Old Weather Forum

That's the way to do it. Mind you, it's always difficult to tell just what these guys were thinking. When I was on a three month course to be a weather observer in 1971, we were taught how to print numbers and letters so that they were always legible, and so that they were always easily distinguisha...

https://i.cbc.ca/1.7201766.1715481672!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/wildfires-bc-20240511-fort-nelson.jpg The fire is being held 2.5 km from the town. High winds, which were forecast to push the fire into the town yesterday, did not materialize. All but about 50 people from ...

Rain here.

Saving stranded Orcas with whale songs.

How broadcasting the familiar calls of female killer whales saved two males from starvation in an isolated Alaska lagoon.

27 January
Port au Prince, Haiti

An Eclipse of the moon was observed from about 8:30 to 10 P.M.

27 January 1869
Port au Prince, Haiti

An Eclipse of the moon was observed from about 8:30 to 10 P.M.

Here's a visualization of flying into a black hole from NASA. It's very interesting.

The OW Tools post is very helpful. It lists the tools on the tools website. You will find the Find Place tool very useful.

Internet problems here. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I came back here sometime after I thought I submitted the post, just to see that the form was still open, so I clicked Submit again. :roll: In the meantime, I'll go back to watching the little blue circle carry on spinning round an...

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty told Alice, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

I read this this morning, and I thought it was so appropriate for this in which we are living.

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty told Alice, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

I read this this morning, and I thought it was so appropriate for this in which we are living.

I've reserved this year.

16 November
Gosport Navy Yard, Virginia

1130 A. M.

Turned the ship over to the authorities of the Yard by order of Rear Adm S. C. Rowan. Hauled down the Ensign and Pennant.