Soaring Hawk
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I remember Feb 1991 and I love Ian MacCaskill's forecast. Living in a tiny East Anglian village we were cut off from Wednesday afternoon through to the end of the weekend. It was marvellous. Lying snow came up to my knees (and I have 32" legs) and we had blizzard conditions alternating with great, fat, soft flakes, for 3 days, that couldn't have been bettered by a Hollywood director. Although travelling anywhere by road was compromised, people seemed to cope calmly and farmers managed to deliver milk via tractors. We just waded through the snow with our jugs and took it straight from the churns. Stranded drivers were housed in and around the village and everyone helped the old and vulnerable in the area. And no dramatic media coverage with teams of urban journalists being sent out to gawp. I wonder what chance of something similar in the next few months? *she says wistfully*
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Cloudy 6°C
NW (14 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 82,
Pressure (mB): 1019, Rising,
Visibility: Excellent
Taken at 18:00. Sure it's much colder now. Horrid evening; vicious, biting wind.
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Cloudy 11°C
NW (16 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 80,
Pressure (mB): 1013, Rising,
Visibility: Excellent
Sun now breaking through but wind increasing significantly. Feeling much colder than last night.
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Clear 4°C
NW (21 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 68,
Pressure (mB): 1018, Rising,
Visibility: Excellent
Wind has been gusting around 45 mph for the last 3 hours. It is bitterly cold, although bright and sunny.
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UPDATE - MOUNT KELUT
Still no eruption as yet from Mount Kelut and scientists monitoring the volcano are now saying there are 3 likely scenarios for this volcano.
1. The gas being vented through the new island in the crater lake will release the pressure inside the volcano and it will calm down.
2. The water from the crater lake will leak through to the magma chamber causinga violent phreatic eruption
3. The magma build up will continue and eventually force its way through the crater lake and out the top of the volcano - this will be the most violent scenario.
The volcano is being closely monitored and the alert level remains at its highest level as anything could happen. This one is certainly keeping us on tenterhooks!
It certainly is. I see that Scientists at post are today still reporting that they "expect a significant eruption any time soon."
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At 5am. Starry, starry night...
Clear 4°C
SW (5 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 92,
Pressure (mB): 1028, Falling,
Visibility: Moderate
07:00 Flaming red sun just up, not a cloud in sight, breeze increasing slightly.
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Cloudy 7°C
SW (8 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 94,
Pressure (mB): 1027, Rising,
Visibility: Very good
Cloud breaking, sun now out.
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Sunny 10°C
SW (7 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 100,
Pressure (mB): 1011, Rising,
Visibility: Excellent
Beautiful day, the colours are amazing in the sun.
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Drizzle 8°C
N (3 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 99,
Pressure (mB): 1022, Rising,
Visibility: Poor
Dull, gloomy, still. The only movement is from the birds.
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John thank you for your diary extract, it makes facinating reading.
I chuckled when you said how the school bus still managed to get through to bring you home every day. Nowadays not only would the school bus be cancelled but the schools would all have closed too. Having observed the fiasco of the M11 in Suffolk, closed at the end of January 2003 because of about an inch and a half of snow, I do find myself wondering how soft and unable to cope with normal winter weather we now find ourselves as a society.
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Clear 4°C
NE (2 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 93,
Pressure (mB): 1026, Rising,
Visibility: Moderate
Shadowed lawns still white, not a cloud in the sky. A beautiful quiet morning.
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Clear and sunny 7°C
NW (1 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 100,
Pressure (mB): 1029, Falling,
Visibility: Good
Low mist over the fields, sun highlighting the colours of the trees and hedgerows - beautiful. Suffolk at its best.....
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Cloudy 12°C
NE (8 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 89,
Pressure (mB): 1022, Falling,
Visibility: Very good
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Thank you Mr Data. Always interesting and a pleasure to read the old articles using more formal syntax. Please keep them coming.
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Hmmm. And I'm the one who's supposed to be confused.
Cloudy 8°C
NW (11 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 94,
Pressure (mB): 1019, Rising,
Visibility: Very good
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Sunny 18°C
S (10 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 97,
Pressure (mB): 1019, Rising,
Visibility: Good
A warm and pleasant morning, cloud now beginning to increase but still very warm. Suspect the above temperature is now not accurate.
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Sunny 15°C
SW (11 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 89,
Pressure (mB): 1016, Falling,
Visibility: Very good
Beautiful morning, although in the sunlight all the trees and hedgerows are looking very orange and brown now.
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I'd be interested to read any follow-up to this and to find out if any tests were taken from the patients hospitalised, and if so what the results showed, if anything.
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Yer'a Bl**dy Penguin fer Christsakes......I would expect no less my dear chum!
I'm not suggesting we use less 'leccy heating up the water! I'm just wondering what impact having our largest organ permanently out of balance trying to replace stripped body oils does to our state of wellbeing. If we look at 'fight or flight' responses then the switching off of our immune systems, the reduction of blood to our large intestines, the flooding with adrenaline into our body has a major impact over time and I was just uh ming and ahring about other things which throw us out of kilter. Lots of little stresses add up to a big stress and ,over time, this might lead to larger problems.
I just have too much time on my hands at the moment with my Sig. other and boy up on the west coast of your neck of the woods obviously!!!,
Ian.
Oh I don't know G-W.....I should think my wellbeing would be vastly improved by a large organ attempting to do things with my body oils.
Sorry. I'm bored at work. Lots to do but terribly bored.
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But, from my own limited experience, when you all smell then no one notices (you habitualise to the niff) we are 'brainwashed' into an un-natural level of personal hygiene when the body does do a pretty fair job (and has done throughout our evolution) of keeping us healthy without the need to strip away our 'oils'.
We are now very aware of the roles of bacteria in poor health and so are in a better position to avoid over contamination....but surely we have to give our immune system some kind of targets to build up immunities to?
As I live in the country I'm surrounded by farmers/farmworkers who smell natural. I can assure you it is noticeable. Anyway, I like to smell nice. At my age I need all the help I can get....
Living on my estate with horses, horse sh**, flies, various other animals and their numerous deposits, all of which I shovel onto different muck heaps regularly, maybe I've got the balance between clean and dirty just right.
I could send sacks from the muck heaps to all the town and city dwellers on here to help build up your immunities. Cheques made payable to Lady Laura Enterprises.
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Sunny 14°C
N (5 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 99,
Pressure (mB): 1025, Falling,
Visibility: Excellent
Crisp autumnal feel to the day
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Sunny 16°C
N (7 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 97,
Pressure (mB): 1031, Rising,
Visibility: Moderate
Oh what a beautiful morning.....
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Clear 8°C
NW (8 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 97,
Pressure (mB): 1026, Rising,
Visibility: Excellent
Reading taken at 07:00
Not feeling a lot warmer, wind has a bite to it. Beautifully sunny, although slightly threatening cloud now moving rapidly towards us.
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Cloudy 15°C
SW (11 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 84,
Pressure (mB): 1017, Rising,
Visibility: Excellent
Sun just beginning to break through. Still feeling chilly though.
Monday 19th November 2007
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Misty 5°C
SE (15 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 97,
Pressure (mB): 998, Rising,
Visibility: Moderate
Cold, dark, damp, depressing.