Im curious as to how the met office weather warning system works. Why is
there such a disparity between the alerts shown on
http://uk.weather.com/weather/alerts/
where there are weather warnings for a large number of areas and
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather/europe/uk/uk.html
where there is only one issued. Surely if warnings are needed it would
be nice if people could easily access them.

SarahH - from a wet and gusty Hampshire

SarahH wrote:
Im curious as to how the met office weather warning system works. Why
is there such a disparity between the alerts shown on
http://uk.weather.com/weather/alerts/
where there are weather warnings for a large number of areas and
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather/europe/uk/uk.html
where there is only one issued. Surely if warnings are needed it would
be nice if people could easily access them.

SarahH - from a wet and gusty Hampshire


Sarah,
have you seen
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/publics.../warnings.html ?
Not that it tells you which are made available where.

Regards,
Tom

Tom Allen wrote:

SarahH wrote:

Im curious as to how the met office weather warning system works. Why
is there such a disparity between the alerts shown on
http://uk.weather.com/weather/alerts/
where there are weather warnings for a large number of areas and
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather/europe/uk/uk.html
where there is only one issued. Surely if warnings are needed it would
be nice if people could easily access them.

SarahH - from a wet and gusty Hampshire



Sarah,
have you seen
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/publics.../warnings.html ?
Not that it tells you which are made available where.

Regards,
Tom



Thanks Tom - I hadnt seen that, nice to see the descriptions. Gosh the
met office run a complicated site! It would be nice to think that they
could publish all the warnings in an easily accesible/obvious place for
joe public with a clickable link to the descriptors of types of warnings
page. Ah well!
Sarah

In message , Tom Allen
writes
SarahH wrote:
Im curious as to how the met office weather warning system works. Why
is there such a disparity between the alerts shown on
http://uk.weather.com/weather/alerts/
where there are weather warnings for a large number of areas and
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather/europe/uk/uk.html
where there is only one issued. Surely if warnings are needed it would
be nice if people could easily access them.

SarahH - from a wet and gusty Hampshire


Sarah,
have you seen
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/publics.../warnings.html ?
Not that it tells you which are made available where.

According to that page the warnings are issued by the Met Office,
Bracknell. That gives me a vision of a long-forgotten basement door
labelled "Warnings Section" somewhere in the bowels of the old Bracknell
headquarters building

Norman.
(delete "thisbit" twice to reply)
--
Norman Lynagh Weather Consultancy
Chalfont St Giles
England

"SarahH" wrote in message
...

Thanks Tom - I hadnt seen that, nice to see the descriptions. Gosh the
met office run a complicated site! It would be nice to think that they
could publish all the warnings in an easily accesible/obvious place for
joe public with a clickable link to the descriptors of types of warnings
page. Ah well!
Sarah


The warnings are linked from the homepage, http://www.metoffice.com

Jon.

"Norman Lynagh" wrote in message
...
snip
According to that page the warnings are issued by the Met Office,
Bracknell. That gives me a vision of a long-forgotten basement door
labelled "Warnings Section" somewhere in the bowels of the old Bracknell
headquarters building

Norman.

Arghhhhh !! Not for much longer !

Jon.

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 14:00:14 -0000, "Jon O'Rourke" wrote:

"Norman Lynagh" wrote in message
...
snip
According to that page the warnings are issued by the Met Office,
Bracknell. That gives me a vision of a long-forgotten basement door
labelled "Warnings Section" somewhere in the bowels of the old Bracknell
headquarters building

Norman.

Arghhhhh !! Not for much longer !

Jon.

On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 14:36:39 +0000, JPG wrote:

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 14:00:14 -0000, "Jon O'Rourke" wrote:

"Norman Lynagh" wrote in message
...
snip
According to that page the warnings are issued by the Met Office,
Bracknell. That gives me a vision of a long-forgotten basement door
labelled "Warnings Section" somewhere in the bowels of the old Bracknell
headquarters building

Norman.

Arghhhhh !! Not for much longer !

Jon.



Sorry - I accidentally posted my collected thoughts for today in that previous
post.

Seriously - they're still down there beavering away with their chinagraph
pencils and perspex sheets covering old fax charts, teleprinter output
festooning the walls; colouring in the fronts. Someone forgot to tell them of
the move.

JPG

"JPG" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 14:36:39 +0000, JPG wrote:


Sorry - I accidentally posted my collected thoughts for today in that
previous
post.

Seriously - they're still down there beavering away with their chinagraph
pencils and perspex sheets covering old fax charts, teleprinter output
festooning the walls; colouring in the fronts. Someone forgot to tell
them of
the move.

I occasionally take a walk around Met Office Dunstable. It's not all that
far away from here. I'm sure there must be all sorts of bunkers underneath
the beginning-to-decay estate of little boxes. Shame they didn't use
meteorological words for the new street names.

Philip Eden

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
...
I occasionally take a walk around Met Office Dunstable. It's not all that
far away from here. I'm sure there must be all sorts of bunkers underneath
the beginning-to-decay estate of little boxes. Shame they didn't use
meteorological words for the new street names.

WOT, like "Tornado Alley"?!

Marion Doran
N E Essex