La Bise
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Can't wait for this unbearable weather to calm down a little, it might great fun whilst sitting on your backside looking at a computer screen showing charts but it does not particularly make it entertaining up the hills...
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You are my hero Boar!
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Give it a complicated name, be shady about it, accuse the MetOffice of being at the heart of a conspiracy to raise taxes and you'll be in business, certainly with the Mail and the Express...
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Monbiot states what should have been obvious to anyone with a bity of savy about the Mail and Express obsession with "forecasters" like Exacta or PWS...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/02/sleighbell-winter-climate-change-denial
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PC fans, I have pills that cure any ailments (thanks to their amazing Telekinetic Macro-Quantic Wave Shifting Technology) - yours for a modest sum.
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Welcome back Lady, I do recall you sticking your neck out and predicting much average Atlantic weather this winter to howls of derision from the cold hopecasters and their new paradigm... :smilz38:
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I just need to read one word in Madden's statement above to know how seriously I can take him...
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I like cold, real cold and snow. I put my money where my mouth is and go out to seek it, on mountains, hills, moorlands. I even spend the night up there on occasion (I certainly did not miss out on the chance of camping in the hills last week-end...). I know how disagreable it can be when your body is weakened (in my case due to my own choice of exhausting myself up there) and you feel as if the cold is seeping through every pore of your being. It can be quite daunting, particularly in the dark. Most people don't like cold, even those who like it do tend to do so in small doses, it's one thing spending 36 hours in below freezing temperatures, it's another stepping out of the house for a stroll by the local park...
Why do I do it? Because it is exhilirating, it makes you feel alive and connected to your surroundings. Most people rather not have to suffer any kind of hardship, life in most cases bring enough of those without extreme weather brining its share of misery, particularly in places where "benign" is how you could best define our surroundings and weather conditions.
I do find people annoyed at seeing an extreme weather being "downgraded" quite ghoulish, particularly because in most cases they'll be tucked away in their house/bedroom looking at charts on a computer, far away from any danger. It seems nothing but virtual excitement...
Yes, the weather does not have any morals, it will happen, whatever we do or wish, but what is within our capacity is empathy for people who will suffer from the consequences of any extreme weather event. It seems in short supply sometimes, when the desire to see stonking charts overide any other desire.
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It's quite the reverse actually, most comments are pertinent and do show what little credibility PC has whilst a few people who seem to confuse open-mindness with gullibility gob off endlessly...
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Maybe PC is a Chtullhu cultist and the Great Elders are feeding him all that information...?
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If snow is desperately needed, try Helvellyn although today the fell top assesor (a chap who goes up everyday to provide summits conditions for hikers) could not reach the top due to excessive snow...
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If there is no option of cold and dry weather, I'll happily take any dry options around Christmas, I'd like to be able to spend a night or two on the hills without wondering if I'll be blown away into Russia whilst asleep in my tent...
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Indeed, too much wishful thinking by many of a new ice age that seemed a carbon copy of last year, on that aspect RJS deserves credit.
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Seeing as we are only the 12th, could we maybe wait until declaring the prediction of coldest part of the month as being between the 15th and 20th as correct...?
Otherwise, yes, there has been heavy rain, brief intervals of hails and snow, some lying snow, strong winds from deep lows and a roller coaster of mild and cold spells. I think it's called "an average British december".. :winky:
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In the case of firearms, I could not agree more.
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Stephen, part of me find the excitement for potentially lethal weather events ghoulish. It's not to say that an interest for those things denote a warped mind but sometimes I feel uneasy at some reactions. Just something that prays on my mind on occasion on here.
I do take risks too, I like scrambles up rocks without protection or camping in perishingly cold weather on the hills so I understand you argument about preparation and acceptance of the consequences. "Accidents don't happen, they are caused" still is tripe though, too many disagreable assumptions are contained within that short sentence.
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That's rather trite nonsense Stephen, accidents do happen, that's the very definition of the word and lot of people have to be out for work, essential trips, etc and you can apply all the commonsense you want, it won't prevent a tile or a tree branch falling on you. I have no desire, hidden or otherwise to see 100mph gusts at street level.
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Thank God for any downgrades, I enjoy a good windstorm, even when up in the hills (it's quite fun as long as you don't have the chance of being blown down the mountain...) but that kind of monster would bring way too much destruction.
Splendidly wintry up Kinder way yesterday, I love that crunching noise you get when walking on deep snow....
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Off to Edale and up Kinder tomorrow, looking forward to a nice wintry hike. If the mountain does not come to you, go to the mountain said a wise man...Otherwise you could always moan about the lack of snow, on the internet
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It's like reading a Scientologist discussion board...
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What exactly are you trying to say, that NW is deliberately issuing a forecast with dud information to keep traffic on the website?
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With what you know about their approach to weather news, have a think next time you read a story about, say, immigration, the EU or "the youth of today" in one of those rags...
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Splendid on Derwent Edge today, sunshine, a fresh breeze that gave me my first cold chin of the season and the remains of the morning inversion (which I missed as I pitched in the valley rather than the tops due tardiness on my part...grmbl). Cold night all told, down to 5c (Edale Vale), bad idea to take the summer sleeping mat...
Ideal weather for the outdoors. Can't wait for zonality to start...
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All aboard the zonal train!
The Winter emotions and moaning thread
in Spring Weather Discussion
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If you only go out in the hills in settled weather living in the UK, you won't see much of them...I can recommend it to fans of extreme weather of the sedentary type, being blown off your feet by 70mp gusts when walking a (thankfully wide enough) mountain ridge does certainly bring home the notion of how precarious life can be.