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has the Met office lost the plot?
"Mary Fisher" wrote in message t... "Spider" wrote in message ... "Mary Fisher" wrote in message t... "Spider" wrote in message ... Well, they've certainly put my gardening nose out of joint. I was going to mow the lawn and lay some turf today. Big, fat, soggy chance now!! {:~( Get rid of the grass and grow something more worthwhile! Mary Sacrilege! Wash your mouth out with some of that rainwater. :~) No. People who grow grass and lovingly water and feed it to make it grow and dal with 'weeds' in it hen cut it down and don't even eat it are missing something in the great scheme of things. Grass is useless except as a food for some animals. Mary Yes, indeed. It's food for many moths and crickets, among other things. A recent thread explored the loss of once-common chirruping crickets and their like. Those who claimed to still see them were the people who grew grass or lived close to grassland. I'll stick with my grass and its treasured inhabitants - they are worthwhile to me. There are areas aplenty in my garden where grass has vanished in the interest of 'better' plants, but I must also have native and natural things around me. Spider |
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has the Met office lost the plot?
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from "Spider" contains these words: Yes, indeed. It's food for many moths and crickets, among other things. A recent thread explored the loss of once-common chirruping crickets and their like. Those who claimed to still see them were the people who grew grass or lived close to grassland. I'll stick with my grass and its treasured inhabitants - they are worthwhile to me. There are areas aplenty in my garden where grass has vanished in the interest of 'better' plants, but I must also have native and natural things around me. My garden was full of tiny crickets this spring, but the bloody spiders ate most of them... -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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has the Met office lost the plot?
On 1/9/08 09:55, in article ,
"Mary Fisher" wrote: "Rusty Hinge 2" wrote in message k... The message from "Mary Fisher" contains these words: "Spider" wrote in message ... Well, they've certainly put my gardening nose out of joint. I was going to mow the lawn and lay some turf today. Big, fat, soggy chance now!! {:~( Get rid of the grass and grow something more worthwhile! Watercress... Why not? Better than grass. Mary I doubt earthworms would agree! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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has the Met office lost the plot?
On 31 Aug, 20:01, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
In article ,C harlie Pridham writes: | | This is true the vast majority of the ships did only a range of | observations at the surface and apart from observing cloud type were not | able to tell what was going on above, I believe from talking to some of | the other officers that some of the passenger ships did do balloon work | but I don't know how many I am pretty sure that it didn't provide enough coverage to be of much use for (UK terrestrial) forecasting - certainly, that is what I was told. *Even by the 1960s, passenger ships were dwindling. Between 1968 and 1971 I made 4-hourly reports of sea temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind direction and strength, precipitation and cloud cover by telegram to the Met office from merchant ships. These were voluntary observations. The practice persisted into the 1990s - I was on a research ship doing it in 1994 - but appears to be completely dead now. There are, in any case, few British merchant ships to join in. |
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In article , bobharvey writes: | | Between 1968 and 1971 I made 4-hourly reports of sea temperature, | atmospheric pressure, wind direction and strength, precipitation and | cloud cover by telegram to the Met office from merchant ships. These | were voluntary observations. The practice persisted into the 1990s - | I was on a research ship doing it in 1994 - but appears to be | completely dead now. There are, in any case, few British merchant | ships to join in. Yes. The trouble with purely surface observations is that they give a good idea of how the weather is changing at the time, but very little information on what it is going to do 24 hours hence. That information WAS useful - for maritime and aerial safety - but wasn't enough to make the computer-based forecasts useful. The satellite data allowed a guess at the water vapour content and upper air temperatures, plus probably other important figures, which changed the feasibility of using computers. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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In article , Martin writes: | | The satellite data allowed a guess at the water vapour content and | upper air temperatures, plus probably other important figures, which | changed the feasibility of using computers. | | Yesterday was exactly 11 years since the launch of the last Meteosat first | generation satellite, a satellite cobbled together using flight spares and in | one case a part rescued from a museum But the Meteosat series was not the first - see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_satellite The Nimbus series demonstrated that enough data could be collected, and it was the successors of that which were used to make the change from human to computer forecasting. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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has the Met office lost the plot?
"Rusty Hinge 2" wrote in message k... The message from "Spider" contains these words: Yes, indeed. It's food for many moths and crickets, among other things. A recent thread explored the loss of once-common chirruping crickets and their like. Those who claimed to still see them were the people who grew grass or lived close to grassland. I'll stick with my grass and its treasured inhabitants - they are worthwhile to me. There are areas aplenty in my garden where grass has vanished in the interest of 'better' plants, but I must also have native and natural things around me. My garden was full of tiny crickets this spring, but the bloody spiders ate most of them... -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig Yup, we do that! Yum yum. :~)) Spider |
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has the Met office lost the plot?
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from "Spider" contains these words: "Rusty Hinge 2" wrote in message k... The message from "Spider" contains these words: My garden was full of tiny crickets this spring, but the bloody spiders ate most of them... Yup, we do that! Yum yum. :~)) I say, that's just not cricket, y'know! -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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has the Met office lost the plot?
On 2/9/08 21:07, in article ,
"Rusty Hinge 2" wrote: The message from "Spider" contains these words: "Rusty Hinge 2" wrote in message k... The message from "Spider" contains these words: My garden was full of tiny crickets this spring, but the bloody spiders ate most of them... Yup, we do that! Yum yum. :~)) I say, that's just not cricket, y'know! A web of deceit, you think? ;-) -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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has the Met office lost the plot?
"Rusty Hinge 2" wrote in message k... The message from "Spider" contains these words: "Rusty Hinge 2" wrote in message k... The message from "Spider" contains these words: My garden was full of tiny crickets this spring, but the bloody spiders ate most of them... Yup, we do that! Yum yum. :~)) I say, that's just not cricket, y'know! -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig Sad, I know. They didn't even have a good innings, heh heh! I knocked 'em for six! Spider |
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has the Met office lost the plot?
"Sacha" wrote in message ... On 2/9/08 21:07, in article , "Rusty Hinge 2" wrote: The message from "Spider" contains these words: "Rusty Hinge 2" wrote in message k... The message from "Spider" contains these words: My garden was full of tiny crickets this spring, but the bloody spiders ate most of them... Yup, we do that! Yum yum. :~)) I say, that's just not cricket, y'know! A web of deceit, you think? ;-) -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Well, they certainly didn't see it coming, or they'd have hopped it! :~) Spider |
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has the Met office lost the plot?
In article , "Spider" writes: | | My garden was full of tiny crickets this spring, but the bloody spiders | ate most of them... | | Yup, we do that! Yum yum. :~)) | | I say, that's just not cricket, y'know! | | A web of deceit, you think? ;-) | | Well, they certainly didn't see it coming, or they'd have hopped it! :~) Jiminy! This is getting bad. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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has the Met office lost the plot?
On 3/9/08 12:40, in article , "Spider"
wrote: "Rusty Hinge 2" wrote in message k... The message from "Spider" contains these words: "Rusty Hinge 2" wrote in message k... The message from "Spider" contains these words: My garden was full of tiny crickets this spring, but the bloody spiders ate most of them... Yup, we do that! Yum yum. :~)) I say, that's just not cricket, y'know! -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig Sad, I know. They didn't even have a good innings, heh heh! I knocked 'em for six! Spider Don't you mean eight? Hadn't got a leg to stand on etc? -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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has the Met office lost the plot?
"Sacha" wrote in message ... On 3/9/08 12:40, in article , "Spider" wrote: "Rusty Hinge 2" wrote in message k... The message from "Spider" contains these words: "Rusty Hinge 2" wrote in message k... The message from "Spider" contains these words: My garden was full of tiny crickets this spring, but the bloody spiders ate most of them... Yup, we do that! Yum yum. :~)) I say, that's just not cricket, y'know! -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig Sad, I know. They didn't even have a good innings, heh heh! I knocked 'em for six! Spider Don't you mean eight? Hadn't got a leg to stand on etc? -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Quite so, Sacha, but I'm sure you'll see that leaves me two to stand on while I munch on them. :~) Spider |
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has the Met office lost the plot?
Can somebody enlighten me as to
1 - The national BBC weather forecast has no clouds any way near us. But the local BBC weather shows rain. 2 - Yahoo weather, BBC weather and Met office web sites all show different weather forecasts for the same place. I just have do an average of all 3 to get a reasonable forecast. 3 - When I check out the weather on the Met office (typically) website we are on the very edge of the 'West Midlands' map and right on the very edge of the 'East Midlands' map. When will I be able to get the forecast for my town bang in the middle of the screen. My response from the met office was 'you get what we give you'. |
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