h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

And the Scandinavians will be getting an Arctic climate, not that the farthest Northern ones aren't already. It's just that the whole peninsula will likely be all but unliveable.

A new Ice Age could start almost overnight. We just don't know when.

And, No! That isn't Florida during a hurricane: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1786150.stm

http://www.scotland-photo-library.co.uk/photonet/bute/pages/1.htm

Palm trees grow in Swansea too, quite well albeit slowly. We had a date palm in our garden when I was a kid. They grow better on the Gower, thanks to the milder climate

Mudhooks. Perhaps Paul H will believe me now?


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Seeing is believing, unless one is delusional.

Speaking of The Gower, I used to camp on the beach Rhosili from time to time and watch idiots throw themselves off the cliffs (if you could call them that) strapped to hang gliders.

The top or bottom?!

They're calling for more snow here over the weekend.


This is already beginning to shape up like the winter of '93, only it's starting about a month early!

They've stopped doing that now. One too many an idiot ended up a tangled heap of broken bone and ripstop nylon. Or either hang-gliding is no longer fashionable.

Thursday/Friday Perthshire weather:

Cloudless skies, still air, 6 hours' of sunshine. Temps around 5C. Fantastic winter weather - particularly as I was a trip (for w**k ) to Montrose Basin, where the sun setting and throwing sillhouettes of swans and ducks on the water, was just magic

This morning, -1C and looking set to be another clear day, although the forecasters have a whopping great low pressure heading our way. Could it be Boston's of a few days ago? We're due heaps of rain, with snow just on the mountains...


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Rain

It rained all Wednesday night and drizzled off and on yesterday, here. Now the temp has dropped and the canal has a thin coating of ice. I noticed a few snowflakes, although the sky is clear and sunny.

I understand that the area between Barry's Bay and Georgian Bay is supposed to have a major snow tonight. It is a big snow belt running NW so SE from Northwestern Ontario. There is a large airmass coming down from the arctic, so after it snows, it is going to get very, very cold. http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/maps/Satrad.htm?Ontario&Rgoes&8 (Georgian Bay is the small lake off Lake Huron, visible on the satellite map directly west of Ottawa. Why it isn't considered one of the Great Lakes, I don't know, since it is large enough and less a bay than a lake.)

The Ottawa forecast: http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/cities/can/pages/CAON0512.htm?area=GM

Yup. Rain here too now

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It was cold in Barnsley today, with that horrible fine penetrating rain that doesn't seem like much but you're soaked to the skin after being out in it for 15 minutes.

'It's grim up north.'

Surely not in Santa's Workshop.

We've had that soaking drizzle all day today too, had it all the way back up I-35 on the way home. Stopped now though.

Absolutely pissing down here, roads awash with water.

Apres moi, le deluge! And before, and during....

Looking out of the window now, an unexpected blue sky and the sound of seagulls circling over the River Aire. What are they doing this far inland, I'd like to know? Lured by the German Christmas Market next to the Town Hall, no doubt...

When I was at school, seagulls were a common sight, either circling overhead or settling on the playing fields, and my third year juniors teacher once explained to us why we should get so many since we weren't on the coast, but I'm buggered if I can remember the reasons. Romford is about 30 miles inland I think... leastways, it's about 25 miles to Sarfend