There were storms in Chiswick. My PC power supply stopped working because of a transient overvoltage caused by lightning. the outlook is still uncertain. For June, the weather is pretty grim. Where’s global warming when you need it? As a pilot, I collect weather websites and here are a few useful ones for weatherholics like me.
- UK Met Office: www.meto.gov.uk
- Meteo France: www.meteo.fr
- KNMI (Dutch met office): www.knmi.nl
- Meteo Suisse: http://www.meteosuisse.admin.ch
- The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. I went there once – it’s a little bit of Europe just outside Reading and they have some really cool supercomputers.
- US NOAA’s National Weather Service worldwide METARs and TAFs: http://adds.aviationweather.gov/metars/index.php (Type EGLL for Heathrow weather and EGWU for Northolt – the closest station to where I live.)
- Plus a couple of pilot specific sites: AvBrief (which I use a lot), Avbrief for PDAs and phones, and the USAFE European weather forecasts.
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This is the very reason they changed the phrase “global warming” to “climate change”, it’s not simply a euphemism for essentially the same thing a la “Windscale to Sellafield”, it reflects the very uncertainty about local weather patterns that climate change could bring. Of course, it’s all b*ll*cks anyway, climate change is just another excuse to slap us with higher taxes and enable the Green Junta to undertake a political coup d’etat on a global scale.
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It would appear now that there has been global cooling the past decade, and a lot of the numbers have been fudged on the warming front.
Bill, I think the evidence of climate change outweighs the evidence against it by a considerable margin. I’m not convinced any numbers have been ‘fudged’ but science doesn’t offer certainties only probabilities and the constant search for new evidence and new hypotheses to explain it. My experience is that climate nay-sayers (like creationists and flat-Earthers) tend not to be open to either. But I guess honorable people may disagree agreeably! And I’m always grateful to see new faces and people commenting on my blog. Cheers, Matthew