La Bise
-
Posts
481 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
2
Content Type
Forums
Blogs
Gallery
Events
Learn About Weather and Meteorology
Community guides
Posts posted by La Bise
-
-
Is it not the case that it is excess of sat fat that causes heart disease rather than sat fat per se, something that I do not think is in any way controversial and disputed by the medical profession.
Is it not also the case that the depletion of the ozone layer as well as excessive amount of sun due to increased outdoors activities such as beach holidays and, of course, tanning salon popularity has lead to the increase in cases of melanoma rather than some nebulous notion of troglodyte lifestye? All the doctors I have talked to have been fullsome in their praise for my hiking activities, I never had one telling me to cut it out due to melanoma risk...And I put on suncream otherwise, I would burn myself to a cinder despite having a "latin" type skin.
The "Med Diet" is an excellent diet to follow, it is rich in fruit, veg and grillet meat/fish as well as some nicely fatty stuff (fried fish is very popular in the Med area) and moderate alcohol consumption. It is head and shoulder above the typical anglo-saxon diet of take-away, ready meals and general junk that makes up most people diet in the UK and USA. Beyond any societal notion of a healthier pace of life (which you are very right to point out), the food itself is much better, health wise and closer to mankind ideal diet.
The diet of the South-West of France does indeed include some pretty yummy fatty stuff but also large quantities of fresh veg and fruits. Unpasteurised cheeses are not that popular anymore in France, most cheeses bought are standard, pasteurised stuff. You'll find them more popular in Switzerland where the two main players, Gruyeres and Emmenthal are still sold unpasteurised (including in the UK)
There is ample evidence to show that food eaten in those parts of the world do contribute (but not exclusively) to the people better healther and longevity.
I wish there was a governement conspiracy to promote this kind of diet, but as usual with this kind of stuff, the biggest conspiracy, that of untrammeled freedom for junk food peddlers is ignored despite being right there in front of you...
-
Snow patches left on Moel Siabod, Pen-Yr Ole Wen and Snowdon, I went through some meself this week-end. Very slushy stuff though...
-
Is there some kind of serious research to back up some of the wild claims on this thread or is it the usual stuff pulled out of a blog on the internet and passed as "science catching up" claptrap...?
Saturated fat are part of our diet, the problem is the monstruous excessive consumption of it that is now the standard western diet coupled with the lifestyle of a sloth. However I doubt cooking in butter is healthier than using olive oil or geese fat (a surprisingly healthy cooking fat as it happens...)...If by vegetable oil, you mean those horrible conction full of hydrogenated rubbish, then yes, the less of that you use, the better. Cutting on take aways and fast food is the first step towards that.
Sun is important but advising people to go out burn under it, without sun-glasses is quite frankly irresponsible, the causal link of excessive UV leading to melanoma, particularly in Australia where the ozone layer has depleted more than in other parts is well established.
You can get sunburned quite easily in february, skiing and by march, a day out in the sun hiking does the business without any problems.
-
It is indeed puzzling to see this kind of regimented change of mood - end of february henceforth blizzards, 6 ft of snow, -20c; early march 20c, sun, dry...
In the UK, of all places...
-
I was up Bleaklow yesterday, the snow cover is going but it's going to be a while until the last of it is gone. Some thick drifts in gullies grykes that will take a while to be gone.
-
If ice is your thing,check those pics of Geneva where strong winds and sub-zero temperatures combined to create some lovely (if slippery...) ice sculptures by the lake...
-
So sum up for dunces: a litteral interpretation of the models is a return to much milder conditions by the end of next week however this is to be taken with a large pinch of salt as it is a repeat of a scenario that has occured during all winter, the vanishing FI mild. No major changes reported in the background signals, so a betting man would dismiss the models as being way over-progressive.
Fair sum up you reckon?
As for what could happen, a puny northerly followed by a slack flow and hp to re-assert itself after a threat of an easterly...?
-
Well, it's UK really but seeing as it is dead quiet, the mods don't seem to bothered.
It is pretty cold back in my hometown (Geneva) due to a strong "bise" blowing from the nether parts of the north and bringing that cold airmass above central europe. "Bise" is a wind, from a northerly quadrant, it heralds cold and sunny days. An appropriate choice of alias for me....
-
Just read in the Swiss media this morning that it went down to -38.9c in Glattalp (1850m asl) last night, beating the previous record this winter of -35.1c in La Brevine (a quirky little place in the Jura mountains, not very high, about 1000m asl but subject to some exceptionnally cold conditions in winter due to the geography, a frost hollow if I've ever known one...). Glattalp coldest temperature recorded was -52.50 back in february 91...
-
I certainly won't be joining most others wishing for south westerlies - one thing that for sure will never happen with me, whatever the time of year!!
Disappointing and rather poor model output at face value, but hopefully the models are being too progressive and high pressure will stay closer by, although admittedly it is looking less promising in that regard.
Could be a case of be careful what you wish for - the atlantic weather doesn't tend to be very obliging in half measures, and that is putting aside my very large anathema to it, in whatever guise it arrives!
Hear, hear, swlies come from Satan's very own bottom I think...Once Atlantic weather is back in place, it's not going to shift and bring us nothing but rain, wind and misery. Just peaked out of my window and said "boring weather" is nothing short of lovely, unless you got an aversion for the sun...
-
A good point by TWS, those quick transitions are a bit of a myth, I've had 30c+ temps in May in Geneva but also snow (even in june and it settled...). By mid/end of June thought, things do hot up significantly. Mean in July is 24 c, in January 1c...
-
Talking about Winter Hill, I'm pretty sure there must have been times when it snowed at the top of the mast but rained at the bottom.
-
Today on Ingleborough, enough to have plenty of fun up there!
-
It's becoming very tedious now!! enough is enough.
Looking at the models, HP still dominates us next week. cold and frosty at night, chilly during the day but feeling pleasant in any sunshine.
Boring in other words.
Go out, enjoy the sun, do something!
-
There's a good chance that the Atlantic may well re-awaken by then but still bringing in a northerly - but overall the blocking scenarios may still continue well beyond March into the summer - I think it's still too early to put any detail on a date that far out - the meto have now agreed that looking further than 5 days or so can lead to difficulties in getting the forecast right!
Thank you Andy. I somehow think the winter conditions up there won't be going away in a hurry...Right i'm off to buy crampons and ice-axe...
-
As everybody seems bored to tears with the models, I've got a little task for you chaps for which I would be quite grateful, what's your considered opinion on the possible weather in Snowdonia for the week-end of the 20/21st of March...? Return of the Atlantic and the damp or stuck in settled conditions? MetO reckons it's the former.
-
They are right to give up, not because they are any worse than others but because the way the ghastly UK media twist everything they say to suit their agenda. You don't end up providing half of the world airlines with meteo data AND being a rubbish forecaster.
As for that old chestnut about Joe B, all he does is forecast cold winters, as some point even a broken clock ends up right.
-
My wife and I last night agreed we would miss the sound of snow crunching under our boots whislt we were walking atop a drift by a wall near Shining Tor...Great conditions for a walk under the stars at the moment, last night was very quiet so no nasty wind to chill you to the bones.
<sigh>
Soon enough the nights will fill with heady scents and buzzing insects, a different kind of pleasure I guess...
-
I've found conditions underfoot quite damp in the hills, well in those parts that are not under snow but that could be down to slow snow-melt.
-
A cracker of a morning, frozen and blue skies. Now the sun is out and it's lovely. The white hills of the Peak District are a plus also.
-
Not a day to go out lightly dressed today, very little sun and a cold wind blowing, spring my backside...
-
People wishing for the Atlantic to come back because there is nice fat high bringing us some sunshine ought to be hung and quartered*. Go out, enjoy the actual weather, switch off the computer, get a life!!
Excellent models outputs, a period of quiet weather, Atlantic dominance is on the cards by mid-month onwards and one suspects this time it will be real (of course the return of the swlies has been progred many times without delivering) rather than figment of the models "imagination".
* Not really eh, I'm joking, thank you...
-
Let's be a bit wary here and not do a reverse-Ian Brown with resounding predictions of cold winters from now on due to solar minimas, etc, etc
-
The last two winters have had that "always cold" feel, even more so the one just gone. That is a sign of a consistent season, much more so than a few good dumps packaged between swerlies.
Anyone Fed Up Of The Cold?
in Spring Weather Discussion
Posted
Anything to get rid of the wet, mild muck currently plaguing my neck of the woods...