Stormy Weather

[Petrushka]

It's wonderful when trees can last through the generations putting our little human existence into some sort of perspective.

Sadly, a tree that my mother planted for my father's 80th birthday in 1999, blew down in the winter gales - just weeks after his death.

[Nick Armstrong]

Anyone seen a cloud called a 'doughnut cloud'?

Only in my dreams....

[doversoul1]

It's wonderful when trees can last through the generations putting our little human existence into some sort of perspective.

Sadly, a tree that my mother planted for my father's 80th birthday in 1999, blew down in the winter gales - just weeks after his death.

A cherry tree my grandmother planted died soon after she died. My mother tells me that sometimes a tree follows the person who loved it or it loved.

[EdgeleyRob]

All of a sudden it's November.

All of a sudden it's flaming June !

[Serial_Apologist]

All of a sudden it's flaming June !

Yes, 18 C already, and it's make-the-most-of-it time today. I'm shortly departing on the bike for a pub on Primrose Hill where jazz plays on Sunday afternoons (Henry Lowther today), and trying to figure out a route that as much as possible avoids the West End and its crowds of tourists. Caliban will know all about that!

[Petrushka]

All of a sudden it's flaming June !

Indeed it is. A very nice, sunny and warm morning. Still can't believe that this Spring has apparently been the third warmest on record. Some pretty chilly days and nights in past few weeks that required heating and Berghaus. One wonders where the Met Office get their figures from.

[teamsaint]

Indeed it is. A very nice, sunny and warm morning. Still can't believe that this Spring has apparently been the third warmest on record. Some pretty chilly days and nights in past few weeks that required heating and Berghaus. One wonders where the Met Office get their figures from.

They just put in a call to. Serial_Apologist.
Cheap quick and easy.


The process, I mean, not S_A.


Edit.....its a gorgeous warm early summer day here, plenty of sunny spells.

[BBMmk2]

Went for a lovely walk, at Sheffield Park Gardens, near where I live this afternoon, with MrsBBM. Such a lovely day.

[Serial_Apologist]

Nice earlier but it's clouded up a bit now, as happened over London yesterday. Maximum of 21 C here, so it would have been a couple of degrees higher in the centre. Legs in need of a bit of a rest following that 24-mile journey. One thing I noticed was the numbers of young foreign women, Brazilian maybe, using Boris's bikes, and really chancing it with London's traffic which, as we know , can be risky. I get off and walk at dangerous junctions these days. Regents Park is looking gorgeous right now, the Regency terraces where RVW ended his days stunning in their setting.

[Serial_Apologist]

They just put in a call to. Serial_Apologist.
Cheap quick and easy.


The process, I mean, not S_A.

Nationalised weather under worker's control, at your disposal, sir/madam.

Actually, there is another ex-Trot called Piers somebody or other, who runs a weather service, in his case based on sunspot activity, I believe. He still looks like a 1970s Trot: longish curly mouse-coloured hair; beard; 1940s NHS specs; herringbone-pattern brown tweed jacket with elbow patches; sort of vacant/myopic expression. Together, like, I tell you, we'd have put the fear of G*d into the National Front back then. Iirc Piers diversified into Real Ale, becoming something big in CAMRA, if that's possible.

[Don Petter]

Yes, 18 C already, and it's make-the-most-of-it time today. I'm shortly departing on the bike for a pub on Primrose Hill where jazz plays on Sunday afternoons (Henry Lowther today), and trying to figure out a route that as much as possible avoids the West End and its crowds of tourists. Caliban will know all about that!

It's been at least 68F here today (not sure what that is in your Earth degrees), and up to 74F somewhen lately. I haven't reset my max and min for a week or so.

[Serial_Apologist]

It's been at least 68F here today (not sure what that is in your Earth degrees), and up to 74F somewhen lately. I haven't reset my max and min for a week or so.

20 and 24 degrees Celsius respectively.

The easiest way to convert Fahrenheit into Celsius and vice versa is, take a piece of graph paper, mark along the bottom from say minus 20 to say plus 100 Fahrenheit, to take account of any future ice age or global warming, and from minus 30 to plus 40 Celsius up the left hand side. Plot where the lines for zero Celsius and 32 Fahrenheit intersect, and where 20 Celsius and 68 Fahrenheit intersect, and with a straight ruler draw a straight line going through both plot positions in both directions, continuing to the edge of the paper. To make absolutely sure your ruler is straight, plot a third position where 86 Fahrenheit and 30 Celsius intersect, and your previously drawn straight line should pass directly through this point. You can now do direct read-offs for any temperature conversion within an annual range generally experienced in the United Kingdom.

[Don Petter]

20 and 24 degrees Celsius respectively.

The easiest way to convert Fahrenheit into Celsius and vice versa is, take a piece of graph paper, mark along the bottom from say minus 20 to say plus 100 Fahrenheit, to take account of any future ice age or global warming, and from minus 30 to plus 40 Celsius up the left hand side. Plot where the lines for zero Celsius and 32 Fahrenheit intersect, and where 20 Celsius and 68 Fahrenheit intersect, and with a straight ruler draw a straight line going through both plot positions in both directions, continuing to the edge of the paper. To make absolutely sure your ruler is straight, plot a third position where 86 Fahrenheit and 30 Celsius intersect, and your previously drawn straight line should pass directly through this point. You can now do direct read-offs for any temperature conversion within an annual range generally experienced in the United Kingdom.

Or just Google '68F to C'.

[mangerton]

Or just Google '68F to C'.

Or - dare I say this - take the temperature in degrees Celsius, multiply by 9, divide by 5, and add 32. This gives the result in degrees Fahrenheit.

Having done fifteen minutes' mental arithmetic every day at school in primaries 5 - 7, I can do these, and similar, calculations in my head. There were no calculators in the 60s.

[teamsaint]

Or - dare I say this - take the temperature in degrees Celsius, multiply by 9, divide by 5, and add 32. This gives the result in degrees Fahrenheit.

Having done fifteen minutes' mental arithmetic every day at school in primaries 5 - 7, I can do these, and similar, calculations in my head. There were no calculators in the 60s.

But there were slide rules. They were easy enough to use..