Military 'may have to abandon flood-prone bases'
Met Office told councils to expect a 'drier than normal' Winter - Telegraph
Someone in Government has missed a trick - have not heard them blame the Met Office yet for not warning them
Someone in Government has missed a trick - have not heard them blame the Met Office yet for not warning them
QUOTE: BINBROOK!!! The rain passes over Binbrook horizontal on route to Brize.
a geography and/ or meteorology refresher is recommended.
or Binbrook isn't where I left it, or Brize come to that!
As an ex-Metman of great wisdom and experience, I can divulge that long-range forecasts are useless, always have been, and always will be. The Office has been struggling, totally unsuccessfully, to produce them ever since I courted Mrs LB 55 years ago: she was in the "laboratory" [Met O 12] that was tasked solely with providing just such forecasts. Meanwhile I was next door in Met O 11 running the Ferranti Mercury Mainframe engaged in producing useful short-range stuff that was and still is the world leader.
I shudder to think how much time, energy and money has been spent on the chimera of long range forecasts.
They cannot really stop my pension, can they?
a geography and/ or meteorology refresher is recommended.
or Binbrook isn't where I left it, or Brize come to that!
As an ex-Metman of great wisdom and experience, I can divulge that long-range forecasts are useless, always have been, and always will be. The Office has been struggling, totally unsuccessfully, to produce them ever since I courted Mrs LB 55 years ago: she was in the "laboratory" [Met O 12] that was tasked solely with providing just such forecasts. Meanwhile I was next door in Met O 11 running the Ferranti Mercury Mainframe engaged in producing useful short-range stuff that was and still is the world leader.
I shudder to think how much time, energy and money has been spent on the chimera of long range forecasts.
They cannot really stop my pension, can they?
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Are geese really stupid enough to hit buildings now? If not, then a modest change in temperature won't make any difference. Then again, given some of the procurement going on, I would think a few solid geese slaps to the head are long overdue at the MoD anyway.
The Navy's docks will need to stay ocean-proximate. If the ocean goes up a bit, then that's just life…
The Navy's docks will need to stay ocean-proximate. If the ocean goes up a bit, then that's just life…
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Base hangar with its underfloor heating will make a damn good sauna 
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Be nice to see the Victory floating again.
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RAF Sealand went up and down with the tide!!
Where Warton bolts together sections of Typhoon, they have such a close tolerance that the shop floor moves on computer automated jacks and fricken laser beams compensate for the daily up and down motion.
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Probably weld up the doors, then run a Voyager's bleed air off through some hoses, must be tons lying about as they're not doing a lot these days
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Where Warton bolts together sections of Typhoon, they have such a close tolerance that the shop floor moves on computer automated jacks and fricken l@ser beams compensate for the daily up and down motion.
It matters not what is the absolute position of the two bits to be stuck together, but their relative position. The claimed "matchstick distance off correct" is still quite a lot for a Typhoon, and way more than 2mm in the radius of the Earth.
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Anything under an inch would be better then.
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The Telegraph is an utterly bollocks paper.
True. I read it this morning, thankful that I never actually bought the thing. Very little worth reading in it except Clive James and I am increasingly confused as to its target audience. Ex-Public schoolboys and girls, mostly I guess.*
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(Ref: #10) Quote:
"Who gives a rat's arse about Canada Geese hitting buildings? What makes Abbeywood's buildings more likely to be hit than any other 3 storey buildings in and around Bristol (or the rest of the country). Canada Geese aren't flying into buildings on a regular basis at other locations where they already flock - unless of course all the ones at Abbeywood are blind!"
Or under Air Traffic Control ?
(Couldn't resist - sorry !)
"Who gives a rat's arse about Canada Geese hitting buildings? What makes Abbeywood's buildings more likely to be hit than any other 3 storey buildings in and around Bristol (or the rest of the country). Canada Geese aren't flying into buildings on a regular basis at other locations where they already flock - unless of course all the ones at Abbeywood are blind!"
Or under Air Traffic Control ?
(Couldn't resist - sorry !)
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Well, I did a quick Google and can find one reference to Canada Geese flying into a building and that is the Sands Apartment building in Scarborough, Yorkshire.
And not the whole building, just one end that was painted a very light grey
and blended perfectly with the skyline as the geese flew out to sea.
And not the whole building, just one end that was painted a very light grey
and blended perfectly with the skyline as the geese flew out to sea.