Met Office Warns of Unpredictable Weather Patterns as Climate Change Intensifies
The Met Office has issued multiple warnings in recent months as the UK’s weather becomes increasingly unpredictable. In line with findings from sources like Daily Record, a growing number of extreme weather events have been recorded. From heatwaves to heavy rainfall, the shifts in weather patterns are noticeable.
Met Office’s new supercomputer will provide more accurate weather forecasts
Charlie Ewan, chief data and information officer at the Met Office, said the computer had to be massive to deal with 200 to 300 terabytes of data per day.
He told Metro: ‘The next decade could transformational for weather forecasting, and this phase allows us to plan and look ahead to the next generation of more accurately and timely weather predictions.’
Methods for predicting the future:
1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls . . . collectively known as "nutty methods;"
2) put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer . . . commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."
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The super-super computer could have the processing power and speed of Deep Thought but the the rule of GIGO always applies.
With the input data coming from virtual , i.e. long since evaporated, weather stations whose " output" ( see GI above) is extrapolated from distant real Stevenson Screen weather stations equipped with uncalibrated electronic measuring instruments which detect cosmic rays as microsecond long unprecedented temperature rises, and are positioned next to idling aircraft, busy roads, air conditioning units, etc., etc. All recorded on records which go as far back as 1980. Thus the hottest, coldest, dryest, wettest day on record.
So those dedicated persons who climbed Ben Nevis every day to record temperatures on old fashioned glass and mercury thermometers like what Kelvin used were wasting their time. They could have just phoned their mate in the local pub to get the reading on the thermometer hanging in the kitchen and " extrapolated"
So what they are saying is that they cannot predict the weather a week in advance, but they will bet all the money you have that after they have comfortably retired to somewhere around the Mediterranean it will be unprecedentedly hot. Or cold.
End of rant.
Doonhamer - that's a fine rant and vastly more accurate than a Met Office "temperature measurement."
I came across the Met Office precision in the seventies and eighties when our lab used to look after one of their weather stations. They used a cheap greenhouse max-min thermometer which was never calibrated against a certified standard and if we missed taking a daily reading they just made one up. Not much seems to have changed.
"the shifts in weather patterns are noticeable."
Shouldn't this excerpt from the usual level of Mutt Office accuracy read "the shifts in the scaremongering reporting of weather patterns are noticeable"?
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