Any forecast for the end of the month?

Patrick · Post by **Patrick** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:20 pm

Hello Paul,

I know it is unsettled at the moment but I was wondering if you had any view for the end of the month.

We're off on 21st for 2 weeks!!! YESSSSSS!!!!!...

Any info gratefully received...

Patrick

Paul Tallet · Post by **Paul Tallet** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:41 pm

Erm ... watch this space Patrick.

Or keep an eye on Liquid Sunshine.

It's very difficult to predict more than 3 or 4 days ahead at this time of year.

For 2 weeks you should expect not to get more than 3 days of rain in total.

Regards

Patrick · Post by **Patrick** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:57 am

Many thanks Paul.

I'll be keeping a look out....

Patrick · Post by **Patrick** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:47 am

Hello Paul..

We fly on Sunday!!!!

Any update on the weather?

Cheers,

Patrick

Paul Williams · Post by **Paul Williams** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:25 pm

Hello Paul
I am making this posting as late as possible to avoid being called a heretic by my fellow Castaraphiles for not returning to the island this year, we are going to Kenya tonight and will be staying south of Mombasa for 2 weeks and visiting Tsavo for a 3 day safari (I am fulfilling a promise made to my grandson that we would go when he was 10 years old)
I could have gone on the BBC weather site but your forecasts are always more accurate.
One of my favourite Swahili phrases is also one of the most well known and its Hakuna matata which roughly tranlated is "no worries or no problem" which could also be almost be the national phrase for Tobago.
We will be able to check on the goings on in the Townsend household whilst we are at the hotel but not in our tents on safari so keep up the good work Carol.

So its "kwa herini ili sasa" from me.

David Watkins · Post by **David Watkins** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:53 pm

Paul,when I was in the Air Force I stayed near Mombassa.It was an R&rR place called Silversands,be interesting if it was still there.
Have a good one,
David

Paul Tallet · Post by **Paul Tallet** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 4:25 pm

Hi everyone

Paul, the weather around Mombasa is fine right now but it looks increasingly unsettled towards the mid-week and up to the weekend.

Still, the most important thing, the temperature will be steady away in the 80's.

Have a good time.

Patrick, Tobago is under alot of moisture this week so outbreaks of rain are likely but, as always, there will be plenty of sunshine in between.

It looks like settling down towards the weekend but you will need to check Liquid Sunshine that I 'hope' to update on Saturday.

But there is nothing sinister happening ... that's the main thing.

Regards

Patrick · Post by **Patrick** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:00 am

Thanks Paul...it's getting close now!!!!

I've been to Mombasa and we had a great time...weather fabulous and the people generally very friendly...

Carol Townsend · Post by **Carol Townsend** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:19 pm

Have a great time Paul W!
Kenya is a place I've always dreamed of visiting, being keen on wildlife ( animals, Bill!)
We are travelling on Saturday too, in a boat on the Kennet and Avon canal. Who needs exotic? We are leaving our nineteen year old son in charge of the house

.Hope he remembers to feed the hamster!
Which reminds me, I've got a bone to pick with you Mr Tallet! Some time ago I asked your opinion of themal underwear, and you haven't answered!
Ignore those people who told you not to say anything, I value your opinion most highly.
Winter draws on.
Cheers Carolnoe

Bill B · Post by **Bill B** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:31 pm

Carolnoe,

If you're leaving your nineteen year old son at home I think the least of your worries should be the hamster

Are you renting a boat and doing your own tour or is it part of a larger group?

Bill (poyap)

Paul Tallet · Post by **Paul Tallet** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:34 pm

Hi Carolnoe

I am sorry but I must have missed your question about thermal underwear.

Is it somewhere in the Weather forums?

I would also be intrigued to know if anyone actually takes thermal underwear to Tobago to keep warm

Regards

Carol Townsend · Post by **Carol Townsend** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:56 am

Morning Paul!
I note that your postings sometimes appear in the wee small hours. Are you so dedicated to the weather forecasts that you never go to bed, or are you a vampire?

Sorry about the underwear question. It wasn't in the weather forum; it was in one of my waffles to Gisela, when I mentioned that we would be going on a boat in Britain in October!
Come to think of it, if you always go to Tobago for your hols I don't suppose you have ever needed thermal underwear!

Never mind, I've still got time to dash out and buy a woolly vest! As for Winter draw(er)s on.....
Cheers
Carolnoe

Carol Townsend · Post by **Carol Townsend** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:21 am

Young Bill,
We are renting a barge and doing our own thing, with a friend to act as cap'n as he's done this sort of thing before. We originally intended to go in the "Summer" but the chance to go to Tobago appeared out of the blue so we changed to the half- term school holiday.I believe you don't have this system in the US?
Son was coming with us if we'd not gone to Tobago, but he is now a Working Man and can't get the time off. He's a good lad, and I know our neighbours will keep an eye open, including the eighty year old who offered to climb over the fence for me when I locked myself out, but that's another story!
Daughter wants to "drive" the boat! She is counting the days till she is old enough to learn to drive, and says she wants a pink car for her eighteenth birthday

I'd stay in Illinois if I were you...
I don't have to worry about my shiny new cooker; Son is going to live on take-aways and pub food for a week! As for washing his clothes......
I never stop do I?
Bye
Carolnoe

Patrick · Post by **Patrick** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 2:13 pm

Sorry to break up the thread Carole

but I have a question on Tobago weather...ever since I've been looking at this website, the weather has always been 'partly cloudy'...is that the default weather?

Is it ever just sunny or just cloudy???

Just wondering...

Cheers,

Patrick

(We fly on SUNDAY!!!!)

Bill B · Post by **Bill B** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:40 pm

Patrick,

The nerve of you.

We have all worked so hard to hi-jack another thread and you insist on getting it back on track

Hope you have a good time and remember whatever the weather in Tobago is it will still be better than back home. You'll probably be spending all day in a bathing suit so if it rains you'll get wet and when it stops you'll dry out. Just remember to keep your hand over the rum punch so it doesn't get watered down

Bill

Bill B · Post by **Bill B** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:46 pm

Carolnoe,

Please, please, please tell us the story of your eighty year old neighbor (perhaps on your other thread of how it all got started)

Sounds like you'll be having a good time on your "cruise."

Bill

Brian Taylor · Post by **Brian Taylor** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:41 pm

to the origional topic...there is a cloud and the sun..another little cloud...just all to fast that it makes sense to switch between "sunny" or "cloudy"...
so it is always partially cloudy: BUT ALWAYS WARMMMMM!

hey you topic hi-jackers...maybe crolnoe should just bring that neighbor to tobago, seems he would fit right in

steph

David Watkins · Post by **David Watkins** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 7:57 am

Patrick,the problem is that Tobago is a tropical rainforest island so at some stage,somewhere over or around the island you will have cloud.But as Bill says,it rains you get wet,sun shines you are dry!!!!
David

(40dtg)

Carol Townsend · Post by **Carol Townsend** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:41 am

Patrick,
We swam in the rain, and my daughter sunbathed in the rain, much to the amusement of some locals who dashed out of the sea and ran for cover, complaining that it was too cold for them!
Regards
Carolnoe
Carefully keeping on topic

Tony G · Post by **Tony G** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:47 am

Oh Yeah!

Swimming in the warm rain is wonderful.

Tony

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyandjanette