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Today\'s gale

AND NOW THE SHIPPING FORECAST ISSUED BY THE MET OFFICE, ON BEHALF OF THE MARITIME AND COASTGUARD AGENCY, AT 0505 ON THURSDAY 18 JANUARY 2007
THERE ARE WARNINGS OF GALES IN ALL AREAS EXCEPT TRAFALGAR

THE GENERAL SYNOPSIS AT MIDNIGHT VIGOROUS ATLANTIC LOW 100 MILES WEST OF SHANNON 967 MOVING VERY RAPIDLY EAST EXPECTED EASTERN EUROPE 958 BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. LOW NORTH UTSIRE 970 EXPECTED NORTHEAST EUROPE 962 BY SAME TIME

Currently blowing like hell here in Cardiff, trees down, one of the Severn birdges closed, A48 shut, even my Disco was moved by a gust!
 
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Very windy down here in Southampton, gusts of 60kts recorded on various weather stations, F9 gusting 10, and our xmas tree blew over (outside, in a pot /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif ), but thankfully not the heavy rain of yesterday morning. That looks like it's passing over you in South Wales on the rainfall radar.
 
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Extremely heavy rain here, visibility down to 20 metres at times, very strong winds pushing vehicles about, vast sheets of standing water on the roads...actually it's deepish running water in some places!
 
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We have a bit of erm... sleet up here at the moment....whew!

Donald
 
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looks like the falling air pressure has levelled off, so not likely to blow much harder I would think. (Reserve the right to retract that).
 
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Crossing over the Tipnor Bridge on the motorway leading into Portsmouth, I spotted some poor mobo washed ashore, 36 foot or so, banging against concrete embankment. I suspect there will be many more similar instances.
 
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Global warming.... what a load of tosh... no influence on the weather whatsoever (15deg C, 18 Jan, gusts 90mph).....
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wait until next week ....... mr frost is coming /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

anyway - one theory is we will become a mediterranean climate , another an Arctic climate (due to the north atlantic drift disappearing)

take your choice - one has to be totally wrong /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
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...one theory is we will become a mediterranean climate , another an Arctic climate...

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Ah but, the last time we enjoyed Meditteranean weather was just before a ice age gate crashed the barbecue! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

So maybe both predictions are correct, just not both in our life times. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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Chimet reporting max gusts around 60 knots earlier this morning, which is the same conditions swmbo and I experienced back in Sept 02 coming in from the Solent. Even though we'd furled the genoa, the wind managed to get in and rip it apart!

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wait until next week ....... mr frost is coming /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

anyway - one theory is we will become a mediterranean climate , another an Arctic climate (due to the north atlantic drift disappearing)

take your choice - one has to be totally wrong /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[/ QUOTE ]Well, the way I am beginning to think is that I have a short span on this earth, and, philosophically speaking, it can make no difference to me when I am dead. In addition, we, humankind, have only been around for a blink in the timescale of the earth, and if we screw things up for ourselves, so what? nature will move readjust, new species will emerge... and if I am wrong, and we screw up so much that we blow the atmosphere away and there is no more Mother Nature... somewhere else in the universe..... /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
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mmmmm

however I dont subscribe to the theory that man is effecting the normal cyclical warming/cooling the earth has been experiencing long before records began /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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Currently blowing like hell here in Cardiff,

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Just seen footage of our boat on its swinging mooring on the BBCwales news. All OK thankfully. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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mmmmm

however I dont subscribe to the theory that man is effecting the normal cyclical warming/cooling the earth has been experiencing long before records began /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[/ QUOTE ]But you must be aware that more scientific people subscribe than don't? Without trying to explore chapter and verse, I belong to the utterly convinced camp, but am slowly coming round to "so what?" /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
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