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Scottish weather forecasting
In July 2001 the Met Office opened a new "Centre of Excellence" in
Aberdeen, primarily to provide marine forecasts but it also provides forecasts for mountain use, winter road conditions and aviation use. By all accounts I've seen the centre has been successful, both commercially and in terms of its quality of service. Being a modern weather forecasting service it is heavily reliant on computing power, but as we know, computer forecasts don't have it all worked out yet and a degree of local, specialist knowledge helps in giving a good forecast on top of what the computer models can do. So I've been rather dismayed to hear that the Met Office are proposing to close down the Aberdeen office and move its operations to their main base in Exeter, putting all their eggs in the supercomputing basket. Local Weather For Local People? Not any more if the Met Office have their way. The closure is subject to consultation, and to try and sway this consultation an e-petition is in place at: http://www.petitiononline.com/SCOTMET/petition.html If you share my view that this closure is a potentially Very Bad Idea, please take the time to sign it. Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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