"Denis Allen" wrote in message
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In message , Dave
Cornwell writes
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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
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Fair point also ! I think the cold thing for some (me?) links back to the
variety added to everyday life by the 1962-3 winter and a few other snow
events.
" Don't suppose the excitement of a southerly or westerly gale has much
impact there either" - just a bit in 1987 !

Dave