"pete" wrote in message
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:16:21 +0100, hungerdunger wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...et-Office.html

Am I missing something here? This man has bought a Davis Vantage Pro and
is
using "Weather Underground" software, as are many other people in the UK,
yet this appears to qualify him for a piece in the Daily Mail, and five
minutes on Radio 5's evening news programme (at about 6.50 if anyone can
be
bothered to Listen Again).

Looking at his site ( http://www.dugglenet.org/ ) I can't even see the
forecast which is apparently far more accurate than the Met Office's.

What depressed me the most were Joe Public's comments below the article.
The more outrageous they were, the more "votes" they got from fellow
Daily
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
That's SOP for Daily Wail readers :-(
Mail readers.

The piece was also picked up by the BBC1 breakfast programme this morning.
I saw their take on it and it was more frivolous than informative, since
it wasn't really informative at all. When we learned was that you can get
amateur weather stations and that there are things called "micro
climates".
Apart from that there was nothing.
So at least it raised awareness from zero, to a "I want one of those for
christmas. I don't know what it does, but I want one." level.


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If ever you are feeling suicidal I find reading comments to articles from
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Dave