BBC weather contract no longer with Met Office
AFTER 93 years the BBC has parted with the Met Office, not renewing its contract to supply TV, radio and website weather news. Instead Meteogroup founded in the Netherlands, or MetraWeather, a...
View ArticleForecasters defend the weather bureau’s predictions for weekend
“The [Australian] weather bureau said it was not caught off guard by the intensity of the storm that tore through southeast Queensland on Sunday. Wind gusts stronger than 100km/h were recorded in...
View ArticleFarmers’ Almanac Used by United Airlines
“Oscar Munoz, the CEO of United Airlines, incredibly, is an almanac-believer. In speaking with Marketplace about the challenges airlines face in ensuring on-time departures and arrivals, he highlighted...
View ArticleForecasting Rainfall Months in Advance – Case Studies from Eastern Australia
GENERAL circulation models (GCMs) are used by meteorological agencies around the world for computer simulation of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans. These models, however, are not very good at...
View ArticleEstimating the Contribution of The Industrial Revolution to 20th Century Warming
Following is a rebuttal by John Abbot and me to claims that we misrepresent the Moberg et al. (2005) reconstruction of northern hemisphere temperatures over the last 2,000 years in our article...
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