Potus ???

[peds]

Fairly predictable. 

 

[AHPP]

Easy then. If it’s important/useful/worthwhile, someone will do it.  

[peds]

Just now, Big J said:

. I would not be surprised if there were major obstacles to the 2026 mid terms actually happening and honestly, I'd be surprised if Trump gave up power in 2029.

 

Easy. Start a war, cancel elections. Like that scruffy oik power-hungry dictator Zelenskyy.

[GarethM]

NOAA 6.9 billion dollars or there abouts Vs £1.3 billion for our laughably inaccurate Met office.

[Mick Dempsey]

Compared to when I was young, the weather forecast is very accurate. 

[GarethM]

1 minute ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Compared to when I was young, the weather forecast is very accurate. 

Yeah, but opening the window and shouting boy what's the weather is usually very accurate compared to that pine cone 😉

[peds]

9 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Compared to when I was young, the weather forecast is very accurate. 

 

Weren't they still using the pine cone technique when you were young grandad?

 

People these days seem to think that the forecast is inaccurate because they can't inform a specific individual exactly what time it will start raining in the 3 square feet that they occupy at any given moment. 

Personally I'm amazed at how successful the predictions can be with scant data. It's like magic. 

[Mick Dempsey]

The satellite imagery is fairly well established, even when I was a boy. 

It’s the computer programs predicting the likely scenarios that has caused the improvement in forecasting. 
At least that was my understanding of it. 

[GarethM]

There was a TV programme that explained why the met office accuracy went down after they moved to the west country 

 

In part due to the new algorithms, but also far too much data into the system causing poor outputs especially for city sourced data.

 

The computer equivalent of target blindness.

 

Especially when they proclaimed the hottest x,y,z from the tarmac runway of Heathrow.

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

The satellite imagery is fairly well established, even when I was a boy. 

It’s the computer programs predicting the likely scenarios that has caused the improvement in forecasting. 
At least that was my understanding of it. 

Plus for short term forecasting the rain radar map is pretty good