In article ,
Graham Davis writes:
Yes, it's a pity that the only person on the BBC who ever mentions
warm or cold fronts these days is a golf commentator - Julian Tutt. Got
his cloud types a bit mixed up in this year's Open (cumulo-stratus?) but
at least he tried.

I believe that he used to be an officer in the RAF, so he probably
acquired some knowledge of meteorology then.
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"Norman Lynagh" wrote in message
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In message , Graham Davis
writes
Darren Prescott wrote:
"Mike Tullett" wrote in message
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I was intrigued last weekend (9 days ago) to see
non-frontal troughs marked on their charts.
The BBC also show troughs on their charts, but for reasons best
known to
them they show them as cold fronts.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/maps/eurpresppn012.jpg
This is the European syntopic chart for tomorrow (as shown by Michael
Fish
on the 1:25 forecast) - as you can see, there are two troughs over the
UK
and Ireland.
However, once (and only once) a few months back Michael Fish
actually
mentioned the word "trough" and the synoptic chart had one marked
*without*
blue triangles attached. It's a shame that couldn't become standard, as
"trough" really isn't a scary word....
(Then again, pretty much all the forecasters call them "weather
fronts"
rather than by their proper names - grr!)


Yes, it's a pity that the only person on the BBC who ever mentions warm
or cold fronts these days is a golf commentator - Julian Tutt. Got his
cloud types a bit mixed up in this year's Open (cumulo-stratus?) but at
least he tried.

Graham

The other day one of the female weather presenters on Sky News said that
the Boscastle floods resulted from cumulus-nimbus clouds. She tried too,
and almost got it right!. Full marks to her for trying to get a bit of
real information into her presentation.

He was an Egyptian Emperor wasn't he? I'm sure I've been to the tomb of
Cumulus Nimbus!


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"Jon O'Rourke" wrote in message



There's some examples on here http://www.metra.co.nz/metra/weatherscape/

Although I gave up trying to view the examples earlier due to a slow
transfer of data and it now seems that they're not working at all.

And now they are forbidden. Good examples of Aussie beaurocrazy; pity
that.

One often forgets one's ancestors exported warders to go with the
convicts.




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Ahh yes Dave but this new software will allow us to differentiate between
"spotty showers", "dribs and drabs of rain", "showers from the word go" and
"showers ganging up to produce some longer spells of rain"... don't knock it
: )

Richard

"Dave.C" wrote in message
.uk...

snip... "We are trying to take weather data and generate weather graphics
on a 3D map that actually looks like the weather."

I think I know what f******g rain looks like!

Dave


"Sunimage" wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3572562.stm

Video gaming graphics technology is set to transform how BBC weather is
done.

In message , Graham Davis
writes
Darren Prescott wrote:
"Mike Tullett" wrote in message ...

I was intrigued last weekend (9 days ago) to see
non-frontal troughs marked on their charts.
The BBC also show troughs on their charts, but for reasons best
known to
them they show them as cold fronts.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/maps/eurpresppn012.jpg
This is the European syntopic chart for tomorrow (as shown by Michael Fish
on the 1:25 forecast) - as you can see, there are two troughs over the UK
and Ireland.
However, once (and only once) a few months back Michael Fish
actually
mentioned the word "trough" and the synoptic chart had one marked *without*
blue triangles attached. It's a shame that couldn't become standard, as
"trough" really isn't a scary word....
(Then again, pretty much all the forecasters call them "weather
fronts"
rather than by their proper names - grr!)


Yes, it's a pity that the only person on the BBC who ever mentions warm
or cold fronts these days is a golf commentator - Julian Tutt. Got his
cloud types a bit mixed up in this year's Open (cumulo-stratus?) but at
least he tried.

Graham

The other day one of the female weather presenters on Sky News said that
the Boscastle floods resulted from cumulus-nimbus clouds. She tried too,
and almost got it right!. Full marks to her for trying to get a bit of
real information into her presentation.

Norman.
(delete "thisbit" twice to e-mail)
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Chalfont St Giles
England

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:27:39 +0100, "Richard Dixon"
wrote:

Ahh yes Dave but this new software will allow us to differentiate between
"spotty showers", "dribs and drabs of rain", "showers from the word go" and
"showers ganging up to produce some longer spells of rain"... don't knock it

What about the spits and spots when I'm out and about tomorrow?

I knock it and I know b****r all about weather forecasting. Just
interested.
Give me a decent trough and an anticyclone over Finnesterre (or
whatever it's called now) any day.

My 2p and I'm sticking to it. (Must be the humidity from last week).
relurk

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"John Hall" wrote in message
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In article ,
Graham Davis writes:
Yes, it's a pity that the only person on the BBC who ever mentions
warm or cold fronts these days is a golf commentator - Julian Tutt. Got
his cloud types a bit mixed up in this year's Open (cumulo-stratus?) but
at least he tried.

I believe that he used to be an officer in the RAF, so he probably
acquired some knowledge of meteorology then.
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I saw Julian Tutt flight test a helicopter on an airshow programme once so
he must have done his met exams.

- Michael

"MichaelJP" wrote in message
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snip

I saw Julian Tutt flight test a helicopter on an airshow programme once so
he must have done his met exams.

- Michael

I've seen him fly a light aircraft on the same.

Jon.