Stormy Weather

[Nick Armstrong]

Sorry, too offtopic. I doubt if I'll see a lunar eclipse here but hope S_A enjoys his recital.

... or his 'rectal', as Lionel might say

Don't worry about the detour - it was so worth it!!

V pleased to read you'll be back to normal soon... and all hermetic too!

And yup S_A, enjoy your ...concert !

Dull but dry here, weather-wise.

[amateur51]

It's not the Beaufort scale: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshws.php

As I write, the TV tells us that Capiz is now expecting Category 2 storms - which is an improvement (if it happens). We live on the west side of the Phils and typhoons approach from the east, so the poor people in the east will get the Category 4 weather.

Whatever category you get Pabs, all the very best to you, Mrs P and the hound

[Anna]

... or his 'rectal', as Lionel might say

I wish I had kept a notebook of his malapropisms. At the mo I am still trying to digest his tale today of Clive of India and that 'Red Indian Beauty, with the dark eyes, you know, loads of fillums about her, cannot say her name, Poko summinck' (Lionel is not PC btw re Native Americans)
Pocahontas, says I? Yes, and it was a tragedy, he says. Clive, or was it his son? perished in a fire in Herefordshire. Adopted, all the children were, tragic, you know, someone such as him, nobility, infertile, don't bear thinking, them Nobs, short of seeds

Bemused expression on my face at Pocahontas living over the border in Herefordshire!!!

[mangerton]

I too am totally confused, never having heard of Clive Pocahontas. Delighted to hear that you'll soon be hermetically sealed.

I have not long returned to the wet and cold north, after a lovely sunny day in York.

(The Blackheath eclipse referred to above is a recording from last month. There was an eclipse of the sun a few days ago. These take place when the moon is new, and eclipses of the moon can only occur when the moon is full.)

[Anna]

I too am totally confused,

I am too!
Today is my sister's birthday, she is 10 years older than me and I know nursed me through illnesses because Mother could not be asked for yet another pregnancy and mewling infant at her age.

However, I now discover my sister picked my name (which is awful) but really wanted my name to be Robyn.

I said, why did you not stick to Robyn and she said Mother thought I might turn out either way, with such a name! As if that mattered in our family!

[Nick Armstrong]

As I write, the TV tells us that Capiz is now expecting Category 2 storms - which is an improvement (if it happens). We live on the west side of the Phils and typhoons approach from the east, so the poor people in the east will get the Category 4 weather.

Judging by the news today, Typhoon Haiyan is Category 5 - at least in the central Phils: winds of up to 195mph around the eye, according to the Beeb....

"Has the potential to be the most powerful storm ever recorded to make landfall...." they said...

Look forward to your next communication, Pabs

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Look forward to your next communication, Pabs

- best wishes, Pabs.

[salymap]

Yes, keep safe pabs.

[Serial_Apologist]

And from me! "Brummie Simon" is, as his usual skeptical self, downplaying this as the most powerful typhoon on record - which as far as the people of the Phillippines are concerned, must be a tremendous relief!

[eighthobstruction]

Yes gosh it sounds very powerful....good luck Pabs

[eighthobstruction]

....I had a lovely walk up on the moor this aft'....mostly birch trees bare, but the colour of bracken and different march grasses was a subtle treat....reminded me of the fantastic first chapters of Hardys Jude the Obscure....(confusion ref apostrophe in or not Hardy's){I don't care}[no good telling me, i'll have confused it again within 30 sec's]....

....tea 2 sugars please....

[amateur51]

I've been abed all week with a filthy cold, trying to ensure that it doesn't get onto my chest.

I woke this morning feeling a lot perkier, checked the weather forecast which said heavy rain from 18:00 and set off around mid-day to have some breakfast & do some shopping.

As I was bagging up at the supermarket at 15:00 there was a tremendous clap of thunder and the rain came down like stair-rods for over an hour. Having two big bags of shopping I could not hold an umbrella so I got soaked .

The revised forecast now shows no rain for this evening.

What is the bl**dy point of weather forecasts like that?

[Nick Armstrong]

Glad the cold's behind you, ams

I concur in the matter of **** weather forecasts - today was a major blip in the usual BBC reliability... It'd been showing a cloudy but dry day all week, up to this morning.... then when I got up, it was saying a dry day but rain creeping across this evening (which I hoped to beat p.o.e.t.(s)-ically)... But when I opened the front door this morning, kitted out for the ride in: torrential rain. And around 2pm when I wanted to toddle out for a sandwich - monsoon conditions.

[EdgeleyRob]

Glad you are feeling better Am.
Last couple of days here haven't been too bad,quite cold and mainly dry.
Hope Pabs and co are ok.

[Serial_Apologist]

Glad the cold's behind you, ams

I concur in the matter of **** weather forecasts - today was a major blip in the usual BBC reliability... It'd been showing a cloudy but dry day all week, up to this morning.... then when I got up, it was saying a dry day but rain creeping across this evening (which I hoped to beat p.o.e.t.(s)-ically)... But when I opened the front door this morning, kitted out for the ride in: torrential rain. And around 2pm when I wanted to toddle out for a sandwich - monsoon conditions.

That subsynoptic convective feature was clearly visible and shaping up to the south west of London as that forecast of rain in the evening was being delivered! One only had to go outside and look up to see storm clouds building up - the first spots were falling at 1.30!! I often think these meteorological boffins are so glued to their computers they lose sight of what's actually taking place outside at the very same moment!!!