Dear All,

Can I have some of what Daniel Corbett's on? Was very insistent on calling
the high pressure around at the moment a "sandbag".

Cheers
Richard

On 4 Oct 2005 21:39:37 GMT, Richard Dixon
wrote:

Dear All,

Can I have some of what Daniel Corbett's on? Was very insistent on calling
the high pressure around at the moment a "sandbag".

Cheers
Richard
He could refer to the North Atlantic Drift as our 'hot water bottle'!
R

"Richard Dixon" wrote in message
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Dear All,

Can I have some of what Daniel Corbett's on? Was very insistent on calling
the high pressure around at the moment a "sandbag".

He was calling it a rock in the middle of a river around which the water
(depressions) was being diverted the other day.

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.

Col wrote:
"Richard Dixon" wrote in message
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Dear All,

Can I have some of what Daniel Corbett's on? Was very insistent on calling
the high pressure around at the moment a "sandbag".


He was calling it a rock in the middle of a river around which the water
(depressions) was being diverted the other day.

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.



I recon he reads this newsgroup and is having a laugh.

He does'nt bother more as he distracts you from those awefull graphics !

--
Keith (Southend)

'Weather Home & Abroad'
http://www.southendweather.net

"Col" wrote in message
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"Richard Dixon" wrote in message
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Dear All,

Can I have some of what Daniel Corbett's on? Was very insistent on
calling
the high pressure around at the moment a "sandbag".

He was calling it a rock in the middle of a river around which the water
(depressions) was being diverted the other day.

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.


In all respect, probably not a bad way of verbally illustrating a 'blocking
setup' for those who only want to know what the weather will do and are not
interested in the technical terms, a point only being made yesterday on
Radio 4 regarding the use of confusing (to the general public) terms in
weather forecasts.

As I drove to work yesterday, the H & W forecaster just talked about the
blocking high controlling the present weather. I obviously knew exactly what
he meant but I only thought that many listeners probably wouldn't know what
he was talking about.

--
Pete

Please take my dog out twice to e-mail

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He does'nt bother more as he distracts you from those awefull graphics !

Quite.

Anyway, I'd much rather have him than some awful bland corporate type.

Graham

"Graham Easterling" wrote in
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He does'nt bother more as he distracts you from those awefull graphics !

Quite.

Anyway, I'd much rather have him than some awful bland corporate type.

Graham

The graphics remain terrible. I like his style because he is enthusiastic to
explain the situation! Having to refer to sandbags etc rather than showing a
synoptic chart (which his boss wont let him do) is quite a good way of
describing our current cloudy high. I also like the way he simply says
"finishing numbers around 18". There is no need to babble on about degrees,
Celsius and certainly not Fahrenheit like nearly all the women do in summer.

David

"Graham Easterling" wrote in
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Anyway, I'd much rather have him than some awful bland corporate type.

Do you think there are any bland corporate types on the Beeb at the moment?
I'm all for eccentricities (e.g. Rob McElwee) but I just find Daniel
Corbett intensely annoying - I often feel he's sort of a mish-mash between
a Butlin's Red Coat and a Children's Entertainer!

To each their own, of course!

Richard

Felly sgrifennodd Pete B :
In all respect, probably not a bad way of verbally illustrating a 'blocking
setup' for those who only want to know what the weather will do and are not
interested in the technical terms, a point only being made yesterday on
Radio 4 regarding the use of confusing (to the general public) terms in
weather forecasts.

As I just mentioned elsewhere, the BBC should be educating. So let's not
knock a presenter when he actually tries to educate. If only more of them
would try.

Adrian

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Adrian Shaw ais@
Adran Cyfrifiadureg, Prifysgol Cymru, aber.
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Cymru ac.
http://users.aber.ac.uk/ais uk

"Keith (Southend)" wrote in message
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He does'nt bother more as he distracts you from those awefull graphics !

I have to admit, I'm getting used to the graphics now.
If you can keep an eye on your region and the time, following the
rain/cloud patterns for your area gives you a better 'feel' of the
expected progression of the day's weather than the old static
symbols ever could. Indeed, I am less inclined now to 'translate'
the new graphics into wahat the ols ones would have been

Having said that, the alien invasion fleet that appears whenever
there are strong winds expected still looks silly and the lack of
synoptic charst (apart from Countryfile) is still woeful.

One thing I am looking forward to this winter is how they will deal
with snow events and more importantly rain/snow transition areas.
I wonder if we will be able to resolve more detail than with the old
graphics.

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.