Weather Observations

[Johnny Kieran]

I've always thought that JS. As a kid at school we were told about the different ages the earth has gone through over the last few thousand years. The older I get, the less a few thousand years seems a long time. They told us we could walk to France at one time, or the UK was a block of ice once.
Then I was talking to some guy's drilling at the Ford factory in Dagenham some years back. They showed me some things they had taken as samples while drilling, and one was a sharks tooth. They said that at one time the Thames was a part of a tropical sea, and contained remains, deep down under the land, of the animals of that age. They reckoned that the whole London area was once a seabed, another time, it was frozen solid with ice.
So yes, the times they are a changing.

[happy daze john in oz]

Ireland was at one time tropical, it is believed that is why there is so much Peat there.

But yes the sun is the source of our very existence, without it we are frozen mutton.
But we should make use of what we can, I do my bit with 14 solar panels on the roof, cuts the power bill way down.

[James Curry]

Nice scenario James, but, how did all them satellites mis the growing ice on Antarctica?
Vic

They didn't Vic well documented and recorded, Thing is Vic the largest Ice Berg ever recorded is on the move towards South Georgia A23a.
It was ground on the sea bed since 1986. So why has it started to move again?

[Des Jenkins]

Hi John,
Expecting thousands through Cooma on the weekend, heavy snow fall on the alpine Ski fields, wont be able to cross the road this weekend so going up the club for dinner shortly to make sure we can get there
My wife is hoping they start this afternoon so she will have to stay there untill Monday LoL
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

Kings birthday week end here in Vic Des, so the snow fields will be busy as there has been a good dump on our ski region.

But weather apart from that about normal for time of year.
Getting some much needed rain at last.

[Johnny Kieran]

I don't think we should forget how we can pollute the world though. I never forget the London smog when I was younger, that was a real game changer. So yes, we can have an effect on life as we know it.

[happy daze john in oz]

Yes the great yellow London smogs of the 60's and 60's.
A time to find where your nose was because that is about as far as you could see in it.