Rip out their eyes and piss in the sockets I reckon

It's not their fault ! Do you think you could do it better ?? Why don't you do your own forecast? The maps and data are readily available.

God sends the wind. Not the man from Bom.

I know a way that you can move forward (rather than shooting people!) I've spoken with the crew at the Bom and they're all into it and doing the best they can.

Maybe read www.seabreeze.com.au/info/wind.asp to get you interested/started in how forecasting works. Then, when you see a forecast, you can look out how they came to their conclusions and maybe add your own educated bias.

For example, the very data that *all* forecasters use is dodgy at best. To get an idea of what the the current barometric pressure is, you need someone or something to measure it at that spot. Easy on land, but to get the readings at sea (which you need for incoming weather) you have to rely on reports from ships that happen to be in the area - otherwise you're left guessing (or to put it mathamatically - interpolating).

Enjoy .. Lozza

p.s. Having good quality darts can really spoil the chances of a good forecast - better to have k-mart ones that go all over the place.

I understand the problems they have with forcasting especially on the west coast... BUT what about when they do the 4pm update of "SW 18-23kn continuing till midnight bla bla bla" When it is obviously still blowing easterly... never changed to a sou-wester and not even likely to?
Or then there is the good old saturday and sunday updates that are just a roll on of what the dude on Friday wrote.... cause the work experience kid is the only one there to do the up-dates..?

Hey Azza I didn't say that their eyes worked

Being a bit of a weather freak myself... one day I was scanning the internet for jobs and noticed an add for Science Grads at BOM. It was a long add, but breifly: after a few months of training the first job the grads were given was weather forecasting. So if you've been into your wind sport for more than a year, then you probably have more experience (if not the technical knowledge) in weather predicting than them. That add explained alot to me.

Bet no-one's complaining about the graphs being wrong today. Had a sick session at Pinaroo from 5 until dark

Didn't even expect to get out today reading the graph, but as always the trees, flags, water tell the real story as do my arms