http://uk.news.yahoo.com/britain-bra...0.html#NqEWEi8

http://tinyurl.com/meqv2sl

:-)

On Sunday, 21 July 2013 21:57:25 UTC+1, Adam Lea wrote:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/britain-bra...0.html#NqEWEi8 http://tinyurl.com/meqv2sl :-)

All storms are tropical. Also they are all "freak". Forty years ago they weren't thunderstorms at all, but "electrical storms", I was po-facedly assured many times. Current bogeyman is the humidity, which makes this country so intolerable in the hot weather. These people haven't been to Kuala Lumpur. Neither have I but I can read METARs.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

On 22/07/13 01:52, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Sunday, 21 July 2013 21:57:25 UTC+1, Adam Lea wrote:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/britain-bra...0.html#NqEWEi8 http://tinyurl.com/meqv2sl :-)

All storms are tropical. Also they are all "freak". Forty years ago they weren't thunderstorms at all, but "electrical storms", I was po-facedly assured many times. Current bogeyman is the humidity, which makes this country so intolerable in the hot weather. These people haven't been to Kuala Lumpur. Neither have I but I can read METARs.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.


Although the last 2-3 weeks have been warm/hot it does seem that the
humidity has been lower than is typical for a UK hot spell. This for me
has made the heat more tolerable and easier to sleep at night.
Unfortunately it looks like we will have to deal with high humidity for
a couple of days before cooler temperatures arrive. I'm hoping to see a
decent thunderstorm as well.

On Monday, July 22, 2013 1:52:31 AM UTC+1, Tudor Hughes wrote:

All storms are tropical. Also they are all "freak". Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

'Freak' waves only occur when serious injury/death occurs, as in. .

Fisherman swept off rocks by freak wave
Boy washed out to sea by freak wave
Dinghy capsized by freak wave
etc.

Google 'freak wave Cornwall' and you'll see what I mean.

Fortunately, unusually large waves are known as 'rogue' waves, which distinguishes the rarity of the real thing, that was until rogue bankers put in an appearance.

No freak waves likely today, http://www.sennen-cove.com/harbourcam.htm but it is cloudy, thich is something of a novelty. Around 250 hours of sunshine down here so far this month.

Graham
Penzance

On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 02:55:42 -0700 (PDT)
Graham Easterling wrote:

On Monday, July 22, 2013 1:52:31 AM UTC+1, Tudor Hughes wrote:

All storms are tropical. Also they are all "freak". Tudor
Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

'Freak' waves only occur when serious injury/death occurs, as in. .

Fisherman swept off rocks by freak wave
Boy washed out to sea by freak wave
Dinghy capsized by freak wave
etc.

Google 'freak wave Cornwall' and you'll see what I mean.

Fortunately, unusually large waves are known as 'rogue' waves, which
distinguishes the rarity of the real thing, that was until rogue
bankers put in an appearance.


Then there are the waves caused by underwater earthquakes. These 'tidal
waves', I was glad to notice, are now more likely to be referred
to as 'tsunami'. I say I *was* glad because I reread a forty-year-old
book a few weeks ago and found that 'tsunami' was often the incorrect
word to use as well. 'Tsunami' translates as 'large wave in harbour' so
anything not in a harbour is not a tsunami.

In the book, they said that the correct term for such a wave is 'Seismic
Sea Wave' or SSW. Could get confusing in winter; someone might think a
'freak' cold spell has been caused by an earthquake. Surely not? ;-)


--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
'To do is to be' - Nietsche
'To be is to do' - Kant
'Do be do be do' - Sinatra

Op maandag 22 juli 2013 13:00:12 UTC+2 schreef Graham P Davis het volgende:
'To do is to be' - Nietsche
.... or more exactly Nietzsche http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche

Colin Youngs
Brussels

On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 04:28:19 -0700 (PDT)
Colin Youngs wrote:

Op maandag 22 juli 2013 13:00:12 UTC+2 schreef Graham P Davis het
volgende:
'To do is to be' - Nietsche
... or more exactly Nietzsche
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche


Thanks, Colin. I think I'll have to put that down to finger trouble in
the first place and failing eyesight in the second.


--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
'To do is to be' - Nietzsche
'To be is to do' - Kant
'Do be do be do' - Sinatra