Amazing work by the Met Office. Just goes to show the huge leap in technology in the last

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

10 years. Whether or not the storm was quite as ferocious as suggested, the fact is that it existed and they were forecasting its arrival 5 days ago. That's some seriously clever computer modelling of an incredibly complicated process.

[barrybueno]

[Ashberto]

accurate climate models one day!

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

You know, the 60-80 mph winds. As predicted. With the occasional 90 mph gust. As they predicted? That storm, do you mean?

[barrybueno]

Office.

No trains running either which is nice :-)

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The 'Green' (Red) conspiracy is too strong, a.

[Classic Jorge]

Surely a company like Group 4 could do this for cheaper (the fact I'm on the board of G4 and they couldnt do it cheaper is neither here or there)

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Plus it's tasked with achieving a profit so has to behave as a commercial enterprise.

wd mo.

[Brentwood]

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02715/s_2715317a.jpg

[Classic Jorge]

They are a drain on our stretched resources, we need to farm them out at a huge, but crucially off balance sheet, cost.

Did thatcher die for nothing?

[Brentwood]

capable of performing 100 trillion calculations per second what did it. Outsource the lot of them to India with a copy of "Supercomputers for Dummies" imo

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

They make a profit every year, as well :cloud9: Which means they're not a drain on our resources at all - in fact just the opposite.

You're a bit vague about how this money stuff works, aren't you j? I can talk you through it one day :thumbup:

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

:taxcutsforhighearners: :cloud9:

[Snin]

it was steady around 30 to 47 mph - which is just in force 6 to 7..just around atrong breeze to minor gale.. - with occasional gusts in 60 - 80- gale / storm force ( with max in certain areas 90odd) but big difference between steady 60 to 80 mph and gusts 60 to 80..it was a minor storm Sir C and the computers got over excited.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/observations/heat hrow-greater-london#?tab=last24hours&fcTime=1382828400 (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/observations/heathrow-greater-london#?tab=last24hours&fcTime=1382828400)