The Reids

Following up to Wolfgang Schwanke

    >Rather, avoid tectonic plate boundaries. Sometimes they coincide with
    >coasts or mountain chains, but not always. And not all coasts and mountains
    >are plate boundaries.

indeed not, as far as Europe is concerned it runs down through
Iceland under the sea down to the Canaries and then there is the
Africa/Europe collision zone through the Med. In the US of course
the boundary runs down the west coast.
--
Mike Reid
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Tony Day

"nightjar .uk.com>" <nightjar@<insert_my_surname_here> wrote in message
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    > > Britain has occasionally been hit by hurricanes.
    > Technically, a hurricane is a tropical rotating storm and they don't get
as
    > far as Britain. Hurricane force winds in Britain are classed as severe
    > storms, although the media prefer to call them hurricanes. Records for the
    > past 70 years show seven windstorms that caused significant structural
    > damage across the UK, with others causing major damage in localised
areas..

Surely on the Beaufort scale force 12 is a "Hurricane force"? Though a
hurricane force wind does not always indicate a hurricane which, as you say,
is a particular type of storm.

We get the very, very occasional force 12s around the British coast. More
often 11 (Violent storm) or 10 (Storm) - which the media are just as likely
to call a hurricane!

Tony

Tony Day

"The Reids" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > Following up to Tony Day
    > >> Perhaps well in from the coast in south central Spain but not far
enough
    > >> in to get mountains.
    > >
    > >Crap. No volcanoes in Spain. Mountains ALL near coast! (Sierra Nevada in
    > >south, Pyrenees in north)
    > except Teide :-) (There are mountains away from coast as well
    > (Gredos for instance)).

Teide's cheating! Dunno Gredos! Where be?

Actually, Teide's nearer the coast than most of the others!

Tony

The Reids

Following up to Tony Day

    >> except Teide :-) (There are mountains away from coast as well
    >> (Gredos for instance)).
    >Teide's cheating! Dunno Gredos! Where be?

near Madrid

    >Actually, Teide's nearer the coast than most of the others!

from the summit you look down pretty much onto the sea (clouds
accepted)
--
Mike Reid
climbing Teide at "http:/www.fell-walker.co.uk/page66.htm"

Nightjar

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    > Following up to strawberry icecream
    > >I was wondering where in the world posters would recommend for the
perfect
    > >climate?
    > The Balearics have got a pretty good climate but I like some snow
    > in winter so wouldn't do for me. All the places I have been fail
    > to have the best climate at all seasons. Spain is too hot in
    > summer, the English Lake District has enough snow for me but not
    > enough for ski developments, god so far, but is too wet in
    > summer. Northern Italy has too much fog. Cornwall is pretty good,
    > good light, not humid, plenty of variety[1], big seas in winter,
    > if it just had some snowy mountains in the middle!

The answer, of course, is to have houses in all the places you like and move
between them, according to the season.

Colin Bignell

Nightjar

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...
    > Surely on the Beaufort scale force 12 is a "Hurricane force"? Though a
    > hurricane force wind does not always indicate a hurricane which, as you
say,
    > is a particular type of storm.

Precisely. We have had hurricane force winds, but no hurricanes. The great
storm of 1987 was only the fourth most severe on record while winds of up to
142mph were recorded in 2002.

Colin Bignell

Nightjar

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    > Following up to Frank F. Matthews
    > >Britain has occasionally been hit by hurricanes. Again very
    > >uncommon but it can happen. I suppose that the east side might be safe
    > >for disasters.
    > In don't think "hurricanes", we had what was called a hurricane a
    > few years back but I don't think it reached the official wind
    > speed.

Over 63 knots (72mph) is hurricane force and the October 1987 storm exceeded
100 mph.

Severe storms (the official name for hurricane force winds in the UK) are
not that rare. We live in one of the windiest countries in Europe. A storm
on Burns Night 1990 reached hurricane force in some areas and cost the
insurance industry about the same as the 1987 storm (around £2 billion).
Three consecutive days in October 2000 culminated in winds of up to 96mph,
while 2002 saw over 140mph recorded in January and over 100 mph in October.
Lists of storms going back as far as the Great Storm of 1703 suggest that
this is not uncommon. However, what made the 1987 storm unusual was that it
hit SE England, instead of the far more usual and much less populated target
of NW Scotland.

Colin Bignell

Nightjar

"Keith Willshaw" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > "Frank F. Matthews" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > > There was a reference to earthquakes. They may be uncommon but they do
    > > occur. Britain has occasionally been hit by hurricanes. Again very
    > > uncommon but it can happen. I suppose that the east side might be safe
    > > for disasters.
    > >
    > A bad assumption, Atlantic hurricanes create a massive
    > storm surge in the north sea which due to the way
    > in narrows down north to south can produce
    > extensive flooding on the east coast if it coincides
    > with spring or autumn tides.
    > The last such event killed hundreds of people in the
    > winter of 1953.

A similar, but less severe, event happened in the early 1980s. In that case,
the coastal defences protected against the surge until it had bounced off
the French coast and hit the South Coast of England. ISTR it was the first
use of the Thames Barrier, which saved London but contributed to the
flooding of the South Coast. Sea defences in many places along the South
Coast were raised by several feet as a result.

Colin Bignell

The Reids

Following up to "nightjar"
<nightjar@<insert_my_surname_here>.uk.com>

    >> The Balearics have got a pretty good climate but I like some snow
    >> in winter so wouldn't do for me. All the places I have been fail
    >> to have the best climate at all seasons. Spain is too hot in
    >> summer, the English Lake District has enough snow for me but not
    >> enough for ski developments, god so far, but is too wet in
    >> summer. Northern Italy has too much fog. Cornwall is pretty good,
    >> good light, not humid, plenty of variety[1], big seas in winter,
    >> if it just had some snowy mountains in the middle!
    >The answer, of course, is to have houses in all the places you like and move
    >between them, according to the season.

Except I don't believe in ownership of multiple houses, the less
houses on our small island the better. Own one small house and
stay in rented/hotel/tent.
--
Mike Reid
"Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso
Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
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Nightjar

"The Reids" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > Following up to "nightjar"
    > <nightjar@<insert_my_surname_here>.uk.com>
    > >> The Balearics have got a pretty good climate but I like some snow
    > >> in winter so wouldn't do for me. All the places I have been fail
    > >> to have the best climate at all seasons. Spain is too hot in
    > >> summer, the English Lake District has enough snow for me but not
    > >> enough for ski developments, god so far, but is too wet in
    > >> summer. Northern Italy has too much fog. Cornwall is pretty good,
    > >> good light, not humid, plenty of variety[1], big seas in winter,
    > >> if it just had some snowy mountains in the middle!
    > >
    > >The answer, of course, is to have houses in all the places you like and
move
    > >between them, according to the season.
    > Except I don't believe in ownership of multiple houses, the less
    > houses on our small island the better. Own one small house and
    > stay in rented/hotel/tent.

Only two of the five environments you mention are on our small island and
the advantage of owning a holiday home is that you don't need to carry more
with you than a passport and a book to read on the 'plane. The disadvantage
is that you feel obliged to take more holidays, so as to make best use of
it.

Colin Bignell

The Reids

Following up to "nightjar"
<nightjar@<insert_my_surname_here>.uk.com>

    >Only two of the five environments you mention are on our small island

Damn, caught out there. I think i'm supposed to say something
about Dutch peacekeepers now.

    >and
    >the advantage of owning a holiday home is that you don't need to carry more
    >with you than a passport and a book to read on the 'plane. The disadvantage
    >is that you feel obliged to take more holidays, so as to make best use of
    >it.

That's a big problem, you see people loaded down with stuff
instead of luggage, to do repairs and generally behave as if they
are at home, instead of enjoying themselves.
--
Mike Reid
"Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso
Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
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S Viemeister

The Reids wrote:
    >
    > That's a big problem, you see people loaded down with stuff
    > instead of luggage, to do repairs and generally behave as if they
    > are at home, instead of enjoying themselves.
    >
Ah - but there are people who find that sort of thing very enjoyable!

Sheila

Nightjar

"The Reids" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > Following up to "nightjar"
    > <nightjar@<insert_my_surname_here>.uk.com>
...
    > >and
    > >the advantage of owning a holiday home is that you don't need to carry
more
    > >with you than a passport and a book to read on the 'plane. The
disadvantage
    > >is that you feel obliged to take more holidays, so as to make best use of
    > >it.
    > That's a big problem, you see people loaded down with stuff
    > instead of luggage, to do repairs and generally behave as if they
    > are at home, instead of enjoying themselves.

I don't even do that myself at home and it does much more for relations with
the community to get the village artisan in to do the work.

Colin Bignell