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wyrdness
15-03-07, 03:25 PM
Don't put your winter kit away just yet. They're forecasting heavy snow (http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-1256034,00.html?f=rss) next week. And there was I thinking of changing back to summer gloves. I've only just cleaned off this winters coating of ACF-50. Looks like I'll have to reapply it.
amnesia
15-03-07, 03:34 PM
Winter?
Meh - thats what a garage is for...and a car.
I saw the forecast this morning too. Hope they are wrong...
kwak zzr
15-03-07, 03:38 PM
Snow!!!
Dave The Rave
15-03-07, 04:03 PM
gulp ... I have a trip to Leeds on Monday. Over the Pennine. Should I be affraid? Last two weeks I was using my summer gloves ... now snow forecast again?
wyrdness
15-03-07, 04:05 PM
gulp ... I have a trip to Leeds on Monday. Over the Pennine. Should I be affraid? Last two weeks I was using my summer gloves ... now snow forecast again?
The Met Office (http://meto.gov.uk) are issuing severe weather warnings for Sunday and Monday, so yes, I'd be afraid.
on yer bike
15-03-07, 04:17 PM
Ok, so they say there’s gonna be loads of snow... so I should expect **** loads of cold weather, extreme winds, torrential rain, and in between them there may be a few drops of snow in between, (sorry, am I sounding a bit cynical of all weather forcasts nowadays)
Ok, so they say there’s gonna be loads of snow... so I should expect **** loads of cold weather, extreme winds, torrential rain, and in between them there may be a few drops of snow in between, (sorry, am I sounding a bit cynical of all weather forcasts nowadays)
Yes, and theres a good chance of some liberal doses of sunshine amognst all that!
Tiger 55
15-03-07, 04:26 PM
Fantastic! Snowball fights, snowmen, sledging! I LOVE snow! My kids love snow.
Bring on the snow!!
Light snow showers predicted for Monday in this area. :( Want more snow.
Tsk. Global warming making it cold again:smt101
Tsk. Global warming making it cold again:smt101
Technically not. The cold is due to the Gulf Stream slowing down. The Gulf Stream is slowing down because of the salt content of the water at the Arctic ice cap.
Increase salt, and the cool water can't sink as fast ;) If it can't sink as fast, then the water that's being pushed into that area by the Stream has to slow down, because there's not many other places it can go.
Ironically though, apparently the world getting warmer is causing an increase in salt coming from the rivers in Russia. So the world getting warmer, is in effect, making the Gulf Stream slow down, which makes a handful of countries colder. Confused? I can keep going...
And yes, I'm bored at work :) 5mins until home time... time to start getting my gear on :)
Well Oiled
15-03-07, 05:56 PM
Technically not. The cold is due to the Gulf Stream slowing down. The Gulf Stream is slowing down because of the salt content of the water at the Arctic ice cap.
Increase salt, and the cool water can't sink as fast ;) If it can't sink as fast, then the water that's being pushed into that area by the Stream has to slow down, because there's not many other places it can go.
Ironically though, apparently the world getting warmer is causing an increase in salt coming from the rivers in Russia. So the world getting warmer, is in effect, making the Gulf Stream slow down, which makes a handful of countries colder. Confused? I can keep going...
And yes, I'm bored at work :) 5mins until home time... time to start getting my gear on :)
Eh? The melting of the ice is decreasing the salinity of the arctic ocean, not increasing it.
Biker Biggles
15-03-07, 06:06 PM
No no it's those pesky Russian rivers that dump salt into the ocean.You must have heard of the Siberian salt mines?Well the rivers are nicking the salt and wreaking havoc with the Gulf stream.Yes I know the Siberian rivers empty into the Pacific and the Gulf stream is in the Atlantic,but lets not allow common sense to interfere with a good story eh?:smt072
Eh? The melting of the ice is decreasing the salinity of the arctic ocean, not increasing it.
T'is all about balance see?
The programme about global warming scam on C4 not long ago mentionned salt from russia.
Another explaination of how the planet getting warmer causes Britain to get colder is here:
As the Gulf Stream waters flow northward water evaporates. This causes an increase in salinity because the same amount of salt is now held by less water. At the same time, the waters cool.
Increased salinity and decreased temperature both result in the water becoming denser. The denser water sinks and flows south. What does this have to do with global warming? The melting of Arctic ice is adding fresh water to the North Atlantic. This means that the waters at northern latitudes are becoming less dense and therefore, less prone to sinking. The result could be a decrease in the rate of flow of the currents. A reduced Gulf Stream flow would have less of a warming effect on Western Europe. There have been some predictions that the thermohaline circulation could shut down suddenly causing a temperature drop of about 8°C in Western Europe in a matter of a few decades.
So which has more of an effect? The sun heating the planet, or the wind/water cooling it. Balance. Ying/Yang & all that funky stuff :)
thumper21
15-03-07, 07:02 PM
Hope its gonna snow like last year, 6-8inches in Glasgow:smt023 This was the scene I woke up to
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a364/RScrash/12.jpg
Kinda took the fun out of it when my partner took unwell (severe gastro bug) and had to get him into an ambulance on a strecher! Pitcute the scene all that snow, freezing cold wind 2 paramedics and myself trying to push a strecher in that weather:o
Tiger 55
15-03-07, 07:36 PM
Hope its gonna snow like last year, 6-8inches in Glasgow:smt023 This was the scene I woke up to
Oh the Glasgow snow was great wasn't it? Mrs Tiger didn't quite wake up to this scene, but not far off it...
http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r161/tigerboz55/2006_0312_132625.jpg
Not worried we didn't get any last time it always seems to pass us by! Something to do with the warm air coming off the Humber.
thedonal
15-03-07, 08:53 PM
FECKING WEATHER!!!!
WHY CAN'T IT SNOW AT THE START OF THE MONTH WHEN I HAVE TRAIN MONEY OR WHEN I'M BROKE, DON'T HAVE A FECKING HUGE WORKLOAD AND THEREFORE BLAG THE DAY OFF??!! I'M GONNA BE WORKING UNTIL 8 AS IT IS ON MONDAY.
FEEEEEEEEEEEEECCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKK!
Hmmmph- bloody weather!
northwind
16-03-07, 12:18 PM
:rendeer: I love snow... Bring it on!
thedonal
16-03-07, 12:20 PM
It appears the snow has been postponed until Tuesday in sunny Surbighton.
I guess a meeting overran or something...
Pedrosa
16-03-07, 06:21 PM
Name of this thread show how hard can be learn inglish. Heavy snow? But how? Here in spain we have many lots of snow in mountains but pieces of snow always to me seem not much heavy at all? I very confusing.:cool:
thumper21
16-03-07, 07:17 PM
Name of this thread show how hard can be learn inglish. Heavy snow? But how? Here in spain we have many lots of snow in mountains but pieces of snow always to me seem not much heavy at all? I very confusing.:cool:
When we refer to heavy snow it just mean there is going to be alot snow falling:cool:
Pedrosa
16-03-07, 08:46 PM
Mr.Thumper you very kind for explain. Now I understand. But tell me, when rain how can it be it rain "cats and dogs"? This I am never see?:cool:
tigersaw
16-03-07, 10:14 PM
Mr.Thumper you very kind for explain. Now I understand. But tell me, when rain how can it be it rain "cats and dogs"? This I am never see?:cool:
It has to be really stair rodding it down to be raining cats and dogs
Hope its gonna snow like last year, 6-8inches in Glasgow:smt023 This was the scene I woke up to
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a364/RScrash/12.jpg
Kinda took the fun out of it when my partner took unwell (severe gastro bug) and had to get him into an ambulance on a strecher! Pitcute the scene all that snow, freezing cold wind 2 paramedics and myself trying to push a strecher in that weather:o
hey thats the view from the flats just off p/shaws rd isnt it?im just along from that ,thought that pic looked familiar :smt039
It has to be really stair rodding it down to be raining cats and dogs
In France they'd say 'il pleut comme vache qui p1sse':D
Mr.Thumper you very kind for explain. Now I understand. But tell me, when rain how can it be it rain "cats and dogs"? This I am never see?:cool:
you will know when this happens, as you may step in a poodle
:takeabow:
Tiger 55
17-03-07, 11:29 AM
you will know when this happens, as you may step in a poodle
:takeabow:
Never get any work done now, have to spend the rest of the day groaning.
Anyway Danny, this (http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/rain/rain_es.mp3) is what we mean.
Or as they say round Hovi5 way, it's raining old ladies and sticks!
The Basket
17-03-07, 12:02 PM
Heavy snow predicted for my area for Monday.
Minus temps too...and this is March!
Global warming has nothing to do with much but any strange weather pattern is proof of our future doom...
In the 70's it was the new ice age and now we are going to burn...
John 675
17-03-07, 12:22 PM
Snow!!!
i know its completly stupid, but will probably happen!! watch that down pipe lol,
John 675
17-03-07, 12:28 PM
Pitcute the scene all that snow, freezing cold wind 2 paramedics and myself trying to push a strecher in that weather:o
Sounds like something from a second world war film lol,
thumper21
17-03-07, 02:47 PM
hey thats the view from the flats just off p/shaws rd isnt it?im just along from that ,thought that pic looked familiar :smt039
Hello:smt039 , give a wave sometime when you go round the round a bout! lol;)
kcowgergmm
18-03-07, 12:32 AM
you guys suck i live to far south to get more than an inch or two of snow in VA we got more but here in TN it sucks in that respect but then there again snow and ice = no riding so it might actually be good but i do miss drifting at 50 mph on dads four wheeler.
you guys suck i live to far south to get more than an inch or two of snow in VA we got more but here in TN it sucks in that respect but then there again snow and ice = no riding so it might actually be good but i do miss drifting at 50 mph on dads four wheeler.
Hey relax, most of us will get a few flakes and then it'll melt and that will be that.
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