I received my Google news today, time-stamped 5:18 PM Bangkok time on Monday Feb 2, 2009. It had an update from BBC News posited 49 minutes prior that reports London airports and transport today being frozen to a standstill today.
This was newsworthy to me as My mate Danny, from the UK right now is missing all that as he travels in Oz now en-route from Perth via Portland tonight on the Great Ocean Road and tomorrow to visit my family at my home in Melbourne. Contrary to his normal UK weather, he has been experiencing oppressive heat for the last week while traveling in Australia.
But back to my Google story. I pondered on the weather extremes and did some checking to find a picture dated July last year of a UK summer heat wave. As you would image, that tells a completely different story to the one today.
The write up with this 2008 picture says “Britain basks in tropical conditions on 25th July 2008 as millions of people 
prepared to head off on holiday. “ The article curiously goes on to highlight the rocketing temperatures are expected to continue uninterrupted.
The picture below is supposedly taken in London today being February 2, 2009.
According to the accompanying article by a Boston.com journalist Kate Kelland, in the UK today (yes as I speak) it is being recorded as one very cold day. Her story goes on to say, "These 
tables stand covered in snow in London's Canary Wharf. Heavy snow brought much of London's transport to a halt today with airport runways forced to close and all bus and many train services suspended."
(Click on Picture to get, the Boston.com story )
By the way Danny you won't be surprised at the heat and the a cool coming change You already know us Aussies often go to the beach in a heat wave and an hour or so later it can be cold enough to go home to put fires on to keep warm. And invariably it rains to boot to make it more miserable.
But again, back to Kate’s story. By my count it would have been about 10AM in London time when her post went to press.
But what if Kate Kelland's is in Boston as he papers name suggest.Then the time there is 6 hours earlier, which would make it around 4am for her to get up and sent it, now a couple of hours ago my time.
By the way for interest I just checked and the temperature is around zero at mid morning there now and it looks like Boston has some sun there too according to the WCVB's Live CCTV located on top of "One Financial Center in Boston"
Now being mindful of her time and if you you read her story you will see it is written in past tense, with Feb 2 being yesterday.
That's odd isn't it given it is not actually over yet.
So I wonder if for Kate the cold has caused her to catch a case of “Today is Tomorrow Yesterday “ disorder, or even worse a 
case of Bill Murray Ground Hog Day syndrome to make it the same again tomorrow .
Maybe before Feb 2 ends and she goes to bed, someone can sort it out for her.
Nonetheless Danny I do hope Portland is not to hot or cold tonight and thanks to a Boston reporter you get your name in the paper.
But I guess you don’t care as you will already bed in bed by now at it is midnight there so it will all makes sense by the time you read this tomorrow.
But as if you really Care Danny. By then you will be looking at that world wonder, Twelve Apostles that make that coast Ocean coast road so special.
It is now nearly 7PM here in Bangkok and I am done for the day and off to get a beer.
Cheers .
Cheers Gordon
Here is the full text of the Reurers Feed use By Boston Globe:
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Heathrow closes, British transport halted by snow
Tables stand covered in snow in London's Canary Wharf February 2, 2009. Heavy snow brought much of London's transport to a halt on Monday with airport runways forced to close and all bus and many train services suspended. (REUTERS/Jonathan Bainbridge)
By Kate Kelland
February 2, 2009
Email| Print| Single Page| Yahoo! Buzz| ShareThisText size – + LONDON (Reuters) - London's Heathrow airport closed both its runways on Monday as snow brought major British air, rail and road transport systems to a halt, affecting millions.
Heathrow and London's three other commercial airports warned of severe delays and flight cancellations, many bus and train services were suspended and highway authorities warned of hazardous driving conditions in southern and central England.
More than 250 flights at Heathrow, the world's busiest international airport, were canceled and a further 1,000 faced cancellation or delay, a spokesman for the British Airports Authority said. Heathrow handles 180,000 passengers a day.
Flights at Gatwick, Stansted and Luton to the north of London, and London City Airport were also widely affected.
Britain's Met Office said some parts of the country, including London and other parts of south east England, could be covered by up to 15 centimeters of snow by midday on Monday.
It issued a "severe weather" warnings for large parts of the country, with weather experts saying south east England was experiencing some of its worst snow since the early 1990s.
Tens of thousands of commuters were advised not to make the journey into work in the British capital and hundreds of schools were closed across the country. But many workers attempted to walk to their offices, trudging through thick snow.
Transport for London said all London buses -- which would normally carry 6 million people on an average day -- had been withdrawn from service "due to adverse weather and dangerous road conditions" and reported problems on all but one of the capital's eleven underground train lines.
The nation's railway operator, Network Rail, said many major routes had been severely affected with routes through Kent and Sussex in southern England the worst hit. The Southern and Southeastern rail firms suspended services into London.
So far, this winter has been Britain's coldest in more than a decade and forecasters expect the cold weather to continue for several more days with freezing winds blowing in from Russia.
The Highways Agency said drivers should avoid all unnecessary journeys and warned those who had to drive to proceed with extreme caution. "Be equipped with warm clothes, food, water boots, a torch and spade," it said in a statement.
(Additional reporting by Luke Baker)
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This is a moving target game or sure.
ReplyDeleteThis was the picture I referred to on the Boston post has now appeared in another papers. Ihttp://www.welt.de/english-news/article3132614/Heathrow-airport-closes-after-heavy-snow.html captioned the same ad Boston’s
Tables stand covered in snow in London's Canary Wharf February 2, 2009. Heavy snow brought much of London's transport to a halt on Monday with airport runways forced to close and all bus and many train services suspended. (REUTERS/Jonathan Bainbridge)
But Boston have a new one on their post now captioned. Tourists pose beside a snowman in Parliament Square, in central London February 2, 2009. (REUTERS/Stephen Hird)
I also note my original blog was sent by Google Blogger 1:10 AM Tuesday, February 3, 2009 in the future and over 4 hours after I submitted it, Now as I write this the time at 12:59 AM Tuesday in Bangkok is not even caught up to that yet.
So I guess this answer and original truly is an international conversation I have had with my myself in 4countries in as many time zones, with my question asked after I give my answer so really making “Today Yesterday Tomorrow “.
No wonder all this is so confusing but I guess between us now Kate we have sorted it out. Maybe Reuters should do a piece on one on Global Warming now to really confuse us. I can imagine the headline,” Global Warning debate heats up as hell freezes over and yesterday’s future becomes Today in the Past .