"Andrew Bond" wrote in message
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"Tom" wrote in message
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Anyone else notice that the GFS handled this depression right from
+72hrs?

Yep,

And the GFS is a free model provided by our American friends who invest in
it tirelessly and offer it for free to commercial/educational and
government
use.

I'm more concerned that the Met Office on Jon's example failed also to
pick
out :-

- Trough lying over Western Scotland
- Secondary shallow shallow low Northwest of Scotland
- Wave developing 300miles West of France

I'd just like to think that the Met Office will not dismiss this as a "Oh
well...." scenario and that they might look into what extra funding,
resources they require in order to bring themselves to anywhere near the
level of consistency and accuracy offered by NOAA.

A

Its all very well to slag off the Met Office and complain about the Global
Model, if you believe the GFS is such a superior model then why did you not
base your forecast yesterday around its output and ignore that of the Met
Office. Fair enough you have but up a "We got it wrong statement" - fine so
did the met office, but don;t go on about how rubbish their model is when
you as an organisation chose to follow it. Please be consistent and a bit
less of a hypocrite.

Regards
Paul