Weather TALK [forecasts, etc]

[Monseratto]

Hasn't rained much last night til this morning...another school day wasted. At least there'll be less traffic...

[dreamur]

...and I had the car washed last night.

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[shadow]

...and I had the car washed last night.

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Ako 1 week na Walang carwash . [emoji51]


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[Jun aka Pekto]

Yes bro.

The western part of Luzon is predicted to be wet.

From the way it is now, still no sign of it being wet.

Classes in the Metro are suspended for today...

Makati, BGC and Ortigas buildings are ghostly images, but i guess they're because of the smog.....

I'm not sure if the PH forecasters have more detailed forecast models to look at. But, it's a safe bet most schools end their classes at the hottest part of the day. It's best not to have students compound the potential traffic problems.

[dr. d]

Beautiful.

translation, please.
i don't have a degree in meteorology.

[baludoy]

Hasn't rained much last night til this morning...another school day wasted. At least there'll be less traffic...

In cases like these, it's best to err on the side of caution especially when it's the safety of kids that's on the line

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[Jun aka Pekto]

translation, please.
i don't have a degree in meteorology.

Not much translation required. The Dopplers are finally working. I'd breath a sigh of relief if I was a forecaster there.

[dr. d]

Not much translation required. The Dopplers are finally working. I'd breath a sigh of relief if I was a forecaster there.

i mean, what do the colors mean, to the average joe like me?

[_Cathy_]

translation, please.
i don't have a degree in meteorology.

Only a degree in medicine

BTT: I find it so fascinating how humans can predict the weather. It's 10 am and still no rain here.

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[Jun aka Pekto]

i mean, what do the colors mean, to the average joe like me?

Green usually means precipitable water. It doesn't mean they're falling as rain. They could also be suspended in the clouds, waiting to get heavy enough to fall as rain. I don't know the standard operating procedures of PAGASA. But, precipitable values can vary from location to location. For some, it may be green. Others? Yellow.

The Dopplers can also analyze wind flows and vertical cross sections. They can also apply algorithms to filter out useless frequencies or colors. They can even see where the potential for rain amounts are highest. It's a powerful tool. Obviously, a lot of these can only be seen from the control console.

As you could see, there are already showers at the mountainous areas around the metro. They'll only get worse as the daytime temperatures rise.

Just like here where I am, you don't need rain overhead to see flash floods. If heavy rain fall over the mountains, they have to flow somewhere, usually the lower elevations such as the coast and the metro.

[dr. d]

Only a degree in medicine

BTT: I find it so fascinating how humans can predict the weather. It's 10 am and still no rain here.

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i find it confusing, when the news reports indicate heavy flooding in manila, a distance of less than 5 km from where we live. and it's not even drizzling here and our lavender is busy doing the laundry downstairs.

[_Cathy_]

a weird phenomenon is when I am driving in the provincial highway and it's raining, then about 100 metres after, there's totally no rain.

[Jun aka Pekto]

Only a degree in medicine

BTT: I find it so fascinating how humans can predict the weather. It's 10 am and still no rain here.

The PH forecasters don't have any chance of rain starting at the airport until around 11 AM and lasting through the rest of the afternoon and early evening. Even then, they're mostly showery which means they rain in spots and not the whole metro. There's a wave offshore that may come in tonight. That one can bring more widespread rain.

A forecaster needs a lot of tools and the experience to know the weaknesses of each tool. I had all that and 30+ years on the job. When I retired from the military years ago, I had a 95% accuracy rate with my forecasts.

Nowadays, I just brief somebody else's forecast to our clients and tell them where the storms are. Then, when the clients go home, I close shop and go home too. Let the younger folks deal with the stress of forecasting. I'm very lucky to still have my hair and in fairly good health. So many of my peers have already lost their hair and getting fat.

[Jun aka Pekto]

a weird phenomenon is when I am driving in the provincial highway and it's raining, then about 100 metres after, there's totally no rain.

Rain showers. Like this, for example. It's raining and thundering over the mountain. But, it's sunny where I am. Even rain showers have boundaries.

[badkuk]

Sunny and humid here now, with occassional, violent gusts. No rain since that drizzly before 7am

[lowslowbenz]

^^

Ok, its nice to know that we have a resident weatherman on board.

[Jun aka Pekto]

^^

Ok, its nice to know that we have a resident weatherman on board.

I don't forecast for that region though. I can if I have access to all the tools I need. But, that's not going to happen. I can only do what everybody else here can do which is go over to the PAGASA Web site. He He.

Actually, I don't forecast or observe anymore. I just brief people nowadays. No stress and if something goes wrong with the weather, we blame somebody else.

[yebo]

Ilan garage mo ngsun?


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2 car garage na lang kaya 2 na lang kotse ko (sold the gs and bt50). i'm thinking of buying parking at the condo which hopefully will be ready by end of next year in time for a van purchase. sana may all-new 2018 starex hehehe!

maaraw na ba? punyet*ng bayantel wala na naman internet sa bahay.

[minicarph]

That tornado in Manila is a bad sign. That means tornadoes are bsck in the Philippines. There were a few recorded tornadoes in the Spanish era and concentrated at one period in our history.

Tsk tsk, may kinalaman kaya ito sa mga experiments ng foreign military sa south china sea?


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[jaypee10]

tirk ang araw..suspended ang klase..he he he..