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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <1144150016.164772.239210@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,   
   Maria  writes   
      
   >hwake@freeispshares.co.uk wrote:   
   >> banana wrote:   
   >> > Everyone knows that water piratisation has involved big business   
   >> > charging higher prices and reducing the quality of the service, but...   
   >> >   
   >> > ...if there's a water shortage   
   >>   
   >> There is no water shortage.   
      
   >There might be. Here in almost East Anglia, it was noticeable that even   
   >when it was really bitterly cold, there was no frost at all - nothing   
   >on the windscreen to scrape off.   
      
   Interesting info. Frost comes from water vapour, though, not from   
   precipitation (with the exception of virga, which is precipitation that   
   has turned into water vapour, but that only makes a small contribution).   
      
   I'm not sure what might have caused a big fall in the level of water   
   vapour in the atmosphere. Usually much of it comes from evaporation from   
   the sea, and from biological processes. Have you noticed less dew too?   
      
   Is it possible that part of the reason it felt so bitterly cold was the   
   wind chill effect rather than the temperature?   
      
      
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)