Weather winter 2010/2011

[TheOnionMan]

Thanks Alan and Martin, there's so much to lean about you folks on the other side of the pond. Never heard of "Panto" but it seems like a fun, festive, and spirited tradition.  In keeping with that spirit, here's a panto

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pk0mXbfReE&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube]

[cohan]

panto is new to me as well.. thought it was a kind of japanese breadcrumbs... 

[ranunculus]

panto is new to me as well.. thought it was a kind of japanese breadcrumbs... 

No, Cohan ... silly ... that's scrunchdo! 

[ranunculus]

It's like the Japanese art of growing small trees in containers in pubs - 'Pinepot' ... and the Japanese art of leaf folding; 'Oregano'.

[cohan]

er, thanks for clearing up all that, cliff--answers to questions i didn't yet know i had

[mark smyth]

Extremely cold here this morning. -6 yesterday. I had to be at the doctor for 9 and within seconds of putting water on the car windows they were frozen again grrrr

[Armin]

Armin - I've never seen the great link you posted.

My grandfather at the time had horses and was in the barn that morning when he heard the blast. One of the barn doors jumped off the hinges at the same time. He was in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island!

The short film gives the impression that the blast happened immediately after the collision. Unfortunately there was a time lag and many rushed to their windows to see the fire, many went to the waterfront to witness it including fire brigades. Many people were injured by flying glass and this led to a School for The Blind being founded here.  BTW there was a second explosion here during the second world war when the ammunitions storage dump caught fire and exploded, it caused a tremendous amount of panic as the first was still in memory. 

johnw - +7c cloudy and calm.

John, that's awful!

[Anthony Darby]

panto is new to me as well.. thought it was a kind of japanese breadcrumbs... 

The pantomime I went to see (sorry, forgot to mention it ) was 'Jack and the Beanstalk'.

[Paul T]

While you guys are freezing over there in the UK, we're starting to grow webbed feet here..... areas near here had 100mm over rain overnight.  Worst flooding in 30 years forecast for today within 50km of here, plus major flooding throughout areas in the south of New South Wales.  Wagga Wagga had major floods on Monday, now they've had close to 100mm on top of that as well so I am guessing that the floods from earlier this week are going to be topped because they still haven't receded and now large amounts of water added to them.  NOT good.

[Armin]

Paul,
thats quite an impressive flood of rain considering an annual amount of ~630 mm in your region.
Weather extremes everywhere...

[Anthony Darby]

Didn't somebody famous come from Wagga Wagga (so good they named it twice)?

[TheOnionMan]

Didn't somebody famous come from Wagga Wagga (so good they named it twice)?

I believe it was someone who emigrated from Walla Walla, Washington
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walla_Walla,_Washington

[mark smyth]

I saw the rain on I'm a Celebrity ....."

We had a good thaw today, +8, but it could be weeks before the snow and ice melts

[TheOnionMan]

I saw the rain on I'm a Celebrity ....."

We had a good thaw today, +8, but it could be weeks before the snow and ice melts

Mark, it is -10C today, but still the sun shines and no snow yet, although snow is predicted for the weekend.

[TC]

Didn't somebody famous come from Wagga Wagga (so good they named it twice)?

It was Bill Kerr who used to appear with Tony Hancock and Sid James on "Hancock's Half Hour" on the steam Radio