Wet seaweed competition...

Another boring friday in the office.....

After the year we've had to date (UK), with record breaking temperatures,
typhoons in Birmingham and Derby and now the warmest September for 350
years, anyone care to predict what the coming skiing season holds for the
alps?

2 weeks ago, I heard a weather man say it would be a very mild autumn and
winter. Last night, I heard a weather man say it would be a very cold
winter. Hmm... so much for expensive computer modelling. Any thoughts or
wisdom from those living in the hills? And how badly have the glaciers
retreated this summer?

John

At this distance out, this is as good a forecast (if you call it good!)
as you're likely to get:

http://www.metoffice.com/research/se...nao/index.html

Adrian
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Adrian Shaw ais@
Adran Cyfrifiadureg, Prifysgol Cymru, aber.
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Cymru ac.
http://users.aber.ac.uk/ais/weather/ uk

In message , Adrian D. Shaw
writes
At this distance out, this is as good a forecast (if you call it good!)
as you're likely to get:

http://www.metoffice.com/research/se...nao/index.html


No no no, the rowan trees have a bumper crop of fluorescent berries this
year. This can only mean a "hard" winter is coming. What does the stork
hotline say?
--
Devs
"Punchdown Pete the old Kroner"

Felly sgrifennodd Devs :
No no no, the rowan trees have a bumper crop of fluorescent berries this
year. This can only mean a "hard" winter is coming. What does the stork
hotline say?

Well let's hope that the rowan trees know more than the met office does
then! (I've noticed that too, btw)

There was something recently from the UK met office suggesting that it
might not be so bad, but I couldn't find it when I posted the above.
I'll post the link if I ever do find it.

Adrian
--
Adrian Shaw ais@
Adran Cyfrifiadureg, Prifysgol Cymru, aber.
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Cymru ac.
http://users.aber.ac.uk/ais/weather/ uk

Felly sgrifennodd Adrian D. Shaw :
There was something recently from the UK met office suggesting that it
might not be so bad, but I couldn't find it when I posted the above.
I'll post the link if I ever do find it.

Found it!

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...6_7/index.html
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporat...r20060921.html

That gives much more hope than the previous one I posted. It was updated
by the Met Office on 21st September. Maybe they've been watching the
rowan trees.

Adrian
--
Adrian Shaw ais@
Adran Cyfrifiadureg, Prifysgol Cymru, aber.
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Cymru ac.
http://users.aber.ac.uk/ais/weather/ uk

Interesting, and as you say, a little more hopeful. There are a lot of
berries on the trees down here in the south west too....has anyone ever
studied the correlation with weather patterns btw? ;-)

"Adrian D. Shaw" wrote in message
...
Felly sgrifennodd Adrian D. Shaw :
There was something recently from the UK met office suggesting that it
might not be so bad, but I couldn't find it when I posted the above.
I'll post the link if I ever do find it.

Found it!

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...6_7/index.html
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporat...r20060921.html

That gives much more hope than the previous one I posted. It was updated
by the Met Office on 21st September. Maybe they've been watching the
rowan trees.

Adrian
--
Adrian Shaw ais@
Adran Cyfrifiadureg, Prifysgol Cymru, aber.
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Cymru ac.
http://users.aber.ac.uk/ais/weather/ uk

In message , John
Ricketts writes

Interesting, and as you say, a little more hopeful. There are a lot of
berries on the trees down here in the south west too....has anyone ever
studied the correlation with weather patterns btw? ;-)


Yes. They concluded that plants can't foresee the weather.

--
Sue ]*(

So... studying the berries works as well as the BBC weathermen then? ;-)

"MadCow" wrote in message
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In message , John
Ricketts writes

Interesting, and as you say, a little more hopeful. There are a lot of
berries on the trees down here in the south west too....has anyone ever
studied the correlation with weather patterns btw? ;-)


Yes. They concluded that plants can't foresee the weather.

--
Sue ]*(