On Jul 12, 4:57 am, "dave" wrote:


Where? Why?

"Alastair" schreef in bericht
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: Where? Why?

I think it is this one
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...re/7502818.stm

Colin Youngs
Brussels

"Colin Youngs" wrote in message
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I think it is this one
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...re/7502818.stm


That's it, was to ****ed off last night to provide a link!

Will get a refund for the tickets and will attempt to get a refund on the
train ticket this morning.

Shame it's been cancelled as the weather's looking pretty good out the
window, ground there must be soaked though if they've had to cancel such a
big event. Will cost them tons in refunds.

"dave" wrote...
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Shame it's been cancelled as the weather's looking pretty good out
the window, ground there must be soaked though if they've had to
cancel such a big event. Will cost them tons in refunds.


.... a great shame; went to the first RIAT and it's cancellation will
disappoint many & as you write, be a great financial burden. They've
had a considerable amount of rain in a short
time, added to yesterday (Friday) by narrow bands of intense
convection rainfall.

Using data via OgiMet and WeatherOnline ...

For July, up to 06Z this morning, the total rainfall for Brize Norton
(a crude proxy for Fairford) is 81.3 mm, with the total for the past 7
days 74 mm; the local average is around 43 mm (as with many other
spots in the south - July being, usually, a dry month), so they've had
roughly double normal all-month rainfall since the beginning of the
month, much within the past week. The preceding month (according to
charts on the Met O site) was also within the 125% anomaly isopleth,
indeed Fairford (difficult to be precise from those maps), may have
been within the 150% zone.

Has echoes of the Silverstone problems of several years back.

Martin.


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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

Has echoes of the Silverstone problems of several years back.

Martin.



Is this the beginning of an annual monsoon brought on by climate
change?

Cheers, Alastair.

"Alastair" wrote in message
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Has echoes of the Silverstone problems of several years back.

Martin.



Is this the beginning of an annual monsoon brought on by climate
change?

Cheers, Alastair.

You know what I fear Alastair. That UK climate means out, i.e. summers
become cooler and winters become warmer and rain is evenly distributed
throughout the year. Hope I'm wrong (I often am!).

Will
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What the media should have stressed is that the Duxford show today is
NOT cancelled. My son works at Duxford and apparently they have been
receiving numerous calls asking why it is cancelled. DUXFORD IS NOT
CANCELLED.

Although (because of my contacts - wife also works there) I have a
free ticket I won't be going as I can see quite a bit of the action
from my garden!

Jack

You know what I fear Alastair. That UK climate means out, i.e. *summers
become cooler and winters become warmer and rain is evenly distributed
throughout the year. Hope I'm wrong (I often am!).

Will
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Will, I just checked my monthly averages for 1991-2007, and comared
them with ther 1971-2000 Penzance norm, with the following result:-

Jan +0.8
Feb +0.9
Mar +0.8
Apr +0.9
May +1.1
June +0.6
July +0.4
Aug +0.8
Sep +0.6
Oct +0.5
Nov +0.8
Dec -0.2

So December is the only month with a negative anomoly, and the
greatest warming is in Spring. Once again May 2008 has been
exceptionally warm.

I've also looked at rainfall recently, and the main change over the
1971-2000 norm was wet autumns.

(So I'm rather hoping your fears are unfounded!)

Graham
Penzance

So December is the only month with a negative anomoly, and the
greatest warming is in Spring. Once again May 2008 has been
exceptionally warm.

Apart from last year's wet summer for the UK as a whole, I thought the trend
(pre-2007) was for increasingly drier summers and wetter winters. With June
being dry here, if the summer settles and the rest of July is dry as well as
August then this summer could still end up being drier than normal (a long
shot I know!).

Interesting to note that until recently (post 2000), June was the only month
that stubbornly refused to show any signs of warming from the long-term CET
data set. Since 2000 I believe that this month is now showing a warming
trend.
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Nick.
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk