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| Wrawby Street packed with people enjoying the 2013 Christmas Lights switch-on and fair. |
The weather being a very important factor for the 1,000-plus folk who will be attending the Brigg Christmas Lights Switch-on and accompanying fair, we thought we'd take a look at some of the forecasts for the evening of Friday, November 28.
These suggest it will be dry in the morning but with an increasing chance of some rain as we move into the afternoon and evening. We haven't come across any suggestion of snow on the big night!
.....I've seen it snowing in July....admittedly, it was up a mountain.......and folks should appreciate the usually mild weather we experience, for only 2500 feet away - upwards - the climate can be Arctic......mountain tops are still in the inter-glacial Ice Age.....
ReplyDeleteJust for info, the UK has experienced at least 3 known Ice Ages, while scientific evidence suggests that the World itself has experienced some 200 Ice Ages..
The old adage, 'It's too cold for snow' has a strong element of accuracy. Bitterly cold winds often sweep across the UK from the dry, very cold Asian, or Arctic Continent, while, cold, snowy weather often arrives after crossing the moist, relatively warmer Atlantic Ocean.....
Since I talking about Eskimos, I might as well continue.....
ReplyDeleteThere is a misconception that Inuit is the new name for Eskimo...
Eskimo is a generic term for the indigenous people of the Arctic Circle....and this includes Inuits, Yupik and Aleut tribes.
Inuits populate northern Canada, USA and Greenland and is the tribe of Eskimo that we tend relate - Yupik and Aleut tend to populate Siberia - the northern coast of Russia - but all three groups remain Eskimos.
US & Canada officially refer to their Eskimo group specifically as Inuits, but this does not mean that they are not Eskimos. In addition, some American (Red) Indian tribes use a similar word to 'eskimo' - which can, in American Indian terms, sound offensive to the native Inuit...
It's a bit like calling the Scots, Scots...they're still British....and Scots does not mean that the Irish and the Welsh should be called Scots.....
So overall, Eskimo is the collective term with Inuit,Yupik & Aleut being sub-groups. However, since North American Arctic Eskimos are exclusively Inuits they are referred to with the specific sub-group name - got it?
A similar misconception occurs in the UK with the term Gypsies....
ReplyDeleteGypsy is the collective term for such groups as,
Irish Economic Travellers,
English Economic Travellers,
European Economic Travellers and Romany....
However, 'gypsy' and 'travellers' are often used in the same sentence as if 'gypsy' and 'travellers' mean something slightly different.
It's like saying the English and the British - in which, the English could be regarded as separate beings to the British, but commonsense indicates otherwise....
Use the word, 'travellers'if it refers to non-Romany gypsies, but don't use 'travellers and gypsies' which can have a unprecise and duplicated meaning....
Other groups of gypsies include...
ReplyDeleteFairground/Circus travellers and
Canal boat travellers (many less than in the C19th)
In addition, many years ago, Gypsies would have included itinerant workers as tinkers and such like who toured the countryside offering manual, semi-skilled tasks....