BS: cold,wet,hot,or wot

Subject: RE: BS: cold,wet,hot,or wot
From: Schantieman
Date: 10 Dec 02 - 11:45 AM

The thing is, in the UK we don't have a climate - it's different every day. Usually.

But I agree about this surprise thing. You'd've thought that they'd've worked out by now that they're going to need to sweep leaves off the railway in autumn and snow off the roads in winter. Every time there's half an inch of snow the whole blasted country grinds to a halt!

Grump grump grump.

(It's all right. Don't mind me. I'll just go and eat some thistles.)

Eeyore.

Subject: RE: BS: cold,wet,hot,or wot
From: GUEST,JennyO
Date: 10 Dec 02 - 09:05 AM

Believe me, Australians like their weather, too. I believe one of the most popular channels on cable here is the weather channel. Unfortunately they have run with that idea and instead of showing a series of weather maps and temperatures like they used to, they now have a channel with presenters and commercials and lots of useless information we don't want. You can sit through it for half an hour and still not know what the temperature is going to be in Sydney tomorrow. Speaking of which, I heard that today's temperature of 16 degrees max in the middle of summer was the coldest December temperature since 1924. And it's been pouring rain all day and still going. After drought and temperatures in the high 30's and terrible bushfires up to two days ago, it's an amazing (and very welcome)transformation. So lots of weather coming our way. Maybe Daylia's cool wet vibes are working big-time!

Subject: RE: BS: cold,wet,hot,or wot
From: John Routledge
Date: 09 Dec 02 - 07:38 PM

The influence of we English has spread further than ever I imagined possible. A thread about the weather :0)

Subject: RE: BS: cold,wet,hot,or wot
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Dec 02 - 06:40 PM

What gets me is how come it's such a surprise every SINGLE year!

'Thousands starve as floods hit town for third year in a row.' Well Duh!!!

'Snow brings country to grinding halt' - like it's done every year since Methuselah was a small boy.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: cold,wet,hot,or wot
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Dec 02 - 01:51 PM

"old for our age", Amos, reminded of what my sister in law once said: 'He's pretty big for his size'. Never figured out what she meant.

Subject: RE: BS: cold,wet,hot,or wot
From: GUEST,JennyO
Date: 09 Dec 02 - 10:57 AM

No plagues of locusts, parting of the seas or wailing and gnashing of teeth, either.
In 1994, I was visiting London and it was snowing, while the London papers were carrying screaming headlines about bushfires in Sydney, something along the lines of "Fire races towards city as thousands flee to beaches". It was a bad fire, but not as bad as we are getting now.
We do love our weather, don't we! Gives you something to talk about -(as if there wasn't anything else)

Subject: RE: BS: cold,wet,hot,or wot
From: Amos
Date: 09 Dec 02 - 10:44 AM

I think we're all getting a little old for our age. I seem to remember there was much less of this weather about when I was a yonker.

A

Subject: RE: BS: cold,wet,hot,or wot
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 07:11 PM

we had some climate the other day...(more restful than weather)

Subject: RE: BS: cold,wet,hot,or wot
From: greg stephens
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 05:57 PM

Well in Stoke it was cloudy, and average temperature today. Maybe a touch cooler than yesterday but not what you'd call cold. A bit of a breeze, but by no means windy.

Subject: RE: BS: cold,wet,hot,or wot
From: michaelr
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 03:02 PM

And towards evening, we're expecting increasing darkness...

Subject: RE: BS: cold,wet,hot,or wot
From: smallpiper
Date: 07 Dec 02 - 07:28 PM

So no rivers ov blud, no rains of fish (or frogs), no aliens landing and looking puzzeld (sp) just normal weather really?

However for the time of year we are having an awful lot of weather!

Subject: RE: BS: cold,wet,hot,or wot
From: GUEST,stringman
Date: 07 Dec 02 - 01:10 PM

When i Wrote earlier,I was passing the time of day, I'm sorry if i sounded BANAL.

Subject: RE: cold,wet,hot,or wot
From: Schantieman
Date: 07 Dec 02 - 11:09 AM

There does seem to have been rather a lot of extreme weather in the last few years.

Steve

Subject: RE: cold,wet,hot,or wot
From: Amos
Date: 07 Dec 02 - 10:47 AM

Re,arkable weather, eh?

A

Subject: RE: cold,wet,hot,or wot
From: allanwill
Date: 07 Dec 02 - 08:57 AM

Well, try this.

Last night, while the fires were raging around Sydney, it got down to 2 degrees (celcius - 35 degrees fahrenheidt?) in Canberra after a showery day and it snowed just a little further south of here.

Just another day in paradise.

Allan

Subject: RE: cold,wet,hot,or wot
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Dec 02 - 08:01 AM

when I chastise someone, I use my own name

Subject: RE: cold,wet,hot,or wot
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Dec 02 - 06:32 AM

has the planet gone mad?

No. I think that you'll find cold and wet to be quite normal in winter in the Northern hemisphere. Similarly, bush fires in Australia at this time of year are quite widespread.

Jeez, talk about a banal thread...

Subject: cold,wet,hot,or wot
From: GUEST,Stringman.
Date: 07 Dec 02 - 06:19 AM

Well we got Cold in the good old USA.
Fire in Sydney
Wet/Rain, in sussex. mind you we do get the lot.

But What I was trying to say is, has the planet gone mad?

still have a good weekend, peace to you all.