Stormy Weather

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks whoever zapped my unfortunate post on #Class....seriously

'Twas not I....

[BBMmk2]

Heard The Dambusters' March on R3, a few minutes ago. And good old SMP said that on this day in 1918 the RAF was formed! the oldest air force in the world, apperantly.

[BBMmk2]

A few minutes ago, heard the /Dambusters March on R3. Good old SMP mentioned that on this day in 1918, the RAF was formed! Apperantly, it's the oldest in the world!

[salymap]

I wonder if gamba knows that. He was in the RAF in WW2, looking after Spitfires in deepest Kent.

He must have some stories about that time.

On topic, still too cold for me and April already

[Anna]

On topic, still too cold for me and April already

No frost, just uniform low grey cloud and, at the moment, a miserable, paltry, temperature of 2.9 and with no wind the cloud is unlikely to shift and temps rise. I think however London and the SE have better temperatures.
I actually spent some of the morning watching on BBC2 Citizen Kane (I justify that due to it being ages since I've seen it and a good excuse for putting off what I should be doing outdoors) I further justify not going outdoors this afternoon as it's the Bach Marathon on R3. Excuses, excuses!!

[Serial_Apologist]

No frost, just uniform low grey cloud and, at the moment, a miserable, paltry, temperature of 2.9 and with no wind the cloud is unlikely to shift and temps rise. I think however London and the SE have better temperatures.
I actually spent some of the morning watching on BBC2 Citizen Kane (I justify that due to it being ages since I've seen it and a good excuse for putting off what I should be doing outdoors) I further justify not going outdoors this afternoon as it's the Bach Marathon on R3. Excuses, excuses!!

Not that much better here, Anna - just 4 C, and additional wind chill now that the breeze has started to pick up. A few holes have allowed the sun to punch through the stratocumulus ("pancake cloud"), but with the wind back in the east bringing in pollution once again, not much of a view from here.

On a cautiously optimistic note, Brummie Simon states that all the models point to a shrivelling away of the Actic high pressure block after about the 15th leading to a northward shift of the jet stream, such that it flows across southern Wales and England. That indicates unsettled conditions for a while, but he's hopeful of warmer temperatures from around the 20th, up to 15 C or so, with the jet stream locating to where it should be in the summer half of the year, marking a change to warm conditions for early May. Some good news at least, although from here it somehow looks a long way away.

I have to say, for me, a little Bach goes an awfully long way, remembering having to sing solo in "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring" at school, waiting for the boring repeats between the lyrics to pass along the musical conveyor belt, and participation in the St John Passion feeling rather like a small cog churning out diatonic counterpoint to order in one huge machine!

Yes! Give me the solo cello and violin suites, the jolly orchestral suites and Brandenburgs, and Goldberg; but as for all that heavy Lutheran stuff...

[eighthobstruction]

Open the windows Anna, Bach in the garden....I'm sure you feel fine....but an hour in the garden will make you feel even better....

[Anna]

about the 15th leading to a northward shift of the jet stream, such that it flows across southern Wales and England

Hurrah!!

That indicates unsettled conditions for a while, but he's hopeful of warmer temperatures from around the 20th, up to 15 C or so

Boo, Hiss!! So late in the year?

with the jet stream locating to where it should be in the summer half of the year, marking a change to warm conditions for early May. Some good news at least, although from here it somehow looks a long way away

And, good news if you like apples and pears. Growers are confident that late blossom will not be hit by frost, as last year, and there will be a bumper harvest!!

I have to say, for me, a little Bach goes an awfully long way

Me too, and also, never have I managed so complicated a quote-fest as this!!

[eighthobstruction]

Me too, and also, never have I managed so complicated a quote-fest as this!!

....I'm impressed....[into ahinton territory]

[Serial_Apologist]

....I'm impressed....[into ahinton territory]

And I'm honoured!

[eighthobstruction]

Careful Anna will soon be taking your predictions apart piece by piece....

[Nick Armstrong]

....I'm impressed....[into ahinton territory]

Infinitely lighter in tone and fewer subclauses though!

[Nick Armstrong]

I actually spent some of the morning watching on BBC2 Citizen Kane

Damn! I meant to record that. I don't have it and on the new BBC2HD it would look great. But I forgot, having returned from family visits at 1am...

[Serial_Apologist]

http://www.weatherweb.net/wxwebtv2.php

[Anna]

Infinitely lighter in tone and fewer subclauses though!

Oh, you old smoothie!! But, I can do subclauses if that's your fancy, Rosebud!!

....I'm impressed....[into ahinton territory]

O.M.G.