After a late 2021 – early 2022 period of calm, very mild weather with only half-a-dozen light air frosts here on the coast in Margate, February has seen the situation change dramatically. Although barely affected at all by Storm Arwen in January (a Northerly) which caused tremendous damage to trees and the power infrastructure in […]
The North coast of Thanet can be a little bit unusual weather-wise. This last weekend (26-27/9/20) has been a case in point. Following on from the previous weekend’s warm temperatures, but pretty breezy NE’ly winds, and a hot Tuesday (32C recorded at Manston Airport, 29/9/20), the latter part of the week went bad, and by […]
Sunday February 9th, Monday the 10th and Tuesday 11th saw Storm Ciara batter the UK.. and our little corner of Thanet received its fair share of the action, albeit not on a par with the rest of the country. On the Sunday, something very weird happened in Margate! It’s pretty normal to get significant protection […]
Running from March 4th 2019 – April 13th 2019, Golddream was a 50th anniversary exhibition of posters and photographs from those heady student days of the flower-power era of the late 1960s and early 70s. I was a member of the Goldsmiths College ‘Class’ of 1966-1970 for most of which time it was an ‘external’ […]
There seems to be a memory issue these days.. and it’s not mine.. except short-term! For some reason when it comes to issues with the weather, everyone seems to forget what it was like just a few years ago when making comparisons with the recent cold snap. I appreciate that comparisons are sometimes notoriously difficult […]
Margate Caves are located at 1 Northdown Road not far from Trinity Square in Margate, the site of the old Holy Trinity Church that was bombed in 1943 and finally demolished in 1958 after laying semi-derelict, but not totally irreparable, for about 15 years. The history of this man-made cave, sometimes referred to as The […]
There would appear to be quite a lot of confusion about exactly how tides work, so I thought I would try and put together as brief a guide as I could to cover this topic. Fundamentally, the tides are governed by the status of the moon. Spring tides coincide with ‘full’ moons and ‘new’ moons (nothing […]
Not as bad as it could have been, but freezing my mitts off (4C with a major gale-force wind-chill!) taking this one at St. Mildred’s Bay, Westgate, on the way back from ‘work’ today at the Quex Powell-Cotton Museum. At least it was fine! Stopped off previously for a mocha at my new favourite café, […]
It’s December 12th at 3.30pm. It was wet and very blustery but very mild at 12C, here in Margate this morning. Suddenly there is s bit of blue in the sky and the wind has gone down to almost a flat calm, along with the sea state, at least on this side of the Isle […]
All text and images, copyright David Riddle, January 2000 (known changes by 2016 in italics) A lot of people put up with living in a large city purely to enjoy the convenience it offers even if, as residents, we probably rarely venture further than the local shops at the week-end and only hit the ‘smoke’ during […]
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