In March 2007 I sat quietly on my front door step freezing my bum off waiting for the total lunar eclipse to start as I didn't want to miss any of it. Thankfully the eclipse was at a reasonable time of night unlike the eclipse that is about to happen over night tonight at around 3 am 21st February 2008.

You need a nice clear night to see the eclipse to its full effect so be prepared to get cold.

Photographic Equipment

• I would suggest the minimum entry level camera should

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As with more and more users joining MWF, and of that number will want to make there own weather maps for, forecasts, severe events, or special events i decided to make a list of some cracking weather resources for anybody to use.


Weather Icons
Here are some weather icon sets that i have from around the web, some are different styles, some are different sizes but are neither less good in there own way! All of these icons are placed in zip files so you will need software...

Easter Sunday in 2008 fell on the 23rd March, which is extremely early in the year. This increased the chances of a white Easter on its own, excluding the fact that we had an Arctic blast in place over the UK. Apparently, experts say the UK is more likely to get a white Easter than a white Christmas. The last white Easter Sunday was in 1995, but this year was expected to see the heaviest snowfall since 1983.

Meteorological Conditions
The low pressure developed to the east of...

Firstly, all of the places i mention in this blog should be (to my knowledge) on the map, all sites where photos have been taken should be indicated with a green star on the map. Also a few of you live in or around the region i visited so i have put your locations on the map also


Mon 18th Aug 2008
Left home around 10.20am, arrived at the Express by Holiday Inn hotel in Burton-Upon-Trent around...

The next installment of the yearly calender.

2nd January 1977 - A 50kg lump of ice crashed through a roof in Ponders End, Middlesex. It was possibly a lump of aircraft icing; no one knows.

3rd January 1978 - 14 tornadoes crossed rural parts of eastern England. In one tornado 136 geese were sucked up and thrown down dead.

5th January 1928 - A storm surge and snow thaw caused a sea flood in the Thames, people were drowned in their homes.

10th...