Well I did e-mail Weather Action and Piers kindly responded in person. I
won't publish the details on here but if anyone wants to read it then pm me
and I'll forward it. He did send a few additional e-mails offering his
weather services to me but I think I'll probably decline, despite the
accuracy of that recent forecast as evidenced by this:-

"
29th Oct Report

The Forecasted wet windy/stormy spell within period 26th-31st Oct came -
affecting ALL parts although not as vigorous in terms of wind especially in
the South as we expected.
= There were severe weather warnings issued on TV 27/28 Oct for
Scotland, Northern Ireland , Wales and much of NW England ie for heavy
rain, local floods, thunder gales and severe gales (60mph gusts were
mentioned) as a triple cold front moved SE.
= Frances Wilson on Sky TV warned of tornado possibilities Sat 27/ Sun 28
from thunderstorms embedded in rain systems.
= There were ten coastal flood watches in England and Wales because of
strong winds on a full moon.

Link to our Storms warning video on MySpace and other information.
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=20964 227"

What I got was even more gob-smacking with it's uncanny accuracy.

I did contact the BBC's "The One Show" to see if they were interested in
doing a piece on private weather forecasting agencies ;-)



Dave

On Oct 30, 10:55 pm, "Dave Cornwell"
wrote:
Well I did e-mail Weather Action and Piers kindly responded in person. I
won't publish the details on here but if anyone wants to read it then pm me
and I'll forward it. He did send a few additional e-mails offering his
weather services to me but I think I'll probably decline, despite the
accuracy of that recent forecast as evidenced by this:-

"
29th Oct Report

The Forecasted wet windy/stormy spell within period 26th-31st Oct came -
affecting ALL parts although not as vigorous in terms of wind especially in
the South as we expected.
= There were severe weather warnings issued on TV 27/28 Oct for
Scotland, Northern Ireland , Wales and much of NW England ie for heavy
rain, local floods, thunder gales and severe gales (60mph gusts were
mentioned) as a triple cold front moved SE.
= Frances Wilson on Sky TV warned of tornado possibilities Sat 27/ Sun 28
from thunderstorms embedded in rain systems.
= There were ten coastal flood watches in England and Wales because of
strong winds on a full moon.

Link to our Storms warning video on MySpace and other information.
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=209.. ."

What I got was even more gob-smacking with it's uncanny accuracy.

I did contact the BBC's "The One Show" to see if they were interested in
doing a piece on private weather forecasting agencies ;-)

Dave

Someone tell him that the past tense of "forecast" is
"forecast", not "forecasted", which is a bit like saying "drived" or
"drawed". No stick is too mean to beat this idiot with even if a
preposition is a bad thing with which to end a sentence.

Tudor Hughes.

"Tudor Hughes" wrote in message
Someone tell him that the past tense of "forecast" is
"forecast", not "forecasted", which is a bit like saying "drived" or
"drawed".
"Forecasted" is one of those words that's very popular in the States. It
always makes me grit my teeth when I read a piece with the word in, though,
as it just sounds wrong!

Mind you, perhaps Piers is just stuck in the 19th century. If you look up
"forecasted" in the OED, you'll find:

forecast, v.

3. (? from the n.) To take a forecast of (the sky, weather); to exhibit a
forecast of; to foreshadow.

1883 E. C. ROLLINS New Eng. Bygones 94 They forecasted the sky, and planned
the toils of the morrow.

Hence forecasted ppl. a.
1882 Nature XXVI. 552 A single communication of forecasted weather.

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
Well I did e-mail Weather Action and Piers kindly responded in person. I
won't publish the details on here but if anyone wants to read it then pm
me and I'll forward it. He did send a few additional e-mails offering his
weather services to me but I think I'll probably decline, despite the
accuracy of that recent forecast as evidenced by this:-

"
29th Oct Report

The Forecasted wet windy/stormy spell within period 26th-31st Oct came -
affecting ALL parts although not as vigorous in terms of wind especially
in the South as we expected.
= There were severe weather warnings issued on TV 27/28 Oct for
Scotland, Northern Ireland , Wales and much of NW England ie for heavy
rain, local floods, thunder gales and severe gales (60mph gusts were
mentioned) as a triple cold front moved SE.
= Frances Wilson on Sky TV warned of tornado possibilities Sat 27/ Sun 28
from thunderstorms embedded in rain systems.
= There were ten coastal flood watches in England and Wales because of
strong winds on a full moon.

From the original Express article:
http://www.express.co.uk:80/posts/vi...o-lash-Britain

Mr Corbyn, who predicts the weather by measuring the effects of solar flare
activity on our atmosphere, said he was

"90 per cent certain" that the storms would hit as expected. The first is
set to lash the nation from October 26 to
November 1 and will affect most of Britain, he said.

Winds will reach 80-100mph and there could be some tornado activity. But
this is just the "warm-up".

So basically he's taken a completely unremarkable autumn Atlantic
depression and claimed his forecast was correct.
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

In article , dated Wed, 31 Oct 2007,
Darren Prescott wrote
"Tudor Hughes" wrote in message
Someone tell him that the past tense of "forecast" is
"forecast", not "forecasted", which is a bit like saying "drived" or
"drawed".
"Forecasted" is one of those words that's very popular in the States.
It always makes me grit my teeth when I read a piece with the word in,
though, as it just sounds wrong!

Mind you, perhaps Piers is just stuck in the 19th century. If you look
up "forecasted" in the OED, you'll find:

forecast, v.

3. (? from the n.) To take a forecast of (the sky, weather); to exhibit
a forecast of; to foreshadow.

1883 E. C. ROLLINS New Eng. Bygones 94 They forecasted the sky, and
planned the toils of the morrow.

Hence forecasted ppl. a.
1882 Nature XXVI. 552 A single communication of forecasted weather.

And possibly is lifting the whole idea from Pliny:

Prid Kal Nov C: "If, when a west wind prevails, the Moon does not make
Her reappearance before Her fourth day there will be a prevalence of
stormy weather throughout the month (of November)" (Pliny 18.79).

--
Kate B

PS 'elvira' is spamtrapped - please reply to 'elviraspam' at cockaigne if you want
to reply personally

On 31 Oct, 05:46, "Darren Prescott" wrote:
"Tudor Hughes" wrote in message
Someone tell him that the past tense of "forecast" is
"forecast", not "forecasted", which is a bit like saying "drived" or
"drawed".

"Forecasted" is one of those words that's very popular in the States. It
always makes me grit my teeth when I read a piece with the word in, though,
as it just sounds wrong!

Mind you, perhaps Piers is just stuck in the 19th century. If you look up
"forecasted" in the OED, you'll find:

forecast, v.

3. (? from the n.) To take a forecast of (the sky, weather); to exhibit a
forecast of; to foreshadow.

1883 E. C. ROLLINS New Eng. Bygones 94 They forecasted the sky, and planned
the toils of the morrow.

Hence forecasted ppl. a.
1882 Nature XXVI. 552 A single communication of forecasted weather.

The Americans often use word forms which we perceive as antiquated.
They still retain the silent 'h' in herb, we apparently started
voicing the 'h' in the 1920s.

Some American English past participles still commonly used include
dove (to dive), pled (plead).

Martin

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:21:03 -0000, Col wrote:

So basically he's taken a completely unremarkable autumn Atlantic
depression and claimed his forecast was correct.

Me thinks he's training to be a politician :-(
--
Regards,

Hugh Jampton

On Oct 31, 10:11 am, Kate Brown wrote:
In article , dated Wed, 31 Oct 2007,
Darren Prescott wrote



"Tudor Hughes" wrote in message
Someone tell him that the past tense of "forecast" is
"forecast", not "forecasted", which is a bit like saying "drived" or
"drawed".
"Forecasted" is one of those words that's very popular in the States.
It always makes me grit my teeth when I read a piece with the word in,
though, as it just sounds wrong!

Mind you, perhaps Piers is just stuck in the 19th century. If you look
up "forecasted" in the OED, you'll find:

forecast, v.

3. (? from the n.) To take a forecast of (the sky, weather); to exhibit
a forecast of; to foreshadow.

1883 E. C. ROLLINS New Eng. Bygones 94 They forecasted the sky, and
planned the toils of the morrow.

Hence forecasted ppl. a.
1882 Nature XXVI. 552 A single communication of forecasted weather.

And possibly is lifting the whole idea from Pliny:

Prid Kal Nov C: "If, when a west wind prevails, the Moon does not make
Her reappearance before Her fourth day there will be a prevalence of
stormy weather throughout the month (of November)" (Pliny 18.79).

Had he been writing for Britannia instead of Roma he might have
written: Should the beginning of November have Atlantic storms when
the moon reappears in the 4th hour... etc etc..

Obviously Northern Mediterranean places had longer spells than us in
those days?

"Hugh Jampton" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:21:03 -0000, Col wrote:

So basically he's taken a completely unremarkable autumn Atlantic
depression and claimed his forecast was correct.

Me thinks he's training to be a politician :-(
--
Regards,

Hugh Jampton

-----------------
Judging by what he has written to me and his robust vindication of that
forecast he would be a member of the extreme (always) right !

Dave