Natural Global / Regional Happenings

[Anthony Darby]

Sky?

I used to blame the BBC!

[Martinr]

This was the view from the bath tonight, 
Unheard of in this part of Yorkshire!

What? having a bath! 

[Hoy]

My mistake, got my Norwegian places muddled.

Understandable - I often get many places mixed up myself

[ronm]

What? having a bath! 

I was whinging all last night about our little storm that blew through. Then we wake up to this news.   I feel a right idiot! 

http://www.smh.com.au/world/frankenstorm-kills-44-before-reaching-us-20121027-28cfz.html

[Anthony Darby]

What? having a bath! 

Isn't that where you keep the coal?

[Maggi Young]

I was whinging all last night about our little storm that blew through. Then we wake up to this news.   I feel a right idiot! 

http://www.smh.com.au/world/frankenstorm-kills-44-before-reaching-us-20121027-28cfz.html

Quite so, Ron - a humbling experience for those like me moaning about a little early snow.

[ichristie]

hello you are quite right we are very lucky here and I really like the snow just a bit early. I took some pictures today now most of the snow has gone, the crocus is banaticus albus, the squirell is cheeky blighter cheers Ian.

[Paul T]

Ron,

Snow, or flooding?

Ian,

That squirrel is SOoooo cute.

[Rogan]

"And the seaweed fell to earth, 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/9461243/Weird-weather-rains-seaweed-over-Gloucestershire-village.html"

Excuse me for being sceptical (and so late!) but that "seaweed" looks awfully like Nostoc, a blue-green alga species that often grows prolifically on damp soil; I collect it regularly for use in our practical classes - but then who am I to judge from way down under   

[Anthony Darby]

This had been picked up by a water spout from a beach 20 miles away.  You can see from the picture it is on a concrete driveway.

[ronm]

Apparently its been 61 years since this happened to this extent!

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/china/national-news/2012/11/05/359910/Blizzard-alert.htm

[Anthony Darby]

Wasn't Hercule Poirot on the train then?

[Rogan]

"Stunned engineer Dr Richard Overton, 55, and his wife Kay, collected an entire bucket full of the green slime from their front garden."

I'm still going on about the "seaweed" report - I still maintain that most of what was collected is Nostoc; here the keywords "slime" and "front garden" are significant - exactly what Nostoc feels / looks like and where it grows naturally. Oh! Why am I going on about this so? In the end it makes no difference really...    

[Anthony Darby]

What ever it is or was, it started its life in water and was picked up elsewhere and deposited. It certainly didn't grow there.

[John Aipassa]

Complaining about snow? Hah! You should look at this:

http://www.buzzhunt.co.uk/2010/12/29/snow-roads-in-japan/