facthunter Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 A few cabs got hailed in Sydney yesterday, I believe. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly_tornado Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Another reason to privatise the whole show. run for parliament 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest john Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 If any aviator wants to know a 100% accurate forecast for tomorrow & into the future as accurate as the BOM can forecast, then here it is right now as follows: 1. It may rain. 2. it may be overcast. 3. It may be fine with 8/8 visibility. 4. It may be cloudy. 5. It may be windy. Take your pick of the above forecast items, or alternatively go outside when you get out of bed in the morning & stick your index finger on your right hand up in the air(not up behind you) & take immediate notice what is happening in front of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Get John and GNu to forecast the weather The weather today is grim, full coverage of right-wing rhetoric with patches of hellfire and damnation. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaz3g Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Well, it's 'sno good complaining about it. They'll go on strike weather or not we complain and there'll be cold comfort for anyone hoping there'll be no heated discussions or wishing to reduce the tempo of it. Kaz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winsor68 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 If any aviator wants to know a 100% accurate forecast for tomorrow & into the future as accurate as the BOM can forecast, then here it is right now as follows:1. It may rain. 2. it may be overcast. 3. It may be fine with 8/8 visibility. 4. It may be cloudy. 5. It may be windy. Take your pick of the above forecast items, or alternatively go outside when you get out of bed in the morning & stick your index finger on your right hand up in the air(not up behind you) & take immediate notice what is happening in front of you. That is not a "forecast"...its just more waffle... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylon500 Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 If any aviator wants to know a 100% accurate forecast for tomorrow & into the future as accurate as the BOM can forecast, then here it is right now as follows:1. It may rain. 2. it may be overcast. 3. It may be fine with 8/8 visibility. 4. It may be cloudy. 5. It may be windy. Take your pick of the above forecast items, or alternatively go outside when you get out of bed in the morning & stick your index finger on your right hand up in the air(not up behind you) & take immediate notice what is happening in front of you. Guess I'll have to use this until the BOM gets their dartboard fixed..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 I wouldn't blame the individuals as much as the system. We used to have observers everywhere and send balloons up to analyse the airmass and plot the Isobars. We had a few long term forecasters who were quite credible. Today the computers guess at the MSL pressures and the weird wavy lines they make shows they are guessing a few days out. Pilots at a certain level were accredited Met. observers in the past. Local knowledge helps but there's none of that used. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchroll Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 The best &most permanent successful procedure would be to sack all of the BOM bastaxds similar to what Hawke & the Airlines did some years ago when the Airline pilots thought they were indespensable & some of them then had to start working as cleaners & shxt kickers just to put food on the table & pay the mortgage. You're not very familiar with what actually happened during the airline pilot's dispute of 1989, are you? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabiru Phil Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 I wouldn't blame the individuals as much as the system. We used to have observers everywhere and send balloons up to analyse the airmass and plot the Isobars. We had a few long term forecasters who were quite credible. Today the computers guess at the MSL pressures and the weird wavy lines they make shows they are guessing a few days out.Pilots at a certain level were accredited Met. observers in the past. Local knowledge helps but there's none of that used. Nev I flew into Giles via Ayres Rock a couple of years ago. They have Met guys on I think 6 month rotations. Interesting to see the balloons activated every few hours and info they send back to a computer, all sent to a central computer in Canbera. There are a few of these sites around OZ. Temp, wind and pressure recorded. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Koreelah Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Time to tell my Giles Weather Station story. Years ago Auntie ABC decided to spruce up their 7pm television news. Geraldine Doogue was elevated to anchor "ABC National". One night a new fresh-faced young man appeared after the bulletin to present the weather report. Obviously anxious to liven up the stodgy old forecast he predicted that Alice Springs would have a very cold night. He said they were in for a "three-dog-night or, if you worked for the ABC, a three Doogue night." We never saw him again. We worried about him for years. I wonder if he is still banished to Giles Weather Station. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Just hate it when Fran Kelly says of (the) Alice. (ugh a HOT 42 degrees, Couldn't be a cold 42 degrees could it? Silly MOO. (Suppose I can't say that). Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Just hate it when Fran Kelly says of (the) Alice. (ugh a HOT 42 degrees, Couldn't be a cold 42 degrees could it? Silly MOO. (Suppose I can't say that). Nev I can understand that being annoying, but most of the time I find her interviewing style pretty incisive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza 38 Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 They ABC and SBS toe the Labor party line. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 They ABC and SBS toe the Labor party line. *groan* ... here we go again. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza 38 Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 *groan* ... here we go again. But it's true. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaz3g Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Oh Dazza I personally think they toe an ABC line but I confess I am getting tired of poor editing and even poor English presented in some of their written and oral news broadcasts. I fear English as she should be writ ain't taught no more. Kaz 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Does labor produce a different weather situation? Forecasts on the Tele are an exercise in minimal information, usually The temperature and showers possible/ fine. Not even wind direction and speed. After the 7.oo News it's fair . Nev 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly_tornado Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 They ABC and SBS toe the Labor party line. darren m8 if the gov wants better reviews it could try and be a better government, its a simple formula. the deficit is blown out from $10B to $48B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Triple A credit rating now under threat and interest rates for the government will increase, if that happens. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchroll Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 But it's true. So what? The Australian has an editorial and opinion column team so far to the right that it makes former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney look like a left wing dope smoking hippie. They (and most other News Ltd papers) may as well set up their offices in the LNP headquarters and be done with the charade that they "just report the news". No-one seems to complain about that. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnarly Gnu Posted April 28, 2015 Author Share Posted April 28, 2015 No-one seems to complain about that. Ah... perhaps because we aren't forced to pay them? Subtle difference and all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Ah... perhaps because we aren't forced to pay them? Subtle difference and all. Well Gnu, you'll be happy to know your tax dollar buys a service that is actually not skewed either left or right. Can't remember where I saw it, but there was a recent independent study done on ABC news content to determine whether or not reporting was more favourable to Labor candidates (this was triggered by the bleating from the right) - it found that there was absolutely no bias in the reporting. If you want the government to appear better in ABC news, get a better government. 1 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Koreelah Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Anyone drenched in Murdoch media would find the ABC to be biased. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchroll Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Ah... perhaps because we aren't forced to pay them? Subtle difference and all. I didn't say I agreed ABC and SBS were biased against the LNP. I think the ABC (with a few exceptions) does a reasonable job. The SBS is by definition more inclined to reflect non-white Australian cultural views of our immigrant population as that is the whole reason it was originally founded. If you're a big fan of the traditional Anglo-Saxon Australian Christian viewpoint on life, you're hardly going to get any satisfaction from SBS. That's not why it's there. When these outfits report that the current PM has made some incredibly dopey BS statement or done something unbelievably stupid (like knighting Prince Phillip), they're usually just stating a fairly obvious fact. Strangely, 50% of the population jumps up and down about it. You want them to sugar coat Government idiocy just because they're taxpayer funded? They have certainly been critical of Labor on many occasions. Perhaps you didn't bother watching. 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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