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Old February 18th 16, 06:21 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
John Hall[_2_] John Hall[_2_] is offline
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Default More stupid snow warnings.

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Lawrence Jenkins writes
On Thursday, 18 February 2016 09:04:17 UTC, John Hall wrote:
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Lawrence Jenkins writes
The first map the 18th shows yellow everywhere but the SE yet its a
warning for the SE, the remainder show no snow warnings at all.


The reason why the SE got its warning was that the yellow area covered a
small part of the region that the MO calls SE England. The part in
question was west of London and north of the M4, and seemed to roughly
correspond to Oxfordshire and maybe a bit of Berkshire too. Personally I
wouldn't call Oxfordshire part of SE England, but it's in the MO region.


No John I was making two points.

The first one was the ironic absurdity of showing a map with NO yellow
warning on it whatsoever and yet issuing a yellow warning. Do you all
understand that , the yellow warning map the first of five had yellow
to the NW of London but nothing for London and the SE and the follow
four showed no yellow whatsoever so what are e you meant to make of
that map, because it actually predicted no snow for London and the SE


You can see the boundary of the area that the Met Office call "London
and the Southeast" clearly delineated on their maps. Daft though it may
seem, that L&SE region DOES incorporate that area to the NW of London to
which you refer. And if even the tiniest smidgen of the L&SE region as
defined by them is shown as being affected by the warning, then the
little icon of a snowflake will be portrayed in yellow. You and I can
both agree that it's not a very clear way of doing things, but it's not
actually incorrect.
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