Yes, most of us have enough basic knowledge of how to interpret a weather map to get a broad picture.
But the beauty of this forum in it's heyday was that you had a number of posters that had a deeper knowledge and understanding of the wider weather picture. And they would share their understanding with others, which over time improved our understanding, too.
Sadly, some were driven out by a handful of spiteful muppets, some of whom had vehement anti-Met Office (anti-public sector) views.
DEW's daily summaries provide a great snapshot and I check them out most days. It's selfless contributions like this that keep the site going.
Saying that, when someone like Retron or Stormchaser make one of their [sadly rare] deep contributions, it's something different and adds further. But there were once several doing so, and more regularly.
As I say, it helped every TWO'er increase their understanding of model output.
Originally Posted by: Saint Snow
We can easily see what all of this has led to as well.
First of all, fewer intelligent posters means that you get less intelligent content on here and despite the fact that this thread is supposed to be all about the latest model output, I've lost track of the number of posts on here which have about anything but that. I know that Brian and the mods have the job of having to deal with that in the appropriate manner but like the rest of us, they also have their own lives to live outside of TWO and so they might not necessarily have the time to be able to do that in any great detail.
Next, there is the fact that the current conditions threads are weekly instead of daily. That would never have been even close to being the case in this forum's heydays but as things went more downhill, we ended up with certain days when nothing at all would be posted on those threads with hardly anything being reported on other days which is why in the end, those ended up becoming weekly instead of daily. Thankfully, we have DEW who continues to start these threads every week and in addition to his daily contributions on these threads, that is also something else which we can be thankful for.
After that, we then have to look at those threads which I start on here myself at the beginning of each month, season or year which are the final statistics threads for each month, year and season, the monthly precipitation threads and in most seasons, the moaning threads. In this forum's heyday, I would never have even a hint of a chance of being able to do any of that because there would always have been someone else to do that. Sadly, that is no longer the case and had I not continued to start those threads, I do often wonder whether or not at least some of these threads might even have been started at all.
Out of those threads, the monthly statistics threads are the ones which always have very few posts and although we will still always get at least one other post on there, that often ends up being the only one which there is. In this forum's heyday though, that never used to be the case and back then, there were usually always quite a few members who would be more than willing to post that month's final statistics for their location which is what those threads are for.
Adding all of up, all of this shows the where we are with with this forum nowadays, at least with those parts of these forums which I involve myself with and it's just so sad that it's now come to that.
Anyway, I would have a cheek to talk about other people being off topic on here if I continued to be off topic on here myself, so I will finish by talking about the latest model output which is very interesting going into the beginning of next week. In fact, the Met Office have already issued a yellow warning for wind for here on Sunday and Monday as a deep low approaches NW Scotland.
If that output verifies, this low could well be our first named storm of the season and if that is named by the Met Office, Met Eirean or the Dutch Met Service, it will be known as Storm Ashley. I reckon that there is a very good chance of that happening and it will be interesting to see if that is the case or not.
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16 October 2024 22:25:23
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The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.