| The Met Office 12:36 - Feb 17 with 3226 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 12:43 - Feb 17 with 2546 views | footers |
Bit sexist that they're only using buoys to transmit the data. Sure guorls could do just a good a job. |  |
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| The Met Office on 12:46 - Feb 17 with 2529 views | jeera |
"As a seafarer, I send weather observations in to the Met Office."
"Spitting a bit at the moment.
Get back to you if it gets heavier". |  |
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| The Met Office on 12:47 - Feb 17 with 2522 views | WeWereZombies |
| The Met Office on 12:43 - Feb 17 by footers |
Bit sexist that they're only using buoys to transmit the data. Sure guorls could do just a good a job. |
Your prejudice against buoys seems a bit Suffolkist, if you ask me. Anyway, if anyone wants to post something controversial then the next two hours is the time to do it as Phil and Gav will be busy putting together their pitch to offload the Osborne 1.0 |  |
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| The Met Office on 12:51 - Feb 17 with 2508 views | homer_123 |
| The Met Office on 12:43 - Feb 17 by footers |
Bit sexist that they're only using buoys to transmit the data. Sure guorls could do just a good a job. |
Non-bounaries? [Post edited 17 Feb 2020 12:51]
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| The Met Office on 12:51 - Feb 17 with 2508 views | NewcyBlue |
| The Met Office on 12:46 - Feb 17 by jeera |
"As a seafarer, I send weather observations in to the Met Office."
"Spitting a bit at the moment.
Get back to you if it gets heavier". |
You’ve read my reports then?!
We used to have to manually code the reports
https://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/WMOCodes/WMO306_vI1/Publications/2014update/3
But now we have a computer program that codes them so we can just email them off. Modern technology. Marvellous. | |
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| The Met Office on 12:51 - Feb 17 with 2501 views | footers |
| The Met Office on 12:51 - Feb 17 by homer_123 |
Non-bounaries? [Post edited 17 Feb 2020 12:51]
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Nah, they're all at sea... | |
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| The Met Office on 13:00 - Feb 17 with 2462 views | jeera |
That would all need some serious patience explaining that to me.
Is that a system that's evolved over time or something that's been specifically written in more modern times? | |
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| The Met Office on 13:06 - Feb 17 with 2445 views | Lord_Lucan |
Over the years of fishing I have noticed that for example the French forecasts are spot on, if they say it will rain until Thursday it will in fact rain until Thursday however UK forecasts are a bit hit and miss and I have put this down to the fact that we are an island and weather changes easier. Is this correct or are we just rubbish? |  |
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| The Met Office on 13:07 - Feb 17 with 2440 views | BrixtonBlue |
Why is this "quite fabulous" but in another thread you're saying public funding for space exploration is "incredible"?
Not after a row, genuinely interested in why one bit of modern technology is a good thing and another isn't. |  |
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| The Met Office on 13:28 - Feb 17 with 2398 views | jeera |
| The Met Office on 13:07 - Feb 17 by BrixtonBlue |
Why is this "quite fabulous" but in another thread you're saying public funding for space exploration is "incredible"?
Not after a row, genuinely interested in why one bit of modern technology is a good thing and another isn't. |
Far from my place to speak on his behalf but the weather can cost lives.
It can also affect livelihoods, directly.
They're completely different things. | |
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| The Met Office on 13:30 - Feb 17 with 2392 views | jeera |
| The Met Office on 13:06 - Feb 17 by Lord_Lucan |
Over the years of fishing I have noticed that for example the French forecasts are spot on, if they say it will rain until Thursday it will in fact rain until Thursday however UK forecasts are a bit hit and miss and I have put this down to the fact that we are an island and weather changes easier. Is this correct or are we just rubbish? |
Whilst on the markets Lucers I would check the weather obsessively.
And although, as you say, the forecasts could often be a bit hit and miss and had to be seen as a guide rather than 100% accurate, there was one old boy who always got the forecasts right. He listened to the shipping forecasts though and swore by them.
I guess when there's more at stake. | |
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| The Met Office on 13:36 - Feb 17 with 2376 views | BrixtonBlue |
| The Met Office on 13:28 - Feb 17 by jeera |
Far from my place to speak on his behalf but the weather can cost lives.
It can also affect livelihoods, directly.
They're completely different things. |
It can, but isn't the weather reporting already fairly accurate? Do we really need to spend £1.2bn to improve it a bit? I've no idea, genuine question.
Also, it's not as if it's a straight choice between this weather computer and space exploration. You can have both. | |
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| The Met Office on 13:38 - Feb 17 with 2367 views | HARRY10 |
| The Met Office on 12:43 - Feb 17 by footers |
Bit sexist that they're only using buoys to transmit the data. Sure guorls could do just a good a job. |
They are actually known as bouyos off the cost of Wales |  | | |
| The Met Office on 13:39 - Feb 17 with 2366 views | jeera |
| The Met Office on 13:36 - Feb 17 by BrixtonBlue |
It can, but isn't the weather reporting already fairly accurate? Do we really need to spend £1.2bn to improve it a bit? I've no idea, genuine question.
Also, it's not as if it's a straight choice between this weather computer and space exploration. You can have both. |
Weather reporting isn't as accurate as it could be and technology is improving as well as weather pattern extremes changing.
I'm not sure I see the relevance to space exploration.
That is, if we assume funding isn't infinite.
A matter of priorities surely. | |
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| The Met Office on 13:41 - Feb 17 with 2361 views | DanTheMan |
| The Met Office on 13:36 - Feb 17 by BrixtonBlue |
It can, but isn't the weather reporting already fairly accurate? Do we really need to spend £1.2bn to improve it a bit? I've no idea, genuine question.
Also, it's not as if it's a straight choice between this weather computer and space exploration. You can have both. |
There's an explanation as to why this is good on their website
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/what/technology/supercomputer
TL;DR - These computers help you predict the weather more accurately earlier. Doing this saves money long term. |  |
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| The Met Office on 13:42 - Feb 17 with 2360 views | tractorian |
Thst took me back. I spent my National Service, six months of it at Milkdenhall - 03578 I seem to remember - as a Meteoroligist. Then, it was 3 Group Bomber Command Headquarters, but I expect The RAF moved out long ago. [Post edited 17 Feb 2020 13:48]
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| The Met Office on 13:45 - Feb 17 with 2339 views | Darth_Koont |
| The Met Office on 13:28 - Feb 17 by jeera |
Far from my place to speak on his behalf but the weather can cost lives.
It can also affect livelihoods, directly.
They're completely different things. |
You say that but I've seen Independence Day. I for one will welcome our alien overlords.
(If they're listening/reading) |  |
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| The Met Office on 14:39 - Feb 17 with 2251 views | NewcyBlue |
| The Met Office on 13:07 - Feb 17 by BrixtonBlue |
Why is this "quite fabulous" but in another thread you're saying public funding for space exploration is "incredible"?
Not after a row, genuinely interested in why one bit of modern technology is a good thing and another isn't. |
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. | |
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| The Met Office on 14:46 - Feb 17 with 2237 views | NewcyBlue |
| The Met Office on 13:06 - Feb 17 by Lord_Lucan |
Over the years of fishing I have noticed that for example the French forecasts are spot on, if they say it will rain until Thursday it will in fact rain until Thursday however UK forecasts are a bit hit and miss and I have put this down to the fact that we are an island and weather changes easier. Is this correct or are we just rubbish? |
UK weather is fairly easy.
Predominant winds are South Westerlies.
West coast is wetter than east coast.
Watch for changes in the Jet Stream to ascertain for changes in what will happen to weather for us. The Azores high will also affect this.
Weather fronts move easterly across the Atlantic so can easily be spotted, and monitored. | |
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| The Met Office on 14:47 - Feb 17 with 2233 views | NewcyBlue |
| The Met Office on 13:42 - Feb 17 by tractorian |
Thst took me back. I spent my National Service, six months of it at Milkdenhall - 03578 I seem to remember - as a Meteoroligist. Then, it was 3 Group Bomber Command Headquarters, but I expect The RAF moved out long ago. [Post edited 17 Feb 2020 13:48]
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I love Met. I can study synoptic charts all day.
I’ve built Seb a weather station in the back garden. | |
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| The Met Office on 15:22 - Feb 17 with 2159 views | Radlett_blue |
i have heard some say that the BBC Shipping forecast is now a near irrelevance as most ships have better on board technology. wondering if as a mariner you would agree? |  |
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| The Met Office on 15:24 - Feb 17 with 2151 views | footers |
| The Met Office on 15:22 - Feb 17 by Radlett_blue |
i have heard some say that the BBC Shipping forecast is now a near irrelevance as most ships have better on board technology. wondering if as a mariner you would agree? |
Quite possible. But then you don't get to giggle at someone with a BBC accent saying 'dogger'. | |
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| The Met Office on 15:47 - Feb 17 with 2114 views | WeWereZombies |
| 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) |
Already happened, mate - you've seen who is in the White House... | |
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| The Met Office on 15:47 - Feb 17 with 2114 views | Radlett_blue |
| The Met Office on 15:24 - Feb 17 by footers |
Quite possible. But then you don't get to giggle at someone with a BBC accent saying 'dogger'. |
A friend of mine who has no interest in sailing regularly listens to the shipping forecast.
Mind you, he is a little odd. | |
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| The Met Office on 17:30 - Feb 17 with 2020 views | BrixtonBlue |
| 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. |
Fairy nuff. Apologies for my misreading. | |
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