On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:17:54 -0000, "Shaun Pudwell"
wrote:

Being a computer programmer by trade, I can say with confidence "Crap In,
Crap Out". In otherwords, no matter how good the model, if you put in an
inadequate amount of information or the wrong type of information for that
matter, the resulting forecast will always be less than perfect.

Despite the availability of satellite imagery and information, the amount of
data available over the Atlantic is pitifully small and this represents 3,000
miles of nearly bugger-all, datawise; and all of it upwind of us.

So it is more a case of very little in, in the circumstances pretty good out.

JPG