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    Forum Upgrade

    in News & Announcements

    Posted

    All looks great.

    Only slight irritation is that when browsing mobile version (via IPB app) you cannot select a particular page within a thread. If you want to cut straight to the last page you have to press "next page" repeatedly through them all .... I think!

    Looks great, however, on the mobile version I have the same issue as described above, it goes to the first page then I have go through all the pages to get to the end of the thread (which when there is 20 or so is a little annoying!). Phone is HTC Desire S, am I doing anything wrong?

    Thanks!

    General Model Output Discussion

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    GFS has the attached percipitation chart for around now, but it's currently just started to snow in Reading. Tempreature is - 1.1.

    Looking at the latest GFS run looks as though could be a fair amount of snow this evening / night.

    The trend for the next few days and into next week is looking amazing, be interesting to see how it evolves!

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    Alpine Snow And Skiing Thread

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    Hi All,

    Just back from Val d'Isere. Conditions were excellent and it snowed every day, sometimes with complete a complete white out. When the sun did poke though it was amazing, some runs had over a foot of un-pisted snow. Wasn't massively cold, and did rain a tiny amount on the Wednesday, but was soon replaced with even more snow! Anyone going to Val d’Isere or Tignes in the near future is going to have amazing skiing conditions.

    Interestingly, the snow rain limit was miss-forecast by the french met office and any GFS based forecasts, for example on the Wednesday it was due to rain all day (and night) with a rain snow limit of 2300 metres + (Val D is at 1850), but eneded up dumping snow after a little rain early in the morning. I've never been away and seen snow falling every single day.

    Some pictures attached....

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    Alpine Snow And Skiing Thread

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    Thanks for the update, much appreciated.

    Looking milder next week and then after that who knows, fingers crossed.

    Val d'Isere seems to have a fair amount of snow, still early in the season though.

    There is a good time lapse webcam here for the last 5 days:

    http://www.valdinet.com/images-and-videos/val-d-isere-timelapse-webcam-videos.htm

    Funny as they keep clearing they keep clearing the snow, but as soon as it's cleared more is comes down.

    Model Output Discussion - Your Thoughts

    in Forecast Model Discussion

    Posted

    I never post in the model discussion thread, but do read it every single day. I’ve been a weather enthusiast for a few years now. Although I have a basic understanding of how the models work I wouldn’t call myself a subject matter expert. Therefore I read the discussion thread to ‘top up’ my understanding of what is happening in relation to the latest output. I value posts from forum members who have much more in-depth knowledge than me and I learn something new every day!

    As stated above I look for expert opinion in the thread, however, the banter, views, emotion and different characters make it a good discussion on many different levels. In fact, as I’d go as far to relate it to a discussion down the pub between mates all with differing views and knowledge levels!

    When a model is coming out the thread functions much in the same way as the BBC live text updates (which are mainly used for sporting events) which is great for us who don’t have the in depth knowledge as others.

    I believe one of the reasons the thread is so popular is that it is fast paced, there is always a new post to read!

    I think the problem with a model summary thread is that I want to know what is happening now, not in a few hours time.

    It’s a tricky one but my suggestions would be:

    • Have a model thread for each run, with comments made as it comes out and another thread for more in depth analysis which focuses on trends rather than one particular run
    • Do nothing – it works for me at the moment
    • Link more in depth technical analysis to the thread, with only forecasters of a certain knowledge level able to link these posts in
    • Split the thread in to technical and non technical – I don’t think this works as it means there are two places to look for similar updates / discussions
    • Have a chat room!?
    • Have someone do a live model update like the BBC sports website to which users can post comments

    Overall I think in its current format its good fun with some light hearted humour, but with some real technical knowledge thrown in.

    Something not related to this subject – I quite often check the forum on my phone, the design and size of the forum means this isn’t easy (lots of scrolling, loading etc), any chance there could be a cut down version for mobile devices? Only has to be text.

    In concussion I think I’d leave it as it is, for now anyway.

    Anyway, those are my thoughts.

    James

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