On Oct 14, 5:37 pm, Graham P Davis wrote:
Tudor Hughes wrote:

On Oct 14, 11:34 am, "Col" wrote:
"Ron Button" wrote in
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If the predicted cold outbreaks hits us next week and we get some snow
,that will set off all the 'experts ', like The Sun, saying 'told you
so ,the weather in America always gets to Gt.Britain a few days later
'.Might give P.Eden apoplexy.........?I know, I've had to patiently
explain to people in the past
that the weather simply doesn't work like that!
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

Join the club! It's one of those latter-day urban myths in
which people like to display what they imagine is their knowledge.
Another example has hit me recently, having bought a new (i.e. newer)
piano. People ask "Is it iron-frame" to which I'm tempted to reply
"Nah, mate, PVC. Lighter". Pianos have always had iron frames though
details of construction have changed.

Trouble is that there's sometimes some truth in this urban myth. If a
cold
plunge occurs over the eastern US, it can lead to another plunge over the
UK a few days later as the jet buckles.

As to piano construction, iron frames were developed and introduced in the
first half of the nineteenth century. Anyway, the question "is it
iron-frame?" would still seem to be a tad superfluous. If the piano was an
upright, without seeing it I might have asked "is it overstrung?" but
perhaps that question now is almost as obsolete.

--
Graham Davis
Bracknell

Yes, that's true but I don't think even an educated
non-meteorologist's understanding extends to that depth, and it's
certainly not a very reliable indicator.
As to the piano, yes, it's overstrung, unlike the old one I
had (Ibach, 1903). The total tension, in reply to someone else, is
about 30 tons. The new one cost £1000. A grand for an upright, you
could say.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.