On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 12:29:09 +0100, "Philip Eden"
philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:


"JPG" wrote in message
.. .
See article from The Independent:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/tk73

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...p?story=429448

also a bit about the coming "heatwave"

They keep re-inventing the wheel, don't they? They was a paper about using
100mbar charts as an aid to medium range forecasting in Met Mag in about
1961.

Not much momentum in the stratosphere I would have thought, given the
low pressures, so my "first principles" thinking would suggest that
the influence of stratospheric winds would not be very significant.

JPG


Philip Eden