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We are heading towards that time again. About a year or so back I
posted a thread about the weather forecaster Irvin Krick and his attempts to outmanouvre the Colonel Blimps in the US weather service. As was his; my efforts to wake the intelligentsi on here fell on deaf ears. After all that jackarse Eisenhouer thanked the bums for their help in preparing for the invasion of Europe. People tend to forget he also thanked the pilots who killed all those paratroopers during the initial assault. A letter from the presidunce isn't worth a damn is it? I had got the impression that the Met Office (and thus the US weather service too) had got a reasonable shot of the weather forecast for a couple of days in advance by the early '40's -even though I couldn't believe two day's notice was enough. It takes about that long to wind up the knicker elastic on some boats, even nowadays. It seems I was wrong: “The meteorologist Bob Rice can remember a time-as recently as the 1970's- when the weatherman could do little more than predict the next day's forecast “It took us so long to build a twenty-four-hour forecast that we almost didn't have time to do a forty-eight-hour forecast” he remembers. “By the time we got to the seventy-two-hour forecast we might just as well have been throwing darts at a board.” Richards Branson in his book: “Reach for the skies”. (A rattling good read by the way -even though the title should have been: “Reaching the skies.”) Of course I can't make anyone who wishes to believe pigs can fly see reason. Perhaps that is just as well; there are far too many busybodies on this planet using guns to make people do what they think is right without me shouting at them from the side. But how the hell the MetOffice -even with the combination of help from the yanks, could mobilise thousands of men, let alone get steam up in the greatest armada of ships the world has ever known with less than 24 hours notice... I'm going to shut up now. *******! The hell with that. How long did it take to secrete all those boats into the Channel from wherever the kingdom they came from. Whistled them in from somewhere Scilly did they? With a racing start? |
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On May 30, 8:51*pm, "Malcom \"Mal\" Reynolds" atlas-
wrote: In article , *Weatherlawyer wrote: did you have a point? I like to keep it under my hat. |
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, Weatherlawyer wrote: On May 30, 8:51*pm, "Malcom \"Mal\" Reynolds" atlas- wrote: In article , *Weatherlawyer wrote: did you have a point? I like to keep it under my hat. two failures at once |
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