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Sounds good to me, oh i aught to add i clear up storm damaged trees for a living, when the chance arises. I should add the proviso that nobody gets hurt of course

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www.stvincent.ac.uk/Resources/Weather/Severe/oct87.html It won't open for me, I just tried, maybe you will get through I just had a thaught, Dundee, it will be there:- http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/abin/browse/avhrr if you are not a member go to:- http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk and join free

HISS BOOOOOO Just when the fax charts look cool

I like the JRR Tolkien prediction/coincidence 1940. Regarding the Black Monday thing. I remember earlier perhaps the Monday before the 87 storm, the Pope was blown over in South America whilst addressing a huge crowd, the wind just came from nowhere, some people regarded this as a sign of something bad was going to happen…………. Also, i was of the opinion that Black Monday was a result of people, not being able to get to the London stock market, because the storm damage had not been cleared up, which made the already bad situation worse. Russ.

Thats the reason we are not using methanol in our cars in place of petrol. Remember this:- each round bail of straw is 5 gallons of fuel if destructivly distilled. Try and get permission to do it though and the reams of red tape arrive..................

Here is my first. White Nancy, Bollington Cheshire. my second.A view from Nairn Scotland I will hold on to me third just incase i get a corker and i have used up all me go's

The weather in Macclesfield (staying over night) is sunny at the moment with heavyish showers of fine rain, the sort that wets you quick. Russ

I think thats in the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Weather Book and others in that line, but i can't be certain as i have lent my book to a friend, so i can't check at the moment. I think it went on for a few days and the wind speed was max 120mph. Mr Data will know i bet

Just been out to Culver down, IOW's most Easterly point, over 49 mph (recoded on the Solent) more like 55-60mph to me and the rain is back, in sheets temp 17.8c, at home but felt much less in that wind on Culver

pheasants often go for cover when the weather is going to be unpleasant, generally they are out in the fields in good summer weather, but towards winter they head for the woods, in bad weather if they are caught out they are easy pray for foxes and other hunters, so they go for as dense a cover that they can find, round here that’s usually Hazel coppice or hedge rows, gardens are similar. Russ

The wind has just picked up here, still raining on and off, the air race looks to be grounded now, can't hear no noize the sad smiley is for all the children who were watching it. Temp still 18.1, warmest in the UK at the moment? Russ

Rain and wind increasing temp 18.0C, its the Schneider Trophy Air Race here today, looks and sounds as though its still happening

Is Wake Island still there? I just found this from the Honolulu Advertiser:- Ioke's 'super' winds damage Wake Island weather sensors By Audrey McAvoy Associated Press Typhoon Ioke knocked out Wake Island's weather sensors yesterday as it lashed the atoll with some of the central Pacific's fiercest winds in more than a decade, the National Weather Service said. Forecasters monitoring the atoll's wind and temperature gauges from Hawai'i said the instruments blew out as the storm approached with winds of up to 155 miles per hour and gusts of up to 190 mph. The National Ocean Service site showing the sensor readings online displayed a chart with Wake Island readings that suddenly stopped. The most recent data before the instruments failed indicated Ioke slammed the island with 78 mph winds and 100 mph gusts, said Henry Lau, a National Weather Service forecaster in Honolulu. That was before Ioke's eye passed north of Wake Island, he said. The Air Force evacuated all of the roughly 200 residents of the isolated atoll to Hickam Air Force Base on Monday before the "super typhoon" neared. Only troops, Defense Department civilian employees and military contractors live on the island. The Air Force plans to send a plane from Hawai'i to Wake to assess the damage from the air but hasn't announced when the flight will leave. Forecasters had warned the storm would likely destroy everything on the 2.5-square-mile island that wasn't concrete. Ioke came closest to Wake Island at about midnight Wednesday Hawai'i time, Lau said. The typhoon was heading northwest over open ocean toward Japan with winds of 155 mph. It's expected to weaken in coming days, leaving it with winds of up to 120 mph. Wake Island is a U.S. military refueling and research station about 2,300 miles west of Honolulu and 1,510 miles east of Guam. Ioke is the first Category 5 hurricane to develop in the central Pacific since record keeping began in the early 1960s. It also is the most powerful storm to pass through the central Pacific since hurricanes Emilia and Gilma, both in July 1994. 190 mph !!!!!

Himalayan Balsam, realy nasty to British river systems, clogs the banks and prevents native plants growing, spreads by "explosive seeds", they are actually sprung loaded. Big pest if you let it out. Looks lovley and is fun for kids to hit with sticks, thats howcome its spreading across Europe at an allarming rate. Russ Here is a link:- http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0705/...layanbalsam.asp Sorry about the spelling i can't be botherd to spell check after 12

Good i was worried for the poor guy Thanks PK

It makes the best sterile chopping boards, second to none, the Romans if they braught it would have turned it, because by the middle ages it was widley known as a top, wood turning wood Totally unlike Horse Chestnut by the way, which is used for milking pails and stools, cheep barrels, as a sacrificial planking to take impact, oh yes and it does burn when you mix it with other woods, we sell it as firewood mixed in with good stuff like Ash and Sycamore. We have given up in some woods round here getting rid of Sycamore, instead we keep it cut as coppice every 6-8 years if we can. That way it never reaches the canopy and it's seeds dont become a problem. sorry i was at work for a min' then

Sad but true I think the oil lobby will stop home grown methanol replacing petrol, and bio diesel replacing diesel, if they can also All is not doom and gloom though, as pleanty can tell greed when they see it. There is not enough oil to go around.............. Everybody has the right to guard their livleyhoods, but when oil and other fuels go through the roof maybe, just maybe, people may momentarily think straight and put good before greed, because they will have too if they can't have oil Then again we are as unpredictable as the wind

National Grid of wind turbines on every home, we could use the existing grid.......Man after my own heart PP Shurly the least controversial option, is every home has a prop and panels by say 2220. Rather than put the big ones, where people have valid reasons for not having them, like scenic beauty. But where the sceenery has already been spoiled by development put some big WT's there IMO

I have had this Frenchman on my mind since you posted it, i hope he made it, even though most non weather people, would say he was silly, i think he is very brave, staying to take obs' so that people can learn. If he didn't make it then , i am sorry and express condolences to his familey and friends. Russ Does anyone know how to find out if he is OK?

Thank you John, i always new your tranquil scene would take the day, well done

Wow, that first picture is exelent, even better than your green/blue lakes. i love it Its the snow on the laired rock strata.

When i first saw one, other than in a photo' i was astounded by how mesmerising, fascinating and "arty" they were, here are the first i saw for real, somewhere between Barrow and Workington on the North West coast, 1992. God i am soooooooooo pleased that we now have digital photography.

I have lived on the IOW for 16 years, as far as i can remember the last 2 weeks of July were the most thundery i have seen so far, almost as good as Kent where i lived in 87. Oh yes and i well remember feeling the urge to photograph storms for the first time, thanks to all on NW I have seen the Island as dry and yellow, but i think it was hotter ie, in the 30s for longer than any period whilst i have lived here. Russ

i wonder how much energy £41millions worth of those scatterd across the country would generate? IMO a much better option, one on each house