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RedShift

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  1. About 6 cm in Dunblane. A fair few of the showers have slid past to the north and south of here. Take care all on Dundee
  2. We've done not bad. Started with noisy sleet lunchtime yesterday, it's been snowing since. Not as dry and powdery as it was over New Year, it's 'snowman' snow! We've had 2 days since Dec 28 without a snowy/icy covering.
  3. Lightning in the east visible from Dunblane - looks intense. Have fun and stay safe to everyone underneath it.
  4. 27.9°C in nearby Stirling. Actually quite a refreshing southeasterly breeze here.
  5. About 2 cm of wet slushy mush here, still fat flakes falling. There has now been falling and settling snow on at least one day for the last 6 months here. Hopefully spring soon.
  6. A fresh 4-5 cm since the school walk this morning. We now have a near-horizontal tree over our garden, oh well it will keep the washing dry in the summer
  7. ~20 cm on car roof this morning in Dunblane, it's been a while since I've seen trees bent by snow. Couple of light rain showers late morning.
  8. My Dad used 'snell' to describe cold - http://caledonianmercury.com/2010/12/06/useful-scots-word-snell/0012424
  9. About 5 cm of snow here tonight, started at about 6:00, still tiny little flakes falling.
  10. Mostly rain here with one or two sleety showers. Already had 88 mm of rain in November, although I suspect that is a modest amount compared to further north and west.
  11. For Cambridge; -14.2 C on the 11th Feb, 16.8 C today, a 31 C range in 12 days.
  12. What to do eh? Well, stop reading the nypost for a start. These claims are simply untrue. This nonsense was initiated last December by an article in the Telegraph. Since then, Dr. Pachauri, in his role as the director of the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has been audited by KPMG, international auditors. Here is the verdict... “No evidence was found that indicated personal fiduciary benefits accruing to Pachauri from his various advisory roles that would have led to a conflict of interest." Dr. Pachauri earns about £40,000 a year from his salary plus another ~£2,000 from book royalties and lectures. The Telegraph has issued an apology Telegraph apology It’s tempting to think that the Telegraph will learn, but I’m not holding my breath.
  13. Well, for years I lived on the Lower Carboniferous Gullane Formation (mostly deltaic sandstone) in Edinburgh. Now, I live on the somewhat younger (and flatter!) Upper Cretaceous Gault Formation (mostly mudstone) NW of Cambridge. You could do alot worse than 'Teach yourself Geology'. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Teach-Yourself-Geology-David-Rothery/dp/0340958790 Or, if you are very keen, the more expensive but classic 'Holmes' Principles of Physical Geology' http://www.amazon.co.uk/Principles-Physical-Geology-Arthur-Holmes/dp/041240320X Mostly written by many current and recently retired teaching staff at Edinburgh University.
  14. Big Innes, I moved from Edinburgh to Cambridge in the spring, and what I wouldn’t give for a wind, some black skies and rain. It has been very dry and hot, the grass is brown, hardly any wind, and my garden resembles an overgrown ant's nest. June saw 25 mm of rain, July has seen a whopping 0.7 mm of rain. This hot/dry spell is fine as a novelty factor, but boy is it boring!
  15. Yes. Is that simple and relevant enough?
  16. Curiously enough (or is it?) Scottish winters are responding least to the overall warming trend since 1914. The 10-year running mean is certainly higher now than it has been, but the 30-year running mean has only just sneaked above late 1940s levels. Most of the warming is being displayed in autumn and spring time. Winters are certainly becoming wetter, both the 10- and 30-year running means have been at their highest levels on record since the late 1980s. The linear trend for sunshine is down, but since the late 1990s, the 10-year running mean has climbed back to its peak last seen in the early 1960s. So Scottish winters since 1914: slightly warmer, wetter and less sunny, but sunshine has been increasing for the last ~10 years. Anyway, I'm moving to Cambridge in a few months, so this time next year I may well be getting excited about TEITS's beasterlies...I'll keep monitoring seagull activity for you all
  17. Mean temp. of January now confirmed as 0.1 C, the coldest since 1979 (-1.0) and the eighth coldest since 1914. It is beaten by Januarys from: 1952 -0.1 1959 -0.4 1979 -1.0 1940 -1.0 1963 -1.1 1945 -1.1 1941 -1.1 The five coldest winters (i.e. Dec - Feb) are: 1963 0.16 1979 0.45 1947 0.53 1941 0.87 1951 0.93 http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/datasets/Tmean/date/Scotland.txt
  18. A brief (i.e. 60 second) snow flurry here this morning. Temp is at 1.2 C, dew point is a currently -7.8C, bright and sunny
  19. Currently 0.5 C, dew point -1.1 C, fine, light wet snow falling on dirty, muddy, grit-covered pavements. Now two days short of a calendar month without the temperature here breaching 4C. In fact only three days in that time have seen temps of >3 C. (Image from Edinburgh University Weather Station) ps - Anyone else here having/had major problems buying a sledge? Edinburgh (and the WWW) completely sold out.
  20. Following the much-vaunted notherly frontal snow event today, during which I blinked and missed, I now have about 30 cm of snow – measured horizontally. I would need an electron microscope to measure vertical depth. Which reminds me, whatever happened to SF’s classic ‘how to measure snow’ guide?
  21. Foggy Temp: 0.8 C Dew Point: 0.1 C RH 95 % Pressure: 1034 mBar
  22. A rough morning, temp currently 6.7 C, pressure 975 mBar. Wind from SW gusting up to 24 m/s = ~53 mph. Driving moderate/heavy rain.
  23. Hello latecommer and welcome, just wondering what the difference between a paleogeologist and a common-or-garden geologist is?
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