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Old October 8th 09, 01:20 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default High pressure and October warmth following the blow?

On Oct 7, 6:45*pm, Nick wrote:
On Oct 7, 6:02*pm, Dawlish wrote:





On Oct 6, 9:16*pm, Dawlish wrote:


On Oct 6, 12:22*pm, Dawlish wrote:


On Oct 3, 9:17*am, Dawlish wrote:


On Oct 2, 11:45*pm, "Ned" wrote:


"Dawlish" wrote in message


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Are we seeing the beginnings of model consistency and agreement for an
Indian summer? (whatever that actually means!)


Both the ECM and the gfs are looking to build high pressure after this
shock of cool, windy and eventually (for us in the south) wet weather.
As Will says, the drought ought to be broken for many next week and
gales will come as an unwelcome shock in the north tomorrow. I say
unwelcome shock, as trees are still in full leaf and a few might end
up in gardens and across roads in the north with those steep pressure
gradients.


Beyond that - back to calm and settled with the chance of some warm
weather out towards mid October with 20C+ in the south? Watch this
space.


LOL you live in cuckoo land. Why should we bench forecasters (and any
others) watch your posts? *We have all the access to the models we need and
we make forecasts 4 times a day, rather then the once in a blue moon pseudo
"forecast" you come up with.


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Ned


Careful Ned. If your forecasting is so good, the obvious question is;
why aren't the outcomes at 10 days+ good too - that goes for for any
agency, or forecaster on the net?


I know how good MetO forecasters are and I know how good their
outcomes are out to 5 days. They have improved considerably over the
past 20 years and arer reliable enough to use. They are the best you
can get for the UK. However their (your?) outcomes at 10 days+ clearly
have not and the MetO, or anyone else for that matter, finds
forecasting at that distance impossible on a day-to-day basis. Just
because the forecasts are issued does not make them good. The only way
to judge that is by outcome percentage success and if that sticks in
the craw of some I make no apologies when a bench forecaster comes on
and tells me how good he is because he forecasts 4 times a day. I
would not even begin to compete at 0-5 days. Your meteorology training
and forecasting experience would completely outweigh mine and I have
great respect for bench forecasters' abilities at that distance. At 10
days, it is a different matter. Using the models at my disposal, I
could easily forecast at 10 days, every day, but I would be wrong much
of the time, as you would be and I would have a good chance of being
right only on those occasions I refer to. In fact I'd use percentages
to display how confident I was, as should the MetO.


That's why the MetO only allow about 200 words for the whole forecast
period of 6-15 days (200 words only for a full 10-day period! What use
is that - and no specifics to any day within those 10?) You certainly
don't forecast publically at that distance every 6 hours. The 6-15 day
forecast is updated once every 24 hours if we are lucky; probably in a
tea break *)) The system that I use allows me to be able to forecast
with 75% confidence at particular times (and I accept that those
conditions do not occur often - read my profile). The MetO don't
publish any accuracy records at T240 because they know full well that
accurate (not just regular) forecasting at that distance is beyond
their capabilities, or anyone's capability at present. The models that
you need to do that with accuracy have not yet been invented, so
please don't tell me that you have everything you need to forecast at
10 days+. You haven't, or you'd be able to do it with accuracy. Again,
just note that I am *not* talking about forecastig at short-range..


Last night, the above wasn't a forecast, of course, it was an
observation on how the models are shaping up. This *is* a forecast.