WBSH

The clocks go back this Sunday. Yet again we will get the doom mongers going on about how bad this is and how the world will end if this keeps happening etc but the clocks go back for a reason, and I know this more than ever now. For instance, when I was walking through my local park to get the bus last week (16-20th) between 7-7:30am, the sun hadn’t risen and it was still mostly dark and possibly dangerous when I had to cross the roads. The week after the clocks go back (30th Oct-3rd Nov) I will walk the same route at the same time, but the sun will have just risen then and because of this it will be technically day meaning it will be light, the risk of me getting involved in an accident at a very busy time in the morning decreases. People say “oh but it will just get darker again anyway”, in a way they are right BUT just because its still getting darker in the morning after the clocks go back doesn’t mean that the level of morning darkness will “catch up again” with the level of morning darkness in an unchanged clock or all year round BST. If you don’t understand then maybe this will be clearer, the latest the sun rises in my location is 08:05. If the clock didn’t go back, the sun wouldn’t rise till 09:05, and people would no doubt moan about this as well! And it would be extremely dangerous during the morning it if wasn’t totally light by 9am in the morning. The problem is when people think of the clocks going back; they just look out of the window and think of the darker evenings. Maybe these sorts of people don’t get up in the morning early enough to realize what a difference it makes in the morning, or study astronomy enough to realize that the sun rising an hour later in mid-winter is potentially more harmful that the sun setting an hour earlier. You don't lose an hour of lightness when the clocks go back, the days don't become shorter because of it, you just get potentially lighter mornings. No doubt I will get the guns pointed at me for saying this, but I know the facts ...

Weather: Clear, calm, cool and starry. Compared to the warm nights of weeks gone by there is a slight nip in the air. Temperature: 8.6c Wind: calm Pressure: 1007.3hPa Humidity: 84% Dewpoint: 6.0c Temperature rate per hour: -0.7c WBSH

Do you remember that quote I made just under two months ago on exactly Wednesday the 30th of August 2006?, that in my opinion conjured up the magic of autumn very well … “I don’t think we can properly class it as autumn, until, we experience those first clear chilly evenings where the sun is merely a faint red glow on your face when once it was a great tower above you, and you can smell the burning and the first real possibility of a frost” Today I felt this, although I’m very doubtful my area will get a frost tonight, it was a fantastic afternoon nonetheless. It was sunny, but not horrible and muggy, just a nice crisp feel to the air. The sun is now obviously much lower in the sky and sure enough by 5pm the sun was that mere faint red glow on our faces! Although I didn’t smell any burning I saw smoke come out of chimney’s on my journey home from college through the Kent countryside. The smoke filtering its way up into that light crystal blue ceiling that was very soon to darken. How wonderful that I decided to keep working and not get the bus till 17:21, it actually came three minutes early to my shock! I was so busy taking pictures I could have missed it! Alas the warm, wet muggy weather will return tomorrow and possibly the next few days, but that won’t take away what a glorious autumn day it was today. Some pictures in my gallery that I took today conjures up how I felt very well in pictures http://www.netweather.tv/forum/index.php?a...um&album=61

A wonderfully bright crisp autumn afternoon after the heavy rain this morning! temps around 14c with winds coming from the WSW... WBSH

Weather: Mostly clear with a few scattered clouds, generally much calmer of late. Temperature 12.1c Wind calm Pressure: 987.1hPa Humidity 91% Dew-point: 10.7c Maximum temperature 15.4c 00:00 Minimum temperature 11.9c 08:52 Rainfall today 9.8mm WBSH

Weather: Mostly clear and yet again another astonishingly warm night. Temperature: 15.4c Wind: ESE 2.3mph Pressure: 998.2hPa Humidity: 90% Dew-point: 13.8c Todays rainfall 2.0mm Todays Max: 16.6c 15:10 Todays Min: 14.8c 02:13

Sedum telephium ‘Roseum’, Kniphofia “bees flame”, Aster x frikartii “monch”, Stipa gigantea, Cyclamen hederifolim, Echinops bannaticus “Taplow blue”, Fuchsia magellanica ‘alba’, Hebe ‘Nicola’s blush’, Fuchsia thalia, Vinca difformis, Abelia grandiflora ‘Francis Mason’ Check these babies out! and they are just some of the plants I have to learn!

It’s yet again another warm day out there! And still all people do is complain that it is cold! C’mon guys we have just had a record breaking warm September and October is looking like going the same way as well, you have not rights to complain that is it cold! After a few chilly mornings it did seem that autumn may be creeping in but alas today and the next few days will tell otherwise. At least there aren’t those stupid rumours of a severely cold winter coming like last autumn. I remember a few weather sites were saying that it “may be slightly chillier than the last few winters” … and of course by the time the media got hold of it, it came out as “coldest winter in a century coming up for definite!” of course people didn’t question what the media were saying and believed every word that came out. I had people at college saying “it’s going to be the coldest winter ever; I read it in the Daily Mail today!!” the very fact that they just took every word the bleedin’ daily mail said just strengthened my point further. You can’t forecast the weather correctly beyond 24 hours and that’s a cold fact, excuse my pun. In the end it was a fairly normal winter with a few mild spells and a few cold spells, but even then I had mother asking me “was this the severe winter they were talking about” when we went through these run of the mill every winter cold spells!

If someone worried about why they couldn’t get the desired destination, and thought of themselves of going nowhere yet were actually half-way, then should they focus on why they had only got half-way or why they can get half-way but not that other half way? And be confident that if they can do one half, then surely the other half is not as far away as they think?

weather: Hazy sunshine and feeling quite warm yet again. temperature: 17c (63f) wind: SE 6.9mph pressure 1027.1hPa humidity 74% dew point 12.4c sunset 18:07 WBSH

I should hope you mean "second half of November 2005" SB or we might have a mystic meg on here WBSH

Weather: Clear and cool Temperature: 10.4c Wind: calm Pressure: 1019.4hPa Humidity: 82% Dew-point: 7.8c Temp rate per hour: -0.9c Sunset: 18:22 WBSH

My lame(ish) records show that so far max daytime temperatures in my location for September is actually 1.7c higher than August! Only three days for September (so far) have been below 20c (68f) with the lowest "only" been 18c on the 2nd compared with the 9 days in August which were below 20c (68f). Of course this is only for my location so it may be different for each individual but it's still interesting to compare! WBSH