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60 mph is quite bad enough! Mixing units can happen to anyone. According to one report released after an investigation, one of the joint NASA/ESA Mars landers crashed because NASA was using metric measurements while ESA had decided to use imperial. On a more local note, at least the week of drier weather gave me a chance to strim the top off of most of the lawn. There’s no way I could have used the mower on it, though. I’d just have just ripped the grass out by its bedraggled roots.
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@snefnug Hopefully without the bad acting. After the change of the cold snap, it’s been back to variations on the theme of wet and grey here. According to my weather station, there were 8 hours and 58 minutes between sunrise and sunset here today, so there should be 9 tomorrow. It would be nice to catch a glimpse of blue sky or the Sun …
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As Wetterfrosch says, the jet stream has dumped the rain here, not there. My running total for the month is 318 mm, and I’ll top 100 mm for the week sometime in the next few hours. Most of the garden seems to have survived intact, although the watering-can has disappeared. This side of the village was only without electricity for an hour, but the other side took almost four to get power restored.
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Penetrating drizzle has just set in here, after a few brief breaks in the cloud earlier. It’s banana-bread-making time here. If I get over the ridiculously early appearance of Cadbury’s Creme Eggs in the corner shop, I might manage to pick up the enthusiasm to put some lemon frosting on my creation.
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Companies like Netweather.
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I concur with Midlands Ice Age’s comments about the BBC not changing their information early enough, their inherent bias towards southern England. You wouldn’t have known that there was also bad weather in the north from a different system. I don’t think the problem would be solved by returning to the Met Office as a data provider, though, as the delay is - as far as I can gather - in the BBC’s own systems, which lead to a gap of some hours between the arrival of data from the model runs at six- or 12-hourly intervals and the final forecasts/graphics being produced. Obviously, this should be quicker now than it was before the introduction of computers, but I don’t think things would have been updated any quicker on the Beeb on Wednesday/Thursday whichever provider they used. I doubt that the Hampshire and IoW Council, National Rail, etc. - unlike MIA’s golfing friends - rely on the BBC for planning purposes, rather than subscribing to the Met Office or any of the commercial providers. In addition to their inflexibility, the Beeb forecasts can never go into enough detail. My local council has roads ranging from sea level to 500 metres within the space of under 20 miles; the Beeb just can’t cover that level of information in a 2-minute national forecast.
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2006 London tornado - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG It was an interesting morning, to say the least.
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