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HELLO FORKERS 🌞 August ‘20

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I look at weather.com and bbc and take the average. Fairly accurate
    Devon.
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Hello again everyone.  

    Obelixx, the days are very comfortable for us at the moment. Lovely clear days and just cool enough for a long sleeved skivvy and trousers. Not quite a cardigan.

    If the rain comes, it might much it up though. 😃
    S. E. NSW
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hello again @Pat E 👋 ☕ 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    Trump stokes 'birther' theory about Kamala Harris

    Kamala Harris speaks a campaign event in Wilmington Delaware 13 August 2020Image copyrightREUTERS

    President Donald Trump says he has "heard" Democratic candidate Kamala Harris "doesn't qualify" to serve as US vice-president, amplifying a fringe legal theory critics decry as racist.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    You’re obviously enjoying your morning coffee Dove.  

    I delivered four knitted dolls and several little bags of my lavender to the gift shop today. They’re very happy to get more new supplies.  Although people are obviously distancing, they are still wandering around the shopping centre.  As long as they’re covering themselves up, I can’t complain. 

    I haven’t read about the A levels in the UK that you’ve all been writing about. What’s happened?  Also I’m wondering about DDs cafe. I heard that things were getting tighter in France. 
    S. E. NSW
  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    I'm with @Obelixx (and Billy Connolly), the best predictor of the weather is to look outside. I tend to think that anybody that works within the weather forecasting industry is stealing a living. Forecasts can be so wrong so close to the event that it renders them pure guesswork. The only thing that you can take as gospel on the weather forecast is the (increasingly long) segment that tells you about the weather that you've just had!

    I had a rare round of golf cancelled a few weeks ago because electrical storms were forecast along with 80-90% chance of rain for a big chunk of the day. It was decided that the odds weren't good. I spent that day in the garden absolutely baking. Not a cloud in the sky and hottest day of the year (up to that point). Not happy!
    East Lancs
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2020
    Hmm ... watching the radar is usually pretty near the mark ... farming brother pays a pretty penny to access specialised very local forecasts ... trust me he wouldn’t spend that if it didn’t work ... but the general regional forecast just give a flavour of what’s going on ... I would rarely alter plans solely because of a tv weather forecast. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    edited August 2020
    Our recent beach days 🏖 have only happened because we saw the Met Office forecast looked good for 5 days time and booked a car park ticket on the strength of that.  Have had great days each time.  True, the spontaneity goes out of it, but the pre booked system means no traffic jams and plenty of space on the beach to keep your distance.  Once it all goes back to normal (whatever that is) I doubt we’ll go much.  Mr C hates crowds and traffic jams.....I hate it when Mr C is grumpy 😡 😉.  There should be a gender appropriate version of “happy wife, happy life” for me đŸ€Ł
  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    Hmm ... watching the radar is usually pretty near the mark ... farming brother pays a pretty penny to access specialised very local forecasts ... trust me he wouldn’t spend that if it didn’t work ... but the general regional forecast just give a flavour of what’s going on ... I would rarely alter plans solely because of a tv weather forecast. 
    Fair enough - it is clearly a field covering a spectrum from pretty accurate to absolute tosh. If it is a scientifically rigorous process though, I'm baffled why all agencies can't seem to sing from the same hymn sheet. The online BBC weather forecast for my local area has, certainly over the last few months, been utter drivel. I only take a look for entertainment purposes!!! The BBC ought to have the means to be better than that? On a regular basis, the forecast for an hour segment of the day will change from <5% chance of rain to >50% and vice versa. This happens within half an hour of the hour segment actually starting. If that's based on the latest tech, it's not worth the bother. The TV forecasts seem to boil down to it'll be sunny, rainy, stormy, calm, warm, chilly and unseasonable. Just take your pick what you fancy. I don't feel that we've come too far from that Michael Fish moment, despite the protestations of those whose livelihoods depend upon it.

    Must be a £££ issue if you have to pay for the truth  :)
    East Lancs
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    The one I use is called "météo60" and has an agricultors' option showing soil temperatures and evaporation rates as well as sunshine/cloud/rain plus expected temperatures and wind direction and speeds.   There's a rain radar map, lightning map, flood or heatwave warning map and so on.  All very thorough and comprehensive - but inaccurate when the weather is changeable. 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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