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Old January 5th 05, 11:27 AM
Eli
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Default Swiss weather forecasters

What type of skills does one need to become a weather forecaster in
Switzerland? Surely the requirements are not too steep... Otherwise,
how do you explain the fact that they can't even forecast the following
day?
With all the sophisticated computers which forecasting employs these
days, surely either the government is not allocating budget for state
of the art equipment (or for salaries which are sufficiently
attractive to attract the really skilled people???)
- Eli

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Old January 5th 05, 11:33 AM
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Eli wrote:
What type of skills does one need to become a weather forecaster in
Switzerland? Surely the requirements are not too steep... Otherwise,
how do you explain the fact that they can't even forecast the
following day?
With all the sophisticated computers which forecasting employs these
days, surely either the government is not allocating budget for state
of the art equipment (or for salaries which are sufficiently
attractive to attract the really skilled people???)


Elaborate.....?


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Old January 5th 05, 11:36 AM
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On 5 Jan 2005 03:27:22 -0800, "Eli" wrote:

What type of skills does one need to become a weather forecaster in
Switzerland? Surely the requirements are not too steep... Otherwise,
how do you explain the fact that they can't even forecast the following
day?


They seem to be at least as accurate as UK ones. I presume you're just
hacing a whinge because they forecasted snow and it didn't arrive, or
something? Well, that's mountain weather for you - notoriously fickle
and likely to **** you off whatever happens.

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Old January 5th 05, 11:38 AM
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"Eli" wrote in message
ups.com...
What type of skills does one need to become a weather forecaster in
Switzerland? Surely the requirements are not too steep... Otherwise,
how do you explain the fact that they can't even forecast the following
day?
With all the sophisticated computers which forecasting employs these
days, surely either the government is not allocating budget for state
of the art equipment (or for salaries which are sufficiently
attractive to attract the really skilled people???)
- Eli


There are two companies and in the Alps we get a lot of micro climates, it
really is very difficult to know what's happening and with the very evident
climate change past knowledge and experience is becoming useless.

I've never seen a winter as mild as this one, heat wave in two days :-)
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Simon Brown
www.hb9drv.ch



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Old January 5th 05, 12:29 PM
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"Eli" wrote in message
ups.com...
What type of skills does one need to become a weather forecaster in
Switzerland? Surely the requirements are not too steep... Otherwise,
how do you explain the fact that they can't even forecast the following
day?
With all the sophisticated computers which forecasting employs these
days, surely either the government is not allocating budget for state
of the art equipment (or for salaries which are sufficiently
attractive to attract the really skilled people???)
- Eli


Er And you think the UK forecasts are good? Its easy to predict the simple
stuff - Yup hotter today and no rain. But when its very changeable its very
hard. You would be amazed how much computing power it really needed for
computer analysis of weather forecasts. In the old Met Office they had
multiple Supercomputers (one being the 3rd fastest in the world at the time)
and still were down on the sort of power they really needed!!



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Old January 5th 05, 01:06 PM
Simon Brown
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"Rob" wrote in message
...

"Eli" wrote in message
ups.com...
What type of skills does one need to become a weather forecaster in
Switzerland? Surely the requirements are not too steep... Otherwise,
how do you explain the fact that they can't even forecast the following
day?
With all the sophisticated computers which forecasting employs these
days, surely either the government is not allocating budget for state
of the art equipment (or for salaries which are sufficiently
attractive to attract the really skilled people???)
- Eli


Er And you think the UK forecasts are good? Its easy to predict the simple
stuff - Yup hotter today and no rain. But when its very changeable its

very
hard. You would be amazed how much computing power it really needed for
computer analysis of weather forecasts. In the old Met Office they had
multiple Supercomputers (one being the 3rd fastest in the world at the

time)
and still were down on the sort of power they really needed!!



However the current weather was predicted a week ago and it's holding good -
sunny and mild and getting warmer.
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Simon Brown
www.hb9drv.ch


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Old January 5th 05, 03:12 PM
Florian Anwander
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Hi Rob

Er And you think the UK forecasts are good?

British weather forecast IS quite simple: rain today, rain tomorrow,
rain ...

SCNR

Florian

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Old January 5th 05, 03:14 PM
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Florian Anwander wrote:
Hi Rob

Er And you think the UK forecasts are good?

British weather forecast IS quite simple: rain today, rain tomorrow,
rain ...

SCNR

Florian


You obviously weren't anywhere near the UK in Nov/Dec then.....


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Old January 5th 05, 09:54 PM
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:14:22 -0000, " cupra"
wrote:

Florian Anwander wrote:
Hi Rob

Er And you think the UK forecasts are good?

British weather forecast IS quite simple: rain today, rain tomorrow,
rain ...

SCNR

Florian


You obviously weren't anywhere near the UK in Nov/Dec then.....

What say Tefax at Asterix and the Brits?

Asterix: Have you often Fog?
Tefax: Thank god! No. Only it doesn't rain.
:-)

Johannes
 




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