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  1. Iceni
    Hi Susie - noticed your post and can say that NetWeather enabled me to pick the ONE decent long w/e for a Devon/Cornwall trip during one of the most dismal summers on record - think it was 2008, might have been 2009. This was about 3 weeks in advance as well as we had to organise a friend to house sit for us (the cats). So you're in the right place for UK weather — there's lots of it. We must be the only place where you can experience 4 seasons in one day. My husband was most impressed and now he's getting into weather (meteorology) too (although his 'thing' is hurricanes). Btw, could you let me know if there's a similar site for NW USA/Canada? I'm thinking of moving. PS One tiny gripe... could Paul buy a bit more server space? When things get ansty or busy like when there's a storm or big weather event, this site slows up — takes just a bit too long to load the next page.
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    Even in the 40-50 mph 'quiet zone', it's enough to bring a few trees down - remember the ground is absolutely saturated now. - we're on a hill and it's squelching under my wellies on the lawn. Noticed a massive trunk of a crack willow had come down in the little wood at the bottom of the garden sometime this week and had smashed some of the younger trees. This was upright on Monday and we've had nowhere near 50 mph winds or gusts in that period. I think the best advice is sit tight and don't go out... watch the ski jumpers in Sochi if you're in need of some excitement this w/e.
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    That little girl sequence was magical. Knocked our NHS bed hopping into a hospital mortuary. The Germans think they're ABBA on steroids... no tank tops for the Russian trip this time though (geddit?)
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    Looks like we're about to find out.
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    Yes I know. It's 3:30 am. but can't get to sleep because husband has a smoker's cough. "In sickness and in health…" but this is ridiculous! Every other minute it's cough cough cough, clear throat, cough cough cough... it's driving me insane This short video from Ireland made me angry… What on earth was this stupid woman thinking of endangering herself and her poor dog in this way? MKA is right. Stay away from the coast, the authorities have enough problems.
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    It's the Death Rabbit, General Woundwort from Watership Down.
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    John. Your one-liner has summed up the whole 11 weeks of this winter's model thread... well done and take a bow.
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    I'm told county and borough councillors make very good sandbags - if you can get hold of an MP you have a weapons-grade flood defence.
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    Any news from the Exford area? My husband's uncle has a dairy farm there, although it's fairly elevated, I'd imagine quite lot of his pasture acreage is in danger from the River Ex.
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    Shannon Entropy. Or something. Where's Fergie?
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    Don't you know that by EU law no natural watercourses have been allowed to be dredged for the past 10 years? Their reason was to protect freshwater fish spawning beds. Stupid as they only needed to be disturbed once every 6 or 7 years and not many fish (apart from the carp species) live that long anyway. Furthermore, a Somerset lady farmer asked, "How am I supposed to feed my dairy and beef herd over the next summer and winter with 300 acres of their pasture under water?" They'll probably all have to be slaughtered and dairy farmers will have to start from scratch. Make no mistake, this is a national disaster which will affect all of us with higher prices. My friend worked for the NRA and was sacked when this directive was applied and rubber stamped by the EA. He's not worked in his field of expertise since. 30 years of river, watercourse and drainage management experience tossed on the scrap heap. Of COURSE it's political!
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    Thanks for the reminder, I was supposed to post my bi-annual bowel cancer test kit back today... LOL! Probably too much information - mods feel free to remove this.
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    I walked through a cloud of may fly things last week dancing beside a field hedge... "That's winter down the pan" I thought. And for the past few weeks I've noticed little birds collecting cobwebs for their nests from under the thatch beside my office window.
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    Read Tamara (no bath is running - I had a shower instead)… http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/79215-model-output-discussion-25th-jan-onwards/page-79 Winter 13/14………
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    If only it had been like that last time I visited Polperro. My dog Louis did the most enormous 'you-know-what' (aggravated because he'd been on a long car journey) right on the crowded harbour footpath and it was a very hot day. One of those little blue plastic bags was totally inadequate - in fact I had to run to the nearest pub for a mop and a couple of buckets of water... I won't go on...
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    Isn't that because as John Holmes says there's quite a lot of human input in the production of a fax as opposed to raw model gobbledegook? Can't beat an experienced weatherman's judgement.
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    Actually it looks very beautiful - Jupiter is due WSW and W is the most lovely (almost) half moon very low and about to set, but the wind is roaring in the trees. What's about to hit us tomorrow night seems almost impossible.
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    Canada is 38 x times the size of the UK. Population 28 million, i.e a third of ours. Forgive me for stating the obvious, but stopping a country 'filling up' is what Canada has a proper points-based immigration policy for… like most of the other developed nations (including South Africa) have in place. If they need bricklayers or heart surgeons or plumbers, you get in. If they don't need your skill set you don't.
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    Snap. That's what my husband did - except he started up and ran 3 companies which he sold 10 years ago. Even if he couldn't find a regular job, he could teach.... there's a technical university in Nelson.
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    Not this. Where I'm going to live. I had a good idea.... is there anyone else as fed up as me out there? Get enough points on the Canadian immigration authorities and you're in. We just scraped in because we've both got degrees in things they want. Buy about 40 acres, split it into 5 acre plots and you can buy kit houses or traditional Canadian log cabins which are up in a couple of months... they have a National Health System too. but it's better than ours as there are less people using it and if you want to upgrade your treatment (like a specialist or private room) the State pays its proportion of the costs instead of you having to pay all of them. The cost of living's much cheaper, they don't owe anyone a penny, 67% of their power comes from hydro, the rest is nuclear, coal and gas and they're more or less self-sufficient. Summers are hot and sunny so long as you don't live too near the coast on the right side of the Rockies. No brainer.
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    Yes John. In Spring when we want the bees buzzing about pollinating my orchard blossom so I get lots of lovely apples, plums, pears and quinces for bottling. Got down to 3 bottles of last years plums, one of the quinces and only got 2 bottles of frozen apple juice now. I can just see we'll have to wait until Autumn 2015 to get any more. And then I'll be really mean and not give any away like this time. Grrr. Oh well, here's the Beatles again... they cheer me up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aOJGJD-SQc&list=TLOxn7CWqH2_4p52JmOMC82sl38FbGGtEa
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    OT but watch these two videos... people are taking their lives in their hands travelling on public transport in London. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10616714/Man-kicked-through-top-floor-window-of-double-decker-bus.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10489152/Police-release-CCTV-of-London-bus-attack.html Tube 'drivers' get £50k for pushing a button to start the trains, the rest on most of the Underground lines is done by computer nowadays with only a couple of lines left to be automated. Nice work if you can get it. PS Use the River Thames, it's what I started doing during the Tube strikes when I had to get from Waterloo to the City - Tower Pier - instead of walking... it was brilliant and I wished I'd done it before. Only cost £1.60 e/w in 2003.
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    This EA is a QUANGO headed by people with no experience of drainage or river management, so what do we expect? About 7 years ago the EU issued an environmental directive that in order to preserve fish spawning grounds no natural watercourses were allowed to be dredged at any time and that special permission to dredge man-made ones such as canals or reservoirs etc had to be sought from the EA. I know this for a fact as a personal friend of mine used to work for the Rivers and Waterways Authority until it was disbanded and brought under the jurisdiction of the EA. They vigorously protested that this would spell disaster at the time but were overruled and sacked. The people in the Somerset Levels and elsewhere are experiencing exactly the same problem with exactly the same cause as the people of Cockermouth several years ago.
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    Were you fighting or holidaying? If the former, well done.
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    Not complaining about your forecast John, what will come will come.... Just glad I'm living in a house which isn't prone to flooding (apart from my own wrt the Tamara/overflowing bath incident last week ). This winter will be memorable for all the wrong reasons.
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