Methuselah

I'm with you all the way, Mushy; I'm already counting down the days to the Vernal Equinox!

Still wall-to-wall sunshine and temp up to 17C...What a lovely day today looks like being.

Same here, Malcolm: 13C and wall-to-wall sunshine. All round better-feeling now that Tuesday's horrible humidity has been well and truly blown away!

Indeed Paul, I've always had hay fever during August and September; it's the Spring & Summer pollen that never used to affect me... Anywho, expect the ongoing hurricane season to cause mayhem among the models?

It's nae so bad, Malcolm; the cloud seems to be drifting off to the east...20C.

Must be yesterday in reverse, BB...hazy sunshine, Ac cas, and a horribly humid 22C...

Woke me up at around 0530 hrs: loudish thunder and very bright, white lightning...

I know it is, BB, I can see the back/front edge of the cloud; the weather along the East Coast must be glorious...

Lucky you, alexis; up here, it's so dark I can't read without having the light on!

And, as we all know, neither carbon dioxide nor methane (two of humanity's most pernicious waste-products) are really greenhouse gases? Thank the Lord that we have such 'renowned climate scientists' as Lawson and Monckton to put us right!

What a scorcher!

Not quite up to your standards, LG - I'll go for 15.7.

Wall-to-wall sunshine and 21C.

And, just as I was answering that, a sodding housefly has invaded my space...Fly spray followed by feline ingestion ought to do the trick!

But, biased or not, neonicotinoids do kill insects...And, last time I checked, bumblebees were indeed, insects? Not that composting dog-ends ever did much good regarding carrot-fly!

Which is precisely why I used it...conceivability (when not backed-up with so much as a shred of evidence) is little more than conjecture - even when it does hint at what we all want to hear? Maybe the anomalous amount of spent rocket fuel was what caused the 1960s' winters to be cold...? Though technically 'conceivable', I agree that it is almost certainly nonsense. But, can the same not - based on the (lack of) evidence - also be said of so-called lunar and solar effects...after all, 1947 not only gave us the snowiest winter in living memory, it also saw a wonderful summer - all at the peak of the sunspot cycle? As far as teleconnections are concerned, however; I think that all we need do is find them and verify them...

IMO, the problem with these 'links' (really correlations at the very best) is, without any evidence that A leads to B, one may as well suggest that NASA resumes its moon-landings; I'm reasonably sure that UK winters were statistically colder in decades containing frequenter Apollo missions?

But, judging from the CFS's long and distinguished career, that's got to be the best news yet!

Good for a laugh though?

1800 hrs, 23.01.24?

You can stick that...today's been about the most comfortable day since God knows when!

Indeed JJ. But, with the noteworthy exception of this summer, we don't much of anything?

Since late 2012, we called it The Triangle of Doom, BB!

It's chucking it down again...

Must be 10+ days already?