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    Storm/convective Discussion 27th June >>

    in Storms & Severe Weather

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    well for once I was happy I got away without a deluge! was at Hyde park to see Neil Young and could see all the activity skim us. Got a bit of rain but only the edge. Haven't read the whole thread but saw frequent lightning around us-I guess we were pretty close. Thankfully we were spared! And Paul McCartney came on to do Day in the Life with Neil at the end-what a day!

    Buoys

    in Spring Weather Discussion

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    Depends where the Buoys are wrt to who own them, around the waters of the British Isles it's mainly UKMetO who own/maintain them though a few are owned by the Irish MetO, in the Bay of Biscay some are owned by UKMet and others are owned by the French metoffice.

    Don't think there are many more buoys now than back in 1987, its just that computer modelling of the weather has advanced since then - so tracks of lows can be more accurately modelled further ahead than back then.

    They are I guess moored by anchor to keep them postioned, and they record wind speed pressure, temp, humidity etc - data which is relayed by signal to recieving stations on land.

    Thanks for your replys-I just seem to remember reading somewhere that the reason why the forecasters didnt read sooner the dramatic drop in pressure in the low pressure in 1987 was because they didnt have the readings out in the Atlantic at the time- I assumed they didnt have the raw data out there at the time but wrong I guess

    Cheers for the links...

    Buoys

    in Spring Weather Discussion

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    Hi There,

    Following on from the stormy weather of last weekend there was alot of talk of the readings from the buoys out at sea. I posted on the storm site and was directed here so hope someone could help here- who puts them out there and why in the positions they are in? What do they record and how do they survive the weather esp in the Atlantic! Also am I right in what I heard that it was a lack of them that led to to a major problem forecasting the 1987 storm?

    cheers!

    The great storm of October 1987

    in Historic Weather

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    I had a paper round and it was windy but the worst must have missed us cos I finished it ok! . But the thing I most remember was coming back and turning on breakfast news on the BBC and they must have set up an emergency studio and Nicholas Witchell was the only one around giving the latest situation so I knew then it was pretty serious. I had radio 1 on later and the guy on at the time - Simon Mayo perhaps- was asking live on air for the DJ who should have been on previously to phone in and tell them he was ok because he hadnt turned up. I assume he was ok!!

    I think he was famously 'told off' by Bill Giles for stealing his wink at the end of the forecast, so he stopped doing it!

    Has the 'wink' been trademarked then? I think Anne Robinson should be told! :rolleyes:

    Dan Corbett

    in Spring Weather Discussion

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    I think Rob is like your best teacher at school making what could be a dry factual broadcast into something which captures the real beauty of the weather to the layman. Dan can be like that though a little less of the 'speckly showers' or 'heat of the day' for me. Change the record!

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