On 21 Mar, 11:35, Weatherlawyer wrote:

"Met Office view of 0000 UTC surface analysis

Pressure remains high over parts of southern Europe and the
Mediterranean, giving settled weather here, but areas of low pressure
dominate much of northern and western Europe, but a weak ridge of high
pressure over the British Isles is giving a drier spell here before
the next weather front moves into the west later today.

Updated: 0730 on Sat 20 Mar 2010"

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/..._pressure.html

This is another day in my alternative reality folks. That's about it
really; they never update the chart in the afternoon or evening. The
North Atlantic +12 hour forecast is still the forecast at 13:30 UT.

But you won't catch me complaining or explaining.
Because I'm free.

The updates they send to greet me won't defeat me
It won't be long before fresh insights replete me

I'm never going to stop the complaining by explaining

Because I'm free, nothing's bothering me.

New things learned:

Some phases bring in weather spells that in the North Atlantic,
develop elongations in the pressure vortices called Highs and Lows.

Elongations tend to develop into ridges and troughs. But on occasions
like this, the Lows split up into separate systems. Ordinarily this
sort of thing does not occur until they reach land.

At sea they tend to gather and deepen at certain geographical points
such as when they reach the Mid Atlantic Ridge. In certain ocean
cycles, the pressure has to wait until enough acoustic waves coincide
at the right place to drop the pressure about 10 millibars.

When that happens, the Low can cross the Ridge and head for its
destruction on the shores of Norway or Scotland.

When that happens a suitable earthquake occurs somewhere or other on
the planet. The magnitude of the quake being directly related to the
power of the storm.

But this phase, not.

And of course all the charts I collected during it -courtesy of the
Met Office are useless.

Not to worry, the Germans have a cunning plan.

Go to WetterZentrale and get the latest output with no hassle:
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fsfaxsem.html

From the Brown box; Select: Fax
From the Green box; Select: Bracknell
From the Grey box; Select: Analyse 0/6

Don't mention the war.