Of weather radar & forecasts
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This may constitute a rant, & possibly in the wrong forum, BUT, I'm extremely grumpy right now:
The nice lady on the weather forecast last night said it would be dry, but a bit cloudy this morning in SE England. The BBC weather app agrees, so does the Met Office local weather forecast.
I am a fair weather rider, & was looking forward to a couples hours ride this morning down to the seaside & back. But I look at the weather radar & out the window & it is f
king pissing it down, with no sign of letting up anytime soon 
This seems to happen with monotonous regularity, usually in summer....
I read somewhere they spent £100,000,000 on a new weather super-computer, so how do they get it quite so wrong?? Any meteorologists on PH could shed some light on it?
Cue 'Southern softy' comments etc...
The nice lady on the weather forecast last night said it would be dry, but a bit cloudy this morning in SE England. The BBC weather app agrees, so does the Met Office local weather forecast.
I am a fair weather rider, & was looking forward to a couples hours ride this morning down to the seaside & back. But I look at the weather radar & out the window & it is f
king pissing it down, with no sign of letting up anytime soon This seems to happen with monotonous regularity, usually in summer....
I read somewhere they spent £100,000,000 on a new weather super-computer, so how do they get it quite so wrong?? Any meteorologists on PH could shed some light on it?
Cue 'Southern softy' comments etc...
I gave up looking at the weather days in advance for this very reason.
I am tempted to print of an advanced forecast and get the apprentice at work to mark each hour for a month to see how accurate it is.
They normally get it pretty correct on the day. But due to the size of Britain and it's surroundings it's apparently near impossible to predict rainfall days in advance apparently.
I now adopt the window method. Does it look like it will rain. fk that. Or fit Wets. It avoids disappointment. That said July is one of the wettest months of the year up here. Its rather depressing.
I am tempted to print of an advanced forecast and get the apprentice at work to mark each hour for a month to see how accurate it is.
They normally get it pretty correct on the day. But due to the size of Britain and it's surroundings it's apparently near impossible to predict rainfall days in advance apparently.
I now adopt the window method. Does it look like it will rain. f
k that. Or fit Wets. It avoids disappointment. That said July is one of the wettest months of the year up here. Its rather depressing. 
They always seem to be overly optimistic with the forecast, constantly predicting nice weather for the following day/week ahead then only downgrading the forecast when it gets closer to the time and it's obvious that it's actually just going to be another dreary, overcast miserable damp day.
I'm convinced it's all part of the wider government propaganda that we have to constantly endure about our "booming economy" our "fantastic gdp" and our "excellent employment figures"
I'm convinced it's all part of the wider government propaganda that we have to constantly endure about our "booming economy" our "fantastic gdp" and our "excellent employment figures"
Well.... after pacing around the house like a VERY grumpy caged animal, the missus more or less shoved me out the door at 11.30, with the words: 'its totally dry outside, don't believe the radar, it'll stay dry all afternoon'. What could possibly go wrong? 15 minutes up the road & the heavens opened for a good 10 minutes!!! 
Oh, & I only bothered with summer mesh jacket & jeans, so it felt like I was being jetwashed. I carried on for another half hour in an attempt to air dry myself, but ended up decidedly fking freezing.
I guess I'll never learn & the British weather will never be truly predictable.....
Oh, & I only bothered with summer mesh jacket & jeans, so it felt like I was being jetwashed. I carried on for another half hour in an attempt to air dry myself, but ended up decidedly f
king freezing.I guess I'll never learn & the British weather will never be truly predictable.....
I find keeping an eye on www.raintoday.co.uk is a pretty reliable indicator of if/when I'll need to get the waterproofs on.
JulianHJ said:
I find keeping an eye on www.raintoday.co.uk is a pretty reliable indicator of if/when I'll need to get the waterproofs on.
Err... That's exactly what I used. FFS.... moanthebairns said:
That said July is one of the wettest months of the year up here. Its rather depressing.
Myself and three mates were up your way (as in, the wrong side of the European border 
) last weekend, it was a tad moist... but what miffed us no end was the 'resurfacing' that had been carried out on just about every bloody road we chose. This is the resurfacing that involves tipping lorryloads of chippings and then hoping that the traffic will roll it into something approaching a road surface that Bonny Prince Charlie would have recognised.I'm not saying progress was leisurely but the Pan Euro's fuel economy went up from its usual 41mpg to 50!
And while I'm on, how do you afford to get p1553d in Scotland? We struggled to find beer at less than FOUR QUID a bloody pint!
CypSIdders said:
The answer is simple, emigrate to somewhere that has a better climate than the pisspoor one the UK has!
I did, no more cold, wet, miserable, ste, British summers on the horizon for me!
But then you're surrounded by all those questionable foreign types.. I'd rather have the,, oh never mind.I did, no more cold, wet, miserable, s
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