A little bit of credit to new BBC forecasts
 

Here in Knaresborough, just on the east side of the Pennines, we often
experience a very noticeable rain shadow effect from said hills. Many
times I noted that heavy rain coming in, particularly from the NW, often
results in very little or no rainfall here, while the Pennines get a
soaking, and also areas less than 10 miles to east (e.g. Vale of York)
also get plenty of rain.
Anyway, on the BBC forecast for tomorrow's fronts, the now more detailed
rainfall "animation" also leaves a big dry band to the immediate east of
the Pennines, with rainfall on both sides of that.

So much as I despise the new scheme, maybe a little bit of credit is
due. But can we please have a north Atlantic synoptic chart &
quantitative wind data :-(

Anyway, it'll all be "live" on http://www.sbriggs.plus.com/weather


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steve

A little bit of credit to new BBC forecasts
 

I am not sure that this is by design and not accident that the blobs do
not cover your area.

A little bit of credit to new BBC forecasts
 

In message . com,
writes
I am not sure that this is by design and not accident that the blobs do
not cover your area.

Granted some of the rain blobs seem pretty random sometimes, but
tonight's forecast for tomorrow has a very definite dry band, and there
should be real basis for this in the models.
We shall see.

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steve

A little bit of credit to new BBC forecasts
 

Steven Briggs wrote:
In message . com,
writes
I am not sure that this is by design and not accident that the blobs
do not cover your area.

Granted some of the rain blobs seem pretty random sometimes, but
tonight's forecast for tomorrow has a very definite dry band, and
there should be real basis for this in the models.
We shall see.

there is still no wind !!!

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A little bit of credit to new BBC forecasts
 

"Jill." wrote in message


there is still no wind !!!

What did you expect from a model set up to try and show precipitation?

A good investment as it costs a lot less to run than a real weather
forecast programme apparently.

It will be interesting to find out some more facts and figures about
this toy, when the BBC is audited.

I wonder what the full programme, with all the bells and whistles, would
have cost for instance.

I gather the BBC have had it in their toy-box for something like two
years while they looked around for someone brain-dead enough to run it.

(And get rid of all the most likely whistle blowers?)

(( bit of parallel thinking there, brought about by the revelation that
the whistle-blower over the Watergate scandals was the second in command
at the FBI. A salient point being that no-one in authority in the whole
of the US or A could be found who was ready to stand up and be counted.
Not much different to the events unfolding here.))


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A little bit of credit to new BBC forecasts
 

In message , Steven Briggs
writes
Here in Knaresborough, just on the east side of the Pennines, we often
experience a very noticeable rain shadow effect from said hills. Many
times I noted that heavy rain coming in, particularly from the NW,
often results in very little or no rainfall here, while the Pennines
get a soaking, and also areas less than 10 miles to east (e.g. Vale of
York) also get plenty of rain.
Anyway, on the BBC forecast for tomorrow's fronts, the now more
detailed rainfall "animation" also leaves a big dry band to the
immediate east of the Pennines, with rainfall on both sides of that.


Well, pretty much as I expected this morning. A few brief spotty
showers, just enough to wet the ground. The weather station recorded a
big fat zero for today.
The radar pretty much matched the forecast (for my area of interest),
dry down the east side of the Pennines. Rainfall appeared quite intense
on west side, so I'm not surprised we got a few spots here.

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steve