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    Winter 2020/21 chat, ramps, moans and banter

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by CharmlessMan

    Hi fellow snow lovers.

    For a bit of fun I came up with this little rhyme in homage to the inevitable "where's my snow" frustration in one of the regional threads the other night  

    It's been downgrade after downgrade
    I knew it all along
    And now I feel I've been betrayed
    The warnings are so wrong

    The Met Office are total crap
    They said it would track west
    So where's the snow gone from my app?
    It's making me depressed

    There's naff all coming from that front
    It's weaker than expected
    Don't mean to be a whinging ****
    But God, I'm so dejected

    It's nothing but a damp squib here
    The biggest bust I've known
    Oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear
    It's all been overblown

    There's not a single flake in sight
    The forecast was baloney
    So that's me off to bed, goodnight
    This non-event is pony

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    COVID-19 Pandemic

    in Space, Science & nature

    Posted · Edited by CharmlessMan
    Correction

    17 minutes ago, swebby said:

    1) What are the smoking demographics for Germany.

    2) What are the demographics for co-morbidities in Germany?

    Basically is Germany healthier?

    In theory though, if a country has a healthier than average population they can be expected to live longer and thus there will be a higher proportion of elderly people.  Following this logic, having a less healthy population in itself would not necessarily mean a higher death rate, just that the average age of people dying would be younger.

    There are so many factors that influence the death rate, from how much testing has been done and how many deaths are being directly attributed to the disease, to the demographics of a population and of course the ability of the health service to cope (which is largely dependent on how many people need treatment at the same time as well as the availability of ventilators).

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    Novel Coronavirus – China

    in Space, Science & nature

    Posted

    1 minute ago, Summer Sun said:

    UEFA have rejected Wolves request to postpone tomorrow's match it will instead be played behind closed doors

    Folks can watch the game on telly at least.  I was thinking it would be cool if there was a way they could mic up the TV viewers then broadcast the noise into the stadium!

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    Novel Coronavirus – China

    in Space, Science & nature

    Posted

    This might be worth a watch later tonight.  Trump is downplaying the severity of the situation and is said to be "furious with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over briefings given to the public and the resultant drop in the market due to panicking investors".  White House spokesman Judd Deere stated, ““Unfortunately what we are seeing today is a political effort by the Left and some in the media to distract and disturb the American people with fearful rhetoric and palace intrigue. The United States economy is the strongest in the world thanks to the leadership and policies of President Trump. The virus remains low risk domestically because of the containment actions taken by this Administration since the first of the year.”

    Quotes are from the Washington Post.  Anyway it kicks off at 11pm.

     

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    Novel Coronavirus – China

    in Space, Science & nature

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    28 minutes ago, Bristle boy said:

    Feel sorry for the tourists in the H10 hotel in Tenerife. Being kept there for 14 days. Cant help feeling a repeat of the cruise ship fiasco in Japan happening, as it will be a quarantine in name only. Problem with the Canaries, due to v low tax environ, is there are only a few state hospitals and they wont have other secure isolation units in their healthcare system, like the one here, in the Wirral, for example.

    Me too, wouldn't like to be in their position.  Unfortunately this is the risk that anyone travelling abroad at the moment is taking. 

    The concern (from the powers that be) isn't that the people within the quarantine zone might get infected, the concern is that if they aren't quarantined they will likely spread the disease.  Hence it's not for their benefit (quite the opposite in fact) it's for everybody else's.

     

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    Storm Dennis Atlantic Storm 4

    in Storms & Severe Weather

    Posted · Edited by CharmlessMan
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    4 minutes ago, Dreckly said:
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    6554b6be8c0d829a8bf63ae0c82cf121_link.pn Warning as part of the cliffs collapse in Newquay during Storm Dennis - Cornwall Live

    WWW.CORNWALLLIVE.COM
    People asked to stay away from the area on Great Western Beach

    Bit of slippage..

    Part of the coast path near Swanage has gone too. Two places I know well!

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    6554b6be8c0d829a8bf63ae0c82cf121_link.pn Swanage coastal path collapses as Storm Dennis brings wind and rain to Dorset

    WWW.BOURNEMOUTHECHO.CO.UK
    PART of the coastal path near Swanage is collapsing as Storm Dennis lashes Dorset this afternoon.

     

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    Storm Dennis Atlantic Storm 4

    in Storms & Severe Weather

    Posted

    Just found this:

    Farson Digital Watercams, the world's first network of HD cameras broadcasting live from the UK's and Republic of Ireland's waterways.

    6554b6be8c0d829a8bf63ae0c82cf121_link.pn Farson Digital Watercams - Hi-def webcam on River Avon (Central), at Tewkesbury

    WWW.FARSONDIGITALWATERCAMS.COM
    Hi-def webcam at Tewkesbury offering up to the second live imagery on River Avon (Central). With regular river reports from the area, and an extensive archive of...

    A great resource if you're interested in the spots where flood warnings have been issued.

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    Storm Dennis Atlantic Storm 4

    in Storms & Severe Weather

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    For my area (east Wiltshire) the forecast is heavy rain from 7pm today right through until Sunday afternoon/evening, bar two hours of drizzle on Saturday morning.  48 hours of continuous rain?  Winds are at least 10% down on the forecast for Ciara though (which makes the forecast for this weekend similar to what we got last weekend in terms of actual wind speeds).

    I'm not sure I can ever remember such a long period of heavy rain on the forecast!  Shame it's not snow eh?

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    Novel Coronavirus – China

    in Space, Science & nature

    Posted

    Have come across a couple of useful links on other forum, so thought I'd share here.

    1. Interview with Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and head of the School’s Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

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    6554b6be8c0d829a8bf63ae0c82cf121_link.pn Harvard expert says coronavirus likely now ‘gathering steam’

    NEWS.HARVARD.EDU
    Harvard’s Marc Lipsitch said evidence indicates that the international cordon keeping coronavirus cases bottled up in China is a leaky one, and it’s likely that...

     

    2.  Interesting graphs and timeline.

    6554b6be8c0d829a8bf63ae0c82cf121_link.pn Tableau Public

    PUBLIC.TABLEAU.COM
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    Novel Coronavirus – China

    in Space, Science & nature

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    It's become increasingly clear how highly contagious this virus is.  Spreads through the air, lies on surfaces for a week and people can be asymptomatic for 5 days.  

    I've been following things closely for 3+ weeks now and it gets worse by the day.  A pandemic is inevitable, if we are not there already.  

    The WHO and the media (contrary to my initial thoughts) have been behind the curve from the start.  It is also telling that the Chinese leadership are doing everything they can to prevent the outside world finding out what is really going on.  

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    Novel Coronavirus – China

    in Space, Science & nature

    Posted · Edited by CharmlessMan
    Wanted to add something else

    20 hours ago, The PIT said:

    Ahh another scare story another one to add to the list of diseases that were going to wipe us out. Aids, Bird Flu, Sars, and now the "carnivore" virus.

    The Govenment says they are checking people but people flying into Heathrow are reporting no checks being done. 

    Give it six months it could well be forgotten. To put it into perspective 600 people a year die from flu in the UK rising to 10,000 in bad years.

    I'm inclined to agree that this is being blown out of proportion by the media (as usual).  Every day in China 700 people die in road accidents for example.

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    That's not to say it's still a potentially serious situation.

    Greenland - What Do We Know, What Is The Long Term Future And Is There Any Evidence Of A Melt Out?

    in Climate Change

    Posted

    The accelerating Greenland icemelt isn't really news though.  It's the continuation of a trend which has been in evidence for the past 20 years so it won't surprise anyone who follows the science on this.

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    6554b6be8c0d829a8bf63ae0c82cf121_link.pn Forty-six years of Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance from 1972 to 2018

    WWW.PNAS.ORG
    We reconstruct the mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet for the past 46 years by comparing glacier ice discharge into the ocean with...

    In fact virtually every measure of a warming climate from atmospheric CO2 concentration and sea level rise to global temperature readings are accelerating at an ever increasing rate.

    You can read the latest WMO (World Meteorological Organisation) report right here:

     

     

    Report Climate change ipcc

    in Climate Change

    Posted

    You could argue that a global economic collapse is the only way we'll ever actually reduce our carbon emissions!  The more economically active we are the more of the earth's resources are consumed, the more of a throwaway society we live in (whether it's cars, phones, washing machines etc) and the more fossil fuel is burnt.  As well as being less wasteful communities need to become more locally self sufficient so there is less of a need to transport manufactured goods and produce half way around the planet.  Brexit, for example, which the greens are vehemently against, is actually something that would help/encourage/force us to do just that. 

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