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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #90 on: November 22, 2009, 05:58:41 PM »
'Return Periods' are very dodgy figures to bandy about. When I first started as a hydrologist with, the then, River Purification Board, we had a flood event in Elgin that was labeled as a one in fifty year event. We had three more equal events that same month! Since then, mid eighties, Elgin has had numerous more significant flooding events.
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #91 on: November 22, 2009, 09:15:12 PM »
Quote from: mark smyth 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
Mark, I've just been re-reading "McBeth the King" and according to the late and great Nigel Tranter it rained almost continuously in Scotland in the year 1057 so maybe once in a thousand years isn't so off the ball - for fictional purposes anyway. We've had several "once in 100 year" floods in NZ over the last 5 years. Weathermen are prats, the lot of them. ::)
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #92 on: November 30, 2009, 09:56:39 PM »
minus 7 forecast for Scotland tonight. I hope you all have your plants wrapped up
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #93 on: November 30, 2009, 10:16:51 PM »
All covered up and cosy in their beds ::)
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #94 on: November 30, 2009, 11:32:49 PM »
Quote from: mark smyth on November 30, 2009, 09:56:39 PM
minus 7 forecast for Scotland tonight. I hope you all have your plants wrapped up
We had -5oC last night, but it's close to that now, and I'm just back in from a walk with Heidi! It's amazing how local it can be. I left the house this morning at 8.15 a.m. and it was -2oC. Four miles down the road near Stirling it was +1oC, and another 10 miles down the M9 it was +3oC! It was +2oC at my destination (20 miles by the shortest, but not quickest, route). My journey time was about 30 minutes.

BTW. Just after my walk I happened to click on a documentary about testing F16 aircraft at Lossiemouth. The commentator called it Lassiemooth! ::)
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #95 on: November 30, 2009, 11:53:10 PM »
Just been out to see what the temperature is here 23.52hrs .....minus 4 . Brrrr!
Lots of moisture in the air so black ice will be a problem on the local roads, I  would think. :(
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #96 on: December 01, 2009, 08:31:42 PM »
Quote from: Anthony Darby on November 30, 2009, 11:32:49 PM


BTW. Just after my walk I happened to click on a documentary about testing F16 aircraft at Lossiemouth. The commentator called it Lassiemooth! ::)

Well Anthony, what should he have said? Being Scottish, I'd be surprised if the name were pronounced Lossiemouth. ;D
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #97 on: December 01, 2009, 08:33:51 PM »
First day of summer here gave us 10C.  11C predicted for today ??? But we've already been up to 30C a few weeks ago. The weather has gone to pot entirely.

I heard today that in both Greenland and the Antarctic, icebergs are calving at an unprecedented rate and at the same time, and sea levels are expected to rise dramatically as a result. The big conference in Denmark, to start shortly, will no doubt come up with the usual totally useless solutions to controlling climate change. All possible actions must be taken by everyone, so long as they don't effect "us" whoever the "us" happens to be.
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #98 on: December 01, 2009, 08:38:07 PM »
First frost of the autumn here last night but all gone from cars and roofs by 0930 and by 1600 it was back to the wet stuff again with strong winds.

Maureen's rainy days record shows 26 wet days in November, a record month since she started daily records in 2004.

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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #99 on: December 01, 2009, 09:06:26 PM »
Quote from: Lesley Cox on December 01, 2009, 08:31:42 PM
Quote from: Anthony Darby on November 30, 2009, 11:32:49 PM


BTW. Just after my walk I happened to click on a documentary about testing F16 aircraft at Lossiemouth. The commentator called it Lassiemooth! ::)

Well Anthony, what should he have said? Being Scottish, I'd be surprised if the name were pronounced Lossiemouth. ;D
It's always been "Lossy Mouth" as far as I am concerned, but then the Scots are famed for turning beautiful names into verbal mince, so I could be wrong. Here's some examples: Blantyre becomes "blan'urr"; Camelon becomes "Came Lun"; Anstruther becomes "Ainster"  and Auchtermuchty becomeshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaMWgt_4jLA
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #100 on: December 01, 2009, 09:33:34 PM »
We just say 'Lossie', even though that is the name of the river.
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #101 on: December 01, 2009, 09:50:51 PM »
Quote from: Anthony Darby on December 01, 2009, 09:06:26 PM
  and Auchtermuchty becomeshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaMWgt_4jLA

Yes, right. :o
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #102 on: December 01, 2009, 09:57:03 PM »
Quote from: David Shaw on December 01, 2009, 09:33:34 PM
We just say 'Lossie', even though that is the name of the river.
I'll buy that David. ;D
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #103 on: December 01, 2009, 09:58:31 PM »
David there was a hard frost last night and this morning it was lashing here
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Re: Weather.... late 2009
« Reply #104 on: December 01, 2009, 11:12:01 PM »
It was -5oC here this morning. Sleet this evening with slush making the pavements and roads treacherous. :P 
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