Re: Weather forecasting

On 30 Mar, 09:16, PeterC <giraffenos....@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:57:00 GMT, Roger wrote:
The message <1cd177bifxn5v$.2il3vxnuys7f....@xxxxxxxxxx>
from PeterC <giraffenos....@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> contains these words:

Having long despaired at the peurile format, here's an article that shows
that I'm not alone.

The forecasts have been so skewed towards those who can't be arsed to learn
anything that they're becoming almost useless.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/melanie_reid/arti...

But do you really want to be in the same camp as some clueless reporter
who doesn't understand about windchill and belongs precisely to the
audience that the dumbed down weather reports are aimed at.

I don't agree with all of that article, but forecasts are becoming almost
useless.

Those that give the weather for only the current day really annoy me. I do
my shopping by bike, with a min. trip of 14 miles, so I might go if it's a
bit wet or wait a day - by the time the forecast covers tomorrow, today's
got worse and tomorrow's a wash-out.
Sure I can use web sites but the telly is quicker, especially as I have the
news on in the morning.

I learned to use the charts when I was about 10yo and one can tell a lot
from that one picture.
--
Peter.
You don't understand Newton's Third Law of Motion?
It's not rocket science, you know.

Interesting discussion because I'd have expected that any person with
an involvement with the outdoors and the impact the weather has on
their activities, and is also computer literate (literate enough to
set up links to forums and write to them), would have long since
abandoned the media weather reports and found websites that have
significantly more detailed information on the weather over a longer
time period.

Actually when I think about it further, I'm astonished that any of you
are going out onto the hills without taking a much greater and in
depth look at the weather.

I do see a couple of websites recommended above that I haven't visited
and I'll do so, but please learn more about the weather and be able to
use the best displayed synoptic charts that I've found - www.metbrief.com
- if you are really interested, which you should be, you can do a
google to find out what MSLP and Thickness are, the latter is
particularly important if you are going into the Scottish hills in
winter.

For good forecasts, I recommend

www.metcheck.com and www.weatheronline.co.uk/ukweather.htm and
for the Scotland www.mwis.org.uk

Rob
.

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