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Previously on "Unreliable weather reports"

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  • stek
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    Sorry

    Now go to Wikipedia and fix it - I just cut'n'paste when it comes to Cyrillic
    Hehe! they're the stress marks to indicate the stressed syllable, not printed normally, actually on the final 'a' dunno why they moved on C and P....

    Night-shift pedantry, eh? Still, a job's a job.....

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by stek View Post
    Сталинград or Волгоград, no accents on the Cyrillic 'd'
    Sorry

    Now go to Wikipedia and fix it - I just cut'n'paste when it comes to Cyrillic

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  • stek
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    Volgograd

    or Волгогра́д if you prefer

    (Although if you insist on your archaic formulation: Сталингра́д​)
    Сталинград or Волгоград, no accents on the Cyrillic 'd'

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  • Diver
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    They said it was going to warm up in South Wales. NO MORE SNOW!

    Well it started snowing 1/2 hour ago and has already dropped over an inch of snow.

    LIARS!

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  • suityou01
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    Originally posted by Paddy View Post
    My thermometer was frozen up. I had to thaw it out in order to read it however, it was warmer than I seemed.
    Well, it was sooo cold this morning I had to melt my breath before I could hear what I just said.

    HTH

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  • Diver
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Where is the bleeding BBQ Summer! I am still waiting!
    Russkies!

    They never could handle the cold

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  • AtW
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    Where is the bleeding BBQ Summer! I am still waiting!

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  • Diver
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    Originally posted by Paddy View Post
    My thermometer was frozen up. I had to thaw it out in order to read it however, it was warmer than I seemed.

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  • Paddy
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    Originally posted by Diver View Post
    Bleeding freezing here this morning -4 deg on my thermometer. took me 1/2 hour to unfreeze the locks on my car, then had to rock the car back and forth because the back brakes were frozen on!
    My thermometer was frozen up. I had to thaw it out in order to read it however, it was warmer than I seemed.

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  • Diver
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    Originally posted by wxman View Post
    Actually it IS accurate but only covers the County of Leicestershire. England as it runs on a quad core desktop PC "Server".

    To expand the forecast area any further would require massive processing power which I do not have.
    Ah! we're talking a micro-climate then. understandable.
    I live hafe way up a mountainside in Wales, we have snow when people in Brighton are sunbathing

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  • wxman
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    Forecast for my home (Mountsorrel / Rothley) @ 09:00am

    forecast Actual
    Temp -3C -4.7C
    Dew Point -6C -6C
    Pressure 1014Mb 1013Mb
    Weather Clear Clear

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  • wxman
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    Actually it IS accurate but only covers the County of Leicestershire. England as it runs on a quad core desktop PC "Server".

    To expand the forecast area any further would require massive processing power which I do not have.

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  • Diver
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    Originally posted by wxman View Post
    Hmm!

    That could be accurate if you were travelling from the south of France to Florida and back via the North Pole and collecting met data on the way

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  • wxman
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    Write your own weather forecast

    http://www.stormtrack.co.uk/Pages/Weather-Forecast.aspx

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  • Diver
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    Bleeding freezing here this morning -4 deg on my thermometer. took me 1/2 hour to unfreeze the locks on my car, then had to rock the car back and forth because the back brakes were frozen on!

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