muso wrote on Feb 14^th, 2012 at 10:45am:


Progressiveslol will not make any effort other than regurgitating something he read by Bolt, Nova or (Not a) Lord Monkcton

progressiveslol wrote on Feb 15^th, 2012 at 6:22am:


Is weatheraction another one of your denier blogs selling moonshine to those desperately looking for alternative explanations ?

progressiveslol wrote on Feb 15^th, 2012 at 8:14am:

Do you believe the predictions of weatheraction are anything more than pot luck ?
Peer review suggests not.

progressiveslol wrote on Feb 15^th, 2012 at 11:38am:


I take it you dont want to defend the weatheraction nutter ?

A bit sensitive to review of  your nutty breatheran ?


Some pretty scathing reviews of his work...

"Forecasts prepared by Weather Action would repay further attention. The results provide little evidence to dismiss the observed success rates as being attributable to mere chance or good fortune. Indeed the balance of evidence indicates that the system performs better than chance although it is recognized that the margin of success differs greatly between the seasons and is lowest in winter when gales are most frequent."

Seems at best he can predict "seasons".  Well done.

progressiveslol wrote on Feb 15^th, 2012 at 12:40pm:

Thats why you get shown up so much. I doubt you even bother to do any backgroup checks on your supposed sources of truth (which end up being nutty bloggers like this baby)

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I doubt the MET office bother to publish predictions like " it will be hot in summer, and cold in winter". That's about all your mate got right.



Rather than dig yourself a bigger hole, just admin that quoting weatheraction was a mistake. I simple mistake brought about by inexperience, but a mistake all the same. Learn from it. Then we can all move on to discrediting your next nutter.

progressiveslol wrote on Feb 15^th, 2012 at 1:18pm:


Yes dear, the MET dont know what they are doing.

Time for your medication and a lie down.

progressiveslol wrote on Feb 15^th, 2012 at 2:09pm:


They have pretty unpredictable weather in the UK.  I daresay that taking tea leaf readings could be more accurate than the MET Office when it comes to long range forecasts - but only on the odd occasion. Of course you could always reverse engineer the predictions database and remove those that were inconveniently....wrong. 

I'd be interested to hear how Piers Corbyn predicts long term weather. I wonder if it involves seaweed. 

Another method involves examining the rings on a woolly bear caterpillar to predict the severity of winter. If the caterpillar has two black rings, one at each end, then it is said the winter will harsh in the beginning and at the end, but the middle of winter will be mild. Trouble is I'm fresh out of woolly bear caterpillars.

I was going for a walk one night and saw a lunar eclipse. An acquaintance noticed me looking at the moon and asked "Is that a sign of bad weather?" I said, "- actually, keep this to yourself but I think it's a sign of the Earth's shadow  getting in the way of sunlight reaching the moon - but please don't tell anybody. You know how people hate rationalists these days" 

A red sky at night is a sailor's delight. A red sky in the morning means you've been up all night drinking.