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    The changing daylight hours thread

    in Spring Weather Discussion

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    20 minutes ago, cheeky_monkey said:

    Back in the 1970s the vast majority of children walked to school..today the vast majority don't so that argument is probably null and void these days..here last year the people of Alberta voted to keep the clocks changing and voted against keeping BST all year round

    Yeah, it’s true that most children are driven to school these days so that particular reason for reverting back to GMT/UTC would not be as valid now as it was in the 70s. There is an argument being voiced at the moment to retain BST for economic and certain environmental reasons, ie. it would result in reduced energy consumption for light and heat, it would be beneficial to both domestic and business users in terms of cost. It’s a difficult one, the needs of people in Shetland at 60°N and those in Cornwall at 50°N are quite different. I’d prefer to keep GMT because, even with GMT, where I live the sun rises after 8am between the end of November and the end of January. I’m not a morning person so I need all the help I can get in terms of daylight to wake up😊.

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    The changing daylight hours thread

    in Spring Weather Discussion

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    16 minutes ago, wende123 said:

    I remember the experiment well - as a child myself at that time we were given dayglo armbands to wear to school in the morning. Once the experiment ended and we reverted to GMT, we then were encouraged to wear these armbands on the way home from school. In those days school didn't finish until 4pm.

    By mid December we only have 7 hours of daylight, so whatever we do is going to cause issues for some groups of people in different parts of the country. I do believe though that we should be trying to find ways of reducing our use of heating and lighting and reverting to GMT in October doesn't address this. 

    Oh, wow, that took me back, I’d forgotten about the hi-vis arm bands. I agree, there has to be a discussion about how best to deal with reducing our consumption of energy for both economic and environmental reasons. It’s difficult to know what a solution would look like. There is an argument that retaining BST/UTC+01:00 would help reduce heating and lighting costs in the evening when most people are at home. However, retaining BST would increase costs to farmers and would encourage more people into cars in the morning. There’s no easy answer.

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    The changing daylight hours thread

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    1 minute ago, wende123 said:

    Totally agree. With extended daylight in the evenings, we would save money on lighting and heating too.

    There was an experiment in keeping BST all year round in the UK between 1968 and 197. I was a very small child at the time but I remember that there was a higher incidence of RTCs involving children during the morning school run. Also, people, especially farmers, in the North of England and Scotland complained about having to work and use farm machinery in cold, dark conditions; morning being their busiest part of the day. Where I grew up sunrise was typically 09:10am at the beginning of December and 09:30am at the beginning of January. The British archipelago is so long that a ‘One size fits all’ solution was never going to be satisfactory for everyone.

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    The changing daylight hours thread

    in Spring Weather Discussion

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    Autumn is my favourite time of year. The quality of the light is quite beautiful and everything seems to be settling down in preparation for Winter. The darker skies are also great for astronomy. I was taking a look at Jupiter and the Galilean moons in my 7x50 binoculars several nights ago.  I was having a very successful observing session so I thought I’d have a go at Uranus not expecting to be successful. I used a star hopping technique to identify it and then used averted vision through my binoculars to see the very dim disc. I’ve never seen Uranus through my own efforts before, of course I’ve seen it through telescopes, so I was so pleased when I succeeded in observing it. I could wax lyrical about this time of year, especially the Pink Footed Geese that fly over on their way between Martin Mere and the Sefton Coast and all the other bird life, but I’ll stop now😊…Happy GMT/UTC folks.

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    Northwest Weather Discussion

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    9 hours ago, Rush2019 said:

    Morning.  Not a bad night, temp stayed above 6°C.  Currently under pale shades of blue on the radar, nice and dry at ground level.  Being treated to a dramatic sunrise this morning.  Sky rich in colour tapering out to a delicate pink, photo not really capturing the beauty.  

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    Yes, it was dramatic this morning, wasn’t it. The clouds broke soon after to become a beautiful sunny Autumn day.

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    Autumn 2023

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Mary C

    4 hours ago, StingJet said:

    The consequences were quite devastating for many in the South East,  it was a very 11th hour call on how bad it was going to be, no battening down the hatches could prevent the destructive forces of nature.
    It must be horrendous for those who live in the Hurricane (Tropical Storms) and Tornado prone parts of the world, the wind at its most ferocious takes no prisoners 

    Yeah, they were weren’t they, I think I remember there being huge problems with infrastructure across the South East and in many areas of the South too. Our first house was on the Hampshire/Surrey border but we hadn’t moved in yet but as I remember there were power cuts and the area fared far better than places in the South East who had a large swathes of the countryside, housing and infrastructure destroyed.

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    Autumn 2023

    in Spring Weather Discussion

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    14 minutes ago, StingJet said:

    Yes .. an epic Storm and one of the strongest Sting Jet events the UK has experienced.  Remember the Storm well as we stayed ahead of it driving up to Oban for the Ferry to Tiree for two weeks of big wave windsurfing

    I remember it well. I lived in the West Country at the time and although it was ferocious it wasn’t as bad as it was in the South East. My sister, in London lost her roof.

    Solar and Aurora Activity Chat

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    11 hours ago, Jo Farrow said:

    Went at 20:35 then back at 21:25 when it was purple! Looking over the Forth with an iPhone14+, my Samsung was showing some kind of psychedelic colour splat

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    Beautiful photos Jo. It’s great to see the less common colours of purple in all the photos and blue in the top one.

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    Solar and Aurora Activity Chat

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    Although I live in a rural area at 53.5°N I’m affected by light pollution from Liverpool and major A roads and motorways in Merseyside, West Lancs and Greater Manchester. I looked out at around 21:30 but unfortunately couldn’t see anything. I’m aware that there are significant differences in imaging between the human eye and cameras which may explain why photographs show a greater density of colours in Auroras than is seen by the naked eye. Also, the weather was windy with variable cloud cover and sharp showers…it was a long shot, I know.

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    The Heat Haters Club 2023

    in Spring Weather Discussion

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    6 minutes ago, The PIT said:

    Still humid but thankfully cooler here I did wonder when the temperature started zooming up but cloud has rolled back in again.

    Yeah, the sky is blanketed with cloud at the moment, it’s quite dull. Despite this I can still do one of my favourite things…watching the birds in my garden. Actually, the blue tits, coal tits, house sparrows and dunnocks are arriving for ‘Second Breakfast’…I love it.

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    The Heat Haters Club 2023

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    2 hours ago, Chris J said:

    We are living inside large ad-hoc storage heaters. The bricks heat up over a period of time, and then freely radiate the heat stored in them, it won't start coming down until the fabric of the building cools. My upstairs rooms are at a similar temperature, in fact at this moment in time its 4c hotter inside than outside, it'll probably take my bedroom 2 days or so of 'normal' temperatures outside before it cools back to a habitable temperature.

    Looks like another hot and humid one here, 25c and 81% humidity pegged for this Afternoon, as the sweat-a-thon continues. A very light shower this morning, followed by yet another appearance of the evil sun, has left a heavy, tropical feel to the air, along with a smell like wet wallpaper!.

    Started with another heat related symptom today, an intensely itchy patch of skin behind my knee. Not sure if its related to irritation from the fluid inside the swollen leg or some sort of heat / sweat rash but its doing my head in. Sat here with it covered in pink calamine lotion like i've got the pox......

    I honestly can't remember a period of time where I was suffering so many heat related irritations - of both mind and body!.

    Thunderstorms in Macclesfield yesterday Evening, which is about 12 miles from me, but absolutely nothing here. Looks like we are going to miss out on any exciting end to the week from hell.

    I thought I saw a few flashes to the south east of me yesterday evening but nothing came of it.

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