On 03/02/2015 18:20, Keith (Southend) wrote:
Roll on spring, than I can get on with things.

Blimey, too true!

I was on a site visit this afternoon and it was lovely and sunny with no
wind and at nearly 6C it was OK.

Then a breeze picked up and what was a pleasant couple of hours turned
into something rather unpleasant as that wind had a nasty, cold edge to it.

In the end abandonment was the only answer as you can only spend so long
stood out in that wind and not start to get chilled. Plus faces and
fingers had gone numb so discussing and writing wasn't easy!

It makes me want to head south! But I cannot go any further without
having to speak French (which I don't).

--
Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

On 03/02/2015 19:53, Nick Gardner wrote:
On 03/02/2015 18:20, Keith (Southend) wrote:
Roll on spring, than I can get on with things.

Blimey, too true!

I was on a site visit this afternoon and it was lovely and sunny with no
wind and at nearly 6C it was OK.

Then a breeze picked up and what was a pleasant couple of hours turned
into something rather unpleasant as that wind had a nasty, cold edge to it.

In the end abandonment was the only answer as you can only spend so long
stood out in that wind and not start to get chilled. Plus faces and
fingers had gone numb so discussing and writing wasn't easy!

It makes me want to head south! But I cannot go any further without
having to speak French (which I don't).


The speak English in much of the Caribbean and many Island drive on the
left ;-)

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Keith (Southend)
"Weather Home & Abroad"
http://www.southendweather.net
Twitter:@LawnscienceEssx

On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 7:53:35 PM UTC, Nick Gardner wrote:
On 03/02/2015 18:20, Keith (Southend) wrote:
Roll on spring, than I can get on with things.

Blimey, too true!

I was on a site visit this afternoon and it was lovely and sunny with no
wind and at nearly 6C it was OK.

Then a breeze picked up and what was a pleasant couple of hours turned
into something rather unpleasant as that wind had a nasty, cold edge to it.

In the end abandonment was the only answer as you can only spend so long
stood out in that wind and not start to get chilled. Plus faces and
fingers had gone numb so discussing and writing wasn't easy!

It makes me want to head south! But I cannot go any further without
having to speak French (which I don't).

--
Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

You think France is warmer. Check out this week's temps in the Millevaches (Limousin), numbingly cold and quite snowy too!
Thinking of retiring there, like UK but a bit more extreme at the warm and cold ends.

On 03/02/2015 20:14, David Mitchell wrote:
You think France is warmer. Check out this week's temps in the Millevaches (Limousin), numbingly cold and quite snowy too!
Thinking of retiring there, like UK but a bit more extreme at the warm and cold ends.

Maybe Portugal then. I speak a bit of that.

Trouble is, are there any reasonably well-paid jobs for an environmental
scientist there?

T'missus might take some convincing to move.... and I would miss the
Devon spring and summers.

I spent a good part of the winter a few years back in Lisbon. It wasn't
wall-to-wall sunshine every day and it rained a lot but there were many
days with lots of sunshine and in the early afternoon it was around 16C
and you could sit outside in short-sleeves and enjoy a cold beer.

The extra intensity and warmth of the sun light immediately hit me and
it felt good. Getting into the car in the morning when it had been left
in the sunshine, it was hot and you had to wind the windows down. I'd
never experienced that before in early January!

--
Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 20:28:00 UTC, Nick Gardner wrote:
On 03/02/2015 20:14, David Mitchell wrote:
You think France is warmer. Check out this week's temps in the Millevaches (Limousin), numbingly cold and quite snowy too!
Thinking of retiring there, like UK but a bit more extreme at the warm and cold ends.

Maybe Portugal then. I speak a bit of that.

Trouble is, are there any reasonably well-paid jobs for an environmental
scientist there?

I think any *jobs* would be a start, if you believe what is printed in the media currently. OTOH there is always the chance of an overseas placing...

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