| The Met Office 12:36 - Feb 17 with 3224 views | NewcyBlue |
Are getting £1.2bn of funding for a new super computer and to run it for 10 years.
They’re looking at said computer being located in places such as Iceland and Norway.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51504002
They’re expecting this to improve the localised forecasting rather than increase the accurate forecasting beyond 5 days.
As a seafarer, I send weather observations in to the Met Office. These are then used to build up the weather forecast and climate patterns. There are also buoys all the over the world that transmit data back.
Quite fabulous really. |  |
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| The Met Office on 17:33 - Feb 17 with 621 views | chicoazul |
Who needs a computer when you can just look out the window? In February it's cold, in April it tends to rain, July is usually nice then by November things start to turn, now where's my £1.2bn? |  |
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| The Met Office on 17:35 - Feb 17 with 622 views | NewcyBlue |
| The Met Office on 17:30 - Feb 17 by BrixtonBlue |
Fairy nuff. Apologies for my misreading. |
No worries Dollers. I left a jokey clarification for you on the other thread.
I know that stuff doesn’t come across as jokey on here. But it was. | |
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| The Met Office on 17:47 - Feb 17 with 605 views | azuremerlangus |
| The Met Office on 14:39 - Feb 17 by NewcyBlue |
Because it’s incredible that spending that money would find something. I am not against spending that money at all.
I find science to be incredible.
I also find the art of meteorology to be quite fabulous.
You obviously mistook my “incredible” comment. |
Great stuff - if the right decision is taken on the information...
Many years ago I sailed out of Newcastle whilst all the the fishing boats were coming in to avoid a force 8+ which was correctly forecast. The comment from the skipper was "We'll poke our nose out and have a look".
It was a bouncy few days of fishery protection - and very lonely as it turned out. |  |
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| The Met Office on 00:18 - Feb 18 with 557 views | jeera |
| The Met Office on 13:45 - Feb 17 by Darth_Koont |
You say that but I've seen Independence Day. I for one will welcome our alien overlords.
(If they're listening/reading) |
What a terrible film that was.
If there was ever an advertisement for a reason to destroy the Earth... |  |
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| The Met Office on 11:00 - Feb 18 with 508 views | Darth_Koont |
| The Met Office on 00:18 - Feb 18 by jeera |
What a terrible film that was.
If there was ever an advertisement for a reason to destroy the Earth... |
Definitely the USA.
I'd like to think a UK version would have taken the p!ss a little more out of ourselves - but perhaps increasingly not. Mars Attacks or Starship Troopers are much better and more honest films on that score. |  |
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| The Met Office on 20:29 - Feb 18 with 473 views | Pecker |
If I want to know what the weather is doing, I just look out of the window. It costs nothing. |  | | |
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