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| Thread ID: 136553 | 2014-03-14 17:37:00 | Weather | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 1370226 | 2014-03-14 21:16:00 | Right at the moment,only lightly overcast, next to no wind, and warm. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1370227 | 2014-03-14 22:59:00 | well going by the photo in this media release id say its a bit more fierce up there then you guys are getting in Aucks at the moment? www.3news.co.nz |
beetle (243) | ||
| 1370228 | 2014-03-14 23:40:00 | Yes Northland......looks like they have plenty of rain. Most tragic thing here, the bean frame is on a lean......it is made of flimsy (split) bamboo pieces however, so not surprising. Isn't over completely, will have to wander out and stake the ends properly soon.... Got the tank full now...finally. It's stopped raining though. Son in Franklin had a bit of rain this morning and drove down to Candyland today. Relative in Huntly at that time had zero wind or rain. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1370229 | 2014-03-15 00:13:00 | Nice day here. 5616 |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1370230 | 2014-03-15 02:41:00 | Feels like a normal storm to me Isn't this how winter's weather is like? |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 1370231 | 2014-03-15 07:11:00 | The track record of Met is not getting to be so appallingingly inaccurate, far from it - they have a reasonably good strike rate with an accuracy rate into the 80%. Where we are getting to in the do-do's is when civil defence tries to justify its existence by promulgating dire warnings. Next is our apalling media that sees those warnings as gospel, and help to hype the "newsworthy" dire warnings. TV3 today showed shots of the waves washing the pavements at Paihia, and a few boats rocking on their moorings. If TV3 asked a few questions of the locals, they'd quickly learn an easterly at high tide will most certainly wash the pavements - as Aucklanders know happens every time there's a King tide with a strong easterly, Tamaki Drive gets flooded. If TV1 muzzled its weatherman and enforced a useful policy of education rather than fast-talking a load of unintelligible-confuse-the-watchers-with-science comments it may help. Otherwise as it is, not good enough. Mostly of concern is an emerging "boy that called wolf" factor. If these "experts" aren't reigned in, the danger is then when a real danger does present itself, the public will just continue to shrug its shoulders and pay no heed to the warnings. |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1370232 | 2014-03-15 07:33:00 | things where certainly lighter than predicted. but still had to go the back way home due to trees down. power has been out since lunch and only just come back on. tho its going on/off every 10min or so. ups is getting a work out. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 1370233 | 2014-03-15 18:50:00 | The track record of Met is not getting to be so appallingingly inaccurate, far from it - they have a reasonably good strike rate with an accuracy rate into the 80%. It's not TV weather - who go by Met Service. It's Met Service. Yes, predicting fine weather for most of Jan and Feb, would get them 80% accurate. It's when they predict rain it all falls apart. Since getting my tank I have paid a lot of attention to their site - and others. Great, it rained yesterday. However they specified heavy falls, and rain overnight on Friday/Saturday. Fail. They predicted gales. Fail. Well at least out this way, yes there was wind, gale? No. It happens a lot, rain predicted and we end up with a few spits that adds nothing to the tank. It's only small, doesn't take much to fill it.... I do realise that often North SHore for instance - Orewa and the like, can get the predicted weather while we don't. However Met Service website has some tabs so you can change the area - Waitakere for instance. It's just there for decoration as far as I can tell. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1370234 | 2014-03-15 18:58:00 | If we were getting paid-for forecasts, there would be either a lot of refunds, or a very strong tide of Consumer Guarantee hearing applications. However, the forecasts are free since they are worked out by a process involving the last four digits of the TAB turnover, the behaviour of Mrs Murphy's cat and the close scrutiny of the offal bin at KFC Chopper Central. These results are analysed using a dartboard and 3 drunk octogenarians, this new result being handed to the drama dep't for transmission to the various media drama departments for suitable spicing up. After that it gets a bit muddled. The new process involves putting phone books through a garden shredder and assembling forecasts from the resulting confetti by an infinite number of monkeys Anything coming off the production line that is not Shakespeare is considered a forecast. These forecasts are then placed in a drum, thoroughly mixed and a fresh forecast drawn out at exactly 8 o-clock each morning. (A process adopted from the NovoPay system.) A team of consultants and specialist advisers is studying the process to see where enhanced revenue streams can be extracted. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1370235 | 2014-03-15 19:34:00 | Rain and strong winds in Chch this morning, not a gale though and far from it. Watched the news last night showing some mild seas breaking over the road. I've seen far worse in England such as waves pounding into the sea wall and clearing a 4 storey hotel and I have sailed in stronger winds than we are getting here now. Certainly feel they have over dramatised it all, but I guess it could have been much worse. Then again Judith Collins could turn out to be an alien too | gary67 (56) | ||
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