On Saturday, January 19, 2013 8:43:58 AM UTC, Lindisfarne Poacher wrote:
Tudor Hughes wrote:

With this setup, think of the heat, the brilliant sunshine

(earlier) and the potential for violent thunderstorms. That's what

it's all about. We'll have to wait a few months, of course, but it

sustains one through this ghastly freezing muck.



Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.



And if you live on the North Sea coast, think of all the "fret" being blown

in

And if you are near the English Channel coast, think of all the flooding caused by torrential thunderstorms.