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Hi, Pete & all,

"Peter Clinch" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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Don't know if this one has been mentioned yet, but if not, I'm mentioning it now... Looks pretty
good though I've yet to test it in anger...

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I s'pose one way to evaluate these sites is to archive their forecasts against outcome over
a period. Since I don't live within the areas covered, I can't volunteer, but perhaps
someone else can?

FWIW the Met Office publishes its results (eg at
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though I couldn't spot precipitation forecast verification, which is arguably the topic of most
interest to us. They just list temperature (max / min) and wind (strength / direction) results.

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I put my trust in the Metcheck Mountain Forecast yesterday (Thursday) for The Lake District as the
forecast 8 days earlier had been spot on but this time they go it wrong. 9 am - 12 noon was supposed
to be dry but it rained persistently until nearly noon.

My clothes were so wet by the time I returned to the car that I am convinced my waterproofs have
started to fail. I didn't have a square inch of dry clothing left and even my wicking teeshirt was
distinctly soggy. All my clothes apart from my wool socks went straight into the washing machine
as soon as I got them off and I would swear that they weighed less when they came out than when
they went in.

I started to write a full TR but it seemed to read as one long whinge so I gave up.

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Roger Chapman said:

My clothes were so wet by the time I returned to the car that I am convinced my waterproofs have
started to fail. I didn't have a square inch of dry clothing left and even my wicking teeshirt was
distinctly soggy. All my clothes apart from my wool socks went straight into the washing machine
as soon as I got them off and I would swear that they weighed less when they came out than when
they went in.

It can be sobering to carry all the clothing you have just taken off and realise just how heavy it
is. But they wil have weighted a good deal less than non techie stuff would have. Imagine the weight
of a cotton shirt or two and jeans soaked through. I have often thought that I could wear my techie
base layer and fleece straight out of the washing machine.

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I started to write a full TR but it seemed to read as one long whinge so I gave up.

You are a "grumpy old man" and I claim my £5 :-)
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Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

Steve Pardoe <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Hi, Pete & all,

"Peter Clinch" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Don't know if this one has been mentioned yet, but if not, I'm mentioning it now... Looks pretty
good though I've yet to test it in anger...

home.btconnect.commountainOpen ↗

I s'pose one way to evaluate these sites is to archive their forecasts against outcome over a
period. Since I don't live within the areas

covered,

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I can't volunteer, but perhaps someone else can?

OK then todays forecast and reality.

The forecast for today suggested broken cloud, some of which would be on the tops and some munros
would be cloud free, not ideal conditions but possabilities of a reasonable day. The further north
the better the chances.

The reality.....much more cloud, 90% cover, base around the 2500 mark, Glencoe and Nevis looked very
poor. Knoydart looked a little better but I doubt you would of got a view from the top.

Conclusion, I think it was a difficult day to predict, so I will give 7 out of 10

Phil Cook <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Roger Chapman said:

My clothes were so wet by the time I returned to the car that I am convinced my waterproofs have
started to fail. I didn't have a square inch of dry clothing left and even my wicking teeshirt
was distinctly soggy. All my clothes apart from my wool socks went straight into the washing
machine as soon as I got them off and I would swear that they weighed less when they came out
than when they went in.

It can be sobering to carry all the clothing you have just taken off and

realise

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just how heavy it is. But they wil have weighted a good deal less than non techie stuff would
have. Imagine the weight of a cotton shirt or two and

jeans

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soaked through. I have often thought that I could wear my techie base

layer and

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fleece straight out of the washing machine.

I once demonstrated how good the buffalo jacket is. On a winters round of Loch Skeen I broke the ice
and submersed the jacket at the top of the grey mares tale before putting it on, we then went over
loch craighead and onto white comb, by the time we got back down to the car park the jacket was dry!
It was a raw day with a bitting wind on the tops but the jacket performed well. The main problem I
had was the watter coming out of the jacket and soaking by tracksuit bottoms.

the ascent of was quite uncomfortable but not cold, and by the time white comb was reached the
jacket was comfortable, by the time we got back down to the car park the jacket was completely dry!

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You are a "grumpy old man" and I claim my £5 :-)

:-(

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