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1 hour ago, The Weather Watcher said:
It's no problem at all. I am a weather geek too. All the information I got was from my interest in meteorology and there's a great learning section on these forums for it. I'm good at explaining it, but not so good at the mathematical side of it. I love maths, but never divulged in anything beyond GCSE maths.
Reminds me of the good old days when you were our resident expert. Missed your input
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Wish I hadn’t gone onto the Scottish regional thread, snow reports already coming in and so much more forecast!
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Happy New Year everyone
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Roads awful on North Coast this morning, nice covering, close to sea level
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Charts are looking fantastic tonight, 18z loads of snow potential
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That snow row looks impressive until you check the percentages, highest is 64% mostly less than 20. Hopefully though things will improve
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51 minutes ago, mountain shadow said:
Really?
I spent mid July last year in Wexford. Sunshine every day and not s drop of rain.
Yeah but up north the weather is usually crap in July, improves slightly in August. Dublin and further south on east coast totally different
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Looking forward to some thunderstorms over the next couple of days. After that weather doesn’t look great though!
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11 minutes ago, DAVID SNOW said:
Well stop jumping all over the UK government then, this virus seems to effect the hard of thinking most.
Boris do you not have something else to be doing?
To be honest it’s totally legitimate to question the government In this case, they’ve u turned in 24 hours. It’s obvious it’s been forced on them by so many institutions cancelling events and from the criticism within their own party. To give them credit this is an exceptionally difficult event to react to so they’ll not always get it right.-
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9 minutes ago, Relativistic said:
At the same time, some governments have to try different tactics. How will we ever learn which strategy is best when such a situation as this inevitably recurs if every country tries exactly the same thing?
That’s the problem, it’s a global pandemic so requires a global solution or at the very least a regional one. If all other countries are trying to contain the spread then it won’t work when uk is only managing it as they will spread infection to all other countries.
unless the Uk is put in quarantine!
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9 minutes ago, kold weather said:
I think the problem is the experts said Italy may well level it out, but then there is a huge chance of a second wave (and in the Spanish Flu, that proved far more deadly) and then they will have to go back into lockdown again, and that carries on until there is either herd immunity, or a vaccine. How many times can you expect to be able to put the whole population on lock down. Instead it maybe better to get the whole thing down in one wave over the space of 2-3 months, rather than have protracted flare ups and run the risk of the virus subtly mutating and beocming more dangferous for those who haven't yet been exposed.
Of course, if no 2nd wave comes, then we are probably going to be looking VERY bad, and Johnson will be gone come next election. High stakes for sure!
He doesn’t need to worry, Britain’s strategy will guarantee a second wave for everyone else
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32 minutes ago, Snipper said:
Will be right, wrong or somewhere in between. Quite nice UK making its own decisions.
Depends on your point of view I suppose.
I personally believe that Britain’s policy would only work if all countries did it together. This is a global problem not one confined to these 2 islands!-
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Well the government are taking a high risk here. Totally different policy than most countries in the world. Not convinced this would be followed if an election was round the corner.
The problem is that other countries are trying to stop the spread instead of a managed spread, will it work.
At some stage the cases might be higher than most other countries as we approach our peak and they’ve just clamped down on their first one. Will they stop flights to the Uk then?
The hope is when other countries get a second peak in the autumn we’ll have herd immunity here and so overall have a lower death rate.
Who will be right, epidemiologists will be studying this for years to come
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1 minute ago, kold weather said:
Think that its inevitable that yesterday was the last champions league matches, at least for the next 30-45 days. Clearly going to be a massive headache for what is a really packed out sporting calendar.
Pity, as a Liverpool fan, that it wasn’t cancelled before last night
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5 new cases in Northern Ireland
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7th death from Diamond Princess cruise ship, and we know for definite that’s nearly 1% of cases. We don’t know the average age on the ship though!
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It’s all very well saying they won’t close schools but I can see teachers refusing to work as the risk of infection will be so high!
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2 minutes ago, Summer Sun said:
That’s 3 diplomats/politicians who have now died from this in Iran, surely more than 107 have died in the general population!
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Another 2 deaths in France today bringing death toll to 6
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1 minute ago, Astral Goat Juice said:
The current CFR rate King County, VA is 28.125%. For the USA as a whole it is 6.79%.
I wonder what the demographics are like in KC? Older people?
They’ve only really tested residents of a nursing home which would tend to skew the figures!
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This is a reasonably positive statement from the WHO
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus✔@DrTedros
Knowing & understanding an epidemic is the first step to defeating it.
We are in unchartered territory with #COVID19. We have never before seen a respiratory pathogen that is capable of community transmission, but which can also be contained with the right measures.1,150
5:35 PM - Mar 2, 2020
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11 minutes ago, Astral Goat Juice said:
Not sure what you mean? In China it spread to every province. It's in around 20-30 different areas of Italy and South Korea has the most infected outside of China.
Many scholars and scientists are already calling this a pandemic, they dont, unfortunately represent every organisation.
The vast majority of deaths and cases in China were in Hubei province, isolated cases elsewhere but no spread on the same level.
South Korea 75% of cases in the Daegu region although their epidemic hasn’t peaked.
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Now a total of 9 deaths in Washington State!!
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It’s interesting how China, South Korea and hopefully Italy have managed to keep the outbreaks fairly well confined to a certain geographical area.
It provides hope that with the right measures it might be contained. Hence why WHO haven’t declared a pandemic
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I was starting to worry I was too close to the coast but at last it’s stuck. Couple of centimetres in that last fall