Northern Ireland Outdoors Forum - Hiking, camping and more
Outdoor Activities => Northern Ireland Camping and Bushcraft => Topic started by: 666_pack on June 04, 2009
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Hi All,
I was just wondering how you keep tabs on the weather for planninng trips? I use the below site.
http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi
great little site there is a yearly subscription but I don't bother with it as the free charts in the data centre section give you nearly a weeks coverage.
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I use
http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/HOME/
but also look up
http://www.xcweather.co.uk/
and
http://www.met.ie/
from my mobile phone.
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Good man John.
I'll have to check those out.
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I'll have to add them to my list.
I use the Beeb most but I find them to be a bit inaccurate sometimes. I also use the Accuweather Mournes forecast. You can find it here (http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/mountain-forecast.asp?traveler=0&site=UKMOOL;Mourne%20Mountains)
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Some good info there. Well done those men.
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I would use Accu weather as well its pretty good.
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Man! I thought this thread was going to be kinda "ye olde" methods of weather forcasting such as lumps of sea weed. low flying swallows, ducks in the harbour etc :(
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Stick your hand out from under your tarp. if it comes back in wet, it's raining. If it's dry, it's nor raining.
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easiest way to tell the weather, is if you cant see the mourns its raining, if you can see the mourns its going to rain,
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amen to that brother. ;D
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Saw this story on the BBC website today and it reminded me of this old post.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14087734
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hard to beat the old weather stone ;)
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Wl2_XPSLRkA/TKt4qjhXhFI/AAAAAAAABIM/L6ORsiFzUoE/145.The-weather-stone-at-the-Railway-Inn-Ribblehead-30-June-2006.jpg)
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hard to beat the old weather stone ;)
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Wl2_XPSLRkA/TKt4qjhXhFI/AAAAAAAABIM/L6ORsiFzUoE/145.The-weather-stone-at-the-Railway-Inn-Ribblehead-30-June-2006.jpg)
Technology today; flippin' amazing ;D
I wonder how they maintain the accuracy of the stone ???
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You can't just use any old stone, there is a master stone at the Met Office Headquarters, all others stones must match the porphyritic texture and contain the same number of phenocrysts with similar euhedral forms and as such the phenocryst count is inversely proportional to the accuracy of the stone. Many cheap Chinese copies are composed of a granodiorite and plagioclase composite which is fine when new but calibration drifts over a short period of time and can results in wild inaccuracies, e.g. it is rumoured that Michael Fish used one of these inferior stones on the morning the great October storm in 1987 ::)
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And there was me thinking I could just go to the beach and grab a stone and have my own weather station :-\
(http://i1008.photobucket.com/albums/af203/cerbera147/motivator2f1987437227ee2a6df98bf2f48a6423e09a448d.jpg)
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You can't just use any old stone, there is a master stone at the Met Office Headquarters, all others stones must match the porphyritic texture and contain the same number of phenocrysts with similar euhedral forms and as such the phenocryst count is inversely proportional to the accuracy of the stone. Many cheap Chinese copies are composed of a granodiorite and plagioclase composite which is fine when new but calibration drifts over a short period of time and can results in wild inaccuracies, e.g. it is rumoured that Michael Fish used one of these inferior stones on the morning the great October storm in 1987 ::)
OMG LOL :D
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I suspect we have just tripped over a Met office in joke :)
Anyhow Metcheck (http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/today.asp?zipcode=bt33) gets my vote as well (when it's not down or throwing IIS 500 errors)...but only up to two/three days ahead, anything and everything else has at best a 50% chance of being true IMHO.