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Re: Ain't RW weather clever?
Posted: 17 Dec 2009, 09:49
by Garry Russell
So then Simon
What's the weather like in Shap??
Re: Ain't RW weather clever?
Posted: 17 Dec 2009, 12:23
by WhisperJet
Good shot, I just love that Ryanair paint on the 1-11!
Makes me want to go home and fly!
May report Vienna's white today, check it out here:
http://www.earthtv.com/de/camera-locati ... enstadt-de
Great site by the way to check if RW in FS is according to reality...
All the best,
Nick
Re: Ain't RW weather clever?
Posted: 17 Dec 2009, 22:01
by Badgerman
...best weather report I've heard was in the Canadian Arctic in October 1981... it went:
"Today's forecast: Dark. Continued darkness until sometime in April, when hopefully the sun will return, assuming any of us have avoided freezing to death..."
-20 in Sunny Ottawa today... hope the snow doesn't hit the Southeast UK as hard as the BBC forecasts were making out...
Mark
Re: Ain't RW weather clever?
Posted: 18 Dec 2009, 10:31
by simondix
Garry Russell wrote:So then Simon
What's the weather like in Shap??
The usual!
Re: Ain't RW weather clever?
Posted: 18 Dec 2009, 11:22
by DispatchDragon
There used to be an old boy who worked the tower at Lasham for Dan Air many many years ago -- his forecast usually started with -- "well, I can see the church" which meant you had 2.5 miles visibility.
Vegas is currently reporting 10SM (its dark outside) clear and +6 nice morning as usual (weather here does tend to be boring)
Leif
Re: Ain't RW weather clever?
Posted: 18 Dec 2009, 11:54
by speedbird591
Totally off the wall here, Leif, but that story dislodged a brain cell. I used to live in Alton, close to Lasham, and one of the regulars in the Market Hotel was a red-bearded scotsman called Fraser, whose ambition in life was to empty the pub of alcoholic drinks. He never succeeded as he couldn't grasp the concept of more deliveries. But no matter, that's even more irrelevant.
Anyway, he was a ground engineer for Dan-Air at Lasham and his accent made him barely comprehensible when he was sober. One lunchtime, when asked what he wanted to drink, he made several attempts to make himself understood and not one of us had the faintest idea what he was trying to say. Eventually he got so frustrated that he took his false teeth out, slammed them on the bar and said, quite clearly, '
They'll tell you what I want!'
Bless him, he did take us over to Lasham one day to show us round Adnan Kashoggi's personal 727 when it was in for a service. Not that I remember much about it ...
Ian
