"Jon O'Rourke" wrote in message
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"Col" wrote in message
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Quite.The same thing happened last month when severe gales
were forecast for the *whole* of the country.

While the early warning covers all of the UK you need to view the risk of
disruption map along with the text.
Click on "show risk of disruption map"
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/..._warnings.html

A-ha! Right, thanks.
I was wondering where that map was, finally found it buried right at
the bottom of all the identical warnings.
But really doesn't that make a complete mockery of the regional
warning system, why bother when you are are just going to give
the same national forecast for each area?
How many people are even going to find the disruption map?
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

"Col" wrote in message
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A-ha! Right, thanks.
I was wondering where that map was, finally found it buried right at
the bottom of all the identical warnings.
But really doesn't that make a complete mockery of the regional
warning system, why bother when you are are just going to give
the same national forecast for each area?

The flash warnings need to be targeted regionally and the early (national)
warnings are essentially using the same delivery method.

How many people are even going to find the disruption map?

I guess if you know it's there and where to look it's fairly easy to find...
but it's a good point.

I believe improvements to the presentation/delivery of warnings are in the
pipeline following feedback received after the site was re-launched. In the
meantime keep sending the comments to
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporat...ack/index.html

Jon.

Jon, Why does the caption to the disruption map say there is a 50% risk of
disruption, while the figures on the map itself are different. What does the
caption refer to: if you don't specify what you mean, the figure is
meaningless.

"weaman" wrote in message
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Jon, Why does the caption to the disruption map say there is a 50% risk of
disruption, while the figures on the map itself are different. What does
the
caption refer to: if you don't specify what you mean, the figure is
meaningless.

The figures for each region should coincide approximately with the figures
on the map. It looks ok to me but perhaps the caption to the right of the
map should state that this figure refers to this particular region.

Jon.

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:51:22 -0000, "Col"
wrote:


Quite.The same thing happened last month when severe gales
were forecast for the *whole* of the country.
Result?
Some areas got a bit of a battering, NW England was very windy
but nothing of nore and the rest odf the country was wondering
what the fuss was about.

A few twigs landed in my lane in Dorset and that was it. I suppose a
40% risk might mean a larger branch in the 3 miles between home and
the nearest A road.
R

The High Sea's Storm Warning for the area's to the west of the Uk, are
mentioning storm force 10 to violent storm force 11, perhaps hurricane
force 12

How bad would it look if they decided to not issue any warnings,
considering it's a holiday weekend.

Now, people are prepared for the worst.

That's the way i see the severe weather warnings, winds could gust up
to as high as 80mph

Course, many places won't see that... thankfully

Amazing how often these vicious storms form on or around Dec 31st...
That date is like a magnet

We are either freezing to death or sweltering to death according to the
Shropshire Star Web Site:

Weather
Weather View
Milder weather arrived in southern England and the Midlands last night.
Temperatures in the south Midlands were already up to 10°F (50°C) at
6am this morning.

William, (Telford, Shropshire).

"Jon O'Rourke" wrote in
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I believe improvements to the presentation/delivery of warnings are in
the pipeline following feedback received after the site was
re-launched. In the meantime keep sending the comments to
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporat...ack/index.html

I hope one (smallish) problem that will be resolved is the readability
of text on the map. For example, he

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...rning_88_2.gif

thetext saying "Fri/Sat and New Years Eve" over southern Scotland, and
the text saying "Sat evening only" over East Anglia is extraordinarily hard
to make out. It rather looks to me as though the map was designed at
a larger size (ie the "old" size) and simply shrunk without anyone
properly testing its accessibility at the new, smaller size. Bad web
design, that, and so basic I'm amazed it's happened at all.

--
Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.