[color=#000000]My new postman looks like Jim Bowen... so much so I had to 'Google' Jim to see if he was still alive and where he was living just in case it said working for Royal Mail in MK !![/color]
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[color=#000000]I didn't really want a new postman, my lovely postman, that happy-chappy, deliverer of my letters and parcels on an almost daily basis, is no more…I had suspected as much last week when I discovered a lit
I'm sticking with my guns about a "poor winters preceeded by a stormy autumn" something a kin to 2007. I think that we are going to struggle to see a proper Greenland High block this time around and all becuase La Nina might rear her ugly head for a second time.
I'll remind people again about last winter how La Nina prior to January 2011 struggled to get a grip on atmospheric conditions and global weather patterns and when she finally did, we saw weak attempts at northern blocking resulting
[b]Part I - “[i]Saudisturbing - Who’s behind 9/11[/i]”[/b]
[b]1. [/b]15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia and Osama Bin Laden himself was Saudi-born.
[b]2. [/b]In the days following 9/11, with the blessing of George W. Bush, at least six private jets and nearly two dozen commercial planes carried the Saudis and the Bin Ladens out of the U.S. In all, 142 Saudis, including 24 members of the Bin Laden family, were allowed to leave the country. At least one private plane fl
MUNRO NAME: CARN AOSDA
DATE CLIMBED: 15/8/11
HEIGHT: 3009 FT, 917 M
MOUNTAIN REGION: THE CAIRNWELL MOUNTAINS (GLENSHEE)
COUNCIL: ABERDEENSHIRE
TIME TAKEN: 1.5 HOURS
LOG:
CARN AOSDA IS OFFICIALLY MY FIRST MUNRO OUT OF THE 284 MIGHTY MOUNTAINS OVER 3000FT IN SCOTLAND. LOCATED NEAR THE GLENSHEE SKI CENTRE CAR PARK, IT IS A 580M ASCENT TO THE SUMMIT, SO A PRETTY EASY CLIMB TO ARGUABLY SCOTLAND'S EASIEST MUNRO. ALL IN ALL THE WALK WAS QUITE EASY UNTIL A LONG AND STRENUOS, STEEP CLIMB UP
For those of you who may not have seen it, Netweather was featured on BBC Breakfast this morning within their feature on how weather affects retailers.
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You can watch it here:
[url="http://bbc.in/o686kz"]http://bbc.in/o686kz[/url]
As well as the website and forum, Netweather also have a commercial arm to the business and one portion of that is our service for retailers. As described in the BBC feature the we
Well the decent to Autumn and Winter is under way, and although we are still well into Summer at the minute. It sure doesn't feel like it. Although this week is likely to be the sunniest week of the month, it should also be around average, perhaps slightly above in parts towards the end of the week especially. I'm being bias to England here, but Scotland should also be seeing the sun regular with Northern Ireland also joining in on Summer.
I wouldn't be getting too used to it though, because th
Its feeling like the end of summer here.It has been a mixed year, cold wet start, then warm and wet and warm and dry and now cool and wet. The garden has also had the same mixed results, have had to pull the tatties early because of blight, the carrots are wonky..lol.. but really tastey and I have garden peas coming out from every crevasse. The tomatoes Im now bringing indoors from the greenhouse to ripen,
It is the first year for the garden, it was basically a mud hole after the diggers had
As has been forecast for the last few days, we're seeing some really heavy rain moving up through Northern England and into Scotland today, already there are reports of flooding according to the BBC:
[url="http://bbc.in/p1HDy3"]http://bbc.in/p1HDy3[/url]
And you can see why - this is the 12 hour accumulated rainfall taken from the radar:
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And this is the position of the rainfall as I type this update:
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The
[color=#1C2837][size=4]It's been a little while since the last update on our blog (must do better!), so I thought now would be a good time to give an update on what we've been up to behind the scenes, and some info on what we've got planned as we close out the summer and move toward autumn and winter.
The main thing we've been working on is a move to new servers, which barring a few bits and pieces is now complete. You may remember we also moved to new servers last year but unfortunately it
Hi folks
I have uploaded some pics of the Tall Ships arriving in Lerwick harbour today. I will be going down to the harbour tomorrow to take some more.
[url="http://forum.netweather.tv/gallery/album/941-tall-ships-2011/"]Tall Ships pics[/url]
As you may or may not know my weather website has a live streaming webcam at:
[url="http://86.140.14.120:8081/"]Gulberwick Weather Webcam[/url]
It has been angled so that it has a good view of the approach to the south entrance to Lerwick Harbour. The Tall Ships Races are visiting here this week and the ships should start arriving any time now. Also on Sunday there will be a "Parade of Sail" and the ships will muster right where my cam is looking so should be a good sight!
Well, as you will probably be aware by now, the campaign to save Shetland Coastguard from closure was a success!
A victory for a small local community who made the Govt & the MCA change its mind. They made the fatal mistake of thinking we were just a bunch of woolly islanders who would roll over and play dead! Shetlanders are made of stronger stuff than that! Whilst we are delighted, we are also very aware that many of our colleagues have not had such good news today and our thoughts are
This week we will hear what the Govt plans to do with HM Coastguard. We're given to understand the announcement will come on Wednesday in a statement to the House from Transport Secretary Philip Hammond.
The Sunday papers have been full of speculation but they all seem to have this figure of 11 stations surviving, all 24 hrs operation. The one question mark I would put over that is that generally, as far as the MCA/Govt is concerned, they usually leave London ( a small station on the Thames)
ok i hope ive sussed this thing out! not much good at technical things...
well, i thought id write down on why i like heat in summer, saves explaining it on the model thread!
ideally i wouldnt like wall to wall heat, but a perfect summer to me would be several hot spells followed by a thundery breakdown. why do i like sunshine and heat? well, i like to use my garden, especially in may-aug. my hobby is metal detecting which commences after a summer break in august (harvest), so ive planted u
[b]El Nino[/b]
It's expected to stay in the neutral zone for the rest of this summer. But slowly dips down during autumn. It will stay around the -1 mark through the winter so not as strong as lasts winters.
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[b]Rainfall[/b]
July is looking average for rainfall amounts which is good news for those that need some.
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August in Southern Scotland and Northern England may see slightly less rainf
Well it's all over, the first year at uni has flown by and I have passed comfortably. Here is the breakdown of my results (all /100):
Calculus Methods - 54
Ordinary Differential Equations - 80
Vectors & Matrices - 58
Introduction to Meteorology - 71
Weather & Climate Fundamentals - 55
Env Science - 65
Physics - 60
With weightings taken into account it works out at an average of 62.3% which is a 2:1. Disappointed with a couple of modules, very happy with others, so overall I'm
A new series of top gear started last night btw in case you are a fan and didn't know, that marauder thing is made of win, I want one!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0129r3z/Top_Gear_Series_17_Episode_1/
Melissa Florence Cynthia born 20th June 4:10pm, mother, baby and me all bloomin'shattered but happy!
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Well, I have to say I am stunned. Whilst we expected the TSC to be critical of the proposals for HM Coastguard I don't think any of us expected such a complete demolition job!
The report can be found here: [url="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmtran/948/94802.htm"]My link[/url]
This is a complete vindication of the stance I and my colleagues have taken against these proposals and a complete trashing of the proposals in their entirity. I don't think I have ever r
Well, some time before the Parliamentary recess on 19th July, we will find out if our campaign to save the Coastguard Station in Shetland has been successful. The first step towards that is the release of the report by the House of Commons Transport Select Committee at 00.01 on Thursday 23rd June. Having given formal evidence before the Committee I will receive my embargoed copy at 09.30 on Weds 22nd. I'm hoping this report will be highly critical of the proposals as I believe this may well impa
Some may have wondered what on Earth I was blithering on about in the monogamy thread and some other related ones.
I don't have a problem with the demand for [i]sexual[/i] monogamy (except when it's thrust upon people who consent to having "open" relationships). My opinion on polygamous/polymorous relationships has changed a fair bit since posting in the "Monogamy" thread, as there is strong evidence that they are eminently workable in cultures that don't frown upon them. However, at the sa
The other two posts are a bit in-depth, so here is an overall summary of my views- extending to sustainability generally and not just sustainable transport.
In short, I am 100% behind the concept of sustainability, but the key is that in order to be sustainable, we have to make some sacrifices and determine what is "necessary" and what isn't- and this is wherein my main objection to conventional "sustainability" policies lies.
I think of "unnecessary waste" as primarily practices that we c
