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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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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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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. -- Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom) Ski Club of Great Britain - http://www.skiclub.co.uk All opinions expressed are personal and in no way represent those of the Ski Club. |
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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 :-) -- Simon Brown www.hb9drv.ch |
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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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"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. -- Simon Brown www.hb9drv.ch |
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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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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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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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