Bloody parky today

[Richard]

Fucking zealots of all persuasions are so stupid at times.

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

been saying that up here in the frozen north for years ....

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

With a few mini- iceages since then. The climate cycles and almost constantly varies. We in the UK, rarely get two similar years.

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

newshound has brought this to us :

Everyone best remembers the warmth of the really good summers and the cold of the really cold winters.

[Andy Bennet]

Nope, in the wilds of the Thurstable Hundred

[The Natural Philosopher]

Not stuck indoors in the rain at my grandparents house. Summer holiday? Prison camp.

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

stuck in a scabby holiday flat two up in Port Bannatyne with stair head toilet and two weeks of solid rain at the Greenock fair......

[Roland Perry]

In message <T_adnYjjhPUDoz [e-mail]>, at

14:20:15 on Sat, 27 Nov 2021, Andy Bennet [e-mail] remarked:

Ditto going to Nov 5th fireworks parties, where the ground was more likely to be frozen than not.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

No you will have climate change like everyone else and put up with it.

I don't know how often folk have to say this, and of course you could be joking, but Yes the earth is warming up. We wont go into the why, here. Inputting any extra energy into such a climate system as we have is going to make the air more turbulent, and bigger extremes in climate can be expected.

End of story. So while you may think its cold some other places are hotter or wetter etc. Its like a boiling kettle, the water moves more energetically and chaotically as the temperature increases. Brian

[newshound]

Those of us who have spent part of our professional lives trying to extract signals from noisy and at least somewhat random data know that to have much chance of picking up any real effect (whether a step or cyclic), you have to look at data over several periods. Unfortunately, most of those looking for an effect over, say, 50 or 100 years of fossil fuel burning seem to think, or at least claim publicly, that this is the only period that needs to be examined. Conveniently, 50 years is the satellite record and "scientific" weather recording covers about 200 years.

[Tricky Dicky]

Right on cue it has just started to snow again up here in the Pennines. This after I cleared the drive when yesterdays forecast said it would just be frosty today. Anyway at least I got some rock salt down so that should help.

Richard

[newshound]

Keep that quiet, our local FB group has just posted that salt makes dogs' feet sore.

[Tim Streater]

I would be asking WTF someone else's dog is doing on my drive.

[Bob Eager]

WAit until they find out that fireworks have 'saltpetre'...

[Andrew]

Kiddies don't feel the cold. I used to go outside in my PJ's barefoot to get the cat in and mum would be castigating me for going out in the cold. I didn't notice that it was cold though.

[Steve Walker]

Someone slipping over and breaking a hip could be a whole lot sorer! If people are worried about dogs paws and rock-salt, they can buy them 4 bootees - as used by some police and forces dogs where broken glass is to be expected.

[ARW]

It's just hit minus 4 but it is due to warm up in a couple of hours.

I have just revved the vans bollocks off for 30 minutes to warm it up and get rid of the ice on it - and listened to the Rolling Stones CD at full volume whilst warming the van up.

Now I could have done that at 5am in the morning when I set off for work. But I am a considerate neighbour.

[Vir Campestris]

Saturday: Beer on the beach, +30C. Sunday: Airport carpark, +1C, coat left in car as didn't need it...

It does look as though we got back just in time though.

Andy