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Post by beth on Aug 4, 2017 10:38:42 GMT -5
I've been invited to western Kentucky to "experience" the ecipse on the 21st. Cadiz (tiny little place located in a lovely tourist area between the lakes), is apparently our hot spot in the state to get the max effect. Is this something worth doing? I thought it was the same everywhere. I thought that too until someone corrected me. Apparently, the degree to which it is visible is greatest along the darker shaded area.
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Post by men an tol on Aug 4, 2017 15:24:50 GMT -5
I thought it was the same everywhere. I thought that too until someone corrected me. Apparently, the degree to which it is visible is greatest along the darker shaded area. The lunar eclipse is comprised of a number of factors. The following link provides quite good explanations of how such a Lunar eclipse is constructed. www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/umbra-shadow.html
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2017 15:56:55 GMT -5
sunshine, blue skies and a hot 66° today with the ever pleasant gentle breeze.
I see the eclipse is not going to be much here so I'll wait for the next big thing....I sure enjoyed the Hale-Bopp comet in 1997.
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Post by fretslider on Aug 5, 2017 3:36:39 GMT -5
but exactly where is it the hooest year to date... the Sahara or Kalahara.. its certainly not the hottest mid year on record here.. not by any stretch of imagination... they keep on announcing these silly things and keep on being proven wrong on the grounds that it was once possible to grow grapes and apricots out doors in the north of England I sugest they are being vey dishonest and saying what they so want to believe rather than having any regard for fact or truth Imagine you boil a pan of water and then turn the heat off. It's some time before the temperature begins to fall. between the heat being turned off and the cooling beginning the temperature remains relatively level, that is each second could be called the 'hottest' second. The warming ended around 1997 and is currently paused so every year is the hottest or 2nd hottest etc. But it's meaningless.
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Post by mouse on Aug 5, 2017 3:37:00 GMT -5
beth wrote Is this something worth doing? am not so sure eclipses are worth seeing... it gets darker a halo appears then the lights go out all together then the opposite happens it may have been of interest in times past.. but now we know the sun hasn't died and its not gods punishment etc....
well we get told its the hottest year TOO... BUT IYS CERTAINLY NOT
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Post by fretslider on Aug 5, 2017 4:01:42 GMT -5
Might not be the "hottest" here but it HAS been a very very hot summer. It has been 125 in the west a few times this year. They should give a run down on the temps so people will knowwhat they are talking about. The trouble is many of them cannot be trusted to be honest. There's so much at stake. Do you know where your local weather station is? For the greater London area our Met Office chooses Heathrow airport of all places. There is apparently another temperature sensor at Heathrow, a bit closer to the runway (marked EGLL – the Met Office one is 03772, as confirmed by their coordinates).[/i] notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/07/03/record-heathrow-temperature-not-supported-by-nearby-locations/Can you think why such a location is wholly inappropriate? Aside from all of the concrete, glass and asphalt, vehicles etc, which add to the urban heat island effect, placing your recording equipment close to a runway... the met station is about 150 metres (500 feet) from the north runway. The difficulty comes after landing and slowing down, when the jets turn off of the eastern end of the runway by the met station on one of the side taxiways. At times in that process, their jet exhaust will be pointed directly at the temperature measuring station. Indeed, when jets turn off on either of the two right-hand taxiways in the picture above, their jet exhaust is pointed directly at the met station for the entire trip down the taxiway … and did I mention that the wind was from the south and southeast during the time of the temperature record, blowing from the taxiways towards the met station?wattsupwiththat.com/2015/07/18/heathrow-hijinks/The Met Office recently bought a $127million supercomputer to churn out erroneous answers. Here it is impossible to believe the data and to trust the people who gather it.
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Post by fretslider on Aug 5, 2017 4:05:19 GMT -5
It may be the wrong call for the U.K., but we've had some fierce hot weather this side of the Atlantic. I'd have to see the figures before jumping to conclusions. So a very warm summer in parts of the US...
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Post by mouse on Aug 5, 2017 4:12:41 GMT -5
was bright sunshine has now gone back to gloomy... hope it doesn't rain as daughter has all the washing out on the line and bringing it back in still wet or damp... means load of stuff hanging about the place friend came yesterday so we had a good catch up [she was having a couple of trees felled] plus the chap came to set up my new telly which is a super picture and a nice sound and the subtext is large enough for me to read easily as well and I know which buttons are which so that's another job sorted and today will be a quiet day I think
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Post by mouse on Aug 5, 2017 4:25:40 GMT -5
fret ""Can you think why such a location is wholly inappropriate?"" near a runway? how stupid or do they think we are all morons ..no wonder their results are suspect.. they may as well take reading in the furnace room in a steel works
didn't one weather station used to be on the roof of the old Broadcasting house? I have no idea where our weather station is..but we are lumped in with Manchester and Leeds and even the Midlands at times which is mind-blowingly stupid...considering the differences in those three areas is it any wonder they rarely get it right SO no body takes any notice of the official weather and we go for a more local one[whose origins I know not] but its pretty accurate plus we do have at times our own climate that can be directly opposite to whats happening down the road
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Post by beth on Aug 5, 2017 21:37:13 GMT -5
I've been out of town today. It was dark when I got back. I poured a glass of sun tea and went out back to relax and drink it. It was totally dark with just a couple of streaks of pink and red sunset on the horizon .. very peaceful. The best thing was all the little late-summer night creatures were giving a concert. It sounded like every cricket and grasshopper and tree frog in the neighborhood was chiming in. I sat down and let them entertain me for almost a half hour.
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Post by mouse on Aug 6, 2017 4:47:48 GMT -5
the dog arrived.. at two years old he is a young dog.. but not exactly a puppy... he is lovely.. with a really happy nature brown and white with a very waggy tail and a sweet little face.. he crys if daughter goes out of his sight[he already knows who will be feeding and taking him walks],, other than that he has fitted in seamlessly we were invited out at lunch time so we took him with us...he appeared to enjoy himself yesterday the sun finally came out which was very pleasant .. we hope for a re/run today which so far is dull but dry
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Post by mouse on Aug 7, 2017 5:48:59 GMT -5
fine so far this morning .. but rain is on its way a slow day today.. bit boring really.. [we had forgotton how tying an animal is] perhaps the garden needed a visit.. actually it needs a lot of work.. but not this year
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Post by Sysop3 on Aug 7, 2017 14:38:30 GMT -5
fine so far this morning .. but rain is on its way a slow day today.. bit boring really.. [we had forgotton how tying an animal is] perhaps the garden needed a visit.. actually it needs a lot of work.. but not this year We can't pat them on the head and shake a friendly paw and then have them go away, can we? With cats that works but dogs are always there.
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Post by mouse on Aug 8, 2017 4:24:01 GMT -5
jake is giving us pleasure..he is such a happy little thing and because he is young has bags of energy zip and go yesterday he found a bee.. his interest in the Bee lasted nearly half an hour as he followed it down the garden.. just watching it no attempt to sniff or pat at it.. he has come without any toys so daughters will rectify that this morning and I am teaching him to sit.. when they brought him he was very yappy and yet since his owners went away he hasn't yapped at all
to day is gloomy overcast and damp
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2017 14:33:25 GMT -5
Mouse, you and I have very similar weather I think...it is grey and overcast, 59° and damp but since I don't have a garden and lived with heat and sunshine for twenty years, I enjoy this and that was the draw to move back here.
Maybe it's the 61% ancestry of the British Isles on my grandma's side that allows me to enjoy this weather.
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