There's a rather good article about Robert Fitzroy currently on the BBC
website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32483678
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(Taken, with the author's permission, from a LiveJournal post)

On Thursday, 30 April 2015 16:24:04 UTC+1, John Hall wrote:
There's a rather good article about Robert Fitzroy currently on the BBC
website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32483678
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I'm not paid to implement the recognition of irony.
(Taken, with the author's permission, from a LiveJournal post)

Lived just up the road to me in Church Road Crystal Palace and is buried in the Church cemetery on the junction of South Norwood Hill, Church Road and Beulah Hill. Its good to know that only some 100 yards from where his remains lay that adult men are having sex in the undergrowth of Beulah Heights.

On Thursday, 30 April 2015 17:30:53 UTC+1, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
On Thursday, 30 April 2015 16:24:04 UTC+1, John Hall wrote:
There's a rather good article about Robert Fitzroy currently on the BBC
website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32483678
--
I'm not paid to implement the recognition of irony.
(Taken, with the author's permission, from a LiveJournal post)

Lived just up the road to me in Church Road Crystal Palace and is buried in the Church cemetery on the junction of South Norwood Hill, Church Road and Beulah Hill. Its good to know that only some 100 yards from where his remains lay that adult men are having sex in the undergrowth of Beulah Heights.

I bet that never got mentioned at the club.

On Thursday, 30 April 2015 17:30:53 UTC+1, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
On Thursday, 30 April 2015 16:24:04 UTC+1, John Hall wrote:
There's a rather good article about Robert Fitzroy currently on the BBC
website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32483678
--
I'm not paid to implement the recognition of irony.
(Taken, with the author's permission, from a LiveJournal post)

Lived just up the road to me in Church Road Crystal Palace and is buried in the Church cemetery on the junction of South Norwood Hill, Church Road and Beulah Hill. Its good to know that only some 100 yards from where his remains lay that adult men are having sex in the undergrowth of Beulah Heights.

When you'd got over the al fresco bum banditry what did you think of the article? I thought it was interesting, particularly the fact that there were no weather forecasts before Fitzroy decided there should be. I'm sure there were local pundits, though, eg Gilbert White. When was the electric telegraph invented? That must have made a difference.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

On 01/05/15 01:38, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Thursday, 30 April 2015 17:30:53 UTC+1, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
On Thursday, 30 April 2015 16:24:04 UTC+1, John Hall wrote:
There's a rather good article about Robert Fitzroy currently on the BBC
website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32483678
--
I'm not paid to implement the recognition of irony.
(Taken, with the author's permission, from a LiveJournal post)

Lived just up the road to me in Church Road Crystal Palace and is buried in the Church cemetery on the junction of South Norwood Hill, Church Road and Beulah Hill. Its good to know that only some 100 yards from where his remains lay that adult men are having sex in the undergrowth of Beulah Heights.

When you'd got over the al fresco bum banditry what did you think of the article? I thought it was interesting, particularly the fact that there were no weather forecasts before Fitzroy decided there should be. I'm sure there were local pundits, though, eg Gilbert White. When was the electric telegraph invented? That must have made a difference.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.


The article says that Fitzroy actually invented the word "forecast" for
his efforts.

Hugh

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Hugh Newbury

www.evershot-weather.org

I thought the first weather forecast was recorded in Genesis when God told Noah that a flood of biblical proportions was coming (red alert take immediate action) and according to some it was spot on!

On 01/05/2015 01:38, Tudor Hughes wrote:

When was the electric telegraph invented? That must have made a difference.

Late 1830s, early 1840s. It grew with the development of railways.

On Saturday, 2 May 2015 06:43:07 UTC+1, Brian Lawrence wrote:
On 01/05/2015 01:38, Tudor Hughes wrote:

When was the electric telegraph invented? That must have made a difference.

Late 1830s, early 1840s. It grew with the development of railways.

Thanks. I should know that, of course, being something of a railway nutter.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

On 03/05/2015 00:23, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Saturday, 2 May 2015 06:43:07 UTC+1, Brian Lawrence wrote:
On 01/05/2015 01:38, Tudor Hughes wrote:

When was the electric telegraph invented? That must have made a difference.

Late 1830s, early 1840s. It grew with the development of railways.

Thanks. I should know that, of course, being something of a railway nutter.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.


Or has we call them on the Severn Valley Railway a puffer nutter. It wor
tu gud yesterday afternoon, intermittent rain. Deltic lucked and
saonded gud. Taw Valley was in the shed aving the finishing touches tu it.

On Sunday, 3 May 2015 11:18:37 UTC+1, Yogi wrote:
On 03/05/2015 00:23, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Saturday, 2 May 2015 06:43:07 UTC+1, Brian Lawrence wrote:
On 01/05/2015 01:38, Tudor Hughes wrote:

When was the electric telegraph invented? That must have made a difference.

Late 1830s, early 1840s. It grew with the development of railways.

Thanks. I should know that, of course, being something of a railway nutter.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.


Or has we call them on the Severn Valley Railway a puffer nutter. It wor
tu gud yesterday afternoon, intermittent rain. Deltic lucked and
saonded gud. Taw Valley was in the shed aving the finishing touches tu it.

God, you're not into diseasels, are you?

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.