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Old January 29th 04, 03:00 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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"Alex Stephens Jnr" wrote in
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"Gavin Staples" wrote in message
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If you want a decent weather forecast then turn to the Internet and

look
at Metcheck and TWO.


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Don't you get fed up with advertising Gavin, are you looking for a job or
something?
They may be good at forecasting for South Cambridgeshire, but an avoidable
source for an outlook north of the border. Except when they copy the short
range GFS. As far as I'm aware - they didn't realise that yesterday's

front
would be anything special. I believe it was myself and Steve Loft on this
newsgroup who warned the South to "watch out".


I would certainly back you up on that.

Taking account of the 7:55 R4 forecast with its "a band of snow passing
through the midlands late morning" or something like that, the BBC weather
site (yes OK!) synoptic, satellite and radar images, I was thinking and hour
or so's cloud and light snow flurry between 08:45 and 10:00 and then
perfectly clear skies was the second front going through. It wasn't until
your posting regarding the front that I realised this was not so, this
backed up by observation of the latest MetO chart that I realised something
more was to come. I was then able to, through occasional monitoring of this
group 'follow' the front down to estimate when it would pass here, almost
bang on time and bang on weather.

Thanks

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Having ran comparison forecasts from various internet sites on my

website
for a year now, the best of the lot for this area is undoubtedly
http://www.weather-online.net And I'm sure their forecasts for your local
town would wipe the floor with the above sites you mention.
I'm not advertising, just exercising a form of quality control.
Alex.