I agree Chris.
Luckily my daughter works for Natural Resources Wales 🏴 Although they are
in turmoil (almost terminal meltdown) As a leader of a flood planning team she
receives decent forecasts from the Met Office. Very detailed and surprisingly
accurate.
Regards John Duggan.
Sent from my iPhone
> On 31 Aug 2019, at 10:07, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Forecasts more than two or three days into the future must be largely
> guesswork anyway, Chris. You must have seen that in your flying days.
>
> Since the BBC started a contract with a US company to supply its weather
> forecasts, dumping the Met Office, I’m convinced that the service has
> deteriorated. It now has forecasts to two weeks ahead; the BBC was conned.
>
> Chris
>
> C M I Barker | Gamlingay
>
>
>> On 30 Aug 2019, at 14:44, <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> The forecast for Dorian has changed significantly in the past couple of
>> days. NHC shows that it will make landfall as a category 4 storm on Tuesday
>> near Miami. It will then go northward along the Florida Peninsula into far
>> southeastern Georgia, get caught up in the jetstream, and then pushed back
>> out to sea somewhere near Jacksonville or Savannah.
>>
>> The forecast is changing noticeably from one day to the next, and it's
>> possible that Dorian will reach category 5, given it's ground speed and the
>> sea surface temperature.
>>
>> The majority of models displayed on the South Florida Hurricane page show
>> Dorian making a sharp turn northward and then moving along the coast as far
>> as Charleston.
>>
>> https://www.sfwmd.gov/weather-radar/hurricane-model-plots
>>
>>>
>>> Keep your water wings handy, Jim.
>>>
>>>
>>>> This morning the GFS forecast shows that the remnants of Hurricane
>>>> Dorian will be in far eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina next
>>>> Wednesday.
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
>> - Hunter S. Thompson
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