http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...et-Office.html

Am I missing something here? This man has bought a Davis Vantage Pro and is
using "Weather Underground" software, as are many other people in the UK,
yet this appears to qualify him for a piece in the Daily Mail, and five
minutes on Radio 5's evening news programme (at about 6.50 if anyone can be
bothered to Listen Again).

Looking at his site ( http://www.dugglenet.org/ ) I can't even see the
forecast which is apparently far more accurate than the Met Office's.

What depressed me the most were Joe Public's comments below the article.
The more outrageous they were, the more "votes" they got from fellow Daily
Mail readers.
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 at 00:16:21, hungerdunger
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ather-centre-S
imon-Cansick-accurate-farmers-snubbing-Met-Office.html

Am I missing something here? This man has bought a Davis Vantage Pro and is
using "Weather Underground" software, as are many other people in the UK,
yet this appears to qualify him for a piece in the Daily Mail, and five
minutes on Radio 5's evening news programme (at about 6.50 if anyone can be
bothered to Listen Again).

Still, if it encourages more people to buy home weather stations, it
can't be a bad thing...
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On 17/08/10 07:49, Paul Hyett wrote:
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 at 00:16:21, hungerdunger
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ather-centre-S
imon-Cansick-accurate-farmers-snubbing-Met-Office.html

Am I missing something here? This man has bought a Davis Vantage Pro
and is
using "Weather Underground" software, as are many other people in the UK,
yet this appears to qualify him for a piece in the Daily Mail, and five
minutes on Radio 5's evening news programme (at about 6.50 if anyone
can be
bothered to Listen Again).

Still, if it encourages more people to buy home weather stations, it
can't be a bad thing...

Having the raingauge above roof level is somewhat non-standard, to say
the least. I compare my 2 gauges each day, the Davis being about head
height and the standard gauge buried in the ground. The difference is
amazing: so far this year the difference is just over 100mm.

Hugh

--

Hugh Newbury

www.evershot-weather.org

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:16:21 +0100, hungerdunger wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...et-Office.html

Am I missing something here? This man has bought a Davis Vantage Pro and is
using "Weather Underground" software, as are many other people in the UK,
yet this appears to qualify him for a piece in the Daily Mail, and five
minutes on Radio 5's evening news programme (at about 6.50 if anyone can be
bothered to Listen Again).

Looking at his site ( http://www.dugglenet.org/ ) I can't even see the
forecast which is apparently far more accurate than the Met Office's.

What depressed me the most were Joe Public's comments below the article.
The more outrageous they were, the more "votes" they got from fellow Daily
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
That's SOP for Daily Wail readers :-(
Mail readers.

The piece was also picked up by the BBC1 breakfast programme this morning.
I saw their take on it and it was more frivolous than informative, since
it wasn't really informative at all. When we learned was that you can get
amateur weather stations and that there are things called "micro climates".
Apart from that there was nothing.
So at least it raised awareness from zero, to a "I want one of those for
christmas. I don't know what it does, but I want one." level.


--
www.thisreallyismyhost.99k.org/page1.php

On 17/08/2010 08:24, Hugh Newbury wrote:
On 17/08/10 07:49, Paul Hyett wrote:
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 at 00:16:21, hungerdunger
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ather-centre-S
imon-Cansick-accurate-farmers-snubbing-Met-Office.html

Am I missing something here? This man has bought a Davis Vantage Pro
and is
using "Weather Underground" software, as are many other people in the
UK,
yet this appears to qualify him for a piece in the Daily Mail, and five
minutes on Radio 5's evening news programme (at about 6.50 if anyone
can be
bothered to Listen Again).

Still, if it encourages more people to buy home weather stations, it
can't be a bad thing...

Having the raingauge above roof level is somewhat non-standard, to say
the least. I compare my 2 gauges each day, the Davis being about head
height and the standard gauge buried in the ground. The difference is
amazing: so far this year the difference is just over 100mm.

Won't the gauge buried in the ground also count rain bouncing back up?
Or do you mean the collecting device is buried to prevent evaporation?

Rain was bouncing of concrete to almost waist high up here during one of
the very heavy showers last week. Not enough of it to overflow the gauge
but the rate it came down and the noise was quite something.

Regards,
Martin Brown

"pete" wrote in message
.org...
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:16:21 +0100, hungerdunger wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...et-Office.html

Am I missing something here? This man has bought a Davis Vantage Pro and
is
using "Weather Underground" software, as are many other people in the UK,
yet this appears to qualify him for a piece in the Daily Mail, and five
minutes on Radio 5's evening news programme (at about 6.50 if anyone can
be
bothered to Listen Again).

Looking at his site ( http://www.dugglenet.org/ ) I can't even see the
forecast which is apparently far more accurate than the Met Office's.

What depressed me the most were Joe Public's comments below the article.
The more outrageous they were, the more "votes" they got from fellow
Daily
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
That's SOP for Daily Wail readers :-(
Mail readers.

The piece was also picked up by the BBC1 breakfast programme this morning.
I saw their take on it and it was more frivolous than informative, since
it wasn't really informative at all. When we learned was that you can get
amateur weather stations and that there are things called "micro
climates".
Apart from that there was nothing.
So at least it raised awareness from zero, to a "I want one of those for
christmas. I don't know what it does, but I want one." level.


--
www.thisreallyismyhost.99k.org/page1.php

-----------------------
If ever you are feeling suicidal I find reading comments to articles from
the Mail on line helpful. It pushes me over the edge!
Dave

On 17/08/10 09:10, Martin Brown wrote:
On 17/08/2010 08:24, Hugh Newbury wrote:
On 17/08/10 07:49, Paul Hyett wrote:
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 at 00:16:21, hungerdunger
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ather-centre-S

imon-Cansick-accurate-farmers-snubbing-Met-Office.html

Am I missing something here? This man has bought a Davis Vantage Pro
and is
using "Weather Underground" software, as are many other people in the
UK,
yet this appears to qualify him for a piece in the Daily Mail, and five
minutes on Radio 5's evening news programme (at about 6.50 if anyone
can be
bothered to Listen Again).

Still, if it encourages more people to buy home weather stations, it
can't be a bad thing...

Having the raingauge above roof level is somewhat non-standard, to say
the least. I compare my 2 gauges each day, the Davis being about head
height and the standard gauge buried in the ground. The difference is
amazing: so far this year the difference is just over 100mm.

Won't the gauge buried in the ground also count rain bouncing back up?
Or do you mean the collecting device is buried to prevent evaporation?

Rain was bouncing of concrete to almost waist high up here during one of
the very heavy showers last week. Not enough of it to overflow the gauge
but the rate it came down and the noise was quite something.

By 'buried' I meant to the regulation depth, not totally underground!

Hugh

--

Hugh Newbury

www.evershot-weather.org

On Aug 17, 12:16*am, "hungerdunger"
wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-weather-centr...

Am I missing something here? *This man has bought a Davis Vantage Pro and is
using "Weather Underground" software, as are many other people in the UK,
yet this appears to qualify him for a piece in the Daily Mail, and five
minutes on Radio 5's evening news programme (at about 6.50 if anyone can be
bothered to Listen Again).

Looking at his site (http://www.dugglenet.org/) I can't even see the
forecast which is apparently far more accurate than the Met Office's.

What depressed me the most were Joe Public's comments below the article.
The more outrageous they were, the more "votes" they got from fellow Daily
Mail readers.
--
Hungerdunger
To reply by email, remove the MARX from my address

t was on BBC this morning going on about this unusual "micro-climate"
the site has. I thought we all had interesting "micro-climates"?

His Davis was situated on his chimney it seemed.

Very strange the whole business?

brian
aberfeldy

In article ,
hungerdunger writes:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...et-Office.html

Am I missing something here? This man has bought a Davis Vantage Pro and is
using "Weather Underground" software, as are many other people in the UK,
yet this appears to qualify him for a piece in the Daily Mail, and five
minutes on Radio 5's evening news programme (at about 6.50 if anyone can be
bothered to Listen Again).
snip

It featured in the Daily Telegraph too. It doesn't say much for their
degree of knowledge of online weather stations that they thought that
this was news. I guess that the owner is a shrewd self-publicist and
that they took what he said at face value.
--
John Hall

"I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking."
Katherine Cebrian

I just watched the item on News 24 and to be honest I thought it was OK on
there. The chap seemed quite nice and made the point that loads of amateur
stations existed and even showed some of them on his map. He explained that
he helped give a more local forecast than the mainstrem ones. That's what a
lot of us do isn't it?
Dave
www.laindonweather.co.uk