Very dark with heavy rain from raggedy low cloudbase at 1 pm as the main part of the rainbelt passed overhead here, switching the wind direction from easterly to southerly. You can usually tell; but it didn't half tip down for half an hour, and I had to switch lights on!
Writing from some weather professionals' convention taking place in Moscow, Brummie Simon is pretty skeptical about global warming, pointing out that temperatures worldwide have effectively stabilised over the past decade; but we have to remember that he is an advisory service primarily to business, supported as he perennially reminds us by the ads we see around the page, and we know what the world of business in general thinks about global warming.
Whether (no pun intended) or not they really have anything to firm up one way or the other, the view from this outpost, with barometer, max/min thermometer and cloud forms to go on, is that something very odd is still going on with the pressure circulation constantly getting stuck, low pressure systems not moving on, and this has now been the case for at least 3 years in succession. Apart from which, the general consensus is that it stays wet and on the cool side until Friday, after which it looks likely to dry up and start to warm up, leading into the middle of next week when some sort of thundery situation is being predicted. Their guess is as good as mine... I guess
I'm wondering what the collective noun for a convention of weather professionals should be? A filling depression?
Writing from some weather professionals' convention taking place in Moscow, Brummie Simon is pretty skeptical about global warming, pointing out that temperatures worldwide have effectively stabilised over the past decade; but we have to remember that he is an advisory service primarily to business, supported as he perennially reminds us by the ads we see around the page, and we know what the world of business in general thinks about global warming.
Whether (no pun intended) or not they really have anything to firm up one way or the other, the view from this outpost, with barometer, max/min thermometer and cloud forms to go on, is that something very odd is still going on with the pressure circulation constantly getting stuck, low pressure systems not moving on, and this has now been the case for at least 3 years in succession. Apart from which, the general consensus is that it stays wet and on the cool side until Friday, after which it looks likely to dry up and start to warm up, leading into the middle of next week when some sort of thundery situation is being predicted. Their guess is as good as mine... I guess
I'm wondering what the collective noun for a convention of weather professionals should be? A filling depression?
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