Forecast for Britain = mists.

Forecast for either southern N Atlantic or Australian NW Territory =
cyclone(s)

Could be an early start for the hurricane season.

(Or not as the case may be.)

Weatherlawyer wrote:

Forecast for Britain = mists.

Forecast for either southern N Atlantic or Australian NW Territory =
cyclone(s)

Could be an early start for the hurricane season.

There is nothng showing up on the Hawaiian site nor Eric Hablich's yet.
The Wisconsin site is interesting if only that the satellite watching
Monica develop, stalled again:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/comp/cmoll/cmoll.html

It does seem a precursor to these thing IMO. I have been told that it
isn't. Maybe it's those HAARPies?

Richard Dixon wrote:

"Weatherlawyer" wrote in
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Forecast for either southern N Atlantic or Australian NW Territory =
cyclone(s)

Do you mean tropical cyclones are forecast in the next week for Atlantic
basin or just over the summer? I think the latter is standard, as for the
former, where's the incipient system you talk about?

No.

I am just referring to an anomally that turned up last year during the
North Atlantic hurricane season. Coastal Western/Northern Europe seemed
to get frosts or fogs when they occurred. Or visa versa. Or rather:
Due to them having the same root cause.

I am guessing that fog in China has a similar anomally seen with
Australian cyclones. (On the Queensland side). It has to be a guess
since China is run by secretive criminals that make George Bush's
regime seem like a pack of monkeys.

(What am I talking about, George Bush's regime is a pack of monkeys.)


A litle off the present topic:
I seem to have a high tech version of the Victorian(?) weather glass.
One of my double glazing units has failed, giving a variety of optical
effects that on one occasion of fine weather cleared up entirely.

Now all I need to do is find out how to read it.

A weather glass is a mixture of camphor, water and alcohol. The state
of the suspension indicates the type of weather, which in Britain,
broadly speaking, means Scandinavian High, Atlantic Low and ridges,
cols or troughs.

The reason I mention it is that it is particularly noticeable when the
weather is a bit like this. Woulnd't you think it more likely to show
up strongly in a downpour such as yesterday or the day prior?

Or perhaps I never looked?

Odd, I just went to look at it again and it seemed to have cleared up
except for a faint patch abot the size of my hand on one side of the
bottom. Doh! It doesn't work after all.

Then I noticed the drizzle.

Coincidentally, I too suffer from one of these "shot" double glazed uints,
in a fixed window immediately below a transom (which is always open). I
have noticed that in colder weather, any condensation is restricted to the
lower area between the panes.
However, as it warms up outside, and particularly once the sun has got
around to that side of the house, misting and condensation seems to be
evident all over the whole area. Pain in the backside.

CK
"Weatherlawyer" wrote in message
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Richard Dixon wrote:

"Weatherlawyer" wrote in
oups.com:

Forecast for either southern N Atlantic or Australian NW Territory =
cyclone(s)

Do you mean tropical cyclones are forecast in the next week for Atlantic
basin or just over the summer? I think the latter is standard, as for the
former, where's the incipient system you talk about?

No.

I am just referring to an anomally that turned up last year during the
North Atlantic hurricane season. Coastal Western/Northern Europe seemed
to get frosts or fogs when they occurred. Or visa versa. Or rather:
Due to them having the same root cause.

I am guessing that fog in China has a similar anomally seen with
Australian cyclones. (On the Queensland side). It has to be a guess
since China is run by secretive criminals that make George Bush's
regime seem like a pack of monkeys.

(What am I talking about, George Bush's regime is a pack of monkeys.)


A litle off the present topic:
I seem to have a high tech version of the Victorian(?) weather glass.
One of my double glazing units has failed, giving a variety of optical
effects that on one occasion of fine weather cleared up entirely.

Now all I need to do is find out how to read it.

A weather glass is a mixture of camphor, water and alcohol. The state
of the suspension indicates the type of weather, which in Britain,
broadly speaking, means Scandinavian High, Atlantic Low and ridges,
cols or troughs.

The reason I mention it is that it is particularly noticeable when the
weather is a bit like this. Woulnd't you think it more likely to show
up strongly in a downpour such as yesterday or the day prior?

Or perhaps I never looked?

Odd, I just went to look at it again and it seemed to have cleared up
except for a faint patch abot the size of my hand on one side of the
bottom. Doh! It doesn't work after all.

Then I noticed the drizzle.

Natsman wrote:
Coincidentally, I too suffer from one of these "shot" double glazed uints,
in a fixed window immediately below a transom (which is always open). I
have noticed that in colder weather, any condensation is restricted to the
lower area between the panes.
However, as it warms up outside, and particularly once the sun has got
around to that side of the house, misting and condensation seems to be
evident all over the whole area. Pain in the backside.

Replace it, then. That's why you're talking to people
in uk.d-i-y, isn't it? Is it a plastic window, metal,
or timber?

Chris Bacon wrote:
Natsman wrote:
Coincidentally, I too suffer from one of these "shot" double glazed uints,
in a fixed window immediately below a transom (which is always open). I
have noticed that in colder weather, any condensation is restricted to the
lower area between the panes.
However, as it warms up outside, and particularly once the sun has got
around to that side of the house, misting and condensation seems to be
evident all over the whole area. Pain in the backside.

Replace it, then. That's why you're talking to people
in uk.d-i-y, isn't it? Is it a plastic window, metal,
or timber?

or drill the glass and dry it

NT

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Chris Bacon wrote:
Natsman wrote:
Coincidentally, I too suffer from one of these "shot" double glazed
uints,
in a fixed window immediately below a transom (which is always open).
I
have noticed that in colder weather, any condensation is restricted to
the
lower area between the panes.
However, as it warms up outside, and particularly once the sun has got
around to that side of the house, misting and condensation seems to be
evident all over the whole area. Pain in the backside.

Replace it, then. That's why you're talking to people
in uk.d-i-y, isn't it? Is it a plastic window, metal,
or timber?

or drill the glass and dry it

NT


I have been thinking about this for a while now.
I have a large dg window. about 8ft by 5ft.
Just how easy is it to drill a small hole in the opposing diagonal corners
and let it dry out in sumer then put a small bung of silicon in the holes to
seal again ?

is it do-able ?

am I likely to crack the glass completely and need a new unit ?

I'd rather repair (as it's so big and expensive I guess)

thanks, fray

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from "Fray Bentos" contains these words:


I have been thinking about this for a while now.
I have a large dg window. about 8ft by 5ft.
Just how easy is it to drill a small hole in the opposing diagonal corners
and let it dry out in sumer then put a small bung of silicon in the holes to
seal again ?

Depends for one thing whether it's toughened or not. If it is, you ain't
a hope of drilling a hole.

--
Skipweasel
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

In uk.d-i-y Guy King wrote:
The message
from "Fray Bentos" contains these words:


I have been thinking about this for a while now.
I have a large dg window. about 8ft by 5ft.
Just how easy is it to drill a small hole in the opposing diagonal corners
and let it dry out in sumer then put a small bung of silicon in the holes to
seal again ?

Depends for one thing whether it's toughened or not. If it is, you ain't
a hope of drilling a hole.

There is, it's relatively easy, you just first anneal the pane
This is pretty tricky - you've got to keep pretty good temperature
control (+-10C IIRC), ramp it up and down slowly, not to mention not
having any dust in there.

But then, think of all the other handy jobs you could find for an
annealing furnace.

Ian Stirling wrote:
In uk.d-i-y Guy King wrote:
The message from "Fray Bentos" contains these words:
I have a large dg window. about 8ft by 5ft.
Just how easy is it to drill a small hole in the opposing diagonal corners
and let it dry out in sumer then put a small bung of silicon in the holes to
seal again ?

Depends for one thing whether it's toughened or not. If it is, you ain't
a hope of drilling a hole.

There is, it's relatively easy, you just first anneal the pane

You can drill toughened glass, you just have to be careful
(and very slow), and use a fine abrasive and rod as ?? ago.