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Happy 20th

I am quite white' ish

and not a bear in sight in that photo Watch: Bear dodges skiers on California slopes WWW.BBC.CO.UK The bear escaped collision-free and is said to have reunited with its mother on the other side of the trail.

corrected it for you BBC was brave enough to put an Xmas day chart up this morning on the news. As suspected... mild mild mild

I've given up with what the weather might be on Xmas day. Lets face it; up in the morning, unwrap prezzies, xmas breakfast, start dinner prep, dinner time, snooze, drink, buffet tea, snooze, bed..... probably not even seen out to know what the weather is doing

see, thats my problem, if i write a report in work i would give a full meaning of an abbreviation the first time i use it and then the reader knows from then on what that abbreviation means. not expect the reader to know the meaning immediately. just seems like common sense to do that to me

Last time i posted there i was shot down in flames for asking posters to elaborate a bit more and stop using abbreviations without explaining them. never again! I am quite a literate person, but some of the stuff posted in there is complete and utter tripe sometimes.

beans does that to me too

Wish I had

water normally. but that usually means rain, or in winter, melted snow before it hits the ground

It's beginning to look it's not like Christmas - Damp, grey, cool, and dark... not the best of weather run-ups towards xmas and in my very novice weather forecasting head i reckon xmas day will be much the same (IMBY) as what today day has been* *based on many years seeing how the trend always goes in a mild direction when you least want it to.

The block is more blocked than a blocked thing that is blocked me thinks

Although my drive home from Shefford along the M1 seemed more windy than i was expecting So I think it was more Eastwards than the warnings gave.

Storm Elin, Storm Fergus duo lash UK with wet and windy weather WWW.BBC.CO.UK Flood warnings, service disruptions and power failures are in place for much of the country.

Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence. No sound of silence with a fresh snowfall looking likely come Xmas week here in the SE though

The great white Xmas of 1981 on C5 at 2100

'cept me

off visiting relatives today. two lots both living in the luton/beds area.... wet and windy drive up the A1 for me then. Deep joy!

Cheers and Beers BW

Paul, I'm sure you will have it 'nailed on' soon

Don't forget to wrap my one up Hope you feel better soon

Just had a lovely hot (a splash of chilli sauce on top) Shepards Pie..... the Shepard was not happy

Some superb frost patterns on the cars around here. Will be a hard frost by the morning if the temps don't rise overnight.

yes mate, i don't disagree. just wish some of the more experienced posters would make reading and thus interpreting posts easier for the lees knowledgeable. I'd much rather read posts where i don't need to wander off to other resources to interpret them, just my opinion. and having been around a few years now i understand the frustrations of seeing things posted and not fully appreciating what the poster is relaying because of the technicalities of the post. as a degree qualified engineer i am not lacking in understanding of things, yet the weather often is so complicated at times. hey ho, time to stay out of the models thread again ...

eh??? in english for us lesser educated weather folk please. Not criticizing you but for the novices here fuller explanations, less abbreviations, more depth in posts would help immensely. I've been here long enough to understand most posts, but i know how hard it is when i first started interpreting posts that for beginners it's a nightmare. no offence intended