Something strange is happening with online weather forecasts; default pressure information is disappearing!
Yes the TV Broadcast weather programmes do refer to them, but what about the online weather maps?
As can be seen from the above three snaps of today’s weather, none of them (including the UK’s own Met. Office) contain any default information about weather pressure. You have to go and search/click on another link to get this information.
As it is one of the deciding factors in determining our weather, you would think this is something that should be included in the default page setup.
Here are the same three online services Pressure Maps. However, to get them you have follow a link from one of the menus, sometimes filling in extra ‘tick’ boxes (as in the case of the BBC) to get the information you need. It seems strange when a simple adjustment to the web pages could at least show the relevant figure of pressure at any time. The BBC used to have this in the past.
I suppose it’s a bit like information about the Jet Stream; another big influencer of the UK’s weather. Mostly, it does not get mentioned except in fairly rare circumstances. Something else I think should be changed. Here’s today’s view of the Jet Stream. Not from the above services as I could find any info quickly about the Jet Stream on those sites. Google on the other hand…
I’ve always been interested in the Weather and will be installing a personal weather station sometime in 2020. However, here’s is a look at the pressure difference as I see it using my Grandfather’s Mercury based Barometer, which does seem to give fairly accurate readings.
Looking at this, you can see quite a difference between the pressure this week and last week’s due to the deluge of rain of rain we had.
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