On Jun 14, 10:35*am, Weatherlawyer wrote:
On Jun 14, 7:18*am, "Martin Rowley"





wrote:
"Dave Cornwell" wrote in
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"David Gartrell" wrote in
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Hi There,

I'm trying to make sense of the GFS 500hPa charts on Wetterzentrale
but to be honest I'm not really sure what I'm looking at. *The High
Pressures & low pressures are easy enough to figure out but what
exacly do the colours refer to. *Assuming they are temperature
gradients do they refer to surface temperatures or something else.

Any advice anyone could give (in layman's terms i'm afraid) would
be very welcome.

Many thanks

David.
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W, just on the topic of "making sense". Your forecasting abilities
appear to have missed the 6.8(+) earthquake in Honshu, last night.
It's not surprising, as I feel that earthquakes are still,
essentially, unpredictable, as does almost all scientists working in
this field. I do remember you mentioning that a "major" earthquake was
due (not timescle, no specific area and you didn't state the
magnitude, as I recall). Surely it can't have been this one? At 6.8,
it wouldn't be considered major. When's the big one going to occur?
After all, on every day of our lives, we can't escape from the fact
that a major earthquake is due somewhere on earth. Can you forecast
it? You missed the Sichuan earthquake completely and this one in
Japan. It is not on the same scale as Sichuan, but has been the
biggest in just over a month since then, I believe, topping the Greek
earthquake, which you also appear to have missed. It might be worth a
proper forecast to try to redeem your theories and set everyone agog
at your ability? 1/4; 25% since April 24th and counting.