Musings from the Merse
Monday, February 02, 2009
Snow Eventing. Duns Dings 'A
What the Terror Striking Service of the BBC (Blether Centre) has been calling a 'significant snow event' for England and Wales has reached Duns (Scotland)and frustrated plans for Phase One of the garden at the Small House in Duns. Emulating Country Strife the Wife was hoping to have a crack at the veggie plot having disposed of the remains of the prolific Sprouts harvest. No chance of that until the event has taken place, medals distributed and we can draw a line in the slush and move on.
You may remember the Two Ronnies Headline :
'News of Panic Buying in Scotland. There is none'
Yer man in Joe's claimed on Saturday that so grim were the SEVERE WEATHER WARNINGS that he had noticed twitchy if not outright panic purchasing. Candles, matches, kindling wood, stiff bristled yard brushes and a run on the cash machines as if the Royal Bank of Scotland's liquid assets were to freeze overnight and the replenishment Securicor species wagons could not reach Duns on Monday. The wife in the spirit of all this has laid in a calor gas camping stove to ride out the power cuts and we managed to get one of the last bags of seasoned hardwood from Pearsons which had been well panic bought over the weekend judging from the state of its timber section
The images are taken some hours apart. As of early evening the BBC Terrorists are predicting an Olympic Style snow event. And the warning has been upgraded to
EXTREME
This is apparently more serious than SEVERE . One word left in the eventing vocab:
DIRE
Labels: BBC Blether Centre, Panic buying, Weather warnings. Snow
Comments:
and what happened? 2" of snow that hung around for nearly 12 hours?
I got called to collect the littl'un from school and the only hazards were the glare off the snow from the sun in the unbroken blue sky and the meltwater from the snow on the ground - followed by a day off because of the expected snow (in fact there is not a flake remaining)
I got called to collect the littl'un from school and the only hazards were the glare off the snow from the sun in the unbroken blue sky and the meltwater from the snow on the ground - followed by a day off because of the expected snow (in fact there is not a flake remaining)
Indeed Duns also sweltering under a clear blue sky. Its really hard to believe the BBC. Try 'Metcheck'. Its much more accurate
The only accurate method is "Look out of your window" (the backup to that is the NPTOHC weather station at Greenlaw)- the stuff put about by any meteorological organisation is "for guidance only" at best in my experience.
Look out of your window in the Small House in Duns is misleading. We are so sheltered it must be windless. And our neighbour's windows are wide open-it must be warm. NPTOHC is worth a try but is almost as stridently alarmist in its garish colours as the BBC Terror Centre
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