Latest Moan From You and Me 2025

I agree, @Fat Controller. We had a 12-hr yellow warning for disruption to transport and infrastructure ... and yet, apart from a heavy 30 mins of rain in the early evening, the rest of the day was perfectly normal.

Then you read headlines saying "shut all curtains and windows from Wednesday" and you wonder if there are swarms of locusts or similar on their way, but no, it is just the temps are going to "soar" to 25 degrees. FGS! We live in just about the most benign weather location in the world, which is why, 38 yrs on from a particularly stormy Oct night in 1987, we still refer to it! Even that only lasted from about midnight to 6 am. Hardly hurricane season or weeks of monsoon!

 

We only had a bit of light rain, nowt heavy no thunder

 

We still talk about the summer of 1976 as well.

 

Most BBC programmes (not that I watch them much) seem to have an announcement afterwards that if you've been affected by any issues in this programme ring this number etc. Maybe they should do the same for the news or weather. Or maybe they should have trigger warnings before the news and weather. Or maybe the weather boys/girls should have to issue a disclaimer that they maybe wrong and you should not alter your plans.

 

OH has weather apps on his mobile phone and his Chrome book and they often give different predictions from the one I mostly follow for our local area on the French météo site. At least with mine I can check the radar and watch rain clouds coming in or passing by and I can see who's getting lightning strikes and, on another page, who's having strong winds but that's the now, not the forecast.

Add to that the nearest meteorological station being 23kms north and further inland and I can be having very difefrent weather. Sometimes you have to use common sense and adapt your plans.

 

Indeed we do! Though, TBF, that did last for an extended period and involved shortages, restrictions, etc. I remember it well, taking A level exams is a sports' hall with no windows to open and just one door at the front. Absolutely stifling ... and in those days, no one carried a water bottle as standard. So, a 3 hr afternoon exam, followed by a long commute home (walk, bus, train, walk) in the rush hr, was quite draining!

 

We now seem to have 'Yellow Weather Warnings' whenever anything more than a light shower is forecast. Telling people to stay off the road, don't travel unless absolutely necessary..... We've had heavy rain since time immemorial, and survived. The 'Nanny State' has gone beyond madness.
Where I live was slap bang in the middle of the warning area yesterday and we had about half and hour of heavy rain, with light rain for about 30 minutes either side of it. The boy who cried wolf is likely to be the long term effect. People won't believe the forecasts at all.

 

Sitting in Edinburgh during the summer of 1976 and watching the haar blow in every afternoon, I remember wondering what all the fuss was about as I donned my windproof cagoule.

 

1976….the one and only time my legs got sun “burnt”.

 

I remember it well......My son was born in October that year!

 

What is really astonishing when you see photos of packed out lidos, with barely room to move never mind swim, is that the stand-out feature is everyone in the photo is "normal" size. It is a dramatic illustration that obesity as an epidemic that had not started then and if we want to trace the cause, and therefore instigate a reversal, we need to look at what changed in the 80s to get us to where we are now. Weight loss jabs are at best a temporary stopgap to treat the symptoms.

 

Socks are not made like they used to be 6 weeks and there holed Nice feet Jiffy