUDES BEAST FROM THE EAST AND THE DROUGHT)
NEW! 2018 PART 2 AND 2019 PART 1: MOSTLY UNEVENTFUL BUT WITH
A FEW NOTABLE EXCEPTIONS!
NEW! 2019 PART 2: NEW BOOK - THE MAKING OF
YNYSLAS - AND A LIKELY SUPERCELL OVER PENMAENDYFI
NEW! 2020 SO FAR: HUGE TIDE
IN MARCH, FULL MOONSET IN APRIL AND LOCKDOWN
STORM-CHASING IN JUNE
NEW! 2020 SO FAR PART 2: MORE LOCKDOWN
STORM-CHASING - THE PHENOMENAL MID-AUGUST
THUNDERSTORMS
NEW! 2021-22: NEW BOOK OUT: WALES - THE MISSING
YEARS
NEW! STRONG (T3)
TORNADO NEAR PENNAL, GWYNEDD, APRIL 6th 2022: THE FULL
REPORT
NEW! A LONG-AWAITED UPDATE -- SEPTEMBER 2023 WITH THE
SPECTACULAR LIGHTNING STORM OF 10-09-23
above: Aberdyfi Lifeboat
fights a big swell on The Bar while a couple do not
look on - October 2010
CLIMATE CHANGE, ENERGY &
METEOROLOGY ARTICLES:
1) WHY CHASE STORMS? A PERSONAL
PERSPECTIVE
2) STORM-CHASING IN WALES - SYNOPTIC
OVERVIEW & ADVICE
3) WHAT GOES ON ALOFT - A ROUGH GUIDE
TO THE UPPER AIR!
4) HOW HURRICANES CAN AFFECT OUR
WEATHER OVER HERE
5)
WEATHER EVENTS ARCHIVE: THE AUGUST 9
1843 HAILSTORM - THE WORST ON RECORD?
6)
WEATHER EVENTS ARCHIVE: THE
TYWYN TORNADO, W WALES, JAN 21, 1995
7)
WEATHER EVENTS ARCHIVE: THE
DEVASTATING SOUTH WALES TORNADO OF OCTOBER 1913
8) CLIMATE CHANGE AND WALES: A
GEOLOGIST'S PERSPECTIVE
*** THE FOLLOWING
PIECES START WITH A 2007 POST (no. 9) AND RUN ON
TOWARDS NOW ***
9) THE CLIMATE DEBATE- WHERE SCIENCE
AND POLITICS DON'T MIX!
10) WEATHER AND THE MEDIA - A RANT
11) TRANSITION TO SPRING? -
ENERGY-SECURITY AND VEG-GROWING!
12) THE AGE OF STUPID - PREMIERE
15th MARCH 2009
13) BOOK REVIEW: CLIMATE
COVER-UP - PUBLISHED AUTUMN 2009
14) COPENHAGEN COP 15 - NO
SURPRISES!
15) CLIMATE WARS &
SNOWMAGEDDON!
16) IS GRAVITY LEFT-WING?
17) IN WHOSE BACK YARD?
18) CLIMATE CHANGE OR CLIMATE
DESTABILISATION?
19) ON HOTHOUSES AND CHANGING SEAS....
20) DIARY OF AN ECO-NAZI
21) ARCTIC
CIRCULATION CHANGE LINK TO DECEMBER 2010 FREEZE? A
LOOK AT RECENT RESEARCH
22) ON OLD
METAL-MINES, MINERALS AND THE TROPICAL CLIMATE OF 50
MILLION YEARS AGO
23) MID-WALES HILLSIDE RECORDS
DRASTIC 444 MILLION YEAR OLD CLIMATE CHANGE!
24) AMINOPYRALID-CONTAMINATED
MANURE:
A PROBLEM THAT HAS NOT GONE AWAY
25) DIARY OF AN ECO-NAZI PART 2 - THE
HANDS-ON APPROACH! (DECEMBER 2011)
26) THE MID-WALES FLOODS OF
JUNE 2012: A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME?
27) THE GREAT DISCONNECT:
THE HUMAN DISEASE OF WHICH CLIMATE CHANGE IS BUT ONE
SYMPTOM
above: Chough and
(unusually for this blog) clear blue sky - Bardsey
Sound, July 2011
WEATHERPIX - 2014:
1) WINTER 2013-14 PART 1: ABERGEDDON - WHY
THE STORMS OF JANUARY 3RD-6TH WERE SO DAMAGING
2) WINTER 2013-14 PART 2: JANUARY-FEBRUARY
STORMS
- THE AFTERMATH....
3) WINTER
2013-14 PART 3: JANUARY-FEBRUARY
STORMS - REVELATIONS....
4) SPRING 2014 PART 1: THE
BEST SIDE OF PLYNLIMON
5) SPRING 2014 PART 2: EXODUS
6) SUMMER 2014:
THE CURSE OF THE DAILY EXPRESS -
EX-BERTHA!
7) AUTUMN 2014: TEXTURES IN THE AIR....
WEATHERPIX - 2013:
1) WINTER 2012-13 PART 1: FROM
WET
TO WHITE!
2) WINTER 2012-13 PART 2: A
CELEBRATION OF GIANT WAVES!
3) SHORE FISHING -
A GUIDE TO CARDIGAN BAY: A MAJOR PROJECT COMPLETED
4) SPRING
2013 PART 1: CHASING ANCIENT
MICROCONTINENTS IN NORTH WALES - THE MEGUMIA PROJECT
5) SPRING 2013 PART 2: WHITE DEATH STALKS THE FIELDS -
THE MARCH 2013 BLIZZARDS
6) SPRING 2013 PART 3: THE STUNNING CAMBRIAN ROCKS OF
THE FRIOG COAST OF SOUTH-WEST GWYNEDD
7) SPRING 2013 PART 4: THE GREAT MID-WALES BLIZZARD -
THE AFTERMATH
8) SPRING 2013 PART 5: FROM BETHESDA TO BARMOUTH - THE
PREHISTORY OF SNOWDONIA
9) SUMMER
2013 PART 1: THROUGH THE
WILDWOOD...
10) SUMMER 2013 PART 2: THE DARWIN WALL COMPLETED
11) SUMMER 2013 PART 3: LONG
LENS LANDSCAPES AND OUTFLOW-BOUNDARIES
12) AUTUMN
2013 PART 1: IN MID-WALES, THE HUNTING/GATHERING SEASON IS
WELL UNDERWAY...
13) AUTUMN 2013 PART 2: STORMWATCH!
14) NEW! AUTUMN 2013 PART 3: BRILLIANTLY
COLOURFUL, VIOLENTLY STORMY!
WEATHERPIX
- 2012:
1) WINTER 2011-12 PART 2: STORMY START, COLDER MIDDLE
THEN MILD FINISH
2) SPRING
2012 PART 1: 3,000 YEAR OLD
FOOTPRINTS FOUND IN THE SUBMERGED FOREST AT BORTH
3) SPRING 2012 PART 2: FROM SUMMER TO WINTER IN ONE
WEEK!
4) ARTICLE: ISN'T
NATURE WONDERFUL - AH, BUT IS IT ART?
5) SPRING 2012 PART 3: MID-APRIL
THUNDERSNOW
THEN A LATE MAY HEATWAVE....
6) SUMMER
2012 PART ONE: THE GREAT FLOOD
OF JUNE 9th 2012 - OFF THE SCALE!
7) SUMMER 2012 PART TWO: CANCELLED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!
8) SUMMER 2012 PART 3: LLŶN MAGIC, AUGUST THUNDERSTORMS
AND GENERAL LIVELINESS...
9) SUMMER 2012 PART 4: A
SEA OF CLOUD - AMAZING INVERSION OVER THE DYFI VALLEY
10) AUTUMN 2012 PART 1:
DARKNESS AND LIGHT
11) AUTUMN
INTO WINTER 2012: THE WORST
WINTER IN 100 YEARS SO FAR......
above: two of many
funnel clouds and waterspouts that were
photographed on a morning in September 2011
WEATHERPIX
-
2011:
1)
WINTER
2010-11 PART 3: ASPECTS
OF INUNDATION - DYFI FLOODS AND A LOOK AT SARN
CYNFELYN
2)
WINTER
2010-11 PART 4: MORE
FLOODS PLUS A LOOK AT THE BORTH SEA DEFENCES
PROJECT
3)
SPRING
2011 PART 1: APRIL HEATWAVE
ON CADAIR IDRIS
4)
SPRING
2011 PART 2: FROM
DESSICATION TO DELUGE!
5)
SPRING
2011 PART 3: METAL-TOLERANT
PLANTS AND THE COED Y BRENIN COPPER DEPOSIT
6)
SUMMER
2011 PART 1: BIG NEWS -
DYFI OSPREYS HATCH FIRST CHICKS FOR 400 YEARS!
7)
SUMMER
2011 PART 2: JUNE
THUNDERSTORMS, MACHYNLLETH HAILSTORM AND DIVING
GANNETS
8)
SUMMER
2011 PART 3: UTTERLY
BREATHTAKING NOCTILUCENT CLOUD DISPLAY!
9)
SUMMER
2011 PART 4: MORE
NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS, CHANTERELLES AND AEROBATIC
CHOUGHS
10)
SUMMER
2011 PART 5: TWO PARALLEL
WORLDS - AUGUST 1-10
11)
SUMMER
2011 PART 6: THE
STAMPING-GROUND - AFON LERI AND CRAIG-Y-PISTYLL
12) SUMMER
2011 PART 7: LATE AUGUST
THUNDERSTORMS/A RARE SUNNY MORNING AT GLASLYN
13) AUTUMN 2011 PART 1:
FUNNEL-CLOUD/WATERSPOUT
EXTRAGAVANZA OVER CARDIGAN BAY!
14) AUTUMN
2011 PART 2: APPOINTMENT
WITH KATIA
15) AUTUMN 2011 PART 3: SUPERB
SUNSET STORM AT BORTH PLUS SOME NORTH WALES
GEOLOGY
16) AUTUMN
2011 PART 4: PROBABLE
SUPERCELL STORM OVER CARDIGAN BAY!
17) WINTER
2011-12 PART 1: SQUALL-LINES
HIT MID WALES AMONGST GENERAL STORMINESS
above: the deep sleep of
Winter - Gogarth (on the Dyfi Estuary), December
2010.
WEATHERPIX
-
2010:
1)
WINTER
2009-10 PART 1: THE BIG
FREEZE-UP
2)
WINTER
2009-10 PART 2: JANUARY
FREEZE-UP - WORST SINCE 1986!
3)
WINTER
2009-10 PART 3: JANUARY
FREEZE-UP - SNOWDRIFT SPECIAL!
4)
WINTER
2009-10 PART 4: THE
THAW/TYWYN SEA DEFENCE SCHEME
5)
WINTER
2009-10 PART 5: SPRINGLIKE
DAY
ON TARRENHENDRE
6)
WINTER
2009-10 PART 6: GRAIG
GOCH LANDSLIDE & TYWYN BOULDER-DROP!
7)
SPRING
2010 PART 1: WINTER CLINGS
ON: WANDERINGS AROUND GLASLYN AND BUGEILYN
8)
SPRING
2010 PART 2: COLD: THE
NORTH ATLANTIC YIN-YANG!
9)
SUMMER
2010 PART 1: FROM THE NORTH
- ORCADIAN VISIONS
10)
SUMMER
2010 PART 2: DOUBLE
DROUGHT!
11)
SUMMER
2010 PART 3: FIRST
STORM-CHASE OF THE YEAR: SPECTACULAR WALL-CLOUD!
12)
SUMMER
2010 PART 4: THE GIVING
LAND
13)
SUMMER
2010 PART 5: SUMMER TAKES A
VACATION!
14)
AUTUMN
2010 PART 1: BLUE MOSS AND
THE IRISH SEA GLACIER
15)
AUTUMN
2010 PART 2: CALL THE
LIFEBOAT! - MONSTER GROUND-SWELL BRINGS TROUBLE
16)
AUTUMN
2010 PART 3: GEOLOGICAL
INTERLUDE - BRIEF INDIAN SUMMER ON PARYS MOUNTAIN
17)
AUTUMN
2010 PART 4: A
SEAWEED-SHANTY!
18)
AUTUMN
2010 PART 5: MID-WALES 27C
COLDER THAN GREENLAND!
19)
WINTER
2010-11 PART 1: BIGGEST
MACHYNLLETH SNOWFALL SINCE 1982/WHY IS IT SO COLD?
20)
WINTER
2010-11 PART 2: CRAZY
ICICLES, ICE-FLOES AND A DEEP-SNOW ASCENT OF
TARRENHENDRE
above:
clearing
our local Mountain-Road (Machynlleth to
Llanidloes), February 2009.
WEATHERPIX - 2009:
1)
WINTER
2008-9 PART 1: THE DYFI
ESTUARY FREEZES OVER!
2)
WINTER
2008-9 PART 2: THE
ATLANTIC STRIKES BACK!
3)
WINTER
2008-9 PART 3: MANY
FEBRUARY SNOWFALLS!
4)
SPRING
2009 PART 1: LAND, SEA AND
SKY AWAKES (RAPTOR DOGFIGHT)!
5)
COASTAL
EROSION SPECIAL: EASTERN
ENGLAND - APRIL 2009
6)
SPRING
2009 PART 2: THE LIVING
LAND (BUT QUIET SKIES) - APRIL INTO MAY
7)
SPRING
2009 PART 3: MAMMATUS,
COWS, SUN, SEA AND FOG - LATE MAY
8)
SUMMER
2009 PART 1: PAINTED LADY
INVASION/CAMBRIAN MOUNTAINS TWISTER!
9)
SUMMER
2009 PART 2: NOCTILUCENT
CLOUDS AND LATE JUNE TRAIN-ECHO
10)
SUMMER
2009 PART 3: STUNNING
NOCTILUCENT CLOUD DISPLAY AND THE AIM SATELLITE
MISSION
11)
SUMMER
2009 PART 4: MYSTERIES IN
THE MOUNTAINS
12)
SUMMER
2009 PART 5: SOME NOTABLE
DOWNPOURS AND ANOTHER A470 LANDSLIP!
13)
AUTUMN
2009 PART 1: INDIAN SUMMER
SUNSETS BEFORE SEASONAL SQUALLS!
14)
AUTUMN
2009 PART 2: MID-NOVEMBER
MAYHEM: MAJOR ATLANTIC STORMS
15)
TEN
YEARS OF WEATHER PHOTOGRAPHY: MY
TOP
TEN EXPERIENCES OF THE 2000s
above:
Thunderstorm gust-front trundles menacingly over
Ynyslas, April 2008
WEATHERPIX - 2008:
1)
WINTER
2007-8 PART 3: JANUARY
SQUALLS AND LIGHTNING SUPERBOLTS!
2)
WINTER
2007-8 PART 4: THE ABERYSTWYTH
WATERSPOUT
3)
WINTER
2007-8 PART 4: A SIGNIFICANT
WINDSTORM TO COME ON MARCH 10th?
4)
WINTER
2007-8 PART 6: A SIGNIFICANT
WINDSTORM TO COME ON MARCH 10th) - THE OUTCOME!
5)
SPRING
2008 PART 1: AMAZING
GUST-FRONT MAKES LANDFALL AT YNYSLAS!
6)
SPRING
2008 PART 2: PHOTOGENIC
FRONTAL CLEARANCE AND MORE MAY THUNDERSTORMS
7)
SUMMER
2008 PART 1: CLOUDS ON THE
EDGE OF SPACE - NOCTILUCENT CLOUD SPECIAL!
8)
SUMMER
2008 PART 2: WILD
THUNDERSTORMS AND WILD FOOD!
9)
SUMMER
2008 PART 3: AUGUST -
DAMAGING FLOODS AND LESS SUNSHINE THAN FEBRUARY!
10)
AUTUMN
2008 PART 1: SEPTEMBER:
BRIEF INDIAN SUMMER AND EX-TROPICAL STORM LAURA!
11)
AUTUMN
2008 PART 2: WINTER ARRIVES
EARLY IN MID-WALES!
above:
intense thunderstorms over Cardigan Bay from
Borth, June 2008
WEATHERPIX - 2007:
1)
WINTER
2006-7- PART 2: ELAN
VALLEY SPATE AND BORTH BEACH GOES AWOL!
2)
WINTER
2006-7- PART 3: FEBRUARY
8-11: THE 4-DAY WINTER!
3)
SPRING
2007- PART 1: MARCH 18th:
CONVECTIVE STORM SPECTACULAR!
4)
SPRING
2007 PART 2: A BUSTLE IN
THE HEDGEROW!
5)
SPRING
2007 PART 3: MAY -
SNOWDONIA STORMCHASE!
6)
SUMMER
(ha ha) 2007 PART 1: BIG JUNE
THUNDERSTORMS
7)
SUMMER
(ha ha) 2007 PART 2: RAINBOWS,
A FUNNEL AND LOTS OF WATER....
8)
THE
DYFI VALLEY/WELSH WEATHER SLIDE LIBRARY: INTRODUCTION
9)
SUMMER
(ha ha) 2007 PART 3: A TRIP
TO THE BWLCH....
10)
AUTUMN
2007 PART 1: QUIETEST SPELL
SINCE RECORDS BEGAN!
11)
AUTUMN
2007 PART 2: INTERLUDES
BETWEEN ANTICYCLONIC GLOOM!
12)
WINTER
2007-8 PART 1: THE GIANT
SEAS OF DECEMBER 1st - PEMBROKESHIRE
13)
WINTER
2007-8 PART 2: THE GIANT
SEAS OF DECEMBER 2nd - ABERYSTWYTH
above:
Wavecrash, Aberystwyth, January 2008
WEATHERPIX - 2006:
1)
WINTER
2006: UNEVENTFUL, BUT
FOLLOWED BY A MARCH BLIZZARD!
2)
WINTER
2006 PART 2: SNOW AND ICE
AND AIR AND FIRE AND WATER!
3)
SPRING
2006 PART 1: WEIRD GEOLOGY,
LLYN PENINSULA - THWARTED BY SEA-FOG!
4)
SPRING
2006 PART 2: FIRST MAY
THUNDERSTORMS AND LOTS OF HAZE!
5)
SPRING
2006 PART 3: MORE MAY
STORMS AND THE MYSTERY OF THE WHALE'S MOUTH!
6)
SUMMER
2006 PART 1: MIDSUMMER
TWILIGHT/RIPTIDE!
7)
SUMMER
2006 PART 2(a): DESTABILISATION
ALLEY!
8)
SUMMER
2006 PART 2(b): THUNDERCLOUD
SOUP!
9)
SUMMER
2006 PART 3: THE DROUGHT
STARTS TO BITE!
10)
SUMMER
2006 PART 4: THE COMING OF
THE ANTI-DROUGHT
11)
AUTUMN
2006 PART 1: CLOUDBURSTING!
12)
AUTUMN
2006 PART 2: DEVASTATING
SUPERBOLT HITS ARANS??
13)
AUTUMN
2006 PART 3: SEASONAL
SQUALLS!
14)
AUTUMN
2006 PART 4: CLOUDSPOTTER'S
GUIDE REVIEW AND OPTICS IN PEMBROKESHIRE!
15)
AUTUMN
2006 PART 5: THE T4/F2 BOW
STREET TORNADO, 28th Nov 2006
16)
AUTUMN
2006 PART 6: INCREDIBLE
PSYCHEDELIC SUNRISE!
17)
WINTER
2006-7- PART 1: THE
RAGING ATLANTIC BRINGS CHAOS!
above: total
destruction - caravan, fence & swings -
aftermath of the November 2006 Bow Street
Tornado
WEATHERPIX - 2005:
1)
WINTER
2004-2005 PART 1: GREY
DECEMBER BUT A WHITE CHRISTMAS!
2)
WINTER
2004-2005 PART 2: THE
ATLANTIC AWAKES - TORNADOES AND LANDSLIDES!
3)
WINTER
2004-2005 PART 3: DEEP
SNOW AND BLUE SKIES ON THE ARANS
4)
SPRING
2005 PART 1: WINTER'S LAST
GASP? - SURREAL SNOW SHOWERS!
5)
SPRING
2005 PART 2: APRIL SHOWERS
& A WELL DEFINED CONVERGENCE ZONE
6)
SPRING
2005 PART 3: THUNDERSTORMS
(ONE WITH A RAIN-WRAPPED FUNNEL) IN SW WALES!
7)
SPRING
2005 PART 4: DRAMATIC LATE
MAY THUNDERSTORM
8)SUMMER
2005
PART 1: JUNE GOES OUT WITH
A BANG!
9)
SUMMER
2005 PART 2: BOSCASTLE
REVISITED!
10)
SUMMER
2005 PART 3: TORNADO
SIGHTED AND PHOTOGRAPHED NEAR CARDIGAN!
11)
AUTUMN
2005 PART 1: THE ATLANTIC
SWITCHES ON - WITH STORMS, SWELLS AND FLOODS!
12)
AUTUMN
2005 PART 2: FIRST SNOW -
COAST TO COAST ON THE Cb-CONVEYOR!
above:
ominous but harmless - mammatus clouds overhang
the hills near Aberdyfi, September 13th 2004
WEATHERPIX - 2004:
1)
WINTER
2003-4 PART 2: A TRIP TO
THE MIDLANDS/BRISTOL CHANNEL "TORNADO"
2)
WINTER
2003-4 PART 3: FEBRUARY
3rd/4th: THE DYFI VALLEY DELUGE (FLOODS SPECIAL)
3)
WINTER
2003-4 PART 4: FEBRUARY
25th-27th: SNOW TO SEA-LEVEL!
4)
MARCH
2004 PART 1: WINTER'S LAST
GASP?
5)
MARCH
2004 PART 2: FIRST
CONVECTION OF SPRING: 21st-23rd
6)
APRIL
2004: SUNNY INTERVALS AND
FLOWERS!
7)
MAY
2004 PART 1: GUST-FRONT ON THE
CARDIGAN BAY COAST
8)
MAY
2004 PART 2: MAY 10th - 2
FUNNEL-CLOUDS IN ONE DAY!!
9)
MAY
2004 PART 3: MAY 11th -
SUNBATHING AND STORMWATCHING!
10)
SUMMER
2004 PART 1: GENERAL
WEATHERPIX
11)
SUMMER
2004 PART 2: JULY 6th -
AFTERNOON STORM WITH BEAUTIFUL UPDRAUGHTS
12)
SUMMER
2004 PART 3: August 12th -
AWESOME STORM NEAR LLANDINAM, MID-WALES
13)
SUMMER
2004 PART 4: August 16th -
18th - THUNDERSTORMS OVER CARDIGAN BAY
14)
AUTUMN
2004 PART 1: September 13th
- EXCEPTIONAL MAMMATUS DISPLAY NEAR ABERDYFI!
15)
AUTUMN
2004 PART 2: October 5th -
MODEST COASTAL STORM AND A FEW SUNSETS!
16)
AUTUMN
2004 PART 3: October 21st -
10+ THUNDERSTORMS IN ONE DAY!
17)
AUTUMN
2004 PART 4: November 19th
- EARLY SNOW AND INVERSION-FOG
above:
mammatus and rainbow after a line of
thunderstorms crossed the Cambrian Mountains,
May 2003.
WEATHERPIX - 2003:
1)
JANUARY
19-20 2003: CLASSIC WINTER
SQUALLS
2)
MARCH
7 2003: ANA-COLD FRONT,
MAMMATUS & PSEUDO-FUNNELS
3)
APRIL
29-30th 2003: SUN, SAND, SEA
AND CUMULONIMBUS BASES!
4)
MAY
13 2003: FRUSTRATING CHASE
INLAND - LESSONS LEARNED...
5)
MAY
18 2003: GREAT CHASE DAY -
MAMMATUS CLOUD SPECIAL!
6)
MAY
19 2003: Cbs DECAY AS THEY
CROSS THE IRISH SEA - VIRGA SPECIAL!
7)
SUMMER
2003: SPANISH PLUMES
- INCLUDING AUGUST 5 FUNNEL-CLOUD
8)
AUTUMN
2003 PART 1: STORMS? WHAT
STORMS?
9)
AUTUMN
2003 PART 2: STORMS AT LAST
- BIG CUMULONIMBUS DAY!!
10)
AUTUMN
2003 PART 3: RETURN OF THE
EAST WIND (AWESOME SURF!)
11)
AUTUMN
2003 PART 4: THE ATLANTIC
"BOMB" OF NOVEMBER 14th FILMED FOR TV
12)
AUTUMN
2003 PART 5: FRONTAL
CLEARANCE AND EXPERIMENTS WITH DRIZZLE!!
13)
AUTUMN
2003 PART 6: THE NOVEMBER
26th HAILSTORM
14)
WINTER
2003-4 PART 1: STORMY
WINTER SOLSTICE
above:
funnel-cloud, Dylife (near Machynlleth), August
20th 2000: one of my first ever "results"!
WEATHERPIX - 1980s -
2002:
1)
VERY OLD WEATHER PIX INCLUDING
THE 1982 MID-WALES BLIZZARD
2)
SUNSETS, FOG AND STRANGENESS!
3)
LENTICULAR ("UFO") CLOUDS
IN WALES AND SCOTLAND
4)
WINTERS
IN MID-WALES - TEMPEST,
FLOOD AND SNOW (OCCASIONALLY!!)
5)
EIRE
- JANUARY 1990 - SQUALLS AND
ROUGH SEAS IN THE BURREN
6)
SUILVEN,
NW SCOTLAND 1989-90 - AFFAIR
WITH A MOUNTAIN!
7)
TORNADO
ACTIVITY IN MID-WALES: AUGUST
2000
FUNNEL-CLOUD
8)
THE
JULY 3rd 2001 STORMS, N WALES - THE BUILDUP AND THE CHASE
9)
THE
JULY 3rd 2001 STORMS, N WALES - THE GREAT FLASH-FLOOD!
10)
CUMULONIMBUS
EVOLUTION MAY 2002- PHOTO
SEQUENCE
11)
AUTUMN
2002 PART ONE: HAIL-SQUALLS,
AND THE GREAT GALE
12)
AUTUMN
2002 PART TWO: SQUALL-LINE
AND PSYCHEDELIC MAMMATUS!
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