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  1. On ‎17‎/‎05‎/‎2017 at 20:32, mike57 said:

     

    If you look at Dec 1920 it even gives you a little conversion chart

    By December 1922 temps had gone back to F, and winds to mph but rainfall is still mm and in Feb 1923 snowfall is in inches but rainfall is in mm

    I didnt realise that Metoffice had experimented with metric values that early, as a child in the early 1960's all reports were inches/degF although changes to Celcius in the early 60's I think

    From 1960 to 1963 I was a scientific assistant in the Met Office - we were plotting in C and most of the world was sending their obs in C, however the Americans still insisted on F, meaning we had to convert all their temps into C. After a while that became automatic, I still remember a lot of them.

    As a matter of interest do the Americans still send obs in F?  looking at some their forecasts for their own public, they are still in F. 

  2. It appears that whenever people, these days post an excerpt from Twitter the page goes into an uncontrollable scroll mode making it difficult to read, quote and post further.

    It is happening on my desk top and my lap top so I do not think it is my computers - the only other thing I can think of is that I am currently in France and using Orange.fr as an ISP.

    Is anybody else getting a similar problem, or have any ideas as to how this can be prevented?

  3. Sometimes when I want to reply to a quote I try to click the send box but it flits about at the bottom of the page and is not accessible to click on - I can sometimes get round it by going back a page then going forwards again but that does not always work - I also try to copy/paste my reply onto a word doc then try again but just lately noticed that the copy function does not always work.

    A bit frustrating when time has been spent typing with two fingers as I do.

    Any idea of how this can be cured?

  4. The grape harvest looks like suffering through the drought in Languedoc, specifically Aude, as described here:

    http://www.midilibre.fr/2016/08/14/occitanie-de-la-vigilance-a-la-crise-les-vignes-au-regime-sec,1379975.php#xtor=EPR-2-[Newsletter]-20160815-[Zone_info]

    I spoke to my tenant yesterday - there has been a profusion of 'bush fires' in the region and it has only rained twice since they took up residence on 01.06.2016.

     

     

  5. I read through this and wonder if these 'epigenic mutations' could help explain some of the world's problems which we are currently trying to sort out - for example, there has been unrest and strife, say in the Middle East and Afghanistan for pretty well all of recorded history and quite often in our own European history as well.

    Could these 'epigenic mutations' have conditioned people to this type of life and in fact get carried on for some generations before dying out?

    http://nautil.us/issue/31/stress/the-secret-stressful-stories-of-fossils

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  6. 3 hours ago, Spikecollie said:

    I'm in Dijon working for this week and I walked to work in falling snow this morning. and through the little covering that was left from last night. Only a few cms. Milding up now with the obligatory transitional drizzle and fog. I'm just looking forward to the Limousin spring now - I might even get out for a cycle ride on Sunday back home there with 15c forecast!

    Yes, the temps are warming up here for the weekend, up to double figures - wondering if I will be able to go gliding on Sunday but suspect there may be some low cloud which may put the mockers on that.

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  7. 4 hours ago, ajpoolshark said:

    it's a very poorly written article......the matter is not being expelled out of the black hole, rather the enormous magnetic fields in the accretion disk bordering the event horizon twist and break forcing gas and matter to be shot outwards at near relativistic speeds....it is theorized that black holes very slowly give up their mass via a process known as hawking radiation, but for stellar sized or supermassive black holes, this process would take up to a googal years (10^100 years)

    Thanks for that APS

  8. Just now, M1245 said:

     

    Looking at different charts, possibly different geographical regions (I was speaking of Watford) and a difference in the timing of events - as I said in the 'EDIT' a week is a long time in Meteorology, especially since the weather has a mind of its own.

    As far as the European cold is concerned at the moment it is mainly confined to the central, east and north but even now central Europe seems to be warming a tad, so this does not appear to be encroaching as far west as I had hoped, in fact it may recede east. It has only been like this for a few days so far and probably not yet deeply entrenched, even though a min of -28C has been recorded at St Petersburg.

    Having said all that it is sometimes surprising the way weather events can evolve quite quickly and catch us all out.  

  9. Can't see anything of real interest on the Meteo Ciel Charts - there is a brief period when we get uppers  -4 to -6C with the jet stream briefly to the south. There is a Greenie high for a short while ridging over to Scandinavia but that is too far north to do us at Watford any good.

    I think the best I can hope for on the basis of this is some wintry showers during the course of next week which probably will not settle as lying snow.

    Pity in a way because I thought the low temps currently in East Europe, Scandinavia and Russia might encourage a high to build in that location but the forecast charts do not show encouraging news.

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