On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:06:26 -0700, Weatherlawyer
wrote:

On Jun 22, 11:45 pm, Elaine Jones
wrote:
Quoting from message
posted on 22 Jun 2007 by Will Hand
I would like to add:

It's June, It's the UK. It rains. (I must be getting old!).
...and of course, it's Wimbledon !

And Glastonbury :-)

and The Great Dorset Mudbath[1] is not until the end of August - what
will happen in between?

[1] aka The Great Dorset Steam Fair (once in a while it's the Great
Dorset Dustbowl).

Jun 22 13:15
Jun 30 13:49
Jul 7 16:54
Jul 14 12:04
Jul 22 06:29
Jul 30 00:48
Aug 5 21:20
Aug 12 23:03
Aug 20 23:54
Aug 28 10:35

It's pretty obvious once you round you the minutes.

OK, a lamer would mistake the phase of June the 30th for that of the
22nd but hell, that's what I'm here for.

OK, OK, there are one or two awkward ones; the 22nd of July for
instance and the 5th and 28th of August but hell, that's why we have
god.

Cor blimey Michael, you are either a French post-modernist
philosopher or truly round the bend!

Martin

In message , Jon O'Rourke
writes
"Graham Easterling" wrote in message
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On 22 Jun, 18:52, John Hall wrote:

The weather warnings really have to be very specific to be of much
use.

Which at any more than an hour or two's notice (and that may be
optimistic) is unlikely to be possible with thundery downpours.
--

Yes, is it tricky, this is where I agree with Norman's view on
Nowcasts.

Since 2004 there has been a dedicated Nowcasting bench in the Operations
Centre that orchestrates the issue of Flash warnings in conjunction with the
Chief and Public Weather Service forecasters.

Jon.

But surely the art of nowcasting includes the issue of updated
information at very frequent intervals, say at least once an hour and
preferably more frequently, giving explicit detailed information on the
location and expected short-term evolution of individual storm cells.
Issuing broad-brush flash weather warnings and leaving them unaltered
for hours on end isn't nowcasting.

Norman.
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Norman Lynagh Weather Consultancy
Chalfont St Giles 85m a.s.l.
England