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It must be said, I am obsessed with participating in Citizen Science. This might take the form of listing garden birds, a local patch list or trips farther afield. Maybe, it’s the daily transfer of weather records from my diaries, except this is not necessary any longer, due to owning an AWS (automatic weather station). Perhaps, as in today’s instance…
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Looking at the above question, “How strong is the sun in November?”, “How exactly would we, or even can we answer that question?” It’s an interesting topic for sure and folk in the weather forums have commented, even in recent weeks, that it’s been t-shirt weather. Also, some made comments such as, it’s warm enough to sit…
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Tonight’s BBC2 program Will it snow? attempts to enlighten us, as to whether this winter will bring us snowflakes, or just plain ole rain and drizzle. For those more technically minded, the latest 12z GFS (that’s an US based weather model) ensembles output suggests zilch likelihood for my patch. Basically, I would simply use these plots to look for trends…
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I’ve just been sent the latest wildlife headlines from around the world via the wonderful Wildlife Extra newsletter and one news item in particular, has caught my eye. See a fruitful year for more on this. These trees are so valuable and I’ve heard it said that the UK possesses only 12% tree cover in terms of its overall…
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Here in the United Kingdom of late, Autumn seems to like to imitate Summer and once again, overnight, proved no exception in this regard. To add to our October 26th Thunder day, we can now add November 4th. Four or Five rumbles awoke me from my slumber during the early hours, albeit, I had my curtains pulled and the windows slightly…