^^^^^
Thanks guys!
Amazing to think I've been doing this, pretty much non-stop, since Summer 2003 when I was on my old AOL dial-up connection and writing as fast as I could to get it posted before someone phoned in and cut me off - That's how far back this goes!
And everything I've done since, with my YouTube channel and my website and the GWV social media accounts and all the experimental long range stuff, really goes back to this.
Pretty cool yeah?
Yes, those were the days. I can even remember when I needed to have a landline phone line installed in order to be able to access that dial-up internet without preventing anyone from getting through to me who was trying to phone. I can also remember that I was with Telewest for that, who were later bought out by Sir Richard Branson and absorbed into what is now Virgin Media.
I can also remember that the year in which you started all of that (which was long before YouTube even existed) was a really hot summer which produced which back then, was the hottest day on record here in the UK so I'm wondering whether or not, that formed part of your inspiration towards getting into that.
As for YouTube though, I have been following your videos more or less since you first started that venture when your weather videos were on what is now your second channel (i.e. your Star Wars channel). Since then, I have seen a few more people starting to do some weather content on Weather from here in the UK but I have to say that there still doesn't seem to be a lot of that sort of that sort of content on YouTube and I haven't yet found anyone else who takes the time and devotion to that on a daily basis which you have taken over the years since you first started.
In one respect, it is nice that you take that time for that and I enjoy watching that content, although it would also be nice if there was a lot more of that sort of content out there on platforms such as YouTube from a UK perspective since a lot of what I have found tends to be based more in the larger countries such as America and more biased towards that part of the world.
The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.