Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte
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Yes, those gaps will fill out once growth gets underway. The daffs are well out here, now, and the snowdrops and crocus nearly over. Viburnums of varous sorts are putting on a good show this spring, with almost a surfeit of their honeyed perfume, along with the smaller-flowered blossoming trees and shrubs (blackthorn). Although temperatures have yet to rise high enough, or long enough, for the saplings and lower and middle-tiered shrubs to be sprouting foliage, ground cover was stealing the March (pun intended) in the nearby woodlands with that fresh golden green sheen that presages the spring bulbs florescence, of which I saw one or two primula on my walk in the chill rain just now. The strong north-easterlies predicted have not materialised, but temperatures here have not exceeded 6 degs C today, cold for January! -
I don't know quite why - but that made me laugh out loud!!Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
Horrid, cold, dull, here and the nasty NE wind pushing it down to 4°. I should have been out digging up ivy but I was waiting for the sun ... it never came so I didn't go
I thought I read that lunar atmospheric tides create abnormal air-pressure which gives us the El Nino effect, so that's weather isn't it?Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostComment
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One might think so but I can't find anything to that effect, Anna. Wiki (which I can't reproduce because of the Spanish "enye") just says at the end of para 1: "Mechanisms that cause the oscillation remain under study".Originally posted by Anna View PostComment
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Prof. Chris Marchant of the Reading University Earth Observation and Space research group might be able to advise?Comment
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SA, it's just that I always like to see the internet used for its real purpose.Comment
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I'm really surprised no-one has commented on the lovely warm, sunny, weather these past few days. Well, it's only been 10° and Tuesday felt the warmest but the wind hasn't generally been troublesome, chilly nights and quite thick frosty mornings though. Forsythia is nearly out and magnolia buds are fat, hedgerows greening up fast, birds gathering nesting material. Lovely to see field of ewes and their new lambs.
Not sure what prospects are for eclipse viewing, Prof. Cox this morning seems to think Midlands and West have best chance of a good view but we've a problem here with haze and poor visibility which I now find is caused by pollution drifting across the channel - from Paris of all places!!! and affecting Wales badly.
Not due to clear properly until Saturday ....
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Yes Anna it has been lovely. Today has been warm ,clear and golden....Hawthorn bushes only just beginning to show green....
"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."
Has that all happened?....haven't been able to see it....bong chingComment
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Eclipse and Equinox tomorrow. Still time to make your pin-hole camera from a shoebox or you can use a colander and a piece of white paper standing with your back to the sun or even just fill a bucket with water and look at the reflection in that!!Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
(I should have a Blue Peter Badge!)
Mars and Venus should be good on Saturday and, I caught the last bit of BBC stargazing, they also said look for Orion's Nebula (with no time limit)Comment
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What a cold day today has been, after the lovely weather(anna! :) )Don’t cry for me
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Indeed, BBM! Haven's yet seen any of that spring warmth and sunshine Annas's been talking about, and the vegetation's no further on from my last detailed report. Max 7 C today with a raw north-easterly.Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View PostComment
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Ha innit great having good weather Anna.....Raa Ha ha Ha....bong chingComment
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It is indeed 8thobs - the sun always shines on the Righteous!Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
And what a wonderful morning for an eclipse, sunny with not a cloud to be seen BUT still a bit hazy with this flaming French fog still hanging around!! Still, less than an hour to go so it'll hopefully burn off more. Hope everyone else can get a good experience (I think I'm a bit over-excited! but the last one - did we agree it was 1998? - was brilliant, but then I was on top of a mystical hill in Herefordshire) R4 Today reckons Edinburgh and Cumbria will be magic ....
Edit: Ooh, they've just said Leicester will be a good place - cf Richard III thread!!Last edited by Guest; 20-03-15, 08:53.Comment
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Originally posted by Anna View Postthe sun always shines on the Righteous!
And what a wonderful morning for an eclipse, sunny with not a cloud to be seen BUT still a bit hazy
thick cloud cover over the unrighteous metrollopes
enjoy it for us Anna.... *said in pathetic, death-bed voice*"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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