Sunshine, occasional showers and the collapse of society

I'll have to take up fishing I think.
 
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65m here.

Looking forward to hotter summers and stronger winds.

Shipping forecast is normally about right, but thats typically 24hr window.
 
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I'm a bit of a weather watcher here, I feed local conditions in to the Met Office automatically from my weather station located out at the back[1]. Generally, they do pretty good job, when faced with so very many variables. As time goes on, they continually modify and improve their predictions for the following few days. At one time they tried offering extreme long term predictions, but they proven to be a nonsense, so they stopped doing them.

[1] Sensors on the back of my garage, send data wirelessly to a display, the display feeds data to a Rasberry Pi via USB, the Pi then serves as a website on my LAN and also uploads data to the Met Office every 10 minutes.
 
0 (+/- 10m) (correct at the time of writing!).

Edit: Two other sites give 13ft.
 
motorbiking said:
Shipping forecast is normally about right, but thats typically 24hr window.
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Not when I sailed from Barmouth to Aberystwith in what should have been a 5 occasional 6, it was more like a force 7, bastards.
I'm out of touch with sailing these days but I recall a lot of people at the time subscribing to a German company, Wetter DE?, they seemed to be more accurate that the met.
 
Harry Bloomfield said:
I'm a bit of a weather watcher here, I feed local conditions in to the Met Office automatically from my weather station located out at the back[1]. Generally, they do pretty good job, when faced with so very many variables. As time goes on, they continually modify and improve their predictions for the following few days. At one time they tried offering extreme long term predictions, but they proven to be a nonsense, so they stopped doing them.

[1] Sensors on the back of my garage, send data wirelessly to a display, the display feeds data to a Rasberry Pi via USB, the Pi then serves as a website on my LAN and also uploads data to the Met Office every 10 minutes.
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you may be interested to know that for SailGP a few years ago, they used a grid of GPS static drones to provide real time weather to the skippers. Simply monitoring the current/thrust in the drone motor, told them where and how much wind was coming. It enabled the teams to "fly" the boats to 10s wind accuracy.
 
fillyboy said:
Not when I sailed from Barmouth to Aberystwith in what should have been a 5 occasional 6, it was more like a force 7, bastards.
I'm out of touch with sailing these days but I recall a lot of people at the time subscribing to a German company, Wetter DE?, they seemed to be more accurate that the met.
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Most of the apps use GFS. I tend to use wind finder (GFS) as you can zoom out and see what's driving it. You are supposed to find 3 sources and check the outliers. But sometimes you look at the map and forecast and then the clouds on the day say something completely different.

In different parts of the world the clouds make a massive difference. The Caribbean for example you pay very close attention to what the clouds are doing as it can be very squally. I sailed the canaries in 45-50kts (apparent wind). 10M+ waves = not fun.
 
motorbiking said:
you may be interested to know that for SailGP a few years ago, they used a grid of GPS static drones to provide real time weather to the skippers. Simply monitoring the current/thrust in the drone motor, told them where and how much wind was coming. It enabled the teams to "fly" the boats to 10s wind accuracy.
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Interseting idea and it would be entirely clear of other objects. Wind speed and direction accuracy is always a big problem here - the surrounding buildings and our trees upset the flow.
 
Godwasaplasterer said:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions
Good luck trying to save the planet.
Don’t forget to put the standby lights off.
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Very much this.

About one of the few things we can do is vote a climate friendly Government in.

Other things are good of course. Eg:
Stop flying
Cut down on driving
Cut down on red meat
Don't become rich
Cut down on buying stuff
Enjoy life without a high carbon footprint.

You don't have to live like a medieval monk.
 
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Depends on what happens to the AMOC. Could get warmer could get colder. Now I sound like a climate scientist ;)
 
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