You learn something new each day

I've just been informed that most weather forecasting bureaus admit that their forecasting accuracy is reduced by 10% for each day in advance, falling from 98%. The 10% reduction I can understand but the 98% accuracy of tomorrow's weather I would dispute!






Yesterday Yahoo! were suggesting 8 degrees and partly cloudy yet today they suggest 5 and partly cloudy. Unfortunately for them it is currently 4 and overcast. A far cry from the 9 and sunny they guessed on Monday and an even further cry from the 33 and sunny I was hoping for...

So that concludes this tediously useless study. Don't think I'll do that again...

Thanks to Clark I learned something else last week: when an electrical surge goes through an old building with galvanized pipes, it turns all the calcium build ups into hydrocarbon. Thus your drinking water is grot.

Don't say this blog isn't educational.

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I'm riding, you can watch some riding

While I'm out battling with potholes, wind, rain, cold temperatures, bad drivers and roads that go nowhere you can sit back and watch a vid by Chris Akrigg who won the Red Bull mini-drome comp in January.

A Hill in Spain from chris akrigg on Vimeo.

My riding isn't quite to that standard.

Lack of funding

Well, this has been the most boring study ever...



Sunday's forecast has remained consistent. It would have been better to follow Saturday's forecast because it has gone from partly cloudy and 9 to raining and 8. So like all good Government funded studies I'm going to shift the focus mid-way through and cite a lack of funding.

Plus I'm angry it's gonna rain on my first outdoor training ride for months...

Mum and Dad just came back from Perth:



Can't even remember what that feels like!

Oh well, I'm going riding!

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Double your nerd analysis!

Oops, took yesterday's weather screen print but forgot to upload it for nerd analysis... I know you're all hanging to see what Yahoo's Sunday guess is, so here was yesterday's:



Still 6 and partly cloudy... Maybe this is the real thing.

Let's see today's. Contestant number 3, come on out:



Well. There's some consistency I wasn't expecting. Today has effectively burried the street cred I thought this incredibly detailed study would attract.

Alas, it's not Sunday yet.

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Six and partly cloudy

Sunday 6 and partly cloudy now.



It's changed already and we're still 4 days out from this possibly glorious day. Anyone got any predictions (that will stay constant)???

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Consistent weather reports?

I'm going to get all nerdy on you until Sunday and do some analysis on Yahoo's weather reports.

Yahoo! are suggesting that Sunday's weather will be sunny with a top of 8 degrees. Snowy! is suggesting that, although 8 degrees is a fair guess for this time of year, their predictions will change almost daily until settling on something on Saturday which will ultimately end up wrong.

So I have decided to take a screen shot of Yahoo! Weather each morning to see how Sunday's forecast changes. (What? I don't have anything else to write about...)

Here is today's screen shot- 5 days out, sunny and 8 degrees.



I wonder how long until Yahoo! do their wonderfully vague sun-with-rain-coming-out-of-it icon...


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One more photo

Nice pic of Seabrook heading into the valley in Val d'Isere last week.


After 3cm of snow all week we left at 5am on Sunday as it puked down snow... So frustrating. Still good fun though.

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