Article Tags: Headline Story, Open Letter/Fax, Piers Corbyn
Dear Hilary,
Reduce suffering & save & lives: Long range warnings of continuing dangerous winter weather for UK Feb 2010 Further to our letter of 8 Jan, you may have noticed all WeatherAction’s long range warnings issued 6 months ago and detailed warnings issued mid-December for January of extreme snow and ice conditions in the UK (& Europe & USA) and detailed warnings of when short range TV-Met Office forecasts would underestimate snow/ice deluges have been confirmed. As we warned would happen the UK ran out of road salt for all practical purposes.
Consequent to you and your agencies not using our long range forecasts and instead relying on misleading long range prognoses from the Met Office there has been much unnecessary suffering and economic damage and lives have been lost. This was also the case for the floody non-barbecue summers of 2007, 08 and 09 and winter 08/09 which also saw road salt run out.
We are writing now to remind you and your Highways & other agencies (copied in) of our warnings of further extreme winter weather coming in February as we predicted last July and further detailed in mid January. As you now see our Red Warning that 11/12th Feb (pdf of Feb forecast attached, and see link to WA2010NewsNo9) would have extra snow compared with expectations of standard meteorology** was confirmed by 6inches of snow in parts of Kent – more than double TV forecasts. The danger periods 15-16/17th & 18-19th & 20-21st** Feb are also predicted to bring notably severe and dangerous winter weather which will exceed in severity the expectations of standard meteorology from even a
day or so ahead.
If you and the BBC want provenly reliable long range forecasts months ahead of weather and weather extremes you only need ask. Do you want to know if the UK will have floods again this summer? It is surely against the public interest for the Government – and indeed all the major parties – to continue to ignore our proven advances in forecasting science and succumb to disingenuous argument and spurious defences of incompetence from interest groups tied to preventing advances beyond standard meteorology and to the ideology of CO2 driven Climate Change for which there is no evidence (NB see footnotes (i), (ii) & (iii) and links).
If you or your agencies wish to use the best available advances and innovation – as the Prime Minister and Lord Mandelson have so rightly said the UK must – and use the forecast and advice attached and apply the warnings and receive further advice of these and other extra dangers please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Thank you
Piers Corbyn,
MSc (astrophysics), ARCS FRAS FRMetS, WeatherAction Long Range weather & climate forecasters
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Source: weatheraction.com