On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 2:58:50 PM UTC, Len Wood wrote:


Such a powerful computer we are told is needed to give hourly forecasts at
1.5 km resolution on an operational basis.

But we already have these postcode forecasts on an hourly basis 24 hrs ahead.

Someone has been telling a porky pie.



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Not at all.

a) What Martin said.

b) The postcode forecasts are produced through model downscaling with reference to the closest grid points or perhaps the closest and most pertinent MOS sites, if the Met office uses MOS these days.

Stephen.