Why, when it is hot and I want to find out how hot it is the Met
office site is always 6 hours behind.

Why, when I want to ride home from work and I want to know if I am
likely to get rained on is BBC rainfall radar always 3 hours
behind.....


Whyyyyyyyyy

Rant over

Nick

On 15 Jul 2003 07:41:24 -0700, Nick Thompson in
. com wrote:

Why, when it is hot and I want to find out how hot it is the Met
office site is always 6 hours behind.

Why, when I want to ride home from work and I want to know if I am
likely to get rained on is BBC rainfall radar always 3 hours
behind.....

Nick - you may find this site of use:

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-b...&SORT=2&INT=24

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Mike posted to uk.sci.weather 15/07/2003 14:57:25 UTC
Coleraine

"Nick Thompson" wrote in message
om...
Why, when it is hot and I want to find out how hot it is the Met
office site is always 6 hours behind.

Why, when I want to ride home from work and I want to know if I am
likely to get rained on is BBC rainfall radar always 3 hours
behind.....


Whyyyyyyyyy

Rant over

Nick

Quite simply the MO site is not the best one for current data

try www.weatheronline.co.uk

On 15 Jul 2003 07:41:24 -0700, (Nick
Thompson) wrote:

Why, when it is hot and I want to find out how hot it is the Met
office site is always 6 hours behind.

It isn't behind, not here anyway (times in GMT):

http://www.meto.gov.uk/education/archive/uk.html

Latest data 1400 GMT (1500 BST), the 1500 GMT data should be available
within the next few minutes.

--
Dave

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:05:47 +0100, "Chris Kaley"
wrote:

Very likely for the same reasons that:

Trains run slowly, if at all.
Buses don't arrive.
You can't get your kids educated properly.
You have to wait interminably to be seen in hospital.
You are penalised for wanting to move from one place to another in a motor
car.
Those who abuse, assault, or rob you or steal from your premises invariably
get away with it, even if they're caught (which isn't often).
You are taxed unmercifully (and stealthily!).
You share your country with all kinds of unwelcome (and uninvited) visitors
who appear to be able to exist at no apparent cost to themselves.
Your television companies subject you to patronisation and dumbing-down.
You get slung out of your care home when you're old and frail.
Your pension (for which you've saved for years) is whipped away from under
your nose, and it's suggested that you can work until you're 70, or drop
dead - whichever comes first.
Your government "invests" your money in naff and pointless follies like the
Dome (and now the Olympic bid, and other sports related trivia) when they
really ought to be sorting out the transport, health and education
infrastructure first.

You live in Britain. Simple.

A jaundiced view? Probably, and yes, I'm off at the first opportunity (if
they don't nick MY pension before I get a chance....)
Phew, that's better :-)

Good grief ! The hot weather is not doing a lot for some people's
temper

JPG

(Wiping sweat off brow, just about to go home and throw off these
bloody working clothes).



Chris
"Nick Thompson" wrote in message
. com...
Why, when it is hot and I want to find out how hot it is the Met
office site is always 6 hours behind.

Why, when I want to ride home from work and I want to know if I am
likely to get rained on is BBC rainfall radar always 3 hours
behind.....


Whyyyyyyyyy

Rant over

Nick

In message , Chris Kaley
writes
Very likely for the same reasons that:

Trains run slowly, if at all.
Buses don't arrive.
You can't get your kids educated properly.
You have to wait interminably to be seen in hospital.
You are penalised for wanting to move from one place to another in a motor
car.
Those who abuse, assault, or rob you or steal from your premises invariably
get away with it, even if they're caught (which isn't often).
You are taxed unmercifully (and stealthily!).
You share your country with all kinds of unwelcome (and uninvited) visitors
who appear to be able to exist at no apparent cost to themselves.
Your television companies subject you to patronisation and dumbing-down.
You get slung out of your care home when you're old and frail.
Your pension (for which you've saved for years) is whipped away from under
your nose, and it's suggested that you can work until you're 70, or drop
dead - whichever comes first.
Your government "invests" your money in naff and pointless follies like the
Dome (and now the Olympic bid, and other sports related trivia) when they
really ought to be sorting out the transport, health and education
infrastructure first.

You live in Britain. Simple.

A jaundiced view? Probably, and yes, I'm off at the first opportunity (if
they don't nick MY pension before I get a chance....)
Phew, that's better :-)

Chris


Bloody 'ell ! You'd better stop reading the Daily Mail or you won't be
around long enough to grab your pension.


--
Bill Curphey

"Bill Curphey" wrote in message
...

Bloody 'ell ! You'd better stop reading the Daily Mail or you won't be
around long enough to grab your pension.


A rant like that would be far better posted to alt.politics.british.
Most of that lot in there would agree with him!

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.
http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co.uk

| You share your country with all kinds of unwelcome (and uninvited)
visitors
| who appear to be able to exist at no apparent cost to themselves.

Welcome to Europe, where everyone's invited -or was that the Samsung moto?

Yannis, SE Athens

"Yannis" schreef in bericht
...
| You share your country with all kinds of unwelcome (and uninvited)
visitors | who appear to be able to exist at no apparent cost to
themselves.


Welcome to Europe, where everyone's invited -or was that the Samsung
moto?

Yannis, SE Athens

Well done., Yannis :-)
In Holland we have a political party for such oversimplified moaners as
Chris. It's the fascist Pim Fortuyn Party. Haven't discovered a trace of
intelligence with them yet... but let's not generalize ;-).

Wijke