Let’s face it ... if we could control rainfall farmers wouldn’t spend a fortune on irrigation and Australia wouldn’t have burnt to a frazzle a couple of months ago.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Herbaceous, we used to live under the Gatwick flightpath in Lingfield, the only plane we ever see here, and thats occasional, is little light aircraft, and rarely a helicopter. I hope man never learns to control the weather, I can see a big mess, there would be a price to pay.
I've had no rain for 3 weeks. Water butts are already empty as have had to fill up the garden pond and water my pots and containers. I've also just lost a bamboo in a large container because I wasn't paying much attention to it being so early in the Spring and the container is as dry as a bone. Normally I wouldn't have to water it until the end of May/June. I've just been on to the BBC Weather and its long-range forecast for the next two weeks shows no rain up to 25th April. What happened to the April showers?
Is it me or is anybody thinking the lack of aircraft movements is resulting in less cloud seeding caused by pollution? The amount of blue clear sky in April seems unprecedented. Have we any weather experts out there who can offer some comment.
I do remember after 9/11 when no planes flew in America for 3 days that they reckoned the average daytime temperature rose by around 1.7C. Just wondering if the lack of flights is having an impact on the weather again.
Lack of aircraft movements. I don't think so. Look at this lot. What chance of containing the pandemic with this much traffic?
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
My Mum was adamant that really wet or dry weather was the result of the conflict between the USA and USSR and they were stealing each others rain. Apparently The USA wanted the Russian wheat crops to fail and vice versa and we got caught in the middle.
It doesn't make sense (she often didn't) but may be understandable for those of a certain age who remember the Cold War.
I grew up in East Anglia surrounded by US and RAF air bases during the cold war. My dad had contact with serving officers at the time. His story was that the US constantly monitored the USSR wheat crop, in fear that it might fail and the Russian tanks would start rolling into Germany starting WW3! So it sounds like a bit of a twist on something with an underlying truth.
Lack of aircraft movements. I don't think so. Look at this lot. What chance of containing the pandemic with this much traffic?
Firstly a lot of those check out to be transport aircraft (click on each aircraft for info), secondly, the aircraft are not to scale, that map is practically empty compared to before the pandemic.
We live right at the end of an airway serving Stansted, Southend and Heathrow, there has been hardly any commercial traffic for the past few weeks at all.
@GemmaJF ... which bit of East Anglia? ... I lived not far from Bentwaters and Woodbridge back then.
We were nearest to Wattisham, small village called Glemsford near Sudbury. Military aircraft daily overhead was the norm. Firstly Lightnings then Phantoms out of Wattisham, F111's out of Lakenheath, transport aircraft from Mildenhall, We got buzzed constantly by extremely low flying A10's out of Bentwaters and Woodbridge during the '80s. We lived right on top of a hill (probably one the only ones in East Anglia), sometimes we could look down on A10 Tankbusters as they went down the valley floor.
Had no idea all these years on the sky would be so quiet and devoid of military aircraft compared to when I grew up. The only military aircraft we see now is the odd Apache out of Wattisham. Any fast jets are historic aircraft out of North Weald.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi this link appears to say planes can affect our rainfall.... https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190131143347.htm
We are desperate for rain here in Oxfordshire and hopefully the forecast showers arrive later this afternoon or the hosepipe is out again tonight.....
On the plus side I can see the castle across the rec and they seem to have cut down on their helicopter jaunts so pretty quiet all round.
What chance of containing the pandemic with this much traffic?
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We live right at the end of an airway serving Stansted, Southend and Heathrow, there has been hardly any commercial traffic for the past few weeks at all.
Had no idea all these years on the sky would be so quiet and devoid of military aircraft compared to when I grew up. The only military aircraft we see now is the odd Apache out of Wattisham. Any fast jets are historic aircraft out of North Weald.