Weather for the weekend?
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Weather for the weekend?
Does any one have a reliable method of weather forecasting for 4 days ahead? My brother has booked up for a flight in Taffy's Mustang at Breighton on Sunday and wants to know what the weather is going to be! I told him i only look at the next 12 hours, any further than that is just speculation. Unless anyone else knows otherwise?
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This is a reasonable site, for GFS (global forecasting system)
http://www.arl.noaa.gov/ready/cmet.html
I have also sent you a PM.
Forecasts several days ahead are likely to be inaccurate, especially in the timing. But this is the best one is going to get.
It may be an idea to also use the UK met office MSLP charts as they come out of a computer model which is claimed to be the most accurate around for the UK, for the common SW airflow.
http://www.arl.noaa.gov/ready/cmet.html
I have also sent you a PM.
Forecasts several days ahead are likely to be inaccurate, especially in the timing. But this is the best one is going to get.
It may be an idea to also use the UK met office MSLP charts as they come out of a computer model which is claimed to be the most accurate around for the UK, for the common SW airflow.
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Thanks for the replies, no PM yet IO540, the same thing happened with Bose.
Who wants to meet up at Breighton on Sunday? Should be a laugh with my Brother not really knowing what he's letting himself in for
I think a high speed run and break should get his attention
The Hurricane and the Bouchon may have gone, but there are still some interesting bits of kit there!
Who wants to meet up at Breighton on Sunday? Should be a laugh with my Brother not really knowing what he's letting himself in for
I think a high speed run and break should get his attention The Hurricane and the Bouchon may have gone, but there are still some interesting bits of kit there!
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Thanks for the replies, no PM yet IO540, the same thing happened with Bose.
Who wants to meet up at Breighton on Sunday? Should be a laugh with my Brother not really knowing what he's letting himself in for I think a high speed run and break should get his attention The Hurricane and the Bouchon may have gone, but there are still some interesting bits of kit there!
Who wants to meet up at Breighton on Sunday? Should be a laugh with my Brother not really knowing what he's letting himself in for
I think a high speed run and break should get his attention The Hurricane and the Bouchon may have gone, but there are still some interesting bits of kit there!
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There is a gauge at the top of the PM box, like a fuel gauge but in reverse. Mines got plenty of green left!
Good one that eh Bose?
I dont know how we get any work done here, i get loads of them every day!
The ones that i like i send on the loop.
Still after the muther of all thread drifts , does anyone have a clue what the sky might hold on Sunday
Good one that eh Bose?
I dont know how we get any work done here, i get loads of them every day!
The ones that i like i send on the loop.
Still after the muther of all thread drifts
, does anyone have a clue what the sky might hold on Sunday
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PG
It was either a PM or an email that I sent you. Do emails to your pprune email address work? I normally send emails rather than PMs.
As to weather, it was a detailed reply I sent you on the use of the NOAA site.
It was either a PM or an email that I sent you. Do emails to your pprune email address work? I normally send emails rather than PMs.
As to weather, it was a detailed reply I sent you on the use of the NOAA site.
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Pistongone,
Have you seen the funky new home page for the Met office www.metoffice.gov.uk it now gives a 5 day forecast.
Unfortunately for Sunday it looks like rain moving in from the northwest and covering the whole country by afternoon
Sorry
Regards Chris
Have you seen the funky new home page for the Met office www.metoffice.gov.uk it now gives a 5 day forecast.
Unfortunately for Sunday it looks like rain moving in from the northwest and covering the whole country by afternoon
SorryRegards Chris
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IO540,
Thanks for your help, but i have never accessed my pprune e-mail. I will pm you my company mail and if you would send the weather info it would be greatly appreciated. However as 1d2d3d4d points out, the out look is not good
. Still it wouldn't be the first time i have seen the forecast slightly wide of the mark at that range! So i have advised my brother to pencil it in as a goer, and look at it again on Saturday. It would be good to get this flight in before Christmas as he is off on a contract in January to a far flung place.
Thanks for your help, but i have never accessed my pprune e-mail. I will pm you my company mail and if you would send the weather info it would be greatly appreciated. However as 1d2d3d4d points out, the out look is not good
. Still it wouldn't be the first time i have seen the forecast slightly wide of the mark at that range! So i have advised my brother to pencil it in as a goer, and look at it again on Saturday. It would be good to get this flight in before Christmas as he is off on a contract in January to a far flung place.
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http://www.metcheck.com
Has 7 day forecasts in three hour intervals. Saturday looking better than Sunday at the moment.
Has 7 day forecasts in three hour intervals. Saturday looking better than Sunday at the moment.
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One look at the 12:00 MSLP charts tells me Sat am might be OK in the SE, and the rest of Saturday and Sunday will be naff.
Excellent windsurfing weather though
But this stuff is also fast moving and nobody can tell from back here.
Pistongone: I got your email & replied.
Excellent windsurfing weather though
But this stuff is also fast moving and nobody can tell from back here.
Pistongone: I got your email & replied.
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Hi
try this http://ows.public.sembach.af.mil/wxcharts/wxcharts.htm
I have used this site for about 2 years I have found it to be very good for the trend in the weather and I have repositioned the AN2 for shows based on the info which has turned out to pretty accurate. Click on Chart looper
try this http://ows.public.sembach.af.mil/wxcharts/wxcharts.htm
I have used this site for about 2 years I have found it to be very good for the trend in the weather and I have repositioned the AN2 for shows based on the info which has turned out to pretty accurate. Click on Chart looper
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From: Cambridge UK
Weather Widgets
A reminder to those of you who use the other type of computer named after a fruit that there are several weather widgets for the dashboard. One particularly useful one is Aviation Weather which gives METARs and TAFs for up to 4 stations. Others show animated satelite images of all those nasty clouds sweeping over the Atlantic.
There is also Dusk/Dawn display, very useful at the moment.
I think several of these ideas are being or going to be offered to the majority of the computer community via the likes of Y***o etc.
There is also Dusk/Dawn display, very useful at the moment.
I think several of these ideas are being or going to be offered to the majority of the computer community via the likes of Y***o etc.
