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Things that make you go oooh thread....
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Oooh!
Minus seven this morning. I've just seen my nuts rolling down the road.
Minus seven this morning. I've just seen my nuts rolling down the road.
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Tedx wrote:Oooh!
Minus seven this morning. I've just seen my nuts rolling down the road.
So mild for this season and latitude!
Though if climate change buggers up the gulf stream, the huge difference between our islands and Newfoundland might no longer be sustained.
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UncleEbenezer wrote:Tedx wrote:Oooh!
Minus seven this morning. I've just seen my nuts rolling down the road.
So mild for this season and latitude!
Though if climate change buggers up the gulf stream, the huge difference between our islands and Newfoundland might no longer be sustained.
Yeah, you're absolutely right. I keep an eye on the Calgary weather for comparison. Calgary is actually a few degree further south and its forecast to be minus 28 (feels like minus 37).
God bless the North Atlantic Drift.
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Tedx wrote:UncleEbenezer wrote:So mild for this season and latitude!
Though if climate change buggers up the gulf stream, the huge difference between our islands and Newfoundland might no longer be sustained.
Yeah, you're absolutely right. I keep an eye on the Calgary weather for comparison. Calgary is actually a few degree further south and its forecast to be minus 28 (feels like minus 37).
God bless the North Atlantic Drift.
The reference point in school was always that Glasgow and Moscow are pretty much on the same latitude (or Moscow and Moscow if you're in that bit of Ayreshire)
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Tedx wrote:UncleEbenezer wrote:So mild for this season and latitude!
Though if climate change buggers up the gulf stream, the huge difference between our islands and Newfoundland might no longer be sustained.
Yeah, you're absolutely right. I keep an eye on the Calgary weather for comparison. Calgary is actually a few degree further south and its forecast to be minus 28 (feels like minus 37).
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Erm, Calgary is mid-continent. We'll still have the maritime influence! Hence the Newfoundland comparison. Or Kamchatka, also at a similar latitude.
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UncleEbenezer wrote:Tedx wrote:
Yeah, you're absolutely right. I keep an eye on the Calgary weather for comparison. Calgary is actually a few degree further south and its forecast to be minus 28 (feels like minus 37).
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Erm, Calgary is mid-continent. We'll still have the maritime influence! Hence the Newfoundland comparison. Or Kamchatka, also at a similar latitude.
Yeah I know where Calgary is. it was just an example!
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Dad worked in a job where he was regularly given bottles of whisky cos there's a local bonded warehouse where clients worked
- this gifting appears to continue despite him being retired 17 years
I've not been in this house for 7 years and there must be over 60 bottles of the stuff piled in the corner of the dining room
I'm the words of Sesame St... today was brought to you by the letters LAGG and the numbers 46%
- this gifting appears to continue despite him being retired 17 years
I've not been in this house for 7 years and there must be over 60 bottles of the stuff piled in the corner of the dining room
I'm the words of Sesame St... today was brought to you by the letters LAGG and the numbers 46%
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Holy toot it's cauld outside. It was colder in the last chilly snap, but no wind then. Today it's from the north and the wind cuts right through ya - it's no place for the old. +3 according to the Met office....feels like minus 3. Brrrr.
https://map.worldweatheronline.com/temp ... 2500000004
https://map.worldweatheronline.com/temp ... 2500000004
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Chief uses ‘magic nose’ to sniff out £15,000 of cannabis in Inverness raid
The spaniel has become the top dog after he tracked down the drugs in the Highland Capital.
I think the mutt might enjoy sniffing out the drugs a bit too much
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/ne ... olice-dog/
The spaniel has become the top dog after he tracked down the drugs in the Highland Capital.
I think the mutt might enjoy sniffing out the drugs a bit too much
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/ne ... olice-dog/
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You think it's cold in Scotland Tedx? Spoke to my sister in Calgary 4pm her time yesterday - it was minus 35C plus windchill!! Even colder than the minus 28C at midday I remember from 1998 when I lived there.
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6Tricia wrote:You think it's cold in Scotland Tedx? Spoke to my sister in Calgary 4pm her time yesterday - it was minus 35C plus windchill!! Even colder than the minus 28C at midday I remember from 1998 when I lived there.
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I was there for a short time in the late 80s. When it gets that cold the ice on the road isn't so slippery. But you do have to watchout for your engine oil freezing. Mind you it's balmy there compared to Yellowknife. https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/6185377
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6Tricia wrote:You think it's cold in Scotland Tedx? Spoke to my sister in Calgary 4pm her time yesterday - it was minus 35C plus windchill!! Even colder than the minus 28C at midday I remember from 1998 when I lived there.
Tricia
Ebeneezer says I'm not allowed to mention Calgary because it's inland....
But yes, I have Calgary on my metoffice app and it's a chilly old place. Feels like minus 35? Wow. And Calgary is further south than I am. I also follow Fearnan, by Loch Tay in Perthshire. I stayed there a couple of years ago....and it was cold (being in a glen rightbnextvto the water). Feels like minus 22 there tomorrow apparently.
The missus has a pal in Saskatchewan, Canada. Near the Arctic, wide open plains stretching for miles and miles. Just bitterly cold.
God bless the North Atlantic drift
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Walking around the side of my house into the northerly airflow wearing only my dressing gown.
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Leothebear wrote:I was there for a short time in the late 80s. When it gets that cold the ice on the road isn't so slippery.
Doesn't have to get seriously cold for that to happen. It happens in a colder winter here in Blighty. Even here in the southwest where the Atlantic gives us the mildest winters in Blighty, it happened when we had some colder weather (and real snow) those two winters around 2010/11.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... s-68119951
19.6 degrees over on the west coast. 15 degrees here in the North East. Something's Not right.
19.6 degrees over on the west coast. 15 degrees here in the North East. Something's Not right.
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Tedx wrote:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-68119951
19.6 degrees over on the west coast. 15 degrees here in the North East. Something's Not right.
Maybe there is molten lava bubbling up along the great glen fault
alternatively the boring old foehn effect will be rolled out to explain the temperature rise.
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scotia wrote:Tedx wrote:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-68119951
19.6 degrees over on the west coast. 15 degrees here in the North East. Something's Not right.
Maybe there is molten lava bubbling up along the great glen fault
alternatively the boring old foehn effect will be rolled out to explain the temperature rise.
Yes, the Foehn effect. It's still the warmest UK January temperature ever. By almost a degree.
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Chemmy Alcott: Climate change means skiing may not be around for my sons
So because the slopes are disappearing because of climate change, it means that little Cooper and Locki won't get the chance to jet over to Chamonix for skiing breaks?
Ever wonder why that might be?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-sports/68151487
So because the slopes are disappearing because of climate change, it means that little Cooper and Locki won't get the chance to jet over to Chamonix for skiing breaks?
Ever wonder why that might be?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-sports/68151487
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I definitely went "Oooh!" this morning.
My wife made an online application to renew her driving licence late on wednesday evening. We expected a delay since it's her first over-70 application.
10am this morning, the replacement was delivered by the postie. Just 60 hours after the application.
What the hell is going on? I thought Royal Mail were having big problems, and it's common to moan about the DVLA.
--kiloran
My wife made an online application to renew her driving licence late on wednesday evening. We expected a delay since it's her first over-70 application.
10am this morning, the replacement was delivered by the postie. Just 60 hours after the application.
What the hell is going on? I thought Royal Mail were having big problems, and it's common to moan about the DVLA.
--kiloran
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Inert nuclear missile found in US man's garage
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68189568
He got into a bit of trouble when he tried to donate it to a US museum
It was an air launched Douglas Genie anti-aircraft missile which could potentially have a 1.5kT nuclear warhead.
The one in the garage had no warhead and no fuel
It was called a Ding-Dong when armed, and the training version which only emitted a puff of smoke was called Ting-a-Ling - or Dum-Dum by the Canadians who also used it.
Only one live Ding-Dong was ever test fired
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