All take the day off tommorrow!

[GMEDX]

From BA's website.

Customers are advised that British Airways is cancelling some services on Thursday 8 February due to the heavy snow forecast to fall overnight across the United Kingdom.
Customers are advised to check the status of their flight before they leave for the airport. To access our real time flight arrival and departure information please click here.

[Doctor Cruces]

Wish the beeb weathermen and ladies would make up their minds.

So far, I'm either going to work tomorrow OR I won't be able to because of snow.

Not too helpful.

Doc C

[DONTTELLTHEPAX]

Tell me about it, they keeps changing it from snow to sleet, 7" to 2" and due to start at 0100 and then 0600.
last update 5" heavy snow fall due at 0300, (London Stansted).

[Doctor Cruces]

Lookin at the TAFs on the Met office site, it's gonna stop on a line through EGSS and EGSC ish, not going to reach wgere I live.

Mind you, that was 10 mins ago, they've probably changed their minds again since then

[CHIVILCOY]

Blame it on the global warming.

[Monarch Man]

TAF
TAF EGLL 072110Z 072207 12005KT CAVOK PROB40 2203 7000 BECMG 0003 11012KT BKN030 BECMG 0305 7000 -SN BKN014 TEMPO 0507 2000 SN BKN006 PROB30 TEMPO 0607 0500 +SN VV///=

TAF EGLL 071625Z 080024 10010KT CAVOK BECMG 0002 BKN040 BECMG 0306 7000 -SN HZ BKN014 TEMPO 0412 1500 SN BKN006 PROB30 TEMPO 0611 0200 +SN VV/// BECMG 0911 VRB04KT BECMG 1114 4000 BR BKN005 PROB30 TEMPO 1424 0400 FZFG FG BKN000=

let the chaos begin

[GBALU53]

The Met office have got it wrong before now.

So just have an open mind of what the morning might bring.

If they have got it wrong they will find a way out.

Gone are the days when they would rely on the seeweed it is all done or most of it via cyber space and not so much looking out of the window.

[WAIF-er]

All the Met office do is look at the metars and if they spot something that is actually happening, they add it onto a new taf! I have seen this happen so many times at my unit (anonymous).

eg. TAF reads -shra. then we report +shra at 1300 hrs. Guess what, a new TAF comes off the printer with a TEMPO between 1300 and 1500 +shra!

Brilliant, thanks for the warning!

[StudentInDebt]

Gatwick on Sunday morning gone, nothing on the forecast except some light mist. Get the ATIS and the visibility is now below forecast but still OK, call for start and there are 1 hour airfield delays due fog - RVR500M. 30 minutes later the met office issue a fog warning

[MarlboroLite]

Stupid question time

Only being a mere slf


It seems that the UK Met office seems to issue severe weather warnings at the slightest sniff of bad weather!

Ever since a certain weatherman basically shot down in flames a viewers letter that hurricane force winds were on the way to batter the UK, and got it drastically wrong.

I have no idea how the Met office is funded, but are they protected by Crown indemnity(sp?) to stop them being sued if they get the weather wrong?, or not, so hence the reason that Severe weather warnings seem to be more frequent now

I know that forcasting weather is not an exact science as it involves so many variables, that can change at a moments notice.

[anartificialhorizon]

Reading the first TAF above posted by Monarch Man what does the abbreviation at the end, VV/// , mean?

Cannot recall seeing before .....

[MarlboroLite]

VV doesn't that mean Vertical Visibility?

[MOCA]

re VV///

http://secure.metoffice.com/aviation/taf_decode.jsp

http://secure.metoffice.com/aviation/metar_decode.jsp

VV///='state of sky obscured' (cloud base not discernable)

[Airbus Girl]

Didn't I just watch a programme on global warning that said snow was a thing of the past? We seem to have had more this year then ever!
Oh, and how is everyone now going to spend their day off?

[LTNman]

Reading PPRUNE

[Blues&twos]

Up at 0400 this morning to go to work. Can't get my car out of the driveway because it's too slippery. Roads in village are lethal, but main roads now all clear (0820). Is my boss going to think I'm pulling a fast one??How can I convince him?

[eticket]

Ask him to come and pick you up!

[flower]

Well it took me 40 minutes to get 300m and I couldn't get any further. Have come home going to give it some time and try again later.

[cwatters]

Go easy on the met folks. From where I sit they did quite a good job. S-36 hours they said there might be heavy snow but told us they couldn't tell if the snow was going to push into the UK or stay in france. S-24 the radio was making a clear forecast for snow. As a result my builder changed his plans and had his team working outside yesterday to get a fence built before the snow arrived today.

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

<<The Met office have got it wrong before now.>>
Noooooo.. you sure? :-))