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Snow in your area?


26 December 2005

Snow showers are forecast for certain areas during the next few days. Some
places could well see significant falls of snow, particularly parts of East
and South-east England, but many of us will see very little as the
distribution of snow can vary enormously from place to place.

Have you got snow in your area? Why not let the Met Office know by telling
us where you are and how much snow is on the ground? You can help build the
national picture by submitting your report using the form below.

An asterisk (*) indicates a required field.
Your name
Town*

County*
Postcode*
Depth of level snow on a grass surface* centimetres
Date and time of observation* dd/mm/yyyy hhmm

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Office is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998.

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flybywire wrote:
Snow in your area?


26 December 2005

Snow showers are forecast for certain areas during the next few days. Some
places could well see significant falls of snow, particularly parts of East
and South-east England, but many of us will see very little as the
distribution of snow can vary enormously from place to place.

Have you got snow in your area? Why not let the Met Office know by telling
us where you are and how much snow is on the ground?

Employ more staff to get the information if you need it. If
any member of the public wants data from the Met Office they have to
pay through the nose for it so why should anyone give you free
information? Behave like a public service and we'll willingly help but
until that ethos is restored then any data you want from me you can
bloody sing for. Or pay, of course. :-)

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

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too right my son
how come it's all free in the US and Canada

oh and it has been snowing here near Nottm

M
"Tudor Hughes" wrote in message
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flybywire wrote:
Snow in your area?


26 December 2005

Snow showers are forecast for certain areas during the next few days.
Some
places could well see significant falls of snow, particularly parts of
East
and South-east England, but many of us will see very little as the
distribution of snow can vary enormously from place to place.

Have you got snow in your area? Why not let the Met Office know by
telling
us where you are and how much snow is on the ground?

Employ more staff to get the information if you need it. If
any member of the public wants data from the Met Office they have to
pay through the nose for it so why should anyone give you free
information? Behave like a public service and we'll willingly help but
until that ethos is restored then any data you want from me you can
bloody sing for. Or pay, of course. :-)

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.
ts all free

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Some automatic stations do have snow depth reporting capabilities but the
additional reports from the public are very useful and a lot have been sent
through via the website again. In the past reports were phoned through
voluntarily so in that sense it's nothing new.

Jon.

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"Jon O'Rourke" wrote in message
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Some automatic stations do have snow depth reporting capabilities but the
additional reports from the public are very useful and a lot have been sent
through via the website again. In the past reports were phoned through
voluntarily so in that sense it's nothing new.

Jon.



The Met Office Ops Centre are also avid readers of this newsgroup. Some more
than others I suspect VBG.

Will.
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In article ,
Jon O'Rourke writes:
Some automatic stations do have snow depth reporting capabilities but the
additional reports from the public are very useful and a lot have been sent
through via the website again. In the past reports were phoned through
voluntarily so in that sense it's nothing new.

Entering something on a website requires less effort than phoning in a
report. From one point of view that's good, but it will also tend to
make hoax reports more likely. I would hope that some sort of quality
control is carried out on the reports received, but it must sometimes be
very difficult to tell whether a report is genuine, given how localised
heavy snow can sometimes be.
--
John Hall

"I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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"John Hall" wrote in message
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In article ,

Entering something on a website requires less effort than phoning in a
report. From one point of view that's good, but it will also tend to
make hoax reports more likely. I would hope that some sort of quality
control is carried out on the reports received, but it must sometimes be
very difficult to tell whether a report is genuine, given how localised
heavy snow can sometimes be.

Yes, they're scrutinised by the nowcasting and chief forecaster. They'll
attempt to weedle out anything dodgy and prevent it being presented
elsewhere. But it's not 100% foolproof as you suggest, John.

Jon.

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I struggle with the fact that we as taxpayers pour millions into the met
Office for poor weather reports and still have to pay for the results


"Jon O'Rourke" wrote in message
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"John Hall" wrote in message
...
In article ,

Entering something on a website requires less effort than phoning in a
report. From one point of view that's good, but it will also tend to
make hoax reports more likely. I would hope that some sort of quality
control is carried out on the reports received, but it must sometimes be
very difficult to tell whether a report is genuine, given how localised
heavy snow can sometimes be.

Yes, they're scrutinised by the nowcasting and chief forecaster. They'll
attempt to weedle out anything dodgy and prevent it being presented
elsewhere. But it's not 100% foolproof as you suggest, John.

Jon.

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On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:28:09 -0000, Will Hand wrote:

The Met Office Ops Centre are also avid readers of this newsgroup.
Some more than others I suspect VBG.

I suspect they also spend a lot of time looking at private weather
stations that are on the web as well. meto.gov.uk is always in the top
5 sites visiting my pages...

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