On Dec 30, 1:32*am, Denis Allen wrote:
In message , Dave
Cornwell writes------------------------
Trouble is Denis - you miss the point. Our hobby is the weather - collecting
weather if you like. Are you telling me as a stamp collector you would go
round ripping 1st class stamps off every envelope you came across or if you
were a bird watcher you travel the country to get more pictures of robins?
We tend to like rarities, some like cold spells, others heatwaves, others
tornados. We don't decry your hobbies if you have any so let us have ours..

Cheers, Dave

Fair comment Dave, point taken. *Whilst maybe not quite so keen as some
of you good people, *I take more than a passing interest in the weather
too. *It's just the obsession here with snow which I find amusing, most
of them too have not the slightest interest in extremes of hot weather,
which is to be cursed.

Must admit I dislike extreme cold but also there's much more of interest
in an average winter than mere extreme cold. * People here moan about
westerlies, 'boring' is the usual response. *Yet where I live in the
extremities of our islands' west coasts, Atlantic gales bring the most
exciting weather of the winter. *A 60 knot or so storm is fantastic,
massive seas, literally breath taking airflow, there's nothing boring
about it. Far more exciting to me than snow flakes drifting down,
followed by a granted beautiful landscape but then comes the dreary bit
being cut off for days. Still don't suppose that sort of thing happens
too much in Greater London or Kent etc.. *Don't suppose the excitement
of a southerly or westerly gale has much impact there either.

Cheers
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Denis

I find persistent easterlies both boring and nasty.
Persistent tropical maritime SW'lies can be boring, too, but are much
less nasty. Generally, however the weather is more active with a
westerly regime and there is more to keep the interest up. There is
no doubt that there is an overall assumption on this group that cold
weather, preferably with snow, is "good" or we wouldn't see words like
"exciting" and "promising" in its anticipation or "failure" and "damp
squib" if it fails to materialise. Considering the disruption to
transport that even a small amount of snow causes these days due to
the vast increase in road traffic plus the fact that most people like
to be warm rather than cold, it all seems a bit perverse to hope for
snow etc for anyone over the age of say 30. I have lived through a
number of cold winters (1947, though I don't remember it,
1963,1979,1985-7) and don't want another one. They are bloody
miserable. Hot weather is different. I can find it physically
uncomfortable but it can lend an exotic, almost sleazy feel to the
place which I rather like. Also, of course, it may go bang, and
nobody minds that, do they?

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.