Hows is your weather today? Or anything else for that matter

[Anna Woman von NRW]

I'm in Kent too

Excellent! Another proper Southerner 

Pretty soon it will be Bluebells everywhere - you don't get that up on yer northern moors do ya?

 
 

[Master Ray]

Right now, 'oop north', for two days on the trot, we've had a gorgeous and mild sunny morning, a rainy (yet still mild) afternoon and now freezing winds and sleet coming at you horizontally...

That's proper weather, I tell thee!   

[Anna Woman von NRW]

Proper weather? Sounds bloody awful to me 

[claireinblack]

Proper weather? Sounds bloody awful to me 

Indeed although I would take the beautiful northern scenery over Medway anytime......

[Anna Woman von NRW]

Indeed although I would take the beautiful northern scenery over Medway anytime......

Ooh - shush now, we don't need to mention that  . Let 'em think of Apple trees and bluebells instead

[Rusco]

We are still breaking the ice here. Snow on the roofs, but definately getting warmer. Days are longer already.

[Anna Woman von NRW]

I do like you Ruscoe - you're proper Viking you are

 

[Johnz]

Currently waiting for Tropical Cyclone Pam to arrive. It's been downgraded from a category 5 to a 4 but it's still a pretty nasty storm. It literally blew Vanuatu off the map yesterday. Don't think I'll be getting much sleep on my boat tonight.

[rick a.]

Here in lovely Boston (USA Boston), it's another sort of mild day(above freezing) with some good melting going on.  The massive snow fall we just had (106 inches in less than a month) is finally starting to dissolve. Who did we piss off to deserve this winter?

[Rusco]

Currently waiting for Tropical Cyclone Pam to arrive. It's been downgraded from a category 5 to a 4 but it's still a pretty nasty storm. It literally blew Vanuatu off the map yesterday. Don't think I'll be getting much sleep on my boat tonight.

Oh Johnz, yea we've heard the storm there at Vanuatu was really, really bad. It was very sad news and unbelievably strong storm. Heard their president called it a "monster" that literally destroyed everything.

So where are you sailing nowadays? If I remember right you live in a boat or? Please correct me if I remember it wrong. 

[witch]

Cold and grey here in Germany

[Heno]

i was in frankfurt and berlin in the last 10 days. cold, yes. but dry cold, nice cold. i need continental climes.

[Johnz]

Currently waiting for Tropical Cyclone Pam to arrive. It's been downgraded from a category 5 to a 4 but it's still a pretty nasty storm. It literally blew Vanuatu off the map yesterday. Don't think I'll be getting much sleep on my boat tonight.

Oh Johnz, yea we've heard the storm there at Vanuatu was really, really bad. It was very sad news and unbelievably strong storm. Heard their president called it a "monster" that literally destroyed everything.

So where are you sailing nowadays? If I remember right you live in a boat or? Please correct me if I remember it wrong. 

Thanks Rusco. I live on my boat in New Zealand. Luckily the storm turned and we only got the edge of it which was still nasty but nothing like what Vanuatu got. Got some huge seas but not so much wind so it was ok.

[Heno]

that cyclone was something else.

do they happen often? the pacific is so huge and so sparsely populated.

[Johnz]

that cyclone was something else.

do they happen often? the pacific is so huge and so sparsely populated.

That was the biggest one in a long time but we should be seeing more of them as the climate gets warmer. These storms get their energy from the warm water which has been steadily getting warmer over the last decades. At the moment we get around 2 or 3 each summer. Most of them are smaller though. Cat 2 or 3. Pam was Cat. 5 which was the same as Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico and is as bad as it gets. Not pretty!