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Anthony Darby

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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #75 on: November 20, 2009, 12:37:51 PM »
Paul, do you not have the B I U S..................supsub etc above the smiley faces above the text box? Just click "sup" type "o" within and bingo o. :)

As a teacher, "can't be bothered" is something I meet Monday to Friday. It also covers Scotland in litter and clutters up my kitchen with school bags, dirty plates, coats, shoes and anything else the kids can't be bothered tidying away.
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #76 on: November 20, 2009, 12:59:10 PM »
Record rainfall yesterday in Cockermouth in Cumbria - 314mm! That's over a foot! :o
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5AJ1NF20091120
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #77 on: November 20, 2009, 01:33:01 PM »
Anthony, the one o' clock news gave the rainfall at 374mm in that area. This is an amazing  amount of water in 24 hours.

Tragic that a policeman was swept away following the collapse of a bridge in the area. The news has just announced that his body has been found.

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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #78 on: November 20, 2009, 06:36:12 PM »
Due to the rain Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, is at it's highest since records began. Although we have had some sun, according to the news, we have had rain every day for a month
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #79 on: November 20, 2009, 08:26:21 PM »
Quote from: Anthony Darby on November 20, 2009, 12:37:51 PM
Paul, do you not have the B I U S..................supsub etc above the smiley faces above the text box? Just click "sup" type "o" within and bingo o. :)

As a teacher, "can't be bothered" is something I meet Monday to Friday. It also covers Scotland in litter and clutters up my kitchen with school bags, dirty plates, coats, shoes and anything else the kids can't be bothered tidying away.

Anthony,

Thanks for the info, despite it being so patronisingly delivered.  ::)  I had not realised there was facility to do that.  The "can't be bothered" was referring to other things elsewhere in the past where it was suggested opening up the Windows Character Set, and then cutting and pasting it, a somewhat irritating process which could easily be erased by simply using the apostrophe, which I still think is perfectly understandable by virtually everyone on this forum. :-\

On to more relevant matters...

374mm is something like 2/3 of our average annual rainfall!!  :o :o  I saw on the news last night there there was flooding in the north of England and southern Scotland.  With that sort of rain it is quite understandable. :'(  Rain every day for a month is just something so alien to here.  ;D  Here's hoping that no-one else is killed by the floods.
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #80 on: November 20, 2009, 08:27:38 PM »
Very sorry for all those that have had so much rain over the past few days. :o :o :o
Only had a couple of light showers here all week. :)

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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #81 on: November 21, 2009, 04:03:37 PM »
The rain here in Aberdeen just now is torrential ..... sparing a sympathetic thought for those poor folks faced with flooding in the last few days.... they will be right back at square one again.... not that there was much chance of anything else, given the continuing rain across the UK.

 The news said earlier that 1800 bridges in Cumbria are thought to be in serious danger of collapse.... that's an awful lot of bridges.  :'(
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #82 on: November 21, 2009, 05:19:42 PM »
Don't want to be frivolous about the poor folk in Cumbria    but when someone mentioned Noah's Ark I wanted to remind folk about The Lord asking Noah to build another , yea a second ark  and this time to fill all the decks with goldfish      it was to be the first multi storey  carp ark!!!!!
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #83 on: November 21, 2009, 10:03:48 PM »
They're talking here on our news that the rain in the UK is a one in a thousand year event?
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #84 on: November 21, 2009, 10:09:24 PM »
How the **** would weather men know what happened 1000 years ago. It will happen again next year
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #85 on: November 21, 2009, 10:10:54 PM »
LOL Gwen
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #86 on: November 21, 2009, 10:38:04 PM »
Yes, we saw TV coverage of the flooding in Cumbria, last night. Truly appalling with roads and bridges washed away, while Sydney has 40C. It was 30C here yesterday until 10.30am then 10 mins later the temp had plummeted to 13! as a southerly blow came up the country.
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #87 on: November 21, 2009, 10:45:22 PM »
Mark,

There are events that are termed 1 in 100 or one in 500 year events etc.  The larger the event, the less common it is.  Given the 374mm in 24 hours, I am sure that there are rainfall records stretching back an awfully long time to compare it to.  If this rainfall event is big enough, it goes into the higher and higher categories.  Unfortunately, as our weather patterns continue to change like they are, many of these previously 1 in 100 year events will become 1 in 10 year events as they become more commonplace.  Whatever the cause of global warming (whether mankind has caused it or not, it IS happening at the moment) it is destined to create more extreme weather patterns, so these become more commonplace than they used to be.  Sad, but unfortunately true.  :'(
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #88 on: November 22, 2009, 12:17:54 AM »
Quote from: mark smyth on November 21, 2009, 10:09:24 PM
How the **** would wether men know what happened 1000 years ago. It will happen again next year
Probably asked tree fellas Mark?
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #89 on: November 22, 2009, 03:19:00 PM »
The thousand year figure has been repeated ad infinitum by the politicians and the media, but the Environment Agency has backed away from it.  Even if it were verifiable and correct, it would be once in a thousand years at a particular location.  Remember there were "once in 400 year" floods in Hull two years ago and "once in 400 year" floods in Boscastle two years before that.
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