"Mike Lyle" wrote after
Bob Hobden wrote:
"Nick Maclaren" wrote |

Some meterologists are extremely proud of those forecasts because,
in the past few years, they have started to be more reliable than
listening to the oldest inhabitant of the local pub. Others feel
that the difference in reliability is small.

When you think of the computing power they have at their disposal,
two new NEC's to replace their Cray system, then they bloody well
should be getting better.
http://www.metoffice.com/research/nw...cal/computers/

What? When a butterfly flaps its wing in the Amazon forest..?

Which is picked up by a weather station somewhere and relayed back to the
Met. to be added to all the other data from all the other weather stations
and then analysed using their ever evolving numerical models.

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Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London