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Mary C

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  1. Yeah, it’s true that most children are driven to school these days so that particular reason for reverting back to GMT/UTC would not be as valid now as it was in the 70s. There is an argument being voiced at the moment to retain BST for economic and certain environmental reasons, ie. it would result in reduced energy consumption for light and heat, it would be beneficial to both domestic and business users in terms of cost. It’s a difficult one, the needs of people in Shetland at 60°N and those in Cornwall at 50°N are quite different. I’d prefer to keep GMT because, even with GMT, where I live the sun rises after 8am between the end of November and the end of January. I’m not a morning person so I need all the help I can get in terms of daylight to wake up.
  2. Oh, wow, that took me back, I’d forgotten about the hi-vis arm bands. I agree, there has to be a discussion about how best to deal with reducing our consumption of energy for both economic and environmental reasons. It’s difficult to know what a solution would look like. There is an argument that retaining BST/UTC+01:00 would help reduce heating and lighting costs in the evening when most people are at home. However, retaining BST would increase costs to farmers and would encourage more people into cars in the morning. There’s no easy answer.
  3. There was an experiment in keeping BST all year round in the UK between 1968 and 197. I was a very small child at the time but I remember that there was a higher incidence of RTCs involving children during the morning school run. Also, people, especially farmers, in the North of England and Scotland complained about having to work and use farm machinery in cold, dark conditions; morning being their busiest part of the day. Where I grew up sunrise was typically 09:10am at the beginning of December and 09:30am at the beginning of January. The British archipelago is so long that a ‘One size fits all’ solution was never going to be satisfactory for everyone.
  4. Autumn is my favourite time of year. The quality of the light is quite beautiful and everything seems to be settling down in preparation for Winter. The darker skies are also great for astronomy. I was taking a look at Jupiter and the Galilean moons in my 7x50 binoculars several nights ago. I was having a very successful observing session so I thought I’d have a go at Uranus not expecting to be successful. I used a star hopping technique to identify it and then used averted vision through my binoculars to see the very dim disc. I’ve never seen Uranus through my own efforts before, of course I’ve seen it through telescopes, so I was so pleased when I succeeded in observing it. I could wax lyrical about this time of year, especially the Pink Footed Geese that fly over on their way between Martin Mere and the Sefton Coast and all the other bird life, but I’ll stop now…Happy GMT/UTC folks.
  5. It’s 8°C here, quite clear but with humidity at 96%. I did a bit of astronomy earlier and I had a great view of Jupiter and its Galilean moons.
  6. Yes, it was dramatic this morning, wasn’t it. The clouds broke soon after to become a beautiful sunny Autumn day.
  7. It’s been a beautiful day here with bright sunshine, light winds and cool temperatures, 9km/h, 13°C, 66% humidity and 1005 hPa. A perfect Autumn day.
  8. There was rain here this morning too. It’s gusty here but sun is breaking through the clouds. It’s 18°C, 0.1mm rain, 46.1km/h and 80% humidity. Yeah, I think so too.
  9. Yeah, they were weren’t they, I think I remember there being huge problems with infrastructure across the South East and in many areas of the South too. Our first house was on the Hampshire/Surrey border but we hadn’t moved in yet but as I remember there were power cuts and the area fared far better than places in the South East who had a large swathes of the countryside, housing and infrastructure destroyed.
  10. I remember it well. I lived in the West Country at the time and although it was ferocious it wasn’t as bad as it was in the South East. My sister, in London lost her roof.
  11. Beautiful photos Jo. It’s great to see the less common colours of purple in all the photos and blue in the top one.
  12. Although I live in a rural area at 53.5°N I’m affected by light pollution from Liverpool and major A roads and motorways in Merseyside, West Lancs and Greater Manchester. I looked out at around 21:30 but unfortunately couldn’t see anything. I’m aware that there are significant differences in imaging between the human eye and cameras which may explain why photographs show a greater density of colours in Auroras than is seen by the naked eye. Also, the weather was windy with variable cloud cover and sharp showers…it was a long shot, I know.
  13. Yeah, the sky is blanketed with cloud at the moment, it’s quite dull. Despite this I can still do one of my favourite things…watching the birds in my garden. Actually, the blue tits, coal tits, house sparrows and dunnocks are arriving for ‘Second Breakfast’…I love it.
  14. It’s a little cooler here today at 19°C but still a little humid at 86%. Now, after a beautiful sunrise, it’s very overcast and oppressive…When will these horrible conditions ever end.
  15. I thought I saw a few flashes to the south east of me yesterday evening but nothing came of it.
  16. It’s 24°C, 81% humidity here. I can see on various sites and apps that there has been storm activity to the north on the Fylde and Cumbria but nothing here as yet.
  17. It’s been overcast all day today apart from a slight thinning of cloud this afternoon. The temperature is lower today at 25°C but I’m finding it just as difficult to cope with.
  18. Yeah, I’m in Ince Blundell and there’s been lightning from your direction.
  19. There’s activity now. There’s just been lightning about 2 or 3 miles away.
  20. There hasn’t been any activity at my location today, however, last night there was thunder from about 10pm to about 4am.
  21. Yeah, there’s nothing here either but last night there were a number of storms between 11pm and about 4am.
  22. It’s pleasant here too, not too hot and humid at 22°C, 60% humidity,1018hPa, 30.2 km/h. We’ve had variable cloud all day but as you can see the wind is picking up.
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