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#1 Aaron

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Posted 21 February 2012 - 05:40

According to MPs
http://www.bbc.co.uk...litics-17100224
2012
Max temperature +22.1°C
Minimum temperature -7.9°C

Thunder: 1
Lightning: 1
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 06:29

Well the Business case will be based on Global warming and the risk to the UK infrastructure and Business which should send it a long way to towards being approved.
Perhaps they should also look into a seti approach as well. Plenty of computers out there.
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 09:30

Met Office 'needs New Supercomputers'


really....what's wrong with the old ones ?

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.....or the 'phone a friend' system .....


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Posted 21 February 2012 - 12:24

View PostMKsnowangel, on 21 February 2012 - 09:30 , said:

Met Office 'needs New Supercomputers'


really....what's wrong with the old ones ?

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.....or the 'phone a friend' system .....


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I love the 2nd one which I had not seen before

send it to them in an e mail and see if they have a sense of humour?

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#5 Solar Sausage

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Posted 21 February 2012 - 19:54

Ever since Captain FitzRoy first invented numerical weather-forecasting, the limitations in accuracy have been due to lack of computing power. So surely, subject to the Law of Diminishing Returns, better computers will yield better forecasts - and models?
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