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National Data Buoy Center - Locations of and readings from moored buoys around the British Isles.
Severe Weather UK - News about recent severe weather events along with background information about conditions such as tornadoes and severe thunderstorms and their effects. Includes email lists and discussion forums.
XC Weather - Aimed at any flying enthusiast, XCWeather provides real-time wind, temperature, pressure, visibility and weather information for the UK in a friendly graphical context. The site uniquely provides a synoptic animation of recent pressure changes in the UK.
Nationwide Extremes - Daily lists of the warmest, coldest and wettest places in Britain. Links to forecasts.
United Kingdom Recent Marine Data - Source of meteorological and oceanographic measurements for the marine environment.
British Weather Services - Provides historic weather information and predictive data for the insurance industry and related businesses.
Royal Meteorological Society - Shows the history, qualifications offered, membership benefits, educational activities, planned meetings, and publications.
Plotted Charts - Weather charts showing temperatures, wind gusts and rainfall.
Roger Brugge's Weather Page - British weather diary site with links to data and forecasts worldwide.
Roman Britain - Alternative approach to forecasting, using past trends.
Will's Weather Page - Personal page from experienced Forecaster, Will Hand. Contains a weekly UK weather discussion/forecast (updated every Thursday) that is widely respected by the weather community.
Weathercall - Describes a forecasting service provided only by telephone, fax, e-mail and subscription.
AuroraWatch UK - Offers data which may predict an aurora, pictures of past displays, practical projects and email notificaton of favourable conditions.
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Specialist "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier Specialist "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Specialist "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Never practice two vices at once. -- Tallulah Bankhead Specialist Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Specialist "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Specialist I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Specialist Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France Specialist I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Specialist We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Specialist In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Specialist If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Specialist Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. Specialist Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Specialist With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow. -- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko Specialist "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Specialist The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage Specialist The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard Specialist It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson Specialist We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Specialist I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Specialist It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Specialist
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