Softly Softly weather forecasting smooth talking b***a**s

[webcraft]

Anyone noticed how the weather forecast suddently only wants to predict the next 36 hours, the constant harping on about how calm and wonderful Thursday is with a vague hint that the first half of Friday might be OK?

Check out the Inshore Forecast outlook:

Outlook for all UK Inshore Waters for following 3 days:
Strong or gale force southwest winds affecting the northern half of the British Isles through Sunday, with these winds extending further south on Monday as severe gales arrive around western Scotland. The windy weather continuing through Tuesday.

Whoopee - more gales with severe gales to look forward to for us lucky Scots . . . presumably the next hurricane is just around the corner?

- Nick

 

[Shakey]

Can you tell me what sweary word b***a**s is?

Or is this a local dialect variation of *oll*ck*?

 

[paulrossall]

Which planet are you from Shakey?
*ast*rd* are the missing letters you cannot work out.

 

[Shakey]

Look, I was never very good at doing crosswords, OK? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[webcraft]

Told you so . . .

Gales here tonight, inshore forecast outlook predicting storm force winds for Tuesday.

A huge scary looking low pressure system popped onto the TV screen for a second or two on tonight's BBC forecast, but was not mentioned - they just talked about the reainfall and temperatures.

On another note, those of you on the Horizon thread who don't believe global warming is happening are really remarkably unobservant . . . yes, there were exceptional years in the past, but now every year sets new records.

Also - the rise in CO2 IS unprecedented - it has never happened before in the history of the planet. So the tired old stories about it being due to global wobble or natural fluctuations are just self-delusion. If this was natural variation then periods of rapid rise in CO2 would be observed in the fossil record - but they ain't, and CO2 levels are now 1.5 times their previous pre-industrial levels.

Sadly it is our immense capacity for self-delusion that will lead to runaway climate change. Had a look at Venus lately? A lot of people think it used to have an atmosphere and surface conditions similar to Earth.

- Nick