The Great British Weather

i have a black belt in origami.

Did it take you long to make?

i could kill you with a thought.

Man, I feel better after that little vent.

I'm off to burn some tyres in a nature reserve.

thought it was snowing, but it's just the wind whipping the rain upwards/sideways/all around...

Every time I see the phrase climate change denier I think of waterproof tights.

Waterproof tights would be well handy.

luckily my skin's waterproof so I don't need them.

My take on 'climate change' (itself a euphemism) is very simple. I think what's happening is that weather phenomena are getting more extreme, as there's more water released and more energy for movement. Admittedly, this is a totally unscientific view. I see it very much as analogous to what I know about how human traffic behaves, i.e. if you create more and more opportunity for movement, traffic will distribute itself unevenly, gravitating disproportionately to major centres and not staying in smaller centres. I do know someone who is very up on climate science and he agrees that it's a good basic analogy, even though the science takes quite a few more intermediate steps to explain the process.

bless your "ruthless german efficiency"(TM)

It's getting very windy down here in Cornwall!

put a sail on it

i remember when climate change was called global warming and before that it was the ozone and before that and so on...

contrails think you mean chemtrails?

they were talking about a new ice age back in the 70's ... no really

I'd love that. Cheap skiing for all.

I'd love that. Cheap skiing for all.

Skiing is nonsense so I am out.

price of 1980's and 1990's ski's, boots and skiwear would soar

fake snow?

FAKE SNOW being Reported all over the U.S. - YouTube

real snow and ice storm about to happen over the east coast

Informed comment here with a casual dose of sexism thrown in for good measure:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/12/nigel-lawson-met-office-floods-global-warming

For a given value of "informed".

Oh, highly informed.

I love it when people go 'that there's no evidence for X is evidence for not-X'.

After buckets of rain, clear skies blowing in from the West ...

seems about right

It would appear we are having the most unsettled weather on Earth at the moment...

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-6.00,42.86,567

that is beautiful

Crazy! Looking at the Roaring 40s in the Southern hemisphere, I can see where the name comes from!