Useless forecasts

[Robin]

Wall to wall sunshine for Poole so it said on Met web site and BBC South, issued at 07.20 today. So how comes by 10.00 it is P%%%%ng down with hail and there is a girt great rainbow just after I put the masking tape on and mixed up the £90/tin antifoul which is water soluble!!!!

That we eventually got away with it and put it on is no thanks to millions of tax pounds worth of super computer, radar and bowls of seaweed. I hope they heard what I called them, the rest of our club boatyard certainly did.

Will they screw up the 2nd coat tomorrow I wonder, supposed to be sunny again so it will probably snow.

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[sailorman]

try this its more reliable
http://theyr.net/cg/cny/I18a9fd/F=js*v*040207*19*NS*be_Bruxelles
just tailor the site to your own requirments


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[Ohdrat]

Re: probably snow..

mmm well I'm snowed in again.. blizzards all day.. but at least they were forecast!

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[Robin]

Please keep it...

Up there for another 48hrs!

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[Robin]

Thanks, I use that one too but today we were only interested in staying dry, the pretty pictures on the Met Office & Beeb sites showed uninterupted sunshine! To be fair it was sunny most of the time, they just forgot to mention the rain & hail from time to time as well.

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[Ohdrat]

Re: Please keep it...

mm well I was woken at 2:30am this morining by screeeaaaaming winds.. A real banshee of a storm.. Seems the worst is over now.. sunshine on snowdrifts quite beautiful..

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[Magic_Sailor]

Where does the data come from?

Magic

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[Robin]

Pretty as a picture

Which is just where I like to see snow, the reality never matches the dream IMHO!

At least it stayed dry and mostly sunny today and the final coat of antifoul is on, I just hope the barnacles and slime appreciate their expensive lunch menu.

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[Cornishman]

I know it is early in the morning, but the inshore waters forecast also appears on the bbc site and has been very accurate all this week. As we fall into the same bracketed area as you (St Catherine's Point to Land's End) showers were forecast for yesterday so somebody got it right. I also recall the land forecast mentioning showers along the South Coast "penetrating inland" until about noon and then dying away which is roughly what happened around here. Wasn't it a bit cold for a/f paint?

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[Robin]

I didn't think to look at the marine forecasts because I was interested in only if it was dry and above 5 degs C, as required for applying Optima. I looked at the land forecast as shown on the Met Office website, and you can zoom in to the S Coast (3 days shown) and then zoom again to a 5 day forecast for individual towns, including Poole. The BBC website is similar in that you can get a 5 day forecast for individual towns, rarely does this agree with the Met Office one (or even with the ones the BBC put out on local TV!) Both websites agreed, the Met Office one was only issued an hour or so before, both showed full sunshine, not even sunshine and clouds.

In the event we got lucky and after 3 heavy (very) showers it cleared and when the water stopped running off the topsides we got the first coat on and it stayed dry, though a few very black clouds came very close! We finished coat 2 today, windy but dry all day and 10 degs C.

You are right the TV forecast said showers in the morning, we didn't see it but were told that later, so why the difference with the websites, especially with the BBC South website??

This is a problem with 2 pack waterbased Optima, with a solvent antifoul you can get away with water running over it almost as soon as it is applied, with Optima it needs to be really dry before it gets wet if you see what I mean..

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