Friday's Breakfast Briefing
By Derek Davis
14th Aug 2020 | Local News
Did you know?
Lightning is one of nature's most recurrent and common spectacles. Around the world, there are over 3,000,000 flashes every day. That's around 44 strikes every second.Trees can often be destroyed by lightning strikes. When lightning hits a tree, it usually travels just below the tree's bark where there is a layer of sap and water. This layer becomes instantly heated and expands causing the bark to be blasted off the tree and sometimes splitting the wood.
But it can help plants growWhile nitrogen is in the air all around us, for plants to be able to absorb it (a process vital for their growth) they rely on a process called Nitrogen fixation.
Although much of this process is done by bacteria and algae, the extreme heat of a lightning strike causes nitrogen to bond with oxygen to create nitrogen oxides which combine with moisture in the air to fall as rain and water plants with nitrate-rich water.Today's Peninsula sunrise: 05:39
Today's Peninsula sunset: 20:19Tide Times:
01:42 1.12m08:02 3.29m
14:09 1.3m20:32 3.24m
Fine on the StrandWeather:
A cloudy and murky start will soon brighten up with some sunny spells developing. However, there is the continuing threat of thunderstorms breaking out during the afternoon. Feeling rather warm and humid too. Maximum Temperature 27c, low of 16cOrwell Bridge: Open
Quote of the day:
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark TwainJoke of the day:
I'm hammering a nail into the wall when my wife comments "You hammer like lightning"I replied "you think I'm that fast?"
She said "no. You never hit the same spot twice."Today's Post Office Openings:
Bent Hill, Wolsey Garden – 10.30 – 12.30Felixstowe, Hamilton Road - 09.00 – 15.00
Old Felixstowe, High Road, East – 09.00-17.30Walton High Street – 08.15 – 17.30
Trimley High Road – 06.00 – 22.00Today's supermarket shop openings:
Co-op Hamilton Road – 08.00-20.00Co-op Wadgate Road – 06.00-23.00
Co-op High Road West - 07.00-23.00Co-op King Street – 06.00-23.00
Co-op Walton High Street 06.00-23.00Morrison's – 07.00 – 21.00 (petrol 08.00-22.00)
Tesco metro – 07.00-22.00Sainsbury's Warren Heath – 08.00-22.00
Lidl Langer Road: 08.00 – 21.00Lidl Haven exchange: 08.00-21.00
Wear face covering. Respect social distancing rules and treat shop staff with respect.
Link here to see which other businesses are now open
This weeks' surgeries and dispensary times:
Grove Medical centre 08.00-18.30 (283197)Haven Health 08.00-18.30 (670107)
Howard House 09.00-17.00 (282706)Felixstowe Community Hospital (458820)
Live travel updates:
Train times and traffic hold ups
Bus services:
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