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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 11:28 pm
by Steve Fifield
It was only 10:00PM really Brian. We are only 4 hours ahead of you, you know, and you were still enjoying that sunset weren't you? 10:00PM until just after midnight is peak browsing time for a few of us.
By the way, we looked out for your place on our last visit, but didn't see it. It was rather grey and raining though. The sign that you put up next to the famous
road ahead closed sign was also missing.
Steve F.
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 11:53 pm
by Brian Taylor
new signs are in the making. find the boathouse and you almost have us....
why should the storm keep us up? would it pass us if we stay up? then we would do it, otherwise we can only wait until it is over... you get a different view of things when you live here....
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 12:00 am
by Paul Tallet
Yeah ... get your sleep Brian.
The storm is weakening so the worst you will get is a little light rain now ... maybe nothing. It must be very humid there.
20 miles more to the east and it would have woken you up!!
Seems they caught a few drops in Charlottesville.
Cheers
Go to sleep!!!
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 12:11 am
by Emma Hetherington
You guys!!!!
Its beginning to sound like a 'boys' thing - staying up late and watching the weather!
My excuse is am trying to get tickets to the Comic Aid thing in London in aid of Tsunami victims and just have to keep re-dialling!!! So what better way of keeping awake than My Tobago and dreaming of 27th February -- YES!!!!!
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 12:16 am
by Paul Tallet
Hi Emma
Well ... if you can't be there you may as well pretend.
Pleased to be of entertainment for you.
Cheers
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 3:37 pm
by David Watkins
The sun has got it's hat on,
Hip hip hip hooray,
The sun has got it's hat on,
and it's staying out allday.
Thanks Paul,all is forgiven,I'll leave a Stag behind the bar in the Cascreole!
David
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 4:06 pm
by Paul Tallet
Hi David, sounds like you have had a few already !!
There is rain all around Tobago this weekend and I am really happy it is sunny ... Tobago is lucky.
Judge me after the weekend but it is looking much better for the week ahead.
It's ... erm ... a Carib, by the way !!
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 7:48 pm
by Brian Taylor
I thought carib is for girls....
sound like we have to blame you for the weather. is that so? are you making it? if so: shame on you...
but I thought you only monitor it for us. for us in tobago it is very usfull, especially since they closed down the only serious TV station a week ago. no more weather if you don't have cable....
tell us the rain this weekend is the last and you make us all happy!!!
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 8:03 pm
by Paul Tallet
Hi Brian
OK ... I will have a girlie moment with you over a Carib sometime in March ... I hope !!
I have a few business issues to attend to before I can be certain of my visit.
As for the weather ... I have this feeling in my loins that it will be very good if I come in March (I hope) and this will fuel the rumours of my godly influence over the elements.
I hear that there is a pale, squat, fat, grey haired man spreading these malicious rumours around Tobago !!!! .... (Chill out Dave the Rave !!)
I am sure you, Brian, are a man of wisdom and knowingness and that such allegatiuons would not worry you.
Anyway ... sorry to hear the TV is down ... and pleased to hear that my updates are keeping you informed ...
This week will be good after the weekend and you can take the boats out for people's adventures with real confidence ... it looks sunny and calm ... though I assure you ... I will be watching from the skies !
Cheers me dears
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 8:08 pm
by Paul Tallet
Hey ... see this ... from one of the Trinidad Newspapers ...
January wet, wet, wet, says Met Office
Saturday, January 22nd 2005
RAINFALL recorded for the month to date has surpassed that recorded for the entire month of January 2004 by more than 500 per cent.
Statistics provided by the Meteorological Office show that 207.7mm of rain has fallen for the year to date as opposed to 38.1mm for January last year.
Acting Chief Meteorologist Marlon Noel told the Express on Thursday that the Azores High was not absent as reported in another daily paper but was split in two.
The Azores High is an area of high pressure which contributes to dry weather.
Although Noel could not predict when the pressure system would merge again into one, he assured that the persistent rainy weather would not continue for the duration of the dry season.
This dramatic increase in rainfall has caused several landslides throughout the islands, causing damage to homes on the Northern Range and in Tobago.
These landslides, according to University of the West Indies Professor Serwan Baban, were in part the result of the increase in hillside development.
Baban, who is also the coordinator of the Centre for Caribbean Land and Environment Appraisal Research, said: "When people build on the hillsides they undermine the slopes and this causes landslides."
He said part of the solution was to enforce the existing legislation; this would limit the amount of houses being constructed on the hills and educate people on the damaging impact their behaviour has on the environment.
It just proves that the current poor weather is unusual.
Let's hope Feb/March makes up for it.
Cheers
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 11:40 pm
by Cornelia Montgomery
Perhaps this will help someone feel better about their own particular weather: Here near Boston, we're expecting a blizzard to drop as much as 30 inches of snow between now and noon tomorrow.
At least I'm grateful that my flight to Tobago leaves not now, but next month. I'm looking forward to stepping off the plane and finding summer. Sigh.
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 11:42 pm
by Cornelia Montgomery
Perhaps this will help someone feel better about their own particular weather: Here near Boston, we're expecting a blizzard to drop as much as 30 inches of snow between now and noon tomorrow.
At least I'm grateful that my flight to Tobago leaves not now, but next month. I'm looking forward to stepping off the plane and finding summer. Sigh.
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 9:06 pm
by Paul Tallet
How goes it Cornelia?
It looks nasty and I hear the flights are down so hopefully not too many holidays to Tobago disrupted?
It's may snow a bit here on the eastern side of the UK tonight and tomorrow, but nothing on the scale of your experience.
Cheers
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:49 am
by Paul Tallet
Funny ...
A few things have occured to me that must be coincidences:-
Firstly, the sat loops are extremely boring with hardly a cloud in sight for the last 72 hours.
No one has complained about the weather.
I haven't heard from David Watkins for days. Even Mr Wooler has gone quiet.
Thirdly ... it has
all gone quiet ... you (in Tobago) are sunbathing, all of you !!!
You are all happy aren't you !!
Right ... that's it ... I'm off to go assess some other weather disaster somewhere else.
Cheers
Feeling lonely
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 1:05 am
by Emma Hetherington
Oh dear Paul
Is everyone having fun in the sun .... except those of us in the windy cold UK? Never mind we've now got through the 'officially' most depressing day of the year!!!
Amazing how good a warm duvet can be! And t know that sunshine (hopefully) it not toooooo far away!
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:17 pm
by Brian Taylor
paul, was that you? did you say something? just came in for a sec to get the next bottle of suncream and an ice cold carib, it is pretty hot outside.....
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:17 pm
by Marko C
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 8:16 pm
by Paul Tallet
Brian ... I'm cool about it ... just a bit cooler than you dear boy.
Yeah ... stopped watching the loops ... totally depressing and boring ... wall to wall blistering hot sunshine and total calm for what? ... 4 days now?
At least I got my forecast right eh?
As for Marco ... ideal for fishing ... go enjoy.
Lets hope this really is the start of the dry season.
I expect to be there in March and I will make sure it is good then and erm ... Brian, could you run an iron on those pool tables for me and get some decent chalk for the cues, that is if you get a chance to get off that hammock ... thanks mate.
Cheers
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 3:07 pm
by David Watkins
My Dear Paul,so sorry I dont'want you to feel left out.It is absolutely glorious,the clear skies with the sun beating down,the sea,a pallette of blues and greens with the occasional white of a sail or two,the soaring magnificent frigate birds,the kamikaze dive of the pelicans the beastly cold Carib or Stag,the refreshing sun downer punch followed by a sumptious fish supper and a lime to finish the evening off.There,feel better now?
Time is fast approaching for a Carib or two and perhaps a chicken roti for lunch-thanks for the weather,
David
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 3:43 pm
by Paul Tallet
Don't tell me ...
Herds of wildebeast sweeping majestically across the plains ....
Regards from murky UK.
