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Spring is definatly delayed this year compared to lasts. Look at this website http://www.phenology.org.uk/ and select side by side maps (Middle of the page). This lets you compare the sightings of animals and first cutting of the lawns around the country. By this time last year spring was in full swing.
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Well spring in Glasgow is still quite far away in my opinion. The most I have seen are the daffodils shoots now above ground. Some have blossomed. But they look quite dead because there not standing up staright and are dark yellow almost brown. I think being buried in the heavy snowfalls of couple of days ago cant be good for them. Also some heather is stating to blossom. Otherwise it still looks like winter out there.
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Glasgow at 2250
Air temperature -6C
Dew Point -9C
Wind 220 degress 7 knots
Rainfall past 24 hours 0mm
Barometric Pressure 998 milibars
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Glasgow - Another rainy day.
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Currently thunderstorms in Glasgow and hail.
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Raining and the last time it rained was yesterday. Blue skies are a rare event up here.
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Raining!!!!!!! Even when its meant to be sunny it will just rain wont it in Glasgow.
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Damn you yet again Mr Data ( :blink: :o ), I do believe you may be right, but it would also depend where in Glasgow that reading of 18cm was taken (altitude was everything in that cold spell)! I had friends who lived in the south side at the time who couldn't believe that the snow was so deep with me, while they only had a few inches. I remember the snow took a longer time to settle in Glasgow and other low lying areas locally, and just to be a pedant, 18cm is next to nothing compared to 30 inches or more! But perhaps "next to nothing" wasn't the best turn of phrase from me.
The 18cm were probably recorded at Glasgow Airport (Bishopton). As all of Glasgow readings comes from that weather station which is run by the Met Office.
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Although the sun didnt come out today i did manage to see some blue sky. Something that I havent seen in a while
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Still raining. It always rains in Glasgow.
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Oh great its raining in Glasgow again. Well I suppose its different from the constant overcast skies that we have been having for a week now.
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Here in the North of Glasgow its currently -2C and didnt get above -1.5C. Its also really foggy with visibilty less than 150m probably about 100m. Thats whats kept the temperatures down.
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Just to say its the first time the temperatures have been bleow zero in Glasgow at least a fortnight which is a change from the mild conditions we have had due to there being overcast skies which kept the temperatures up during the night.
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Yes I agree that this Winter has been very unusual. November and December both below average??? And yet the ski resorts have barely opened in Scotland! The reason for this of course, is due to the persistance of High pressure over the British Isles - dry weather with cold nights and it's the nights that have really 'done the damage' with regards to below average temperatures. IMO, these below months give a very misleading picture. Incidently, it looks as if Aberdeen could experience a snow-free January...I wonder if that has ever happened before? January has been like a Spring month since the turn of the millenium it seems.
WELL THE WEST COAST RESORTS HAVENT EVEN OPENED FOR SKIING YET THIS SEASON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sharp Rise In Co2 Levels
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All the money we are spending on climate change today is just completly wasted to keep the environmentalists happy. Its like "Oh look weve reduced our CO2 emmisions by 10% or to below 1990's level(keeping with the Kyoto Proticol), arent we saving the planet." Im fed up with the tosh that some people come out with. We have to reduce our emmisions the environmentalists say, so how exactly do you do that. Well
1) Stop burning all fossil fuels. Well its a great idea except the whole country would be back in the dark ages. We should just live in caves.
2) Use Nuclear energy. Its clean and realtivlely safe. Oh no we cant use that becuase its radioactive and we all know what that means.
3) Wind farms. Its what the environmentalists want. Good idea but it wont produce enough electricity to power the UK. Think calm days. Oh no but they are an eyesore so we cant use them.
4) Wave power. Good but our entire coastline would be destroyed and replaces with something more concrete.
5) Solar panels. Not sunny enough. Fin.
Its not looking good. These environmentalists want us to reduce our emmisions but even they cannot come with the answer. So lets say we reduce our by 5% . Is that really going to make a difference. The CO2 is going to keep increasing.
And then we have the government. Gordon Brown "We are going to tax 4x4 and suvs because they are the biggest polluters." Can this guy give me a break. Firstly I mike take him seriously if he drove in a fuel efficient car. Has someone told him his big Jag pollutes alot more than quite a few 4x4 and suvs at the moment.
Global Warming. Not a day goes by without someone mentioning it. But what most people dont realise is how easily they percieve Global Warming. Take the heavy snows this month. Already I hear people going on about how can Global warming be happening. But if theres a heat wave its all across the news. GW, GW and more GW!!!
Theres one final thing I would like to add. Nobody these days are taking the number of humans into the equation of Global warming. Day in and day out 6 billion humans are pumping out CO2 and the number of humans is increasing. Wasnt there also a population boom around the 1800-1900 when the amount of CO2 started to increase.
Overall Global Warming is it a myth. Who knows, but there is little disscusion about other greenhouse gases such as methane which are alot more powerful than CO2 but then again everyone has become obessed with CO2.