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    Emergency Alerts - GOV.UK service

    in Storms & Severe Weather

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    I am more referring to the part about people saying they don't want the government to control them.

    They already have laws in place since 9/11 and 7/7 that enable them to monitor, track and listen to what you are doing.

    4 minutes ago, alexisj9 said:

    I agree with the first part, and don't really care about the second, if they want toieten toy boring life, they'll just be wasting money lol. 

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    SE, London & EA - Weather Discussion

    in SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion

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    A lot of it is also political.  MetO staff, Agency Workers, Gritters, Street Workers all want pay rises. I've lived in a Labour Ward all my life and have never seen this level of incompetence from them by the lack of gritting or salt on the streets.  Tomorrow is going to be carnage.

    But ultimately it makes the GOV look bad, again.   Maybe potentially this is because it's a Sunday, but Feb 2009 was a Sunday and that was the the Amber Equivalent?

    What time was that Arome/Harmonie model? None of the TAFS really had SN in it till this afternoon, so most flights got caught out. Luckily though most flight crew took extra for the fog/mist which would cover the snow.

    2 minutes ago, Kasim Awan said:

    Anyone with experience could tell that by around 1pm on the radar, the system was closely following the projection of the Arome / Harmonie which modelled very heavy snow in Kent / Essex / North London later that evening. So it was very likely to closely follow this path and by that point I personally was 90% sure of a big event which is why I made the post assuring the thread of 15cm

    This prior radar / model conjunction was the perfect opportunity for the met to get a more authoritative warning out before evening travel

    Instead, the met bottled this opportunity which probably influenced the severe impacts we've had tonight

     

    9 minutes ago, Kasim Awan said:

    Thats what im saying im in agreement with what you guys are saying

    The data certainly wasn't supportive of a 5050 as shown on their matrix

    if we can't properly use / be confident in the extremely powerful hi res suite, what is the purpose of having them?

    SE, London & EA - Weather Discussion

    in SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion

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    Just now, pages said:

    Sounds like the met office already trying to make excuses for massive mistake via twitter from the comfort of their warm homes

    I get not wanting to put out unnecessary to early but it's obvious on couple of occasions now that they don't have anyone with authority working on Sunday evenings to make a quick decision.

    They should of least given amber possibly red warnings this afternoon giving People heads up before venturing out, there vehicles stranded over night on all the major motorways now.

     

    I fully agree

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