On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 16:33:17 +0100, Mark Lowe wrote:

But critics say the loss of a local service will increase the risk
of weather-related problems across the islands.

Curious statement. How does the presence (or absence) of
forecasters affect what the weather is going to do?

I see your point Dave, but what they say makes sense to me. Granted
the loss of that office, or any Met Office, doesn't actually change
the weather that will happen, ...

I'm glad some one does, everyone else seems to be reading what they
want to read not what is actually written.

... but surely the whole point of weather forecasting is that
advanced warnings and such like are given to minimise disruption.

Quite, and a local human forcaster with lots of local knowledge and
experience to base his forecast on is far more likely to beat a model
or a remote forecaster without the local knowledge.

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