Postcard from Bishkek

Today is WMD – no, that’s nothing to do with “Weapons of Mass Destruction”, but World Meteorological Day – another one of those special UN Designated Days. This one was to commemorate the establishment of the World Meteorological Organization in 1950, based on the International Meteorological Organization which was originally founded in Vienna in 1873 […]

There is a saying that if two or more Englishmen are gathered together, then the conversation will eventually turn to the question of the Weather. I suppose that this is because the weather that we normally experience in Britain is so changeable.  Although we do sometimes experience prolonged spates of hot, or cold, weather the […]

They say that you can experience all four seasons in one day in Kyrgyzstan.  I have come across this myself in the past.  The mountainous nature of the terrain creates plenty of scope for microclimates in different valleys, varying with altitude, aspect, (North, South East or West facing), different soils creating habitats for differing types […]

I had slept right through it.  Whilst others had apparently been cowering with fright at the howling winds, I had been safely tucked up in bed, sleeping like a baby.  I had even missed Michael Fish’s famous unfortunate “blunder”: Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rang the BBC and said she heard there was a […]

It is said that the British have one subject of conversation: The Weather.  I have turned into a joke and when the conversation slows and a silence develops, one of the techniques I use to break the silence is to comment: “What a lot of weather we have been having …”.  I’m not sure where […]