Mungler Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 In planning the bank holiday weekend I made a school boy error of looking at the weather forecast for guidance. The weather forecast was all doom and gloom (wind, rain, sleet and perhaps snow as I recall for the whole weekend and Monday) and so we planned for indoor stuff, shopping, chores and no shooting (save for the Essex selection gig on Sunday). Round our way today, brilliant sunshine but with a biting cold wind. Perfectly fine for outdoors though. Is it just me or are the weather forecasters more often wrong than right? They really should publish a table (like newspaper horse racing pundits) of their prediction -vs- acurate result ratio. Fall behind 60% and they are put in the stocks and pelted with rotten fruit. Anyhows, spent the morning clearing out the greenhouse - lovely in there it was - peace and quiet, radio 4 and tea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chess Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Absoloutly correct Mr Mungler. Brilliant sunshine here too, nice wind blowing, pigeon being tossed about like leaves, Mrs Chess out doing Mrs Chess type of things and two year old Chesshaving a wee nap......all is at peace with the world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnGalway Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Cost us two days work here, we can only do certain jobs weather permitting. Forecast was horrible, but weather turns out to be workable... I'm sending them a bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob300w Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Maybe we should club together and send Michael Fish a fiver to supply decent weather for the rest of the week-end? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegeta Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 (edited) Give em a break lads, the weather is one of the toughest math problems going. Nine variable partial differential equation I think Big super computers dedicated to it and all And Mung they cant help it if you're too big of a batty boy to put on some rain gear and take it like a man Edited March 21, 2008 by Vegeta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 I studied meterology when I was at sea, Mung, and we also have all the weather-predicting kit on the farm. I don't have any faith in anything like Metcheck.com, or the mainstream BBC/Sky/ITV forecasts. It is difficult to accurately forecast weather 72 hours in advance, and practically impossible to get a 5-day forecast correct. The best info tends to be on the Met Office website, unless you are prepared to sift through real-time radar and satellite data (which I'm not anymore). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted March 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 What's that Vegeta? You just called John Galway batty for cancelling work because of the anticipated weather? Good job you two boys are on the same Island Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegeta Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 What's that Vegeta? You just called John Galway batty for cancelling work because of the anticipated weather? Good job you two boys are on the same Island Well a real man tries his best to get out of work at every opportunity, blaming it on the weather is an age old technique of such dodging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnGalway Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 What's that Vegeta? You just called John Galway batty for cancelling work because of the anticipated weather? Good job you two boys are on the same Island :blink: It won't work you know I'm too long in the tooth to fall for that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob300w Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 What's that Vegeta? You just called John Galway batty for cancelling work because of the anticipated weather? Good job you two boys are on the same Island Well a real man tries his best to get out of work at every opportunity, blaming it on the weather is an age old technique of such dodging. As it appears to rain every day in Ireland......... The last time that I was working over there, the job lasted six weeks, and in that time there was only one day that it did not rain, you boys may have webbed feet, we don't! :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 As it appears to rain every day in Ireland.........The last time that I was working over there, the job lasted six weeks, and in that time there was only one day that it did not rain, you boys may have webbed feet, we don't! In parts of Essex, they have the webbing between their fingers, or haven't you been near Canvey lately ? :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Canvey is literally the end of the world. I wondered whether to take my passport when I had to drive through that place for a job the other day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 I think the way Micheal fish and a few others got ripped up by the likes Eamon Holmes and other self important Journalists putting a sensationlist twist on things was the starting point of "worst case" weather predictions. The media ### it for us - again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob300w Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 As it appears to rain every day in Ireland.........The last time that I was working over there, the job lasted six weeks, and in that time there was only one day that it did not rain, you boys may have webbed feet, we don't! In parts of Essex, they have the webbing between their fingers, or haven't you been near Canvey lately ? :blink: When I was single, I went out with a girl from "the island", she had webbing in places that most girls don't even have places! Sorry Dolores, if you still live there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berettaman1 Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Bob,!! Your the one then who went out with Fishy fingers Dolores?,Then?? :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted March 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Update, just started ******* it down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagsy Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 As it appears to rain every day in Ireland.........The last time that I was working over there, the job lasted six weeks, and in that time there was only one day that it did not rain, you boys may have webbed feet, we don't! In parts of Essex, they have the webbing between their fingers, or haven't you been near Canvey lately ? :blink: When I was single, I went out with a girl from "the island", she had webbing in places that most girls don't even have places! Sorry Dolores, if you still live there! Funny you should mention that. When I was going out with a girl in Colchester she asked me to kiss her somewhere dark, wet and smelly. I said f'cough Canvey's miles away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chard Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 The only good thing to come out of Canvey Island was Dr Feelgood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shotgun harry Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 It was ok here this morning, light wind & sunshine but at about 1 o clock it went dark cold and we have had hailstone the river has started rising and sure enough rain behind the hail!!!!!!!!! The sun has just come back out but we are up for a bumpy ride I think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob300w Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Bob,!! Your the one then who went out with Fishy fingers Dolores?,Then?? :blink: Dam!! My secret is out, I'll either have to have you killed or change my brand of tea-bags! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob300w Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 The only good thing to come out of Canvey Island was Dr Feelgood I think you will find that the only good thing to come out of Canvey is the A130! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Lovely earlier, 'Simpsons' blue sky with clouds but very windy, now we have sleet, shooting tonight is almost certainly off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Having spent the morning in a telehandler loading two lorries with grain, I'm sitting here desperate to get out shooting. But it's a write-off. There won't be many rabbits/foxes about tonight, and I have only seen a handful of pigeons about today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anser2 Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 For once the weather men got it dead right here in norfolk. Weak sun \cloud with odd wintery showers followed by more prolonged showers with gale north winds. And we got exactly what they said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Sick Old Man Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 I was having a mooch about Orsett Fen this afternoon, there were shed loads of woodies about. I have never seen so many, most of the fields are OSR and wheat, but the wind was blowing a banshee. As I unloaded the dogs back home it Hoofed it down A ton of young rabbits, I think this will be a bumper year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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