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  1. If you look at the pictures of the tree before it was felled and then compare the height of the stump and the length of the trunk of the felled tree below where it first branches out, it seems to me that quite a length of the trunk has been removed and has disappeared.
  2. It looks to me that on the first one it's over N Africa and on the other two it is east of the Med and doesn't appear south of Europe.
  3. My solar panels have recorded their lowest July output since they were installed 9 years ago, just over10% lower than the usual average output. Only two years, 2017 and 2020 are anywhere near as low.
  4. I don't remember the weather of the 1960's being vile, except the first two months of 1963 which were horribly cold, and at least then we very rarely had to put up with temperatures of over 32C, or 90F as it was early that decade.
  5. Christchurch, NZ is about 43 degrees south, hardly "close to Antarctica". That's roughly the same latitude as Toulouse in southern France is in the northern hemisphere.
  6. You must have taken a roundabout route - Peterborough is about 75 miles from central London. 120 miles would take you to Nottingham.
  7. No thanks! 8 or 9 weeks of temperatures below freezing for long periods and just above on a few days. Waiting for the school bus in the cold and having a couple of inches of snow around the New Year which was "topped up" by the odd light shower in Jan and Feb but it hung around until early March. Ice on the inside of the bedroom window many mornings - the result of no central heating or double glazing. Sitting in the living room with the fire going so you were warm on the front but anything not in direct line of the heat from the fire was distinctly chilly. The death toll for those without the resources to keep themselves or their children warm would be awful - there are many struggling now without having to cope with arctic temperatures for a long period. The country couldn't cope with 6 or more weeks of bitter weather now as we are so reliant on food and heating being readily available and very few people have fireplaces which would enable them to burn wood etc if their heating/electricity failed.
  8. I have forced air heating in my bungalow which was built in 1971. All the bungalows on the cul-de-sac where I live had that heating but many have had it removed and replaced with radiators. Personally I find it very efficient and the only moving part is the fan, and of course there is no water involved. The current boiler was installed in 1999 and replaced the original which was still working but the electrics were a bit iffy. Very often it gets a very thorough annual service as they are thin on the ground and trainees with instructers turn up to get shown how to deal with a warm air boiler.
  9. About 6 miles east of Nottingham - heavy rain here and just had a rumble of thunder to the south.
  10. Insulation works both ways. Good loft insulation stops you losing heat but it also stops the heat in the attic on hot sunny days heating your ceilings and thus the rooms below. Similarly wall insulation reduces heat transfer from the outer brickwork to the inner and then into your rooms. Of course it doesn't make much difference if you allow the sunshine through your windows to heat up the interior of your home. We really should be considering exterior shutters or blinds on south facing windows to keep the worst of the heat out.
  11. Would I be right in assuming the weather station is on the RAF Base? Hopefully not close to the runway.
  12. From a seismic monitoring site it would seem there were two earthquakes about 2 minutes apart. The first was 6.5 at Lat 37.67 Long 141.67 and the second 7.3 at Lat 37.70 Long 141.59, very close together. They were at different depths.
  13. No coastal mainline in Dorset. The line washed away was at Dawlish in Devon.
  14. I have seen reports that the lava has now crossed the path. It is currently too foggy to see anything, but when I went back a few hours there was very obviously fresh lava at the leading edge approaching the footpath area and a lot of fresh lava in the area behind. By the time the fog came down it hadn't started to run down into the area behind the western dam.
  15. I think you will find that lava is flowing from the crater all the time although we can't see it from the camera angle. At intervals a gas bubble forms in the magma and rises up towards the surface. This pushes the magma above it more quickly upwards which is why the flow from the crater rapidly increases. When the gas reaches the surface you get the eruption of lava thrown into the air.
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