"Graham Easterling" wrote in message
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On 22 Jun, 18:52, John Hall wrote:

The weather warnings really have to be very specific to be of much
use.

Which at any more than an hour or two's notice (and that may be
optimistic) is unlikely to be possible with thundery downpours.
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Yes, is it tricky, this is where I agree with Norman's view on
Nowcasts.

Since 2004 there has been a dedicated Nowcasting bench in the Operations
Centre that orchestrates the issue of Flash warnings in conjunction with the
Chief and Public Weather Service forecasters.

Jon.