Res Fix: Torquay v Bournmouth 30 Nov 2010

Have you seen the weather forecast? -10 c over night and heavy snow for Tuesday and Wednesday in the south. Not many mid-week games this coming week are going to go ahead I feel.

I know you're making a general point about midweek football all over the place but bloody hell, Aus! Reading some of your postings is like glancing at those alarmist Daily Express front page headlines. Pick the largest number - or the worst possible outcome - and go with it. You're missing your vocation, mate! You'd have made a fantastic medieval doomsayer.

Met Office currently forecasting -1 on Monday, 4 above during Tuesday for Torquay (and no snow). Elsewhere in the south of the country it may be different and - yes (being a pessimist myself) - even on the present forecast I wouldn't be too optimistic for Tuesday afternoon.

Not doubting you heard that but sometimes it makes me wonder what they mean by "the south", "the north", "the west", etc. It's okay when you hear a detailed local forecast but these one-line "national" ones baffle me: "hot in the south; cold in the north; windy in the west." Yes but these talk about the UK (including Northern Ireland) and the "west of Britain" (or even the "west of the UK") is rather different to the "west of England". As for "the north" well the northern-third of Britain is all Scottish. Does this means that parts of the north of England are in the southern half of Britain? Confused? It's easy to be. What's in like in Australia for forecasts? Sticky in Queensland, damp in Tassie?

Anyway, as for the reserve game, I'd imagine the clubs have a large part in deciding whether such matches go ahead. As reserve football isn't really in place to satisfy spectators there tend to be late postponements, changes of kick off time, changes of venue, etc.

I'm more concerned about the hideous monster - The Widdy of Oz my arse.

That Anne`s a bit of a fox!
The weather is totally different down under mate due to the fact that it`s not a tiny island on the coast of a massive continent, most of the time the wind blows in from the desert from the west but sometimes it comes down from the north, either way it`s hot, if it`s from the west it`s dry and if it`s from the north it`s damp heat, it`s also extremely flat in comparison to this place which effects the weather as well, New Zealand is much more of a comparison to England because it too is a small island or two actually but their weather comes in from the west or north but it`s all straight of the sea, Budleigh can tell you more about that than I can. What I have learned is that island weather and main land weather are just not realistically comparable because island weather is a whole lot more scatty!

I once flew from Brisbane to Christchurch in March and it was like flying home from Greece.

Also been caught in a storm at the Adelaide Oval - dramatic!

You`ve had a proper storm then! None of this half hearted stuff like over here `eh? We had a dust storm once, blacked out the whole of Melbourne and the burbs for ages, wierd shit too cause all the birds went to sleep because it was so dark, the street lights all came on everything basically had to come to a grinding halt. A couple of days later with dust coating everything pretty much still we had some light drizzle in the middle of the night and the electric power lines exploded outside our house because the dust provided a layer between the live lines and the insulators on the poles, well when the misty rain descended it shorted out the 40,000v power lines straight to earth and blew the bloody hell out of them which caused even more chaos. The explosion was right outside my bedroom window, yes I effin bricked it and thought for a split second the a neuc had gone off and that was it for everyone, I was asleep, the blast woke me and before I even opened my eyes and with the curtains closed I could see my posters on the wall as it did more than just light the room up! I went outside and the wooden electric power pole was actually on fire, it looked rediculous, like a crucifix being burned but about twenty foot tall!
We had hail stones once that did millions of dollars worth of damage as well, smashed roofs wrote off cars, it was quite intense, ever seen a hail stone the size of a golf ball?