On Nov 25, 12:30 pm, "Wijke" wrote:
"Mike Tullett" schreef in
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I'm wondering if anyone is keeping a track of his forecast storms in
relation to the actual weather. I ask as this is the weekend of his 3rd
major storm when he is reported to have forecast (only a few days ago)
winds of up to 100mph.

Currently a W wind of 10mph here in the NW.

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Mike Tullett - Coleraine 55.13°N 6.69°W posted 25/11/2007 09:36:36 GMT

Mike, Corbyn's superstorm-forecast for this weekend kept us busy in Holland
as well (as a third of our dear nation is below sea-level) - all week
searching the weathermaps to find an abnormality that pointed a possible
direction of some "wind".

We were astonished when last Friday, Corbyn stated on
one of our weather sites that the Dutch didn't understand his forecasting
too well.

We simply had no clue of the English weather jargon. A super-storm
is an "hurricane" BUT an "hurricane" is ermmm......

Okay, we're only foreigners and our English isn't that good; I hope you'll forgive
us.

At I think I understand this:
Mr Corbyn talks about a "super-storm" he means an F5 or F6 Beaufort.

So a strong super-storm will be about F8?

I don't understand the last bit. Is this what you meant:

Well, [he] got things right again.
Then [a mere] "storm" will be 10mph. I'd call it a "mild storm" - but
what's in a name.

A wind speed of 10 mph is nothing near a mild storm in anyone's books.
This is the Beaufort scale for it:

8-12 mph; 7-10 knots: Gentle breeze.
Leaves and small twigs in constant motion; wind will fill a light
flag.

I doubt anyone understands his forecasts. Even him. I bet he is
puzzled over some of his results even now. If you'd care to take a
much wider field of view on his dates, then you might see something in
them even he is missing.

I don't know if you watch our Countryfile forecasts but according to
the presenter, next Friday looks to be presenting a doozy for
Greenland-Iceland.

As it happens he also showed that an Azores high will extend to
Britain in the next few days. This is due to the absence of any
powerful tropical storm IME. So if there is no such storm, that part
of the prediction will come true.

However, with the probable demise of the couple still extant, there is
a severe earthquake due and the weather models break down when that
state of things is reached.