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Ross Lea
Windy is directly related to earth.nullschool.net - they are doing a fair job of extending the functionality and aggregating data into the site (the fluoro graphics aren't to everybody's taste) . The novel thing about the system (beyond the wizzy graphics) is its use of diverse publicly available data sets to generate individual perspectives tailored by the user choices (see here).
Monetising the product to reflect the cost and effort of the data collection looks to be a bit fraught...
UKMO might have embraced the open data idea - but I'd bet the PR/sales/marketing dopes they've acquired don't like it as it plays against their "authoritative" USP thing....
The new computer is the HS2 of UK weather forecasting
tomo
Christiana Figueres on Woman's Hour
https://twitter.com/BBCWomansHour/status/1229351086223433728
Her ideas included incredibly legally limiting women in the UK and other developed countries to having no more than 2 children.
She then went on to say this should not apply to women in undeveloped countries
as the older people there rely on having a large family for their future security.
stewgreen
".. 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
golf charlie
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
That is really going to get people on side eh?
Feb 17, 2020 at 1:20 PM tomo
They appear to be very destructive and messy mole exterminators. Is the hard hat being used as protection from the Wrath of the Gods above or below Earth?