mike Meehan

OK, will give it a go.

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?

Thanks Sumsun, tried that, will see what happens if anything.

Pass - not sure how you do that - I'm a thicko with computers

Internet explorer Paul

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?

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.

14.5C still a little cool yet

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/07/clouds-climate-change-analysis-liquid-ice-global-warming?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+AUS+v1+-+AUS+morning+mail+callout&utm_term=165887&subid=14643256&CMP=ema_632 It may be worse than we think.

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

http://www.midilibre.fr/2016/02/27/alerte-meteo-le-gard-et-l-herault-places-en-vigilance-orange-pluie-inondation,1292330.php#xtor=EPR-2-[Newsletter]-20160227-[Zone_info] It looks like some pretty interesting weather coming up in Gard and Herault with up 150 mms of rain and at higher levels above 800 to 1000 metres, 80cm of snow. I reckon they will close the A75 with that.

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.

There have been warnings of snow, ice and thunder in the recent publication of le Midi Libre - also there are some recent photos of snowfall within the region, admittedly some are at higher altitudes but I dare say they will make some a little envious http://www.midilibre.fr/2016/01/18/neige-dans-l-aude-et-l-herault-les-premieres-images,1272030.php

After the Beast from the East receding a little in the last few days I notice it is now starting to encroach westwards again with temperatures falling again in central/east Europe - maybe, just maybe........

I like that Meteo Ciel chart - with SE'lies from the continent it should at least be dry, hopefully enough to keep the fog at bay with possible sunshine feeding my PV panels

We had about a centimetre at Watford, still cloudy, mostly alto stratus - snow slowly thawing.

We've had just sufficient of the wet stuff to colour the back lawn and the tops of cars white, still light snow falling. Still above freezing.

Slight snow at Watford, settling in patches in the rear garden but no more than a dusting and still above freezing.

Thanks for that APS

The mind boggles - I had always thought that nothing could escape from a black hole but it may be that the following may contradict this: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/nasa-telescope-spots-something-coming-out-of-a-084232766.html We think we are getting a good idea of how things happen and then this!

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.

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.

Thames streamer?

Paul, the quote system seems to have gone a little haywire - each time I try to place a quote one of my previous posts comes up. In particular I am referring to the EU discussion where I am trying to quote a post HP of 13 hours ago. I have also tried copy pasting but this also comes with my same post as above and the same when I try enter a new post in this section. Strange

Paul, I have been trying to load a photo to use as an avatar - I got it loaded up ok but it is far too large and not inserted in my roundel. I went to the 'cover photo' on my profile page and it should still be there but I must be going wrong somewhere; can you assist please? Mike