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Thunder and now rain - no lightning yet. Stair rods of water bouncing
off the greenhouse roofs, so I hope everything in the garden soaks it all up and has a lovely, refreshing drink. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
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Oh dear. Beautiful sunshine here.
Just been out shredding for the compost, no sign of rain on the radar either :-) Enjoy your rain Mike South East Coast of the Isle of Wight. "Sacha" wrote in message ... Thunder and now rain - no lightning yet. Stair rods of water bouncing off the greenhouse roofs, so I hope everything in the garden soaks it all up and has a lovely, refreshing drink. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
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On 27/08/2013 18:03, Sacha wrote:
Thunder and now rain - no lightning yet. Stair rods of water bouncing off the greenhouse roofs, so I hope everything in the garden soaks it all up and has a lovely, refreshing drink. No thanks Sacha, please keep it down there, I've spent almost 5 hours yesterday and a further 2 hours this afternoon watering and feeding the dahlias out the field, that seems to be a problem with pots and coir,. David from a pleasant, dry side of Swansea Bay. |
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On 2013-08-27 20:29:11 +0100, David Hill said:
On 27/08/2013 18:03, Sacha wrote: Thunder and now rain - no lightning yet. Stair rods of water bouncing off the greenhouse roofs, so I hope everything in the garden soaks it all up and has a lovely, refreshing drink. No thanks Sacha, please keep it down there, I've spent almost 5 hours yesterday and a further 2 hours this afternoon watering and feeding the dahlias out the field, that seems to be a problem with pots and coir,. David from a pleasant, dry side of Swansea Bay. Hope you get your wish, David. The very heavy rain stopped after about 10 minutes. Ray came in soaked just getting from house to car to house! Then we had a steady but fine rain for about an hour. Both were welcome in terms of freshening up the gardening and meaning there's less watering outside tomorrow on the Nursery. Matthew drove back from Plymouth this afternoon, before the storm reached us and said that, at one point, the windscreen wipers couldn't cope and it was almost as black as night. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
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On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:12:03 +0100, Sacha wrote:
The very heavy rain stopped after about 10 minutes. Ray came in soaked just getting from house to car to house! Daft bugger, really heavy ran hardly ever lasts that long in this country, 10 or 15 mins at the most. I just sit in the car and wait, enjoying being dry whilst watching it belt down. -- Cheers Dave. |
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On 2013-08-27 23:42:41 +0100, Dave Liquorice said:
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:12:03 +0100, Sacha wrote: The very heavy rain stopped after about 10 minutes. Ray came in soaked just getting from house to car to house! Daft bugger, really heavy ran hardly ever lasts that long in this country, 10 or 15 mins at the most. I just sit in the car and wait, enjoying being dry whilst watching it belt down. What can I say? His ickle wifey was waiting for him. ;-) -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
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Jake wrote: On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:29:11 +0100, David Hill wrote: On 27/08/2013 18:03, Sacha wrote: Thunder and now rain - no lightning yet. Stair rods of water bouncing off the greenhouse roofs, so I hope everything in the garden soaks it all up and has a lovely, refreshing drink. No thanks Sacha, please keep it down there, I've spent almost 5 hours yesterday and a further 2 hours this afternoon watering and feeding the dahlias out the field, that seems to be a problem with pots and coir,. David from a pleasant, dry side of Swansea Bay. I'd just like the Met Office to make up its mind. I know we can check forecasts by different "providers" and there are some which are more reliable but yesterday I saw "Dippy Derek" on BBC Wales saying you and I will be dry till at least the weekend, then a national BBC presenter saying you and I will get soaked tomorrow, the BBC weather site saying only you will be getting wet and the Met Office web site warning of rain for us both. That's four different forecasts from the same b***** place within 5 minutes! And attempting to match your desire is PRECISELY the reason that the reports keep changing! What most people will not admit (though most realise it) is that predicting the weather is intrinsically a statistical matter, and there is absolutely no possibility of giving definite, reliable forecasts. What is more, the unreliability is not purely in matters of degree, but in kind. Back in the days when they concentrated on describing the likely movements and properties of air masses, the presentation was better (though the data available were MUCH worse). At least the Met. Office's web page has improved by being less definite in giving the probability of precipitation, but a reliable forecast would need to be highly probabilistic and conditional. I would dearly love to see them provide such a page for the general public. Note that this isn't something that can be improved by better science, data, supercomputers or anything else - it's a basic property of the problem and is insoluble in an absolute sense. Pure mathematicians will know what I mean by that. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On 28/08/2013 11:01, Martin wrote:
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:03:10 +0100, Sacha wrote: Thunder and now rain - no lightning yet. Stair rods of water bouncing off the greenhouse roofs, so I hope everything in the garden soaks it all up and has a lovely, refreshing drink. No thunder, no rain, just fair weather cumulous and lost of sunshine. We have the same lost sunshine. |
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Martin wrote: Back in the days when they concentrated on describing the likely movements and properties of air masses, the presentation was better (though the data available were MUCH worse). At least the Met. Office's web page has improved by being less definite in giving the probability of precipitation, but a reliable forecast would need to be highly probabilistic and conditional. I would dearly love to see them provide such a page for the general public. The Dutch Met Office does but they try to cover the whole country with just one forecast. That's reasonable, given its size and lack of terrain, but they really should have some adjustments for the times and probabilities that a front is passing through or hovering there. From long ago, in the time before their one computer, a Ferranti Mercury, or any other computers were used by the Met Office for short term forecast, I remember that short term forecasts for specific locations like airfields were very accurate compared to general forecast for the area in which the airfield was located. Perhaps partly because forecasts were funded by the Air Ministry in those days and the forecasters had vast experience of forecasting for airfields. Sort of. It was because Old Fred had many decades of experience for that particular location, and used his subconscious. The general forecasts were based on the science, which was basic, and the data, which was almost non-existent. They were little better than crude guesswork. My first job, in 1966, was physically within the Met. Office, and I was programming a Mercury. It was completely inadequate for anything as tricky as a forecast, though that was the sort of programming I was trying to do. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On 2013-08-28 09:37:54 +0100, Jake said:
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:29:11 +0100, David Hill wrote: On 27/08/2013 18:03, Sacha wrote: Thunder and now rain - no lightning yet. Stair rods of water bouncing off the greenhouse roofs, so I hope everything in the garden soaks it all up and has a lovely, refreshing drink. No thanks Sacha, please keep it down there, I've spent almost 5 hours yesterday and a further 2 hours this afternoon watering and feeding the dahlias out the field, that seems to be a problem with pots and coir,. David from a pleasant, dry side of Swansea Bay. I'd just like the Met Office to make up its mind. I know we can check forecasts by different "providers" and there are some which are more reliable but yesterday I saw "Dippy Derek" on BBC Wales saying you and I will be dry till at least the weekend, then a national BBC presenter saying you and I will get soaked tomorrow, the BBC weather site saying only you will be getting wet and the Met Office web site warning of rain for us both. That's four different forecasts from the same b***** place within 5 minutes! Shall I 'have a word' next time I go to Exeter? ;-) I agree it's infuriating and the same applies to us and proably everywhere else! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
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On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:00:47 +0100, Sacha wrote:
The very heavy rain stopped after about 10 minutes. Ray came in soaked just getting from house to car to house! Daft bugger, really heavy ran hardly ever lasts that long in this country, 10 or 15 mins at the most. I just sit in the car and wait, enjoying being dry whilst watching it belt down. What can I say? His ickle wifey was waiting for him. ;-) I see, say no more. Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more. -- Cheers Dave. |
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On 28/08/2013 14:47, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:00:47 +0100, Sacha wrote: The very heavy rain stopped after about 10 minutes. Ray came in soaked just getting from house to car to house! Daft bugger, really heavy ran hardly ever lasts that long in this country, 10 or 15 mins at the most. I just sit in the car and wait, enjoying being dry whilst watching it belt down. What can I say? His ickle wifey was waiting for him. ;-) I see, say no more. Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more. But why did you send Ray out to the car in the first place? |
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On 2013-08-28 17:26:07 +0100, David Hill said:
On 28/08/2013 14:47, Dave Liquorice wrote: On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:00:47 +0100, Sacha wrote: The very heavy rain stopped after about 10 minutes. Ray came in soaked just getting from house to car to house! Daft bugger, really heavy ran hardly ever lasts that long in this country, 10 or 15 mins at the most. I just sit in the car and wait, enjoying being dry whilst watching it belt down. What can I say? His ickle wifey was waiting for him. ;-) I see, say no more. Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more. But why did you send Ray out to the car in the first place? Ye gods - it's the Grand Inqusitor Show here! ;-) He'd gone to see a member of the family so when it was time to come home he made a dash for the car and got soaked there at *that* house and this was added to by the few paces from his car to our front door here at *this* house. Whew! I hope I've now established I don't make him go outside and stand in the rain just because it's fun! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
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"Sacha" wrote in message ... On 2013-08-28 17:26:07 +0100, David Hill said: On 28/08/2013 14:47, Dave Liquorice wrote: On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:00:47 +0100, Sacha wrote: The very heavy rain stopped after about 10 minutes. Ray came in soaked just getting from house to car to house! Daft bugger, really heavy ran hardly ever lasts that long in this country, 10 or 15 mins at the most. I just sit in the car and wait, enjoying being dry whilst watching it belt down. What can I say? His ickle wifey was waiting for him. ;-) I see, say no more. Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more. But why did you send Ray out to the car in the first place? Ye gods - it's the Grand Inqusitor Show here! ;-) He'd gone to see a member of the family so when it was time to come home he made a dash for the car and got soaked there at *that* house and this was added to by the few paces from his car to our front door here at *this* house. Whew! I hope I've now established I don't make him go outside and stand in the rain just because it's fun! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
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On 28/08/2013 18:48, Sacha wrote:
On 2013-08-28 17:26:07 +0100, David Hill said: On 28/08/2013 14:47, Dave Liquorice wrote: On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:00:47 +0100, Sacha wrote: The very heavy rain stopped after about 10 minutes. Ray came in soaked just getting from house to car to house! Daft bugger, really heavy ran hardly ever lasts that long in this country, 10 or 15 mins at the most. I just sit in the car and wait, enjoying being dry whilst watching it belt down. What can I say? His ickle wifey was waiting for him. ;-) I see, say no more. Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more. But why did you send Ray out to the car in the first place? Ye gods - it's the Grand Inqusitor Show here! ;-) He'd gone to see a member of the family so when it was time to come home he made a dash for the car and got soaked there at *that* house and this was added to by the few paces from his car to our front door here at *this* house. Whew! I hope I've now established I don't make him go outside and stand in the rain just because it's fun! Well we know what some wifes are like, "Oh could you just pop out and get so and so from the car I forgot it", and we do wory about Ray, |
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