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LOL, you crack me up Roger!
I wonder if the bods at SATSIGs HQ have decided to issue a ruling on how the recent no-blow storm would rate on the Abingdon scale? Presumably a new scale would be required to describe disappointment in observed wind speed, rather than snow?
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Short Raves - infrequent and brief parties where groups of friends attempt to experience a Sibrerian High.
Shandi High - The state of enlightenment one achieves in the depths of winter when you realise you'd better start mixing lemonade in your beer if it's going to last all night.
Sub-topical Jet - An off topic rant, often in relation to the lack of snow in plus 30c, under clear skys in the middle of summer.
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Difluent Troff - A big metal tray that all banned members of Net Weather are forced to eat from.
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Mandy the Slumsy - A well known Net Weather member's alter-ego, who lives in a tennament in Glasgee and drinks Buckie for breakfast.
Whyte Christmas - A cause for celebration. No better way to be festive than a Sibrerian High.
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GSF - Global Snowcasting Foundation
Misterious - Strange weather phenomenom, which defies explanation by all wanter experts.
Wet Stream - Source of mild and moist (but not murrky) wonter weather. Also a sticky substance that often appears after the GSF's 18z charts are produced.
www.wetterz-entrail.de - Highly regarded source of GSF archive charts
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Sibrerian High - What you get from snorting a white granulated powdery substance, manufactured in Russia by a gang of Triads.
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We're not far from a full blown Rampede, woohoo!
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Are the Daily Mail going to serialise it ?
Just as long as it's not the Express
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6.0
Yes, yes, I know *Booo* *Hisssss*
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As an Abingdonian, I have made some adjustments to the scale to reflect the 10 years of disappointment.
As a true Abingdonian, the Abongdonian's Abingdonist scale of Abingdons can be whatever you like, perhaps it only needs one number:
5 - Nothing happened
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Indeed, a scale of Abingdons does, to my ears, have a rather scholarly ring to it.
Perhaps a appropriate scale of disappointment, with:
0 - Polar bears spotted going through bins
1 - Less than a metre of level snow
2 - Less than an inch of level snow
3 - No snow actually fell
4 - No sleet actually fell, not even slushy hail
5 - It didn't even rain and heaven knows the south east needs the rain
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How about WANTERs
Wickedly
Ambitious
Nonsense
Temperature
Event
Report
or
Spurious
Precipitation
Identity
Reporting
Measurement
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Thank you for another great summary Kevin. I always reading enjoy your historical explanations.
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Oooh, this looks like fun. And I can increase my post count?
Well then:
Bournemouth 0z obs
Wind W @ 8 knots
Temp: 11c
Pressure: 1023 Rising
3-4 oktas @ 4000 feet
Visibility: Good
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I happen to have spotted a cheeky ramp from a well respected forecaster in a certain general chat area that, in the wrong hands, could easily push the SATSIGS needle off the scale. Batten down the hatches SF
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A search for the SATSIGS Hq brought up any number of places dotted all over the country. The office of misinformation must be very proud.
http://www.multimap.com/map/places.cgi?cli...arch=satsigs+hq
Whilst there seems to be a strange fascination with "Stoke", Stuck in Argylle seems the most fitting.
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But you couldn't move to any other point in the universe instantly, because the information (or whatever you call it) would have to travel to that point, and that would still rely on the speed of light. Dullards.
If you can't go faster than the speed of light, why not make the distance shorter. Simple, just bend space.
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On a bit of a tangent, something that I forgot to mention is that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is the foundation of quantum cryptography.
Quantum cryptography should make it impossible to intercept transmissions because the very act of reading it changes the data. Mind boggling.
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Having had a cursory glance at the entanglement theory, it certainly seems interesting! Even this though seems to have problems such that the replicated matter is not created exactly :blink:
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It would certainly be mind-boggling to attempt.
As it stands, we can't escape the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which without going into boring details is a hard restraint that stops us from teleporting real matter. In Science Fiction, this problem is often conveniently overlooked or solved by using things such as "Heisenberg Compensators".
IMO this barrier is more like the speed of light than the speed of sound. Maybe we'll overcome it one day but I doubt it. I'd say it's more likely that we'll learn to manipulate the space-time continum to the extent where we escape the notion of our four dimensions. To move to a different point in space and time will become arbitrary.
It's also likely that the technology we will develop is beyond our current comprehension, such as our technology would appear to a cave dweller.
Then again we may soon hit point such as in the 1800s IIRC where it was pronounced that science had discovered everything that there was to know!
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With barely more than zero attention to the rules and definitely no thought to strategy, here are "Wally's Woolly Wanter Wantings".
181206 - Newcastle - 2
251206 - Inverness - 3
140107 - Glasgow - 5
260107 - Scarborough - 4
260107 - Plymouth - 1
070207 - Aberystwyth - 2
160207 - Newquay - 1
100307 - Londonderry - 2
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I thought I would lob this paper into the pot - I'm wading through it now. It looks into the current methods being investigated for hindcasting (and therefore in the future forecasting) the winter NAO index based on several variables, not just SSTs. The authors mention Northern Hemisphere snow cover as a variable giving significant skill (in the statistical sense). The paper seems pretty relevant to the current discussion and although typically terse, is an interesting reading IMO.
http://climate.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/docs/Fletche...unders.2005.pdf
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Around 7-10 rumbles this morning between 5 and 7ish. Some heavy rain.
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12.9 c
Netweather Urban Dictionary
in The netweather guides...
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SATSIGr - Sod all the science, it's going to rain. Directly attributed to New Zealand cricket umpire Billy Bowden who claimed, despite all indications to the contrary that as his arthritis was playing up, rain would come to save England the following day.