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Hi,

A quick not to advise you that I have released a video looking at the winds for Sunday and an outlook into next week. You can view it at http://www.youtube.com/user/weatherschool

These videos are usually reserved only for SWIS members, but because I have been updating you on this all week I thought it important to get the latest information to the widest audience.

Feel free to pass this link on to anyone who may be interested.

To see all my videos and musings you must be a SWIS member. You can get a free 14-day trial of this service by registering at www.SailingWeather.co.uk

Hope this is useful information.

With best wishes,
Simon

weatherman wrote:Hi,

A quick not to advise you that I have released a video looking at the winds for Sunday and an outlook into next week. You can view it at http://www.youtube.com/user/weatherschool

In south west Scotland we had some light drizzle early yesterday (Sunday) evening. Today is a beautiful day - westerly breeze, 3/8 cloud, pleasant westerlies.

Simon, thanks for sharing that with us. Just a question about the jetstream; it it tracking further to the south than is usual? I seem to recall similar unsettled and generally cold conditions, at least in Scotland, when this has happened in previous years.

weatherman wrote:I thought it important to get the latest information to the widest audience.

Simon
There's someone using a programme called Danny's Wind (?) and what I saw looked awfuly like a GSF grib file overlaying the UK. What they're trying to do is predict how much wind there'll be 24 hours or so in advance, erm reliably, in a small patch off the Kent coast. If they get it badly wrong and, say, there's a F7 instead of a forecast F2 they're liable for £250k to £1m per *hour* for the duration of the unforecast event - they'll have some really cheesey acronym like ufo.

It's the National Grid and there'll be 3 big wind farms in that area and that's the cost of having to constrain them.

Your stuff is so reliable they'd be daft not to approach you?

Be careful Simon - the scurrilous auld ferret is after a book or a course or something - fer free of course!