I hate to criticise but the forecast and the graphics on the News 24
clearly showed and it was said that there was a clearance of cloud amd
rain south eastwards. This is true of the rain but the IR and Vis Sat
Pics clearly show that the cloud is in fact spreading S.E to NW and will
soon be over the Midlands at this rate. Why oh why don't the presenters
look at these readily available images.
Dave

On Saturday 13 Nov 2010 13:21, Dave Cornwell scribbled:

I hate to criticise but the forecast and the graphics on the News 24
clearly showed and it was said that there was a clearance of cloud amd
rain south eastwards. This is true of the rain but the IR and Vis Sat
Pics clearly show that the cloud is in fact spreading S.E to NW and will
soon be over the Midlands at this rate. Why oh why don't the presenters
look at these readily available images.
Dave

The cloud did move a little north as the wave moved NE but the back edge has
already begun to move SE over the past hour. From here, the sky looks much
the same as it did at 0830 this morning with blue sky to the northwest.

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

Graham P Davis wrote:
On Saturday 13 Nov 2010 13:21, Dave Cornwell scribbled:

I hate to criticise but the forecast and the graphics on the News 24
clearly showed and it was said that there was a clearance of cloud amd
rain south eastwards. This is true of the rain but the IR and Vis Sat
Pics clearly show that the cloud is in fact spreading S.E to NW and will
soon be over the Midlands at this rate. Why oh why don't the presenters
look at these readily available images.
Dave

The cloud did move a little north as the wave moved NE but the back edge has
already begun to move SE over the past hour. From here, the sky looks much
the same as it did at 0830 this morning with blue sky to the northwest.

-----------
Should get the bright afternoon promised by about 8pm then!
Dave

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
Graham P Davis wrote:
On Saturday 13 Nov 2010 13:21, Dave Cornwell scribbled:

I hate to criticise but the forecast and the graphics on the News
24
clearly showed and it was said that there was a clearance of cloud
amd
rain south eastwards. This is true of the rain but the IR and Vis
Sat
Pics clearly show that the cloud is in fact spreading S.E to NW
and will
soon be over the Midlands at this rate. Why oh why don't the
presenters
look at these readily available images.
Dave

The cloud did move a little north as the wave moved NE but the back
edge has already begun to move SE over the past hour. From here,
the sky looks much the same as it did at 0830 this morning with
blue sky to the northwest.
-----------
Should get the bright afternoon promised by about 8pm then!
Dave


.... it's somehow reassuring (perversely I suppose) that with all the
fancy twiddly-bits available nowadays, waving cold-fronts still beat
the system.

Overcast, grey, gloomy all day - expecting the odd spot of rain any
time now - dusk approaching: ho hum.

Martin.


--
Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

On Nov 13, 2:41*pm, "Martin Rowley"
wrote:
"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message

...



Graham P Davis wrote:
On Saturday 13 Nov 2010 13:21, Dave Cornwell scribbled:

I hate to criticise but the forecast and the graphics on the News
24
clearly showed and it was said that there was a clearance of cloud
amd
rain south eastwards. This is true of the rain but the IR and Vis
Sat
Pics clearly show that the cloud is in fact spreading S.E to NW
and will
soon be over the Midlands at this rate. Why oh why don't the
presenters
look at these readily available images.
Dave

The cloud did move a little north as the wave moved NE but the back
edge has already begun to move SE over the past hour. From here,
the sky looks much the same as it did at 0830 this morning with
blue sky to the northwest.
-----------
Should get the bright afternoon promised by about 8pm then!
Dave

... it's somehow reassuring (perversely I suppose) that with all the
fancy twiddly-bits available nowadays, waving cold-fronts still beat
the system.

Overcast, grey, gloomy all day - expecting the odd spot of rain any
time now - dusk approaching: ho hum.

Martin.

--
Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N * Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

Certainly, dull, cool and depressing today ;-(

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
I hate to criticise but the forecast and the graphics on the News 24
clearly showed and it was said that there was a clearance of cloud amd rain
south eastwards. This is true of the rain but the IR and Vis Sat Pics
clearly show that the cloud is in fact spreading S.E to NW and will soon be
over the Midlands at this rate. Why oh why don't the presenters look at
these readily available images.
Dave

Dave, I thought that all the presenters did was to read what they were
given, embellished according to their own taste. It would surely be the
forecasters in the background who would have got the forecast wrong, if that
is indeed the case.

Roger

PS South Farnborough still reporting sunshine all day, in spite of there not
having been any. So it is not only the forecasters who get it wrong.

On Saturday 13 Nov 2010 15:21, Roger Smith scribbled:


"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
I hate to criticise but the forecast and the graphics on the News 24
clearly showed and it was said that there was a clearance of cloud amd
rain south eastwards. This is true of the rain but the IR and Vis Sat Pics
clearly show that the cloud is in fact spreading S.E to NW and will soon
be over the Midlands at this rate. Why oh why don't the presenters look at
these readily available images.
Dave

Dave, I thought that all the presenters did was to read what they were
given, embellished according to their own taste. It would surely be the
forecasters in the background who would have got the forecast wrong, if
that is indeed the case.


As far as I know, News-24 as was (now BBC News) does not have presenters,
they are all forecasters and are in the foreground. Some are more in the
foreground than others.

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

On Saturday 13 Nov 2010 14:27, Dave Cornwell scribbled:

Graham P Davis wrote:
On Saturday 13 Nov 2010 13:21, Dave Cornwell scribbled:

I hate to criticise but the forecast and the graphics on the News 24
clearly showed and it was said that there was a clearance of cloud amd
rain south eastwards. This is true of the rain but the IR and Vis Sat
Pics clearly show that the cloud is in fact spreading S.E to NW and will
soon be over the Midlands at this rate. Why oh why don't the presenters
look at these readily available images.
Dave

The cloud did move a little north as the wave moved NE but the back edge
has already begun to move SE over the past hour. From here, the sky looks
much the same as it did at 0830 this morning with blue sky to the
northwest.

-----------
Should get the bright afternoon promised by about 8pm then!
Dave

Probably not, as it another wave looks to be on its way from the SW, linked
with the cloud over Ireland.

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

"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
...
On Saturday 13 Nov 2010 15:21, Roger Smith scribbled:


"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
I hate to criticise but the forecast and the graphics on the News 24
clearly showed and it was said that there was a clearance of cloud amd
rain south eastwards. This is true of the rain but the IR and Vis Sat
Pics
clearly show that the cloud is in fact spreading S.E to NW and will soon
be over the Midlands at this rate. Why oh why don't the presenters look
at
these readily available images.
Dave

Dave, I thought that all the presenters did was to read what they were
given, embellished according to their own taste. It would surely be the
forecasters in the background who would have got the forecast wrong, if
that is indeed the case.


As far as I know, News-24 as was (now BBC News) does not have presenters,
they are all forecasters and are in the foreground. Some are more in the
foreground than others.

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

I agree that we can blame the forecasters then - and that they should have
done their homework properly. We are assuming of course that the latest
information is made available to them.

Roger

On Saturday 13 Nov 2010 16:55, Roger Smith scribbled:


"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
...
On Saturday 13 Nov 2010 15:21, Roger Smith scribbled:


"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
I hate to criticise but the forecast and the graphics on the News 24
clearly showed and it was said that there was a clearance of cloud amd
rain south eastwards. This is true of the rain but the IR and Vis Sat
Pics
clearly show that the cloud is in fact spreading S.E to NW and will soon
be over the Midlands at this rate. Why oh why don't the presenters look
at
these readily available images.
Dave

Dave, I thought that all the presenters did was to read what they were
given, embellished according to their own taste. It would surely be the
forecasters in the background who would have got the forecast wrong, if
that is indeed the case.


As far as I know, News-24 as was (now BBC News) does not have presenters,
they are all forecasters and are in the foreground. Some are more in the
foreground than others.


I agree that we can blame the forecasters then - and that they should have
done their homework properly. We are assuming of course that the latest
information is made available to them.


I haven't seen the forecasts today but I think that yesterday they were
saying that they hadn't got much of a handle on the detail for today.
Perhaps they should have continued expressing some uncertainty if that was
the case.

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