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Don't worry about the trolls, Will - seems like some people get upset when
they see how much others are enjoying life...!


Well said, cupra. Everyone, just killfile the numpty and we can all enjoy
life again.
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Rob C. Overfield
Hull

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And as for forecasters finding 'some' weather reports useful, well, yes
they do on a few occasions in a year when extremes occur, but to imply
that in a mild southwesterly that forecasters at Exeter would need to
confirm that the high ground on the Moors of SW England have low
cloud/fog and drizzle is, frankly, an insult to their intelligence.


Is it? You were a forecaster John not so long ago, so pray tell me how you would
know if it was drizzling on Dartmoor with no observations? Radar doesn't pick up
drizzle necessarily. How would you know what the cloud base was with no obs? I
have seen many SW'lys that have not given hill fog so to make generalizations is
very dangerous.
I live here and I know how variable things can be in what others may think are
homogeneous airmasses. Forecasters always want "ground truth" observations, I
would have thought that you being an ex-forecaster would have known that?
Or are you happy that everything can be done centrally with no obs, just
un-scientific pre-conceptions?
Glad you appreciate the value of snow reports though, at least that's something!

Will.
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Will Hand wrote:
wrote in message
oups.com...

Don't worry about the trolls, Will - seems like some people get
upset when they see how much others are enjoying life...!


Well said, cupra. Everyone, just killfile the numpty and we can all
enjoy life again.
--
Rob C. Overfield
Hull

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And as for forecasters finding 'some' weather reports useful, well,
yes they do on a few occasions in a year when extremes occur, but to
imply that in a mild southwesterly that forecasters at Exeter would
need to confirm that the high ground on the Moors of SW England have
low cloud/fog and drizzle is, frankly, an insult to their
intelligence.


Is it? You were a forecaster John not so long ago, so pray tell me
how you would know if it was drizzling on Dartmoor with no
observations? Radar doesn't pick up drizzle necessarily.

I have to agree there - Saturday's radar didn't show the extent of drizzle
across Exmoor - and 5 miles down the road you wouldn't have thought the hill
fog was quite so bad....