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Subject: Re: [OM] Shootin' Eight Miles High [was Santa brought me the Fuji F70]
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 06:45:52 +0000
Just so, on both counts, Andrew.

The forecast is normally wrong on timing, because local conditions hinder or 
help the progress of a weather system.

Chris
On 3 Feb 2010, at 22:02, Andrew Fildes wrote:

> 
> The weather forecasts are surprisingly accurate if you really check -  
> they go adrift when an expected event comes a little earlier or later  
> than predicted (usually ruining your weekend). But still, it comes.  
> The problem is that we only notice when it isn't quite right - it  
> doesn't have meaning for us when it's accurate within a degree or two  
> or an hour or two so we don't remember and we develop an inaccurate  
> perception. Plus it is the untested 'conventional wisdom' that weather  
> reporting is inaccurate.
> 
> Of course, all that is irrelevant. They're modelling climate, not  
> weather.

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