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was that cornwall!! i just saw the clip but missed where it was.

have to say it seems to have been a rain-filled august this year.. the lawn has been heard growing what with all the warmth, rain and lack of mowing it never seems to dry out enough for me to mow it in between soakings!

i have enjoyed the lightening watching, thunder listening and downpour experiencing with my toddler though

edit: over-extensive italics!!!!!!!

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Just seen the headlines from Cornwall. Glad I don't live there ...

Oh, and Pancake, that photo of yours resembled the inside of my public library a week ago

Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

Here's a pic from another big storm. It's of a tornado that's in it's 1st stages...and it was forming a mile away from my house!
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The weather's been weird here too...

In May we got "The Storm of The Century"... 8" of rain in an hour and a half! Needless to say 75% of the people in the area got water in their basements...

2 weeks later we got another "The Storm of The Century"...about the same amount of rain in about the same time frame! We usually don't get much rain...usually the worst storms every summer are about 3" of rain in 2 hours or so...but it's been a weird summer...

From these storms we've had some bad flash floods. Each of the storms caused the river that runs thru the town (normally 25-30 feet wide) to widen to 150-200 feet wide! The water picked up picnic tables, trees, gargabe barrels, etc and carried them miles down stream.

Several streets became rivers. In some streets in town there was 2-3' of water. Of course all of this is nothing compared to cars being smashed into houses etc, but it was a lot of water considering that in SD, it's hard to flood anything because the whole state is flat and the water just disperses everywhere, it can't pile up...
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DRO

How about I'll send you a tank full of CoLd air, and you send me one w/ LR? Sounds fair to me...:%)

-Formerly known as the Ferretfish

Last night we had breif power fluctuations and then last night (midnight) we had a complete power failure which lasted about an hour so all fish were fine. Lack of heaters not an issue of course.

Kim

I love british weather, I love rain and i love thunderstorms.

But I still wouldn't trade it in for anything...well maybe a 200gallon reef tank...

Send me your A/C and Ill send you my tank......you pay shipping on both of course

haha i've had central air in my house since I was born, so I completely love it. But I have a lot of friends who don't have it, so I kinda get used to both. The worst is coming inside from the pool when your wet and its like 70* in the house, that gives you a headache. Or when you come inside after being in the 105* hot tub...that feels a little weird. But I still wouldn't trade it in for anything...well maybe a 200gallon reef tank...

-Formerly known as the Ferretfish

Just lately, the British weather is an even bigger source of frustration than is usually the case. I know that we Brits have a reputation for endlessly moaning about the weather, but recently, conditions have been all over the place.

First of all, thunderstorms. Once upon a time, if conditions were warm and stickily humid, a thunderstorm would come along, and afterwards, the humidity levels would drop, the temperature would be a few degrees lower, and everyone would be feeling duly refreshed. We've had four big thunderstorms in my neighbourhood in the past week, and NONE of them have made the slightest bit of difference. It's still sticky and humid, to the point where even washing myself four times per day isn't enough to keep me from smelling like an old dishrag. Moreover, for some reason, anti-perspirants just don't work anymore. Ok, this is probably because mine are cheap and nasty, but I'm not shelling out 30 on a bottle of Medallion Man special just because it has a fancy designer label - not when for the same money, I can get eight more Panda Corys, or bring the big breeding aquarium up to full operational status and set about making some money courtesy of Mata Hari's limitless propensity to hitch her petticoats for the boys

But back to the weather. The heat would be more tolerable if it wasn't accompanied by a level of humidity that makes some people's fishrooms seem like the Sahara Desert. I may keep fish, but that doesn't mean I want to live in an aquarium! On those thunderstorm-ridden days mentioned above, the humidity has been such that if my Panda Corys wanted to, they could have gone carpet surfing and not noticed that they were out of water. And, I'm having to use alternative net facilities because the main library in town has been flooded out to such an extent that the staff found themselves having to canoe up and down the corridors. And to cap it all, Tuesday night (August 10th, 2004) saw the appearance of fog. FOG? IN AUGUST? You'd better believe it. A real pea souper at that - visibility outside my windows was down to 50 yards. And the air temperature was 18C. I measured it with a digital thermometer. This has to be some kind of a joke, surely?

We Brits have always complained that the British weather is woeful, but at least in the past it was predictably woeful. As in torrential downpours whenever a Bank Holiday appeared in the calendar. Followed by 80F plus sunshine when everyone had to go back to work, usually accompanied by a mass failure of office air conditioning systems up and down the land. But recently, even the Met Office was caught on the hop. They've spent something like 100 MILLION on a computer system that makes the average PC look about as powerful as a piece of wet string, a gargantuan supercomputer capable (in theory at least) of running atmospheric simulations in pretty close to real time. Yet even the Met Office's very own version of Deep Thought found that the answer to Life, The Universe And Everything was, on this occasion, not forty-two. The result was a complete failure to predict the floods that turned several streets in my home town into impromptu boating lakes, and a rueful wish on my part that someone would design a reliable and efficient amphibious bicycle

Compare this with the same time last year - 100F in places, and my own house (well, calling it a 'house' is to bestow upon it a level of grandeur it doesn't deserve - what I live in is more correctly described as a brick shack) was a microwave oven that wiped out 75% of my first ever batch of live Panda babies. This year, I'm wearing a snorkel and flippers to pick up the milk from the corner shop. And if I leave the lid off the aquarium, I might find the Pencil Fish coming to join me in front of the PC and watch me type this post. But then they're always nosy

Still, at least the Buddleias in the garden (another misuse of a noun there - what I have is a recreation of the Burmese jungle from World War II) are happy. At least, if the growth spurt they've put on is a reliable indication of happiness. One of them is now 16 feet tall. But much more of this rampant humidity accompanied by Niagara downpours, and I'll be growing Sonneratia mangroves instead. And my driveway will become home to a family of Mudskippers.

Perhaps our distant evolutionary ancestors should have followed the example of the dolphins, and taken to an aquatic existence full time. Then we wouldn't need to maintain reef aquaria, we could just set up home by the nearest reef and go fish watching whenever we wanted. Instead of a labrador sitting at my feet, I could have a dogfish. I could delegate the housework to several thousand Turbo Snails and a brace of hermit crabs. If I needed a bus service, I'd just hitch a lift on a passing Manta Ray, Remora style. And when it came time to settle down to domestic bliss, there'd be all those nice mermaids to choose from as the other half. A definite improvement on some of the women in my neighbourhood, I can tell you

Still, one has to laugh. The only other alternative is to go stark raving mad. Although given what I've just written, perhaps I already am. Which would not surprise me in the least - the recent weather has been enough to send even the most level headed of individuals on a one way trip to the funny farm ...



Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

call, did you see on the news the flash floods they've had in cornwall? some little village i used to go for day trips to when i lived in devon got rivered, films of cars floating down the road and crashing into houses etc.

still, i'm quite glad the weather's like this, i like it in general, plus i've spent 2 of the last 3 weeks in spain and croatia cqrrying heavy bags around in 35 degrees, so it's nice to be able to move out of the house without melting.

well thank you cali for a good laugh

This was the most fun I've had listening to a pom complain about the weather in... well... forever

*agrees with moondog*

actually I'm the same way about using the heat in winter .

^_^

This is the where I feel like marrying the guy who invented air conditioning.

air conditioning is an evil invention designed to lull you into believing that it's nicer outside than it really is i hate using the a/c and this is coming from someone who grew up in texas (without a/c of course) not having it means you're more adjusted to the outside temp. and yeah, that means you're sweating more than normal, but at least you don't get that nasty shock when you've been inside and 68 and step outside and 110 causing you to get a massive headache that lasts forever ]:|

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"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman

We've had four big thunderstorms in my neighbourhood in the past week, and NONE of them have made the slightest bit of difference. It's still sticky and humid, to the point where even washing myself four times per day isn't enough to keep me from smelling like an old dishrag.

Welcome to Maryland!

That's about all I can say. I remember being shot down a few months ago for saying I was going to miss the blue sky...it's not because (as I attempted to explain in the post) I'm inside hiding in the destructive coolness of the AC, nope it's just because in maryland the blue sky doesn't exsist. I was sitting outside this morning around 7:30 drinking some coffee (it was mostly ovaltine and milk and soymilk but it's alot easier to just say coffee) looking up @the sky. If I concentrated hard enough I could almost half way immagine that there was blue up there, it seemed just a little bit more clearer than usual, somewhat like the color of the anal fin on the FP fish....however that was only after I managed to squint past so much humidity that most people would have considered to be fog....but fog doesn't survive all day, when it's supposedly "sunny".
I believe that whetu finally understands, it's not the heat, it's the humidity.

Suppose I can't complain too much, we havent made it to 110 yet this summer *thanks all the weather gods*

^_^

This is the where I feel like marrying the guy who invented air conditioning.

-Formerly known as the Ferretfish

Weather all over the world is going a little screwy this year. In my part of the US, we normally have 1 or 2 tornados for the entire state per year, but just in my general vicinity (less than an hour away) there has been about 5 in the last month. Couple that with the fact that, in the Atlantic, we've had 5 tropical systems develop in the last 2 weeks, including the most powerful hurricane to hit the US in over a decade, and I think it is safe to say this has been an odd year, climatologically.

Even though it's not back yet (and won't be until this winter), I just feel like blaming it on El Nino. Stupid El Nino.

And, remember, it's not the heat, it's the gosh durn humidity.

Joe Potato