September 6th 05, 09:08 AM
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Adding Sea temperature
Thanks for info.
Ray
"Martin Rowley" m wrote in
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"Ray Jeffery" wrote in message
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Thanks for info, strangely it is not very accurate, we are currently
reading 21 degrees C.
... this is a common misconception. It *is* accurate for where the figures
are - your readings I suspect are taken from much closer to the shore-line
(not clear from the display); this is why the Met Office isotherm chart,
for example, *deliberately* stops the isotherms *away* from the immediate
coastal shelf. There is a considerable gradient of SST between the
shore-line seas and more open water. It is the *latter* that forecasters
need to know for convection forecasting etc.
Martin.
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