Re: Stormy weather.....


"FriarTuck" <none@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:06:45 +0000, onlyme wrote:

I checked the met office site over the weekend. Severe weather warnings
were in place for much of the UK - from Sunday onwards....
As Sunday progressed, no such weather materialised up north....quite a
decent day actually.

Nothing through Sunday evening...nor through the night...

Monday and as of 11am, there's a bit of a nip in the air. But the sky is
clear....sun is shining.

Just checked with the met office site again....pretty much the entire of
England is painted red....for Mon/Tues (yesterday it was Sun/Mon)

Sky New is wall to wall ....rubbing their sweaty little hands together -
eagerly waiting (and hoping) for some disaster...flooding ..whatever!

Meanwhile, I'm nipping out to do some gardening on this glorious spring
day.

(Just heared via sky news that the cops have warned people not to go
outdoors unless they have to...)

The great storm of 08
Do me a favour....I've farted and done more damage!

erring on the side of caution to avoid a fish repetition...

when I heard the warnings late last week I thought who are they trying to
kid predicting weather 4 days in advance... then "weather modification"
popped in to my mind....

but here midlands there were a few strongish gusts and it was a bit
windy, so I thought not an entirely inaccurate forecast...

but they don't really understand weather systems interaction to
completion it seems... though they would be the last to admit it... as
the establishment always is... maybe its partially driven by a factor
that they have not thought about... maybe its a random element... (seems
like it..) but whats random other than a sequence you don't understand or
cant see...


I'm not sure how the met office are funded - but if it's public funding,
then I don't really think we are getting value for money lol.
It does seem though, as you say, that most reports seem to be erring - to
prevent another 'Fish' fiasco.


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