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Is that a professional partner to do with meterology or partner in the sense
of two men living together?

Neither.
Have a think about the famous person who died today......

Col
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Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.

redtube wrote:

Is that a professional partner to do with meterology or partner in the sense
of two men living together?

Yes, no, no. It was a a bit of flippancy.
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Steve Loft, Glenlivet. 650ft ASL
Weather: http://www.livet.org.uk/weather

Anne Burgess wrote:

Er ... aren't you barkering up the wrong tree there?

Yes, probably. Bill hooks.
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Steve Loft, Glenlivet. 650ft ASL
Weather: http://www.livet.org.uk/weather

JPG wrote:
On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 09:52:13 +0100, Alan White
wrote:

On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 08:34:10 GMT, "Ron Button"
wrote:

Don't despair yet Norman,the Met Office could be bought by Sky and make
D. Corbett chief presenter !

Despite his failings as a presenter, Corbett is the only one that
we've seen who moves to the RHS of the shot when the area of interest
is on the LHS. All the others block Cornwall to some extent.

For that, we give him full marks.

He's quirky, but so was Ian McCaskill, I can't see why he is villified so much,
at least he doesn't trot out the same old clichés.

John Kettley used to adopt a matey and informal approach, but everyone liked
him. Might it be something to do with Dan's accent - too plummy and upper-class
sounding for some?

Martin

Dan's posh accent is not his natural speech, to my ear. It is
something he has learned to do and every now and then something a good
deal more demotic slips through as it always will in cases like this.
It happened with the late Sir Alf Ramsey whose precise clipped tones
were undermined by his inability to say "field" in any other way than
that of the Dagenham hard-man he was.
The reason we favour the old forecasters is because they had
yet been got at by the Department of Duff Metaphors (all this flirting
and punching) and they didn't have to use the flashy but pointless
graphics we now all suffer. And they seemed to know something about
meteorology, too.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

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Hi Norman,

Far be it from me to stick up for TV weather nowadays as I only really watch it
now if I happen to have the TV on. But it seems to me that there is a grain of
truth in what the presenter allegedly said this morning. A stratocumulus sheet
will only disperse if dry air is entrained either from above or from below,
usually from above. For this to happen a convective circulation has to get going
within the whole cloud layer from top to bottom, either through cooling of cloud
tops (as at night) or by heating from below or by turbulence. With light winds
turbulence becomes much more unlikely and although the terminology used was
loose and it might have been better for the presenter to say the cloud was too
thick, he/she was trying to get across a difficult concept for the general
public.

ATB,

Will.
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us a twirl! "
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"Norman Lynagh" wrote in message
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The weather presenter on BBC SouthEast a few minutes ago said

'Winds will be very light so not enough wind to punch any
holes in the cloud'

I despair :-)

Norman.
(delete "thisbit" twice to e-mail)
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Norman Lynagh Weather Consultancy
Chalfont St Giles 85m a.s.l.
England

In article ,
"Will Hand" writes:

[snip]

Far be it from me to stick up for TV weather nowadays as I only really watch it
now if I happen to have the TV on.

ain't that the truth. However, the forcasts generally are aimed at the general public
and unless you're a weather hobbyist, they will be sufficient, IMOHO. They
only care about whether it will rain on their picnic, rather than the mechanisms
involved.

[snip]

turbulence becomes much more unlikely and although the terminology used was
loose and it might have been better for the presenter to say the cloud was too
thick, he/she was trying to get across a difficult concept for the general
public.

....which is a fruitless pursuit. Most people cannot care less about the weather
unless it directly affects them. Most people don't like long words. Most can't
be bothered to think. Some might care if it rains, but most will be in their cars.

I can't underastand why some enthusiasts complain about the weather forecasts in
the traditional media. If you want detail, then look it up on the internet,
preferably direct from the issuing source..
--
Jake