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It's quite nice and autumnal, I'm going to put on some socks and have hot chocolate. And if I really get into it, I might go trick-or-treating
Cider said:I know that I'm going to get rotten tomatoes thrown at me for this comment, but I'm loving this weather. Not so much the winds and heavy rain of last night, but the low temperatures that mean that you can sleep easily and keep a long sleeved shirt on to keep off the sun without combusting.
Andrew Bond, the senior forecaster for the group, said: "From what we are predicting, Britain could see its coldest winter of the century so far.
Daniel Adamson, senior meteorologist for the PA WeatherCentre, said: "We can't predict more than 10 days ahead with any accuracy, and there is nothing to suggest that it's going to be exceptionally cold at all."
Poor Hebden Bridge, hit by a third set of devastating floods in as many years.
Please, sir, I did use the search function, honest I did. It is true that other places are being hit, too, but I didn't spend the last nine years calling any of them home. (Another ninety years in Hebden and I might - might - have graduated from being an offcumden ).It's not just Hebden Bridge - weird weather is happening all over the world; see my recent posts on the - er - Weird Weather thread!
http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/weird-weather.16462/page-53#post-1553900
Off-topic, so sorry...
Off-topic, so sorry...
There are a couple of simulacra in that photo.
On top of the hill on the left, there's a shape that looks like a fox in side profile.
The big round bush or tree to the centre right seems to have a face on it - with a grumpy expression.
Note: Look at Mungoman's original post with the smaller picture.
Great image. Looks very much like the east side of our Mt Lofty Ranges, particularly around Palmer and Tungkillo - Peramangk country. Tree dwellers. Dreaming sites galore. Atmosphere can be creepy and subjective with the right kind of silence. They're out there still.
On the issue at hand, I would be interested to quiz the weather bureau about a perceived increase in strong wind frequency around here. We have our heat waves, but these associated high northerlies are not usually as common. More like desert weather this year. Hard to say if the climate per se has shifted in Oz, as we have irregular seasonal cycles as it is - 3 years of dry, 5 of wet sort of thing.
what are the trees @MungomanII ?
Yes I saw that too.There is a cats head in the rounded bush towards the bottom, mouth agape and eyes wide enough to see the white of its eyes, if you enlargen it.
Extreme and unseasonable is the new norm, it seems
It is appalling wet all the time....and no-one seems to comment about it offline.
I wasn't going to discuss the subject on the forum, but reality forces me to re-ignite this topic.
The weather. Specifically (for me, at least) in the British Isles, and particularly Scotland & the north of England.
It is appalling wet all the time....and no-one seems to comment about it offline.
Almost every day, at present, I am travelling round trips of between 100 and 200 miles a day. And on nearly every occasion, the weather is in the category of being consistently, repeatedly, as bad as I can ever remember (other than, importantly, wind speeds).
This is not some invalid misperception, I'm telling the truth. Nearly every day, I see flooding on primary roads and massive amounts of surface water, even on brand-new motorways.
Whilst global warming (irrespective of its true root cause) is likely to be the primary reason for this, I feel I need to understand why, for example right now in December at 55-56deg north of the equator, in our polar maritime climate country, the amount of precipitation falling from the sky as rain is massive in comparison with what we would've suffered had it fallen say a decade ago as snow. It just almost never stops....and yes, I know on our island you're never more than 80 miles from the coast.
So: huge forest fires in California and Australia. And massive amounts of water falling from the skies, nearly constantly.
My unsurprising proposition is that the world's weather is (for some of us, at least) entirely broken. And for purposes of clarification: I consider this as a tangible threat for humanity to be equal to, or worse than, 'The Virus'.
Tell me I'm wrong: but make it convincing. Or I will just point out the window.....
(ps just to restate another somewhat Fortean aspect: we have as a society in the 'developed' west spent huge amounts of money & effort upon renewable energy sources, ie wind & solar, yet the prevailing conditions of overcast skies and ineffectual breezes render such approaches nearly useless....that's ironic. Or what is it?)
I wasn't going to discuss the subject on the forum, but reality forces me to re-ignite this topic.
The weather. Specifically (for me, at least) in the British Isles, and particularly Scotland & the north of England.
It is appallingly wet all the time....and no-one seems to comment about it offline.
Almost every day, at present, I am travelling round trips of between 100 and 200 miles a day. And on nearly every occasion, the weather is in the category of being consistently, repeatedly, as bad as I can ever remember (other than, importantly, wind speeds).
This is not some invalid misperception, I'm telling the truth. Nearly every day, I see flooding on primary roads and massive amounts of surface water, even on brand-new motorways.
Whilst global warming (irrespective of its true root cause) is likely to be the primary reason for this, I feel I need to understand why, for example right now in December at 55-56deg north of the equator, in our polar maritime climate country, the amount of precipitation falling from the sky as rain is massive in comparison with what we would've suffered had it fallen say a decade ago as snow. It just almost never stops....and yes, I know on our island you're never more than 80 miles from the coast.
So: huge forest fires in California and Australia. And massive amounts of water falling from the skies, nearly constantly.
My unsurprising proposition is that the world's weather is (for some of us, at least) entirely broken. And for purposes of clarification: I consider this as a tangible threat for humanity to be equal to, or worse than, 'The Virus'.
Tell me I'm wrong: but make it convincing. Or I will just point out the window.....
(ps just to restate another somewhat Fortean aspect: we have as a society in the 'developed' west spent huge amounts of money & effort upon renewable energy sources, ie wind & solar, yet the prevailing conditions of overcast skies and ineffectual breezes render such approaches nearly useless....that's ironic. Or what is it?)