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Old August 8th 08, 06:56 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Martin Rowley Martin Rowley is offline
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Default MetO "fax" charts - day 4 and 5 back again?

"Steve Willington" wrote in message
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On Aug 8, 6:44 pm, "Darren Prescott" wrote:
Back in March the "fax" charts for T+96 and T+120 (issued for the
12z run)
and for T+108 and T+132 (from the 0z run) ceased, ostensibly because
their
accuracy wasn't good enough.

However, I see that:

http://91.121.93.17/pics/brack3.gif

and

http://91.121.93.17/pics/brack4.gif

were updated yesterday. There are no equivalents from the 0z run
today.

Was that a one off, a blip? Or have the MetO resumed issuing those
charts?

Hopefully it's the latter, they're the cause of much speculation in
winter!


Only the T+108 and T+132 were dropped. T+96 and T+120 have continued
to be generated throughout.



.... and it wasn't really to do with accuracy - more economics.

Martin.


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