Re: Corbyn spot on with his forecast! Honest.


"Dave Cornwell" <davemccignorethis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Well I did e-mail Weather Action and Piers kindly responded in person. I
won't publish the details on here but if anyone wants to read it then pm
me and I'll forward it. He did send a few additional e-mails offering his
weather services to me but I think I'll probably decline, despite the
accuracy of that recent forecast as evidenced by this:-

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29th Oct Report

The Forecasted wet windy/stormy spell within period 26th-31st Oct came -
affecting ALL parts although not as vigorous in terms of wind especially
in the South as we expected.
=> There were severe weather warnings issued on TV 27/28 Oct for
Scotland, Northern Ireland , Wales and much of NW England ie for heavy
rain, local floods, thunder gales and severe gales (60mph gusts were
mentioned) as a triple cold front moved SE.
=> Frances Wilson on Sky TV warned of tornado possibilities Sat 27/ Sun 28
from thunderstorms embedded in rain systems.
=> There were ten coastal flood watches in England and Wales because of
strong winds on a full moon.

From the original Express article:
http://www.express.co.uk:80/posts/view/22322/Killer-storms-to-lash-Britain

Mr Corbyn, who predicts the weather by measuring the effects of solar flare
activity on our atmosphere, said he was

"90 per cent certain" that the storms would hit as expected. The first is
set to lash the nation from October 26 to
November 1 and will affect most of Britain, he said.

Winds will reach 80-100mph and there could be some tornado activity. But
this is just the "warm-up".

So basically he's taken a completely unremarkable autumn Atlantic
depression and claimed his forecast was correct.
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl


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