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Oh I think this is just the calm before the storm... My experimental tellyconnected ramping forecast predicts that there will be a major event within then next couple of days. Be extra vigilant.

Speaking of anal, the CET discussions do sometimes remind me of a bunch of beared blokes in a run down old pub drinking ale and discussing the relevant merits of V6 vs straight six engines Actually, I wonder if there is a CET discussion on here: http://www.dullmen.com/home.html I must take a look. (This should in no way be taken as an insult, quite the contrary)

Just so long as it doesn't involve Kerry Katona. That has me thinking, I wonder which met station in the UK has recorded the lowest mean wind speeds this year?

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.

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?

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.

Difluent Troff - A big metal tray that all banned members of Net Weather are forced to eat from.

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.

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

Sibrerian High - What you get from snorting a white granulated powdery substance, manufactured in Russia by a gang of Triads.

We're not far from a full blown Rampede, woohoo!

Just as long as it's not the Express

6.0 Yes, yes, I know *Booo* *Hisssss*

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

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

How about WANTERs Wickedly Ambitious Nonsense Temperature Event Report or Spurious Precipitation Identity Reporting Measurement

Thank you for another great summary Kevin. I always reading enjoy your historical explanations.

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

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

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.

If you can't go faster than the speed of light, why not make the distance shorter. Simple, just bend space.

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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography

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:

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!

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