World-wide Place Name Search
Find Place names and Map World-wide (Multimap.com)

Gloucestershire Information
The Gloucestershire Portal Search Gloucestershire here. Gloucestershire sites on the net. 
Virtual Gloucester video clips, photos, descriptions, a history of Gloucester, screensavers and much more.

Floodline Information for Gloucestershire
The River Severn Floodline Information

Search the Environment Agency web site by Town Name, Postcode or River Name

Digital Television Reception - The world is changing, it's going digital

Click here - to go to the UK Government's website about digital television.
Digital TV is more versatile than the old, analogue system of broadcasting. Whether you pick it up via digital cable, digital satellite, digital terrestrial or broadband/DSL, digital TV gives you all the channels you already receive and more. And, depending on which method you use to receive digital TV, you can also get a wide range of information services and interactive features.

To ensure that all UK households benefit from the switch to digital television, we have to turn off the analogue signal. The Government is committed to achieving switchover between 2008 and 2012 ensuring universal access to high quality free-to-view and subscription television. This will happen region by region and we will make sure that the interests of elderly people and other vulnerable groups are protected.

Digital Television Reception - At your location (By postcode)

Click here - enter your postcode in the search box when the new window opens
The information given will indicate, for your postcode, whether you should be able to receive digital terrestrial television through your aerial - actual reception depends on the position of your aerial in your locality.

Digital Radio Reception - At your location (By postcode)

Click here - Enter your postcode in the search box when the new window opens
The information given will indicate, for your postcode, whether you should be able to receive Digital Radio. The list from the BBC will indicate the programs you should be able to receive at this locality. Further information on future reception possibilities and coverage maps of the UK can also be accessed from the page.

Weather and Climate - Latest information for Gloucestershire from the BBC.

BBC Local Weather Forecast for Gloucestershire.

Latest Weather Satellite Image (Visible)     These images come from satellites which remain above a fixed point on the Earth (i.e. they are "geostationary"). The visible images record visible light from the sun reflected back to the satellite by cloud tops and land and sea surfaces. They are equivalent to a black and white photograph from space. They are better able to show low cloud than infrared images (low cloud is more reflective than the underlying land or sea surface). However, visible pictures can only be made during daylight hours.
Coast-lines and lines of latitude and longitude have been added to the images and they have been altered to polar stereographic projection.
The visible images are updated every hour. It usually takes about 20 minutes for these images to be processed and be updated on the web site. The time shown on the image is in UTC.

Latest Weather Satellite Image (Infra-Red)     These images come from satellites which remain above a fixed point on the Earth (i.e. they are "geostationary"). The infrared image shows the invisible infrared radiation emitted directly by cloud tops and land or ocean surfaces. The warmer an object is, the more intensely it emits radiation, thus allowing us to determine its temperature. These intensities can be converted into greyscale tones, with cooler temperatures showing as lighter tones and warmer as darker.
Lighter areas of cloud show where the cloud tops are cooler and therefore where weather features like fronts and shower clouds are. The advantage of infrared images is that they can be recorded 24 hours a day. However, low cloud, having similar temperatures to the underlying surface, are less easily discernable. Coast-lines and lines of latitude and longitude have been added to the images and they have been altered to northern polar stereographic projection.
The infrared images are updated every hour. It usually takes about 20 minutes for these images to be processed and be updated on the web site. The time shown on the image is in UTC.

Latest Rainfall Radar    This page shows rainfall radar images at half-hourly intervals, for the last six hours. The key shows how the colours correspond to the amount of rainfall. For example, regions of yellow on the radar image indicate moderate rainfall. The time shown on the radar is local time.

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