Paphos Life

Hudswell wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2018 11:26 pm

Maggie B wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2018 9:35 pm I do love the fact you are recording this 'stuff' Dominic. You and 'our Dev' will - I hope - be comparing statistics. X

How long you folks would have to do this to completely dismiss or prove the theory . . . . I do not know?

Interesting nevertheless.

Maggie B

Probably another thousand years or so

Definitive proof or a timeframe is impossible. We are trying to correlate random events with a hypothesis (Coptic storms can never be classed as a theory ) The operative word is 'random'. It is vaguely similar to throwing three dice (unloaded); if you do it often enough, you are sure to see 3 sixes. Will the next throw show 3 sixes as well? Maybe aye, maybe och aye! Just the same probability (0.0046) as the previous throw!

Maggie B wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2018 11:32 pm I'm with 'our Brian.'

But, I reckon Dom is with him too.

MB

I am with no man... I am guided by science alone... Where science leads, I shall follow... bom bom bom baa ba bom baa ba bommmmm.

Fresh breeze forecast for Sunday 25th, with gusts up to 8 m/s, no gale!

Yes, but you will also have that happening when it isn't at the time of of coptic storm.

Like most serious forecasts, we restrict ours to 5 days with 'may', 'perhaps', 'possibly' and other conditional terms sprinkled in after two days. Take the new (non-Meteorological Office) forecasts that the BBC broadcast at the drop of a hat. I'll stand by my Fresh Breeze, gusting up to 8 m/s, for Sunday at this time but I could modify it, in the meanwhile, as we see the evolution.

As forecast, a 'near gale' here with gusts to 9.8 m/s, S-SW. Pity no Coptic gale due Should imagine gusts to 12 m/s on coast.

Locals says it is" earthquake" weather ???.

Nothing in Polemi. Very dusty in Paphos earlier though.

lefkes wrote: ↑Sat May 05, 2018 3:42 pm Locals says it is" earthquake" weather ???.

Never heard that one before! Can't imagine why a wind would cause a quake! :

lefkes wrote: ↑Sat May 05, 2018 3:42 pm Locals says it is" earthquake" weather ???.

Never heard that one before! Can't imagine why a wind would cause a quake! :

Re: locals belief that it is earthquake weather. Do earhquakes sometimes occur during unusually hot weather, such as the sudden spike in temperatures last week, followed by unsettled weather which we are having now? I remember reading reports of seizmic events elsewhere where sometimes heavy rain and cooler weather follow an earthquake?
Just a guess.

Dee

As seismic activity occurs 10-100 km below the earth's surface, how can weather happening above the earth's surface affect it? Like Coptic storms, such myths defy the imagination.

Devil wrote: ↑Sat May 05, 2018 3:55 pm

lefkes wrote: ↑Sat May 05, 2018 3:42 pm Locals says it is" earthquake" weather ???.

Never heard that one before! Can't imagine why a wind would cause a quake! :

Maybe they remember the type of weather when the last quake struck perhaps in early May?.

Locals always mentioned that nonsense in the Polis area after the earthquakes 1995 and 1996....whenever it was dusty!

Max