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Post by gridley on May 5, 2009 14:46:37 GMT
well following on, but not wishing to spoil the thread...i pass the cemetery where Karl marx is buried everyday on the way to work....ironic it is situated now in the highest value property area in north london..$USA1m fora 3 bedroom House are considered low Ah, there's a source of green power! Attach a turbine to Marx's body - it should be spinning quite fast now.
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Post by byz on May 5, 2009 16:17:36 GMT
Temperatures in the UK getting colder after a promising start to May Hopefully this won't last, however the last two years the same thing has happened and then we've had below average summers due to the jetstream heading south. Worst of all the the Met Office long term forecast is for a warmer than average and over the last few years the long term forecast has been the opposite of what has occurred (they predicted that this winter was going to be warmer than normal!). Oh well lets hope they are right this time I'd like some prolonged sunshine this summer ;D
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Post by Belushi TD on May 5, 2009 22:57:45 GMT
Its finally nice here for the first time in a year and a half or more. We've had temps in the 60's and 70's for a week! WHOO HOOO!!!
Three or four days in a row, it was warmer than it was for ALL OF 2008!
It was very nice for Anchorage. Lots of melting in the interior also. SOme pretty hefty ice jams too.
Should be interesting to see if it keeps up. Wouldn't mind my last summer in Alaska to be a nice one.
Belushi TD
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Post by heatsink on May 6, 2009 2:52:14 GMT
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Post by byz on May 12, 2009 7:35:27 GMT
Easterly winds turning up in the UK (high pressure to the north, low to the south) so we are getting a cold flow of air. Average temperatures are beginning to fall I would like a good growing season not the gloom that we've had over the last two years!
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Post by newbie1 on May 13, 2009 6:33:18 GMT
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Post by byz on May 17, 2009 11:51:48 GMT
The cooler changeable weather continues. It's more like April than May, plus down here in the southeast we've had a couple of cold nights. Hope the weather improves, but it doesn't look like it
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Post by magellan on May 17, 2009 19:22:53 GMT
The cooler changeable weather continues. It's more like April than May, plus down here in the southeast we've had a couple of cold nights. Hope the weather improves, but it doesn't look like it This is the coldest wettest Spring in Michigan I and many others, including farmers, can recall for decades, some say 30 years. It looks like by mid-week it may warm up......we certainly hope it does. Tonight there is a wide spread freeze warning. Our yard is still like a sponge, and the drive is full of ruts.
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Post by sigurdur on May 18, 2009 2:32:02 GMT
In ND, where I live I have not turned a wheel in the field as of yet. It does look like I may be able to start tomorrow. Let's see, that is 30 days later than the long term average for here.
Freezing temps tomorrow night.....again. Hopefully the last freeze/frost of the spring as we are now past the "normal" last freeze/frost date.
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Post by nautonnier on May 18, 2009 18:17:27 GMT
In ND, where I live I have not turned a wheel in the field as of yet. It does look like I may be able to start tomorrow. Let's see, that is 30 days later than the long term average for here. Freezing temps tomorrow night.....again. Hopefully the last freeze/frost of the spring as we are now past the "normal" last freeze/frost date. Well from what the weather map is saying now - you'll go from freeze to 80F overnight
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Post by gettingchilly on May 18, 2009 19:20:40 GMT
"It's more like April than May"
Same here in the UK, last couple of years this could have been Feb/March let alone April. Even cold this morning, had to wear my "lake district fleece" to walk the dog. But we are still above the xxx year average that shows we are warming at 0.xx degrees per year even though we are cooling! We have not reversed the mainstream "Guardian reader (ha ha)" consensus.
Global warming evangelist's are still promoting the Contrived, Ridiculous, Algorithmic, Polemic, or C.R.A.P. for the less informed.
Installing extra heating and insulation right now.
Brrrr.
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Post by socold on May 19, 2009 1:07:01 GMT
Central England Temperature shows some of the last few days have been below average so disactivate your conspiracy theory modules.
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Post by FineWino on May 19, 2009 14:01:55 GMT
Central England Temperature shows some of the last few days have been below average so disactivate your conspiracy theory modules. "disactivate"? Is that a new word? I cannot find it in the dictionary.
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Post by woodstove on May 19, 2009 14:59:52 GMT
000 SXUS72 KILM 191215 RERILM
RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 813 AM EST TUE MAY 19 2009
...RECORD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE SET AT WILMINGTON NC...
A RECORD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 58 DEGREES WAS SET IN WILMINGTON NC YESTERDAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 64 DEGREES SET IN 1895.
Ahhh, spring...
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Post by astrodragon on May 21, 2009 10:33:41 GMT
Central England Temperature shows some of the last few days have been below average so disactivate your conspiracy theory modules. Thats a pretty graph, which on the face of it seems to show that its been a reasonable year, March-April nice and warm, and so on... As usual the devil is in the data sets.... Note the mean line is indeed pretty much central to the high/low trends. OK, shows the data looks reasonable. BUT... the trend lines are from around the 18th century..(nice long data range!!) Which means that the central mean line includes the tag end of the Little Ice Age. So we'd expect the current means to be quite a bit higher than the total measured period. But, this year isnt - cooler in Jan/Feb, quite nice March/April, now coller again. Which basically says that this year is a quite typical year, based on a mean that includes much colder periods. Certainly doesn't imply this year is warm. I'd love to see a number of these data graphs, showing the data period in say 60-year chunks (thus averaging out sea cycles). I think it would be interesting....
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