Stormy Weather

[salymap]

That's Spring for you, mangerton;laugh: Just wish the awful high wind would abate. Most unpleasant and gives me neuralgia.

[DracoM]

Wild Autumn up here in Ultima Thule, with raging high winds and sluicing virtually horizontal rain, temps at 11C. My poor young plants.

[Serial_Apologist]

I see the N/S divide persists, meteorologically-speaking this time. Today's been lovely down south; much nicer than was predicted, though from the fact that my washing's never dried properly on the line, humidity must have been high. There's talk of it warming up again as the week wears on. I think they're overestimating how high temperatures are likely to rise though, (25C in London by Thursday??), the wind as it will be coming off the North Sea.

[Flosshilde]

Pretty windy here too, but it's warmer than before. Generally yesterday & today have been better than forecast - heavy showers, rather than continual rain. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that June will be better than May.

[salymap]

Dull and murky but not so windy. Been watching collar doves in the garden, such an improvement on those grubby pigeons. Masses of baby starlings too, digging for grubs of craneflies I think.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

"These figures indicate that [emissions] are now close to being back on a 'business as usual' path. According to the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's] projections, such a path ... would mean around a 50% chance of a rise in global average temperature of more than 4C by 2100," he said.

"Such warming would disrupt the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people across the planet, leading to widespread mass migration and conflict. That is a risk any sane person would seek to drastically reduce."

Nick Stern reacting to this

read on a cool and rainy Bank Holiday morning ..... better not to think about it eh ...


... and then i read this

[antongould]

Yes way beyond Stormy, way beyond scary!

[Pianorak]

Masses of baby starlings

Used to love those baby starlings, such comics - until half an hour ago when to my utter shock and amazement I noticed a whole flock descending on my marigolds and creating havoc. And I do mean havoc! Didn't know they were partial to those. Anyway, that's the end of yet another love affair.

Very dark clouds gathering - so cut the grass pronto, just in case.

[salymap]

That is sad Pianorak. Too early for young starlings but sparrows, I suppose, always tear my crocus flowers to shreds. Can birds see the colours, I can't remember?

[Pianorak]

Can birds see the colours, I can't remember?

Dunno - but found this on Google:

Bird colour vision differs from that of humans in two main ways. First, birds can see ultraviolet light. It appears that UV vision is a general property of diurnal birds . . . As well as seeing very well in the ultraviolet, all bird species that have been studied have at least four types of cone. They have four, not three, dimensional colour vision. . . Bird colours are not simply refinements of the hues that humans, or bees, see, these are hues unknown to any trichromat.

(University of Bristol - School of Biological Sciences)

[Serial_Apologist]

Dull and murky but not so windy. Been watching collar doves in the garden, such an improvement on those grubby pigeons. Masses of baby starlings too, digging for grubs of craneflies I think.

Gosh - must come over some time. The only starlings I ever see these days are in the Sainsbury's car park!

[salymap]

Some welcome rain last night anyway. S-A, starlings? Is that a joke I can't get? They, and sparrows and pigeons are everywhere.

[marthe]

Yikes, Starlings..flying rats (or is that pigeons)? A wealthy New Yorker is supposed to have let loose a breeding pair of Starlings in Central Park sometime in the late C19...and now they're everywhere!! Meanwhile, chez m. we've got a lovely pair of Cardinals (the red bird) nesting in our Viburnum. Need to keep the cats away from them. As for weather, summer has come right at the start of our high season. The HHH (hazy, hot, humid) weather is here along with all the summer tourists who clog the streets but pump money into the local economy. A local theatre marquee is already announcing the dates for the Folk and Jazz festivals!

[Serial_Apologist]

Some welcome rain last night anyway. S-A, starlings? Is that a joke I can't get? They, and sparrows and pigeons are everywhere.

No joke saly. I'm too literal for that - I don't do irony. It's why I get on so well with Americans

Possibly the shortest thunderstorm on record took place at lunchtime here today. One big clap of thunder, less than a minute of rain.

S-A

[salymap]

Afternoon S-A, Well no starlings here today, very cold to me although some young things wearing sun dresses.

We've had a little rain, it's turning into one of those topsy-turvy years when you never know what to expect.

I should be getting on with a dozen extremely boring things like looking up guarantees/paper work etc for things that have gone wrong recently, phone, TV digi box, printer,etc. I always think of Poirot's cry, "I am too old". bye for now, saly