"Tudor Hughes" ...

In my even more humble opinion, I agree about GFS but it is
seductive. Can you recommend a better one, apart from our own Met
Office?


.... it's frustrating that, although it wouldn't exist were it not for
funding from the European taxpayer, the ECMWF products [ which have a
very limited public distribution ], are highly regarded (world-wide,
not just across Europe), consistently achieving the highest scores
when compared with such as MO, NCEP, Arpege, GME etc. I look at the
model he-

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/ecmwf.php

Limited fields I'm afraid, but seem to be provided in a timely
fashion - twice per day.

Martin.


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Martin Rowley
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