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Tomo. That's why there are a number of more local weather companies that will give specialized predictions using their more detailed and specialized local knowledge of the way weather interacts with more localized conditions. The UEA School of Environment Science set up such a company - Weatherquest, [but subsequently it offers information and advice on a worldwide basis]. My office used to be next to the original Weatherquest office so I got to know the personnel quite well..
AK
Feb 17, 2020 at 11:08 AM | stewgreen
Most of their officers are likely too busy monitoring Twitter for any potentially offensive remarks aimed at XR, it's important that no feelings are hurt. You'd need a lot more plod on the ground to keep the roads open than to run some blue & white tape across the ends and divert traffic.
Or perhaps I'm being cynical...
DaveS
At the moment anyone who has a company car is taxed up to two thousand pounds a year for it, as a benefit in kind.
From April, for a whole year, they'll pay no company car tax at all on an electric car,
with some of the big companies that lease cars already reporting a big rise in demand.
FF £2,000 per YEAR is a hell of a subsidy
a £16K subsidy over 8 years etc.
stewgreen
Tomo, Someone on this blog gave me this link (it may have been you).
https://www.windy.com/-Rain-thunder-rain?rain,52.968,-2.791,6,i:pressure
I have found it the most useful so to anyone interested I am passing it on.
Ross Lea
£1.2bnMet O computer
will be paid for by 24 million households
If they each paid £100 that would be £2.4bn
So £1.2bn works out at £50 per household
stewgreen
https://earth.nullschool.net/
Feb 17, 2020 at 12:35 PM tomo
Thank you for that. For Rainfall Radar I tend to use :
https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar
for the simple reason that the Met Office version was slower to use, not because of any data quality issues (presumably same data)
I find rainfall radar is brilliant for deciding whether to take a coat, or plan indoor v outdoor activities for the immediate to +6 hours.
Farmers have their preferred sources of weather info, depending on the season, what they want to do, and the weather window they need. Private pilots, yotties and inshore fishermen all have similar but different variations, whereas Commercial Pilots and Offshore Shipping tend to rely on the information supplied to them by Head Office.
Has anyone noticed a change in accuracy since the Met Office lost its Weather Forecasting BBC Contract, or a change in tone concerning Global Warming?
golf charlie
Re the Met Office's new computer......PC World usually has a sale about Easter time.
Martyn
AK
if that is indeed the case then it's a database that is required not a "supercomputer"..... and that still relies on observations - the Atlantic weather buoy network was installed / upgraded expressly to inform of actual conditions "up" the prevailing weather. Cefas aren't as good at institutional PR as UKMO .....
If UKMO are indeed reliant on matching present to previous weather then they should be able to trivially demonstrate how effective that strategy is ... just sayin....
In reality - I've taken wind maps and barometric charts from weather bureaucrats and compared to local conditions and been profoundly unimpressed. A 9:30 to 3:30 office wallah in Exeter doesn't seem to give a stuff what the weather is like west of Shetland outside their office hours.
tomo
".. a weather forecaster will admit on air that their forecasts for their long range (4days ahead) are less accurate .."
Feb 17, 2020 at 12:52 PM AK
The Met Office (Taxpayer/EU) is a partner in the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, ECMWF on Road signs. They would not consider 4 days a" Long" forecast.
https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts