You folks in the US really have it made when it comes to weather prediction. A day or two out you can be pretty confident that the forecast will be pretty close, but here in the UK, they really have no idea. Twenty four hours is a total crap shoot, and it's beyond me why they even attempt to predict a week in advance. Just about every weekend is a total flipflop of what's predicted on Friday, and even then it's like Richard Mole told me ten years ago..."if you don't like the weather, just wait 5 minutes and it'll be completely different". It was supposed to be drizzly and rainy with low ceilings all day, and it turned out to be severe clear from sunrise to about 4PM, at which point I decided to go for a bike ride. I did see a few clouds, but not a drop of rain all day.
It's not that they're idiots here, it's just that the only weather stations out west are the odd ships coming in, which don't quite substitute for Nexrad radar coverage for 2000 miles. I don't see any evidence that Nexrad exists here, so there's another handicap. Maybe the lack of tornados is the reason for that though. I took a couple of hundred more pictures today, and will take more at Popham tomorrow. I'm told by the next door neighbor cop/pilot that they're having a fly-in of sorts. I should have figured that, since I've seen more GA aircraft fly over this weekend than the last three months of living here. I saw three "microlights" (ultralights and trikes in US parlance) at the same time while I was riding Wayfarers Walk. I wondered why, but then it occured to me that they were striving for the same view that brought me up to that ridge... Mark Langford N56ML "at" hiwaay.net website at http://www.N56ML.com --------------------------------------------------------
