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Welcome to Old John's blog!
18 May 2009 10:46 PM
Today, Monday, while waiting for the heating engineer to give our heating system its one year service, I thought I would spend a little time in the garden; it's all 'pottering' now the hard work is out of the way.
Everytime I put on my boots, to go in the garden, the weather changed-almost at a blink of and eye-one minute being warm and dry and the next cold and wet.
After about an hour of waiting, I ventured out and when it was not raining, it was a beautiful morning but, not for long. The next twenty minutes saw me in and out of the house, as it poured down with rain, several times and, in the end, I gave in and decided to do some work on the computer.
Three years ago, when we first came to live in the house we are now in, the bad weather was blamed on 'elninyo, sorry about the spelling but I think the Spanish translation means 'little child.'
The second year was blamed on 'global warming' and it looks as though this year's excuse, for unseasonable weather is going to be the 'jet stream. '
The Jet Stream, for people that are not familier with the term, is a stream of air that is in the north and south 'spheares.' of the world.
The Jet Stream, called that because hen jets were able to get into the stream of air, they were carried along and fuel could be saved.
I think, if I am not mistaken, that the 'jet stream' is about 12 miles high.
The current of air was not know about until as late as the ending of the second world war. I will go into that a little deeper if you so ask me to.
Anyway, it is now thought, because of the global warming, that the jet stream is moving further north and that this is the cause of us getting so much bad weather in England.
Not enough is know about the 'jet stream,' to say for sure what the stream will do next but I wonder, if we carry on gettin bad weather, as we seem to be doing again this summer, what the answere the 'weather men' will come up with this time.
I remember, when I was a boy in school, we were told that the weather was so unsettled, in England, because of the mountain reagion running up the middle of the country. The mountains are know as the back bone of the country. How things have changed since my youth.
By for now,
John.
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