Why on Earth do the Met Office have to make the online weather maps so
small - they are ridiculous and hard to see, even if you have good eye
sight. The ads are bigger than the maps..

Karatepe wrote:
Why on Earth do the Met Office have to make the online weather maps so
small - they are ridiculous and hard to see, even if you have good eye
sight. The ads are bigger than the maps..

Get the full sized product here and no ads:

http://wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fsfaxsem.html

(select Bracknell)

Les

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www.uksevereweather.org.uk

Les Crossan wrote:
Karatepe wrote:

Why on Earth do the Met Office have to make the online weather maps so
small - they are ridiculous and hard to see, even if you have good eye
sight. The ads are bigger than the maps..


Get the full sized product here and no ads:

http://wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fsfaxsem.html

(select Bracknell)

Or here (watch for line wrap) if you prefer to load all of the maps in
one go:-

http://www.westwind.ch/?link=ukmb,ht...racknell+13 2

--
Howard Neil

Or here. I call it "Progs on a Roll". I have found it is pretty quick with
the 6 hour updates.

http://meteonet.nl/aktueel/brackall.htm

It's because the Met Office is a commercial (small c) organisation, you
don't get the good usable stuff unless you hand over your credit card
number!

Karatepe wrote:
Why on Earth do the Met Office have to make the online weather maps so
small - they are ridiculous and hard to see, even if you have good eye
sight. The ads are bigger than the maps..

"General Von Clinkerhoffen" wrote in message


It's because the Met Office is a commercial (small c) organisation, you
don't get the good usable stuff unless you hand over your credit card
number!

And I thought the USA was the only superpower with monkey in control of
the government?
(No, not really.)

This sort of thing is proof that democracy died a long time ago. If
there ever was such a thing.

So what is this sort of illegal meritocracy called?

(Weather) for the select through the autocratic from the masses?

Perhaps we aught to ask around the other sites we visit to see if anyone
ever uses the Met office website. A sort of poll.

Somehow I doubt they do; so much for the public health and safety items
posted there.




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General Von Clinkerhoffen wrote:

It's because the Met Office is a commercial (small c) organisation, you
don't get the good usable stuff unless you hand over your credit card
number!


Nothing new in that. The main change is that now the money they collect goes
to the Office rather than direct to MOD. Also I reckon it's probably
cheaper than it used to be. 35 years ago, if someone came to Bracknell to
consult me it would cost them 40 GBP per hour. For work not requiring a
personal visit, the charge was about a tenner an hour. Minimum charge was a
fiver as that was the cost of raising a bill. I'm not sure how much that'd
be in today's money but a pint of beer cost about 10p in those days.

Some may find it hard to believe, but the system is better organised than it
used to be. At about that time, an oil company asked a branch of the Office
for a service and was quoted a charge of a million quid. They asked another
branch and were provided the identical service for half-a-million.

--
Graham Davis
Bracknell
It was raining cats and dogs and I fell in a poodle. - Chic
Murray(1919-1985)

"Michael Mcneil" wrote in message
news:8d450545ef4145e3eb396bf00033045d.45219@mygate .mailgate.org...
| "General Von Clinkerhoffen" wrote in message
|
|
| It's because the Met Office is a commercial (small c) organisation, you
| don't get the good usable stuff unless you hand over your credit card
| number!
|
| And I thought the USA was the only superpower with monkey in control of
| the government?
| (No, not really.)
|
| This sort of thing is proof that democracy died a long time ago. If
| there ever was such a thing.
|
| So what is this sort of illegal meritocracy called?
|
| (Weather) for the select through the autocratic from the masses?
|
| Perhaps we aught to ask around the other sites we visit to see if anyone
| ever uses the Met office website. A sort of poll.
|
| Somehow I doubt they do; so much for the public health and safety items
| posted there.
|

It's easy to moan, but...

In the 1970s, I studied for a Physics/Meteorology degree at the University
of Reading; then, as now, one of the finest meteorology departments in the
world.
I can remember how we used to crowd round the fax machine (a large grey
"MuFax" which produced documents about the current A3 size) when the next
charts were due, and we watched them painfully appear.

Now I can go to

http://www.itadvice.co.uk/weatherjack/wx.htm

and select the "forecast charts - all one page" option and watch them come
up just like that! Not to mention (from the "Expert DIY" option), output
from the best weather forecasting models around the world. 30 years ago in
my "Applied Meteorology" class, the data logger was the cutting edge of
technology about which everyone was raving.

The internet has given us all access to such data which is beyond the
wildest dreams of research students 30 years or so ago. Be thankful you
have facilities and access to science that to us 40 or 50 somethings was
only science fiction in our youth. And, if you look around and use the
facilities so kindly provided by people like Jack Harrison, much of it is
still free.

The weather radar on the Met Ofiice site may not be as good as on pay sites
like AvBrief, but it is normally current and there is sufficient detail to
be able to interpret what is going on. I can pick individual storm cells in
it - what resolution do you need for personal interest use? It was only 3
or 4 years ago that people on this ng were calling for *any* sort of weather
radar data to be available in the UK. And I don't even need to go online
for sattelite pictures - SKY carries them on Sky News interactive. They may
not to the standard of Dundee University or West Cheshire, but if you allow
for the generated land image being a little too far east and know what you
are looking at, they can be used for a "nowcast".

I have no vested interested to fuel this reply. I can just remember how it
was until only a few years ago, so am grateful for what I can get now.
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