You aren't the right person to lead rides without this IMO. Its really not rocket science.
You really are a pompous tit aren't you. However, given you history of providing advice/comment on subjects that you clearly know hee-haw it's highly amusing.
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What IS the point of weather forecasts ?
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it's highly amusing.
that bit about me not being fit to lead rides was priceless, I loved it :o) [I might have gotten people wet]
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proteus - Member
You aren't the right person to lead rides without this IMO. Its really not rocket science.
You really are a pompous **** aren't you. However, given you history of providing advice/comment on subjects that you clearly know hee-haw it's highly amusing.Oh really - get her. Saucer of cream for table one.
Of course it was overstated for comic effect.
However the basic thrust is true. Reading what is happening over the next few hours with the weather is easy using the general situation from the forecast combined with your own knowledge and simply looking at the sky. To my mind its a basic skill for going out in the mountains to be able to read the weather. Its a basic part of mountaincraft.
You may chose to believe its not possible. Up to you. Simply because you don't agree with you does not mean I am wrong.
virtually anything I post I can back up with solid facts - when shown I am wrong I will say so. Opinions are different - they are like anuses - every bums got one
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I'm interested in this thing about the Americans getting the weather right while the Met office don't. Is that their weather that they get right, or our weather? The GFS model which is freely available and consequently what all the internet forecasts channel is pretty imprecise. The Met Office would be my choice every time. It helps if you understand weather systems i.e. synoptic charts, lows and highs etc. then you can see how predictable or otherwise the weather forecast is on any day. It's gonna be nice tomorrow. Though not up north obviously.
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he's doing it again
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virtually anything I post I can back up with solid facts - when shown I am wrong I will say so.
Sorry, you're clearly deluded. Time and time again you will post on subjects when you're out of your depth.Clowns like you spoil STW.
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proteus. back that up with an example or shut up.
Go on. Just one.
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Q. TandemJeremy (Blowhard)
A. Giving "advice" on routes that you haven't ridden - multiple examples.Posted 2 years ago # -
Huh? Are you sure you are not mixing me up with someone else? when? Waht route?
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As I said, deluded.
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Come on squire. I don't give advice on routes I have no knowledge of - and if I haven't ridden them I would say " I believe this about this route"
Yer just trolling now. Put up or shut up examples or I will consider it proven you are talking out of your behind
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and if I haven't ridden them I would say " I believe this about this route"
No, you didn't. You posted as "fact" about a trail you'd not ridden. I can't be arsed searching through your detritus.I'll not mention the apparently racist description you posted about Glasgow, eh? "Weegiestan" wasn't it? Something I'd never heard in 25 years of living in Edinburgh...
Yer just trolling now.
No worries, I'm not convinced you're for real. A bit like Hora, you appear too ridiculous to actually exist.Posted 2 years ago # -
Giving "advice" on routes that you haven't ridden - multiple examples.
Are you sure you are not mixing me up with someone else? when? Waht route?like when you attacked me for suggesting people ride down the grass on Dollywaggon Pike, only to discover that a national park ranger gave a rider exactly the same advice ?
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Simon - I remember that thread and I was talking not about the specifics of that route but about the general case about avoiding erosion. I have to believe you that you were given that advice but it goes against the usual principles of avoiding erosion.
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This thread is almost as good asMega-Shark vs Giant Octopus.
Two titans of STW pointless argumentation locked in a deadly battle for ultimate supremacy. Who will emerge victorious? Will SFB's selective italicisation be a match for the power of the TJ Wiki-link? Who will wear the creepiest shorts? Which is mightier, the general or the specific? We can only watch, and pray...
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it's supposed to be about weather forecasts - and it's not just me that's saying they've been rubbish recently...
As for TJ, he seems to have suffered a personality shift, he used to be much more moderate in his remarks...
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simonfbarnes - Member
Hmmm - I shall ponder that. you might well be right. I'll tone it down a bitAs for TJ, he seems to have suffered a personality shift, he used to be much more moderate in his remarks...
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This is brilliant. An SfB thread that's been sabotaged with added TJ.
Keep going chaps. No one else need post.
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I don't consider it to have been sabotaged
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No, I'm sure you don't and even if you did, you'd argue contrary regardless...
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You know, I used to be lost on STW, as to who were the regulars and who was trolling/just passing by.
Now it's blantantly obvious
As for the weather, I'm always amazed that people are surprised that forecasts are wrong. I'll always beleive that there's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes....
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They should really be called "Weather Educated Guesses" (Except those by TJ which could be called "Weather Certainties") but I don't suppose that would inspire people to watch/look at them...
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whenever i ride i go out with attitude that it is gonna pis5 it down.
and that is summer or winter.and teej and barnes, very entertaining.........
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I hate to say this, but on the subject of weather forcasting, I totally agree with TJ. Learn about it yourself, check the DATA available before you go out (Not the forecast) and decide weather to take a t-shirt, coat, or canoe......
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you'd argue contrary regardless...
no I wouldn't!
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Learn about it yourself ... decide weather to take a t-shirt, coat, or canoe
or, don't bother and be prepared for anything :o)
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or, don't bother and be prepared for anything :o)
Yeah possibly, but my way saves carrying the canoe just on the off-chance.
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Anyway, simon's spot on. There's no point in weather forecasts. Saturday in North Yorkshire, forecast says 'showers all day', got none & it didn't even threaten. Sunday the same. Todays forecast said 'heavy rain', hardly likely looking around as we've got scattered high clouds above Boroughbridge.
TJ should be a weather man as it seems he's ALWAYS right.Posted 2 years ago # -
Oops sorry, it did rain in York on Saturday!
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One thing that has always baffled me is when out at sea the shipping forcast is nearly always right. So why can't the weather people apply this to the land
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It's the land that makes it unpredictable. There's no mountains at sea!
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Well just to prove a point on how micro climates are - we were riding round Coniston and except for a few spots in Coniston, we had excellent weather all day and just got hotter as the day went on whereas some had torrential on garburn
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It's the land that makes it unpredictable. There's no mountains at sea!
and the forecasted areas are massive.
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As for TJ, he seems to have suffered a personality shift, he used to be much more moderate in his remarks
He's trying to give up the ciggies isn't he........
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TJ should be a weather man as it seems he's ALWAYS right
not always right, just never wrong......
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