"Waghorn" wrote in message
...
Your on a high speed train and want to visit the buffet. It's on a
100+mph stretch of the East Coast mainline

Much more turbulence on thhe west coast line ;-).

.... no doubt! Strange how railways (like the weather itself) forms the
backdrop to the psychology of these islands ;-)

For the state of the art on jet streak dynamics see-
http://www.atmos.albany.edu/student/...et_streak.html
http://www.iac.ethz.ch/~sdirren/my_h...iences/Rossby/
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~hakim/pubs.html
on PV dynamics-
http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sws98slg/midlatdyn.html


.... thanks for those links: I'm certainly not an expert and will read
them up - however, at the end of the day, some poor sod at 0200 in the
morning has got to decide whether to issue a warning or not and hope
he/she has read the signs aright. I'm glad it's not me anymore!!

Martin.