I hope all survived and enjoyed last night's pyrotechnics. I enjoy a good storm. None here, but there was torrential rain from about 8.00 till 10.00 this morning. It's now stopped, but as I returned over the road bridge after a visit to Fife an hour ago, much of the city was invisible under heavy mist. Very close (as we prefer to "muggy" in these parts) today.
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"Technically", the word close is used to describe conditions of calm, high humidity. Muggy is still highly humid, but at least there's wind moving the humidity along!Originally posted by mangerton View Post
Sunny here today with small patches of thin cirrus and one or two small cumulus; gentle to moderate southwesterly, shade maximum likely to be 24 C, where it is right now. What a change from yesterday's... mugginess!Comment
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I didn't know this! Very useful distinction - cheers, S_AOriginally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post"Technically", the word close is used to describe conditions of calm, high humidity. Muggy is still highly humid, but at least there's wind moving the humidity along!
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I'm surprise no-one saw my spelling earlier! :)Don’t cry for me
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Too polite to mention it, BBM.Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
Err... what spelling?Comment
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S_A, thanks, that is very interesting. I was unaware of this distinction, and I wouldn't for one minute seek to argue with you. I can however say that I have never heard a Scot use the word "muggy" to describe the weather, and Scotland does get a fair amount of wind.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post"Technically", the word close is used to describe conditions of calm, high humidity. Muggy is still highly humid, but at least there's wind moving the humidity along!
Sunny here today with small patches of thin cirrus and one or two small cumulus; gentle to moderate southwesterly, shade maximum likely to be 24 C, where it is right now. What a change from yesterday's... mugginess!
There's none here tonight, though. It has been a calm, peaceful, and sunny evening.Comment
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... The Times is predicting a second heatwave, with temperatures nudging 39º end-July early August.
Any one else with confident predictions? Mme v's eldest daughter is getting married 1 August in Dorset; nice weather wd certainly be a boon...Comment
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If I see red sky on the evening of 31/07/2015 vints I will let you know ...Originally posted by vinteuil View PostComment
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Sky his morning looked rather thundery but as it turned out, it was going into a mackerel sky and sure enough, rain followed! A Shower, that's all but then the sun came out and been like that since around lunchtime or just before!Don’t cry for me
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V windy, albeit quite warm here, so I took the train up to the W End today rather than cycling.Comment
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Yes! My eyes are still smarting from all the dust from the ride home westwards right down the throat of that damn wind!!Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
"...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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have a Spitfire, Cali! :)
My son has gone to Spain for a holiday this week and his last calls to the bar exam results came out yesterday!!!
Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
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Today's 1.45 pm local BBC TV forecast predicted shower activity to be restricted to East Anglia northwards, with no interruptions at Wimbledon. There must be quite a few red faces at the Met Office now as it's just been bucketing down here, and with hail. I could have told them that shower clouds were already building up to the first spots of rain over London while that very forecast was being announced!
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A cloudy end to a lovely day here.
what's this all about , S_A?
( sorry its on its side, haven't sorted out the camera on my phone !!)
lets hope it stays dry for the England cricketers.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
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That is Mammatus cloud, so called because of its resemblance to udders (Mamma), but to me resembling a maritime ice sheet seen from underneath. It often presages thunder, but not last night, as it happens.
There seems to be little known about what precisely causes it. Wiki has several photographed examples at the bottom of its entry:
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