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http://www.weatheraction.com/
He could end up looking very silly (again). It looks zonal for the foreseable future though with the continental high pressure not too far from the south I'd say Wimbledon & Glastonbury would be pretty dry throughout! -- Col Bolton, Lancashire 160m asl |
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"Col" wrote in message
... http://www.weatheraction.com/ He could end up looking very silly (again). It looks zonal for the foreseable future though with the continental high pressure not too far from the south I'd say Wimbledon & Glastonbury would be pretty dry throughout! -- .... poor chap is living in a dream world ..... quote 2) The Guardian and the Times and any media which carries articles by Paul Simmons are explicitly forbidden from quoting any aspect of any WeatherAction forecast until further notice. /quote Martin. -- Martin Rowley West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W NGR: SU 082 023 |
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![]() "Martin Rowley" wrote in message ... "Col" wrote in message ... http://www.weatheraction.com/ He could end up looking very silly (again). It looks zonal for the foreseable future though with the continental high pressure not too far from the south I'd say Wimbledon & Glastonbury would be pretty dry throughout! -- ... poor chap is living in a dream world ..... quote 2) The Guardian and the Times and any media which carries articles by Paul Simmons are explicitly forbidden from quoting any aspect of any WeatherAction forecast until further notice. /quote Indeed. I don't see how he can 'forbid' quoting of the parts he puts into the public domain. That's what the public domain means, it's public and may be freely quoted! -- Col Bolton, Lancashire 160m asl |
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:30:15 +0100, "Martin Rowley"
wrote: "Col" wrote in message ... http://www.weatheraction.com/ He could end up looking very silly (again). It looks zonal for the foreseable future though with the continental high pressure not too far from the south I'd say Wimbledon & Glastonbury would be pretty dry throughout! -- ... poor chap is living in a dream world ..... quote 2) The Guardian and the Times and any media which carries articles by Paul Simmons are explicitly forbidden from quoting any aspect of any WeatherAction forecast until further notice. /quote even better - "Media or web users who wish to quore from the forecast " Well, I couldn't quore less. The whole site reads like a standard k00k website. The usual irrelevancies and straw-man arguments. So, here's looking forward to the driest Wimbledon and Glastonbury ever. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. http://www.sandrila.co.uk/ http://www.pherber.com/ |
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On 23 Jun, 11:19, "Col" wrote:
http://www.weatheraction.com/ He could end up looking very silly (again). It looks zonal for the foreseable future though with the continental high pressure not too far from the south I'd say Wimbledon & Glastonbury would be pretty dry throughout! -- Col Bolton, Lancashire 160m asl Mmmm... "BBC Focus" - the "world's best science and technology magazine"? Mildly informative and unashamedly populist, but hardly the "world's best". Martin |
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![]() even better - "Media or web users who wish to quore from the forecast " -------------------- Looks like I'm in trouble then ;-) Better check my home insurance legal cover out! Dave |
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:20:42 +0100, "Dave Cornwell"
wrote: even better - "Media or web users who wish to quore from the forecast " -------------------- Looks like I'm in trouble then ;-) Better check my home insurance legal cover out! I doubt whether you are covered for quoring. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. http://www.sandrila.co.uk/ http://www.pherber.com/ |
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Martin Rowley wrote:
quote 2) The Guardian and the Times and any media which carries articles by Paul Simmons are explicitly forbidden from quoting any aspect of any WeatherAction forecast until further notice. /quote Presumably any media which carries articles by Paul /Simons/ may ignore this condition... -- Neil Sunderland Braunton, Devon Please observe the Reply-To address |
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On Jun 23, 3:07*pm, Malcolm wrote:
In article , Martin Rowley writes "Col" wrote in message ... http://www.weatheraction.com/ He could end up looking very silly (again). It looks zonal for the foreseable future though with the continental high pressure not too far from the south I'd say Wimbledon & Glastonbury would be pretty dry throughout! -- ... poor chap is living in a dream world ..... quote 2) The Guardian and the Times and any media which carries articles by Paul Simmons are explicitly forbidden from quoting any aspect of any WeatherAction forecast until further notice. You would have thought that anyone with confidence in their forecasts would want them quoted as widely as possible. Does this mean that (a) he is not confident, (b) cannot take criticism, or (c) both? Yet when Paul Simmons pointed out that his autumn superstorm forecasts hadn't come to pass, The Times published a letter from Corbyn, so he exercised his right of reply. I do, though, notice that those forecasts are not included in the section on his webpage headed "Forecast Accuracy". Oh well, bearing in mind what happened at Glastonbury last year, I guess the majority of people attending were always to take their wellies, so they should be well prepared for the "exceptional deluges of torrential rain" :-) -- Malcolm- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - He's another weather-wonder, who never returns to discuss and analyse his forecasts unless they prove correct. Not one poor forecast is even mentioned on his forecast accuracy page, never mind analysed. The most recent successful forecast that he quotes, on that page, is for March 2007!! This man has claimed 85% accuracy with his "gales forecasts" in the past. That's 17 correct forecasts out of every 20. Corbyn forecast 2 sets of 100 mph gales for the Devon coast in December 2006 (even made the local rag, "The Herald Express" - who promptly forgot the fact that no such gales occurred, but it gave him the sensationalist oxygen that allows his company to survive) . Neither gale happened, of course. He also forecast the "super gale", when flooding did almost occur in Lowestoft and in Holland, in November, but nothing like the wind speeds he predicted actually occurred. that's 3 poor forecasts of gales in the last 18 months....... ...........did anyone notice the 17 correct ones to maintain this percentage accuracy?? I do wish he would publish his research, but he quotes "commercial secrecy", or something. The reason he doesn't publish it is that it is probably useless over a long period of time, when outcome accuracy is monitored closely. He's been living off one, pretty inconclusive, statistical review (Wheeler 2001) of his work, published 7 years ago. If he wasn't a charlatan, he'd publish real verification figures, based on measurable outcomes. I'm nearly a thousand quid up with bookies, over the last few years, but that's because bookies/offerers of odds on Betfair tend to know slightly less about the weather than I do. That gives me an edge. Corbyn used the same reasoning, but no-one knows anything about the bets of his that failed. I'm entirely sick of his rantings against the Met Office and entirely sick of him. He can't even spell Paul Simons' name properly on his website. Paul Simmons doesn't write for "The Tombs", which means that the real Paul Simons ought to be able to say exactly what he wants and good luck to him. Anyone that pays for his forecasts needs sectioning. Paul PS I'll bet he's spitting nails his hands at the latest gfs output - http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn2642.png Torrential thundery downpours.........unfortunately the festival is the previous weekend. |
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Well Glastonbury had some light, patchy rain on Friday evening but as far as
I know Saturday and Sunday were dry and sunny. Not at all like his forecast: "Glastonbury festival & Wimbledon Tennis are likely to be hit by exceptional deluges of torrential rain" So far Wimbledon has been fine and sunny with just a small interruption last week due to light showers. The end of this week may be another story...... ________________ Nick. Otter Valley, Devon 83 m amsl http://www.ottervalley.co.uk |
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