Stormy Weather

[Nick Armstrong]

Brrr!!

(I do hope Flay's romantic gesture to disguise his laziness resulted in a nice meal out last night rather than a telling-off. )

Edit: forgot to say, the eclipse on the 20th is to be covered live on BBC from 9am - just in case anyone cannot be bothered to go outside to see it!!

I saw a couple of brass monkeys strolling along the street just now

Another Friday when I shall be particularly interested in the weather...! Interesting site here about the eclipse:

http://www.solareclipse2015.org.uk/the-partial-eclipse/

[Serial_Apologist]

I saw a couple of brass monkeys strolling along the street just now

Another Friday when I shall be particularly interested in the weather...! Interesting site here about the eclipse:

http://www.solareclipse2015.org.uk/the-partial-eclipse/

Pardon my pedanticism, ahem, but does a solar or lunar eclipse actually come under the category of weather?

(I would have said not - along withe the aurora borealis).

[Nick Armstrong]

Pardon my pedanticism, ahem, but does a solar or lunar eclipse actually come under the category of weather?

(I would have said not - along withe the aurora borealis).

Oh Anna and I (and others) wander off into star-gazing and the like regularly on this thread Being able to see is heavily dependent on the bloody weather after all!

And don't call me 'ahem' !

[Serial_Apologist]

Oh Anna and I (and others) wander off into star-gazing and the like regularly on this thread Being able to see is heavily dependent on the bloody weather after all!

And don't call me 'ahem' !

Now that the fog of misunderstanding has cleared, I was just clearing my throat, in order the better to address you, good sir!

[Nick Armstrong]

Now that the fog of misunderstanding has cleared, I was just clearing my throat, in order the better to address you, good sir!

Shirley, a most generous response!

[EdgeleyRob]

I saw a couple of brass monkeys strolling along the street just now

Another Friday when I shall be particularly interested in the weather...! Interesting site here about the eclipse:

http://www.solareclipse2015.org.uk/the-partial-eclipse/

Looking for a welder ?

Very cold here today.

[greenilex]

If it is not weather, why do they call it the solar wind?

And surely Terra has a planetary climate?

Dependent, of course, on extra-terrestrial factors?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

If it is not weather, why do they call it the solar wind?
And surely Terra has a planetary climate?
Dependent, of course, on extra-terrestrial factors?

Hence, "meteorology"?

[Beef Oven!]

"......look out the window"

[Anna]

does a solar or lunar eclipse actually come under the category of weather?

(I would have said not - along withe the aurora borealis).

But it’s all happening in the atmosphere isn’t it and we’ve talked about aurora borealis, the same as we've discussed comets, stars, eclipses, solar flares, moon phases, planets and of course the moon does influence weather although I guess a lunar eclipse doesn't …. it's not mainstream meteorology but it's really interesting to know what's happening in the Heavens.

Also, of course, after the eclipse the Spring Equinox is at 10.34pm on the very same day! And, if the skies are clear the day after you should be able to see Mars just up and to the left of Venus. Plus, there’s a fuzzy blob visible just now under the centre of Orion’s belt, which is his Nebula, you should look out for that as well.

[BBMmk2]

Hopefully be a clear sky!

Overcast and decidedly chilly today

[Nick Armstrong]

there’s a fuzzy blob visible just now under the centre of Orion’s belt, which is his Nebula

It's the way Anna tells 'em!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It's the way Anna tells 'em!

Does Orion wear a sporran?

Lovely weather today in t'Pennines - began overcast and very cold, as if it was just going to repeat yesterday's gloom, but since about the one o'clock news, we've had quite a few defiant blasts of sunshine (if we're not allowed astronomy, are we allowed anthropomorphism [provided it's connected with the weather]? - and is it still "anthropomorphism", or has my fallacy become pathetic? I'm at that age. Perhaps it's my nebula. I'm drifting ... ) Got out into the garden for a couple of hours - lots of trimming and pruning - so much so that I'm now looking at the empty spaces and resulting gaps and worried that I've overdone it. But I always think this every year ...

[Serial_Apologist]

But it’s all happening in the atmosphere isn’t it and we’ve talked about aurora borealis, the same as we've discussed comets, stars, eclipses, solar flares, moon phases, planets and of course the moon does influence weather although I guess a lunar eclipse doesn't …. it's not mainstream meteorology but it's really interesting to know what's happening in the Heavens.

Also, of course, after the eclipse the Spring Equinox is at 10.34pm on the very same day! And, if the skies are clear the day after you should be able to see Mars just up and to the left of Venus. Plus, there’s a fuzzy blob visible just now under the centre of Orion’s belt, which is his Nebula, you should look out for that as well.

OK, Anna. It's just that, in my small-minded way I s'pose, I think of "the weather" as all happening within the troposphere - though I'd have to admit that that would exclude nocticulent clouds, and the recently-discovered so-called "super-lightning", said to emit as far as 80 miles from tops of thunder clouds.

By the way, I've never read anything of the moon affecting weather, although it affects the tides, of course.

[mangerton]

Does Orion wear a sporran?

Lovely weather today in t'Pennines - began overcast and very cold, as if it was just going to repeat yesterday's gloom, but since about the one o'clock news, we've had quite a few defiant blasts of sunshine (if we're not allowed astronomy, are we allowed anthropomorphism [provided it's connected with the weather]? - and is it still "anthropomorphism", or has my fallacy become pathetic? I'm at that age. Perhaps it's my nebula. I'm drifting ... ) Got out into the garden for a couple of hours - lots of trimming and pruning - so much so that I'm now looking at the empty spaces and resulting gaps and worried that I've overdone it. But I always think this every year ...

I should have thought he does, attached to his belt. After all, he's Greek, and some Greeks wear kilts. Also, he's a hunter, and a sporran's useful for carrying the spoils of the hunt.

OT, sunny and bright, but cold (8ºC) here today.