Thursday 8th April 3pm Long Rock barometer reading

Good to see a good old barometer instead of the electronic devices. Nothing like a good old needle and to have to 'tap the glass' to make it ease from the lock of friction. Not that a barometer itself is able to inform as to cloud formations. They happen as a normal generation from air currents, temperature gradients, and general levels of pollutants that rise from the planet. To assess the cloud formation from levels of water particles at higher altitudes requires a hygrometer and barometric pressures at those higher levels to be taken. Admiral Fitzroy's barometer as good as it is cannot estimate cloud levels formed at higher level altitudes. The atmosphere finds its own level in content and pressure.

Certainly, but it does say very dry and I can't upload the met forecast pic which shows sun sun sun so this is the closest I can get in my humble approach to keeping a record. Have you ever heard of cloud seeding? There's oodles of info courtesy of Mr Google available.

I do not generally need mr google for such things, having had an active interest in the atmosphere and weather for many years. I do not take a great deal of notice of weather forecasts, the best way in Cornwall is to open a window. I know of cloud seeding - a failed project to produce rain, there are still some projects exploring the idea. Much used in film world circles and novels as a scenario for Irwin Allen type disasters and alien attacks of the world. But clouds only produce rain (at times frogs if there has been an upsurge from certain geographical areas), sometimes hails the size of golf balls; weather is the result of the forces of nature trying to find their balance, which will never happen, so it is continuous and variable. As yet man has not fathomed the intricacies and managed to set the computer model that can accurately predict weather.