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"danny" wrote:

"Never eat yellow Snow" .... best advice anyone can have.
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have had huge snowfalls and it is brown (and apparently doesn't taste
very
pleasant either!).


not quite a s good as "Never lick anyting made of copper that buzzes".


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Bernard Burton wrote in message ...
:Interesting report from you. The following images show the dust/sand plume
riginating for Algeria, both yesterday and today. I would say the plume
:looks unusually dense.
:http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1346-d-med.JPG
:http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1356-e-sah.JPG

Bejaia on the Algerian coast
http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/DAAE.html

28°C in the early hours of Saturday; gale to storm force SW wind; 27°C for
much of the day with blowing sand. Tizi-Ouzou on the coast west of Bejaia
reported 28.8°C.

Palermo on Sicily http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/LICJ.html

24 to 25°C on Friday night and Saturday morning with a southerly wind;
sharp fall in temperature on Saturday afternoon when the wind changed
direction; up to 25°C again in the evening when the southerly resumed.
Max. temp. 25.9°C.

Colin Youngs
Brussels

Joe Hunt wrote in message ...
:A terrible last couple of days in Tignes. I arrived back about two hours
:ago, leaving heavy snow this morning, falling as rain at around 1650m.

Perpignan in SW France - 86 mm rain in 24 hrs to 06.00 on Saturday.
Mont Aigoual in Provence - 63 mm in 24 hrs to 06.00 and a further 18 mm in
the following 6 hrs to 12.00 on Saturday.

Huelva in southern Spain - 73 mm in 24 hrs to 06.00 on Saturday including
68 mm in 12 hrs overnight.

Faro on the Algarve (Portugal) - 57 mm in 24 hrs to 06.00 on Saturday.

Figures from the Free University of Berlin daily analysis
http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/deutsch/...etterlage.html

Colin Youngs
Brussels

few photos of the sand snow

http://forum.meteogiornale.it/files/danni_094.jpg
http://forum.meteogiornale.it/files/danni_095.jpg
http://forum.meteogiornale.it/files/danni_097.jpg

"Jack Harrison" wrote in message
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My son has just phoned from the Dolomites where he has been skiing. They
have had huge snowfalls and it is brown (and apparently doesn't taste
very
pleasant either!). The locals say it contains dust from the Sahara which
sounds very plausible.

I lived in Greece for 5 years and it is traditional lore that you should
whitewash your house for Easter. Most people do, but leave it till the last
minute. This is of course very traditional as well, called in UK and USA
businesses as "Just in Time" and considered a virtue, laziness if you are
another nationality.The day after most of the whitewashing occurred we had
the same winds and sand and lived for a year with brown freshly whitewashed
houses!

Stuart Hudson

P.S. Yannis, I am sure that the Olympics will teach the rest of the world
what true just in time management really means, if it is not a huge triumph
I shall be very surprised.

"hudson" wrote in message
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I lived in Greece for 5 years and it is traditional lore that you should
whitewash your house for Easter. Most people do, but leave it till the
last
minute. This is of course very traditional as well, called in UK and USA
businesses as "Just in Time" and considered a virtue, laziness if you are
another nationality.The day after most of the whitewashing occurred we had
the same winds and sand and lived for a year with brown freshly
whitewashed
houses!

Gee, what place in Greece did that happen? Never heard of that.

P.S. Yannis, I am sure that the Olympics will teach the rest of the world
what true just in time management really means, if it is not a huge
triumph
I shall be very surprised.

We sometimes amaze our own selves. I've heard that the good work that has
been done during the last month is more than what had been done for many
preceding months.

Yannis, SE Athens
+8.2C, RH 69%, SLP 1013.0 hPa, OVC

The day after most of the whitewashing occurred we had
the same winds and sand and lived for a year with brown freshly
whitewashed
houses!

Gee, what place in Greece did that happen? Never heard of that.

It was Paros

Best Regards
Stuart