From the Peak District Mountain Weather Forecast for Thursday:

"Cloud may increase at times with fog lowering onto hills above 700 metres,
leading to poor navigation conditions."

A little way down the same page it is pointed out, quite correctly, that the
highest point in the Peak District is 636m a.s.l.

Perhaps a cut-and-paste job applied without thought :-(

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org
Twitter: @TideswellWeathr

Hello Norman,

Your e mail reminds me of a promotion test question that I used to set for new forecasters becoming winter road forecasters. 'What is the height of the highest A roads that cross the Pennines'. Clearly, a crucial part of someone's geographical knowledge if they are assessing snow heights etc., though I was sometimes mocked for asking geographical questions.

I won't reveal any answers but suffice to say that good knowledge of met. theory was not always accompanied by a sound geographical general knowledge (it was a multiple choice question so there were some prompts)!

Julian

Julian Mayes, Molesey, Surrey

On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:48:59 UTC+1, Norman Lynagh wrote:
From the Peak District Mountain Weather Forecast for Thursday:

"Cloud may increase at times with fog lowering onto hills above 700 metres,
leading to poor navigation conditions."

A little way down the same page it is pointed out, quite correctly, that the
highest point in the Peak District is 636m a.s.l.

Perhaps a cut-and-paste job applied without thought :-(

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Regardless of the altitude who would have ever thought that hill fog would lead to poor navigation conditions? Never mind the navigator, what about the ship's captain? I dunno.

Tudor Hughes

On 22 Aug 2017 18:48:56 GMT
"Norman Lynagh" wrote:

From the Peak District Mountain Weather Forecast for Thursday:

"Cloud may increase at times with fog lowering onto hills above 700 metres,
leading to poor navigation conditions."

A little way down the same page it is pointed out, quite correctly, that the
highest point in the Peak District is 636m a.s.l.

Perhaps a cut-and-paste job applied without thought :-(


They always cut and paste. Centralised forecasting at its worst. The writing
was on the wall when they closed all the local weather centres back in the 90s.
There will be forecasters writing peak District forecasts who have never been
there. No use moaning on here hoping they will see it either, the MetO no longer
have a newsgroup feed. It's all ****ter etc nowadays. And ****ter is
controlled, articles critical do not get left up.

Will
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