Its blowing 50 knots here in Chichester Harbour this morning and there does
not appear to be any warnings.

Wight
Gale warning 1537 Mon 04 Dec

Southwesterly gale force 8 increasing severe gale force 9 later.

--
Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

Satellite images at:
www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/wwp.html
"Zanzibar" wrote in message
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Its blowing 50 knots here in Chichester Harbour this morning and there
does
not appear to be any warnings.

Still a general Force 6 - 7 here with gusts to 50mph (52 at Culdrose
recently) Force 8 on the headlands and currently Force 9 at Sevenstones
with a mean speed of 43 knots. Nice and bright though with sunny spells
and the temperature up around 13C.

Daffodils growing quickly now, might be some fields in flower by the
New Year, as there were in 2004.

Graham
Penzance

Wight
Gale warning 1537 Mon 04 Dec

Southwesterly gale force 8 increasing severe gale force 9 later.

--
Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

Satellite images at:
www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/wwp.html
"Zanzibar" wrote in message
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Its blowing 50 knots here in Chichester Harbour this morning and there
does
not appear to be any warnings.

"Graham Easterling" wrote in message
oups.com...

Daffodils growing quickly now, might be some fields in flower by the
New Year, as there were in 2004.


Hi,

Yes indeed the papers (well at least the Daily Mail) have gone to town with
unusual reports of flowers flowering etc. There have recently even been a
few sightings of Swallows, House Martins, even Ospreys all still about.
Definitely a similar pattern of Phenological sightings emerging just like
the 2003/2004 winter.

Regards

Tony

On 5 Dec 2006 04:13:31 -0800, Graham Easterling wrote:

Daffodils growing quickly now, might be some fields in flower by the
New Year, as there were in 2004.

DAFFODILS! Flippin eck. Nothing is growing up here at moment, drowning
possibly. 27mm of rain since midnight, ticking along nicely at 6mm/hr
again ATM. At least the wind has dropped, only F4 most of the day.

--
Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

In article , dated Tue, 5 Dec 2006,
Tony Powell wrote

"Graham Easterling" wrote in message
roups.com...

Daffodils growing quickly now, might be some fields in flower by the
New Year, as there were in 2004.


Hi,

Yes indeed the papers (well at least the Daily Mail) have gone to town with
unusual reports of flowers flowering etc. There have recently even been a
few sightings of Swallows, House Martins, even Ospreys all still about.
Definitely a similar pattern of Phenological sightings emerging just like
the 2003/2004 winter.


Just on the edge of Blackheath (Lewisham Hill), there are a couple of
horse chestnuts which having been attacked by the leaf moth, lost their
leaves really early, and have for the last few weeks been producing (on
one or two branches) new green leaves and even a candle or two.

--
Kate B

PS 'elvira' is spamtrapped - please reply to 'elviraspam' at cockaigne if you want
to reply personally

"Kate Brown" wrote in message
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Just on the edge of Blackheath (Lewisham Hill), there are a couple of
horse chestnuts which having been attacked by the leaf moth, lost their
leaves really early, and have for the last few weeks been producing (on
one or two branches) new green leaves and even a candle or two.


Blimey Kate, that is weird, isn't it. I am starting to fear a bit for this
planet of ours when things aren't natural. Of course that is of course what
Bill Oddie's Spring and Autumnwatch and the Phenology Network et al are
trying to prove when they show these sorts of dramatic results.

Here's to a mild winter and wet cold spring, maybe I'm being pessimistic but
sometimes the truth is out there, year after year.

Ramble over

Wintry Regards

Tony

Didnt see that mentioned on the forcast pages of met office website or
metcheck, or bbc or itv news.





"Bernard Burton" wrote in message
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Wight
Gale warning 1537 Mon 04 Dec

Southwesterly gale force 8 increasing severe gale force 9 later.

--
Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

Satellite images at:
www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/wwp.html
"Zanzibar" wrote in message
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Its blowing 50 knots here in Chichester Harbour this morning and there
does
not appear to be any warnings.