Rax wrote:jawa4 wrote:BBC news website wrote:...Already the Met Office is pulling in more than 200 billion observations from satellites, weather stations and buoys out in the ocean every single day, and that's set to increase...
Straight-up don't believe this. Over 200 billion observations per day? No way!
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200 billion in a day would not be that hard to achieve really. If every source reports once a minute then you need about 140 million sources, which sounds like a lot but if every terrestrial weather station has precipitation, wind speed, wind direction, sunshine, air pressure, air temperature, visiblity etc and bouys would add things like water temperature, wave height etc then satellites would be reporting on hundreds of things all at once, it adds up pretty quickly. You have to remember as well they wouldnt just use sources from within the UK, they are likely pulling all that data from all over Europe, North Africa and the North Atlantic. Weather patterns are huge so they would pull data from a huge area.
Now that's a comprehensive response! Nice going, Rax
. I've also done a bit of digging on the MET website but it's not clear as to how the "200 billion" is sourced. I suspect, as you've indicated, it's multiple hourly (or constant, from some locations) updates and multiple elements being monitored and reported... even so, that seems like a heck of a lot. But I guess it's all true and thus I'm surprised!
The wonders of TCRT; weather calculation statistics and BJs at Nando's being discussed simultaneously
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