Old Weather Forum

Hi All We have just had a significant storm pass over Southern UK. In addition to a report on damage the BBC mentioned that tea might taste slightly different due to the low pressure reducing the boiling point of water. I didn't notice that, but the item prompted me to check my barometer. It read 96...

The reference to a hand puppet & seasickness reminds me of a wonderful flight to a ski-ing holiday once, with a group of friends, including one, Mark, who kept the whole plane amused with the adventures of Hughie the sick bag puppet. The same character fell into the canal from a punt outside the...

You guys are wonderful. Thank you. All the best.

Hi Yes I did keep bees. In fact my late wife was the beekeeper, but I kept a hive on after she died. This summer they left, sadly, so at present I have none. However, it is a good opportunity to clean, sanitise & refurbish the hive over the winter & put in new foundation etc in the hope that...

Thanks to you both for the warnings. So far it has not been too bad, although I have only done the first part of her first journey, ie Hampton Roads to San Francisco Bay. She goes off to Alsaka etc before I finish even the first journey. My biggest problem is that nothing happens on the journeys. Ev...

Hi I am Keith, better known to the longer standing members of this group as Tegwen. (Who was our dog, when I first started on this project, now sadly deceased.) I have been active on OW since 2010. I was a transcriber, then editor of the WW1 ships & have had 9 of those edited ships logs publishe...