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    Possible 30c

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    Yes I remember that Darren, but it still dosen't make up for what has been been a dysmal summer overall

    It is astounding that some of us are getting excited about temps of 30c being broken.

    Who would have thought that this is the kind of situation we would be facing this year.

    I'm not too fussed that we are getting excited about the 30c mark being surpassed.

    It's nice to have these sort of temperatures once a year maybe, but if it goes on all summer like 2006 it does start to get ridiculous.

    It didnt reach 30c where I lived I don't think, however it did get to 29.2c in Gravesend today, I tend to use Gravesend values for my area because there is no proper data for Maidstone. I'm sure 30c must have briefly being broken in central London surely?

    July CET

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    Are you confusing the England average with the CET? Because the CET had a far greater anomaly than England as a whole.

    Hadley CET - 15.2 (1.3C below 71-00 average, 0.9C below 61-00 average).

    It says it was 0.3c below the 1961-1990 average. Although it is talking about the England Mean Temperature Series rather than CET.

    July CET

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by WBSH

    The BBC are confusing.

    They have the July CET at 15.2c, as does Phillip Eden.

    Yet the BBC reckon it was 0.3c below the average (England 61-90) when Eden has it as 1.2c below.

    Is Eden comparing the average to 71-2000 because it doesnt make sense!

    Possible 30c

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by WBSH

    I wouldn't say a warm September would "kill the chances" of having a proper autumn. Remember September is only one of three autumn months, and I class the beggining as late summer anyway. Plus a period of dryness and cool mornings in early autumn can brighten the colour of the leaves. Autumns such as 2001, 2003 and 2006 had great leaf colour from my memory.

    I personally wouldn't mind if it didnt reach 30c anyway in this country over the summer. I'm quite enjoying the temperatures my location has had the last couple of days - 21/22c sunny with a light breeze - perfect.

    Alien intelligence

    in Space, Science & nature

    Posted

    There is no evidence that life does exist on other planets - thats true.

    But there is also no evidence that there isn't other form of life out there in the universe.

    So therefore I don't think it's logical to think that there is or isn't - because we know too little about what is out there.

    Alien intelligence

    in Space, Science & nature

    Posted · Edited by WBSH

    It is a bit arrogant to suggest that extraterrestrial life doesn't exist - based merely on the fact that humans have never come across them.

    The sheer size of the universe and it's time scale is the main factor in the likeliness of extraterrestrial life. And I say like likeliness, because it's also arrogant to assume that there is definatly life out there as well. Because we know so little of the universe - it's impossible to assume both ways.

    The sheer size of the universe and it's time scale will have to beat the incredible odds at which life can form - for there to actually be life at all.

    Also, the sheer size of the universe and it's time scale may also suggest why we have never encountered such life - maybe we are just too far away and remote. Again I think there is a slight tinge of arrogance to "Fermi's paradox". Why exactly would extraterrestrial life want to visit us anyway, should they exist?!?

    Sunday 15th July 2007

    in Weather reports

    Posted

    Weather: It's been a warm, sticky day today. Cloud has also been building up for roughly the last hour so there is now a real gloom amongst the "closeness".

    Temperature: 20.8c

    Wind: SE 3mph

    Relative humidity: 75%

    Pressure: 1008mB

    Sunset: 21:11

    June C.E.T

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    I was 0.2c out so not bad, not bad. :ph34r:

    I'm not sure the fact that this June was 1.3c above the average is particulary significient. It is to be expected when there is a lot of cloud cover keeping the minima up, and for about the first two thirds of the month the airflow was more or less from a warm direction.

    June C.E.T

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    Although there have been some months that have been ridiculously above average this year, I dont think people should get too despondent about it. March and May were not that much above the CET and anyway, I would rather have an average or below average month during the end of the year. The fact is, things are warming up considerable whether we like it or not. CET is merely proving this not causing it!

    The Lingering Twilight

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    Yep, days are really getting on the long side now, it's still pretty much light at 9pm now where I live.

    Incidently Wunderground.com has Civil twilight as between 0-6 degrees below the horizon, nautical twilight as 6-12 degrees below the horizon and astronomical twilight as 12-18 degrees below the horizon. Meaning complete darkness is where the sun is anything below 18 below.

    Twilight

    I may be reading it wrong though!

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