How
long have you been forecasting the weather?
I´ve been forecasting the weather for 44 years.
I started in 1960.
The Kyoto protocol could solve any problem about
the weahter changes?
Yes, The Kyoto protocol would help to stop a bit
the change. But there are countries that didn´t sign
it: America is an example, also Russia.
It is very difficult to accomplish the protocol without the
cooperation of the countries who didn´t sign the protocol.
Will be humans able to modify the weather at their
own purposes?
Can we control the weather? no. We can see maybe
when it will rain.
The big storms of the Atlantic ocean are a thousand time more
big than a nuclear bomb. You think we can control that?
¿Es un buen negocio vender previsiones del
tiempo?¿Quienes son sus principales clientes?
Two types: the military (airforce), airlines. The
other are the electricity or gas company, they want to know
how is gonna be the weather to preview for their companies.
People like farmers are the ones who have to know it more
sure, but they don´t want to pay for it, of course.
It's true the view about the weather change on the
film The day after tomorrow?
I haven´t seen the film but I´ve seen
the reviews. I´m sure it is another Blockbuster movie.
We know that the story of the movie will happen, but there
is another things of the movie that they are not really true.
Of course the American take always everything to the extrem.
It is a good movie, but just don´t believe everything.
¿No es muy aburrido ser hombre del tiempo
en GB, dónde llueve casi siempre?
We get a lot of rain in the Western site, but is
not that much, not every day. The rain is wonderfoul, not
boring. In UK it´s very pleasant because there are lots
of changes in the weather.
¿De dónde viene tu afición por
la meteorología?
I went to school away from home. In that times there
was a lot of discipline. I didn´t like much the sports
(running) so I made a meteorology club to avoid to run.
From there i went to the Met office. I could stay there in
the same company but doing different jobs.
I didn´t want to go to TV or radio but they offered
me, and I wanted just to be a forecaster so I had no choice.
¿En qué país se realizan las
mejores previsiones?
The bests are the ones of next to the Atlantic, because
there is a lot of variation. Americans are good in meteorology,
in several kind: like tornados.
They are pretty good in knowing when there is gonna be a big
desaster. France is also good.
You can speak with other countries of Meteorology because
it is an international language. I talk with catalan forecasters,
german, americans,and we can understand each other.
¿Cuál es la visión del Fórum
desde su país? Qué se conoce?
It is difficult to give an opinion. The publicity
in the UK could be better. I didn´t hear enough publicity
in my country. I am very excited about it anyway but it is
a pitty that not much people away from Spain know it.
¿Debe ser un espectáculo la información
del tiempo?
We tried many times in the UK, but the problem we
have is that we think that we are scientist, but we should
speak the language of the standar people so everybody could
understand it. We should educate the people about forecasting,
so we should use a lang.
With Global Warming: some years ago the scientists warned
the people about it, but they stop warning about it. The forecasters
have to warn all the time because it is a scientific fact
and it is the job of the forecasters to make it know to everyone.
¿Para realizar previsiones, es mejor una buena
intuición, buena memoria o un buen ordenador?
One word to be a good tv forecaster is personality,
you should be able to shine. Thatsa the 1st thing. You don´t
need really good computing. You should translate the scientific
language to the people. You should have also a bit of intuition.
¿Qué país te parece el que tiene
mejor tiempo del mundo?
After a week of rain in UK, the Sahara is great.
I love the Canarias, I finally convinced my wife to go to
retire there. Windy, but very pleasant.
It is not getting too hot, and not too cold. From the english
point of view it is the nearest point for a very pleasant
weather.
I´ve just come back from a lovely trip in the Canarias.
Could you recomend us some web site where to find
good weather forecast?
The BBC is the biggest and it is free. Five days
ahead. More than 5 days is to much changing. You can look
in the page the forecast for every place in the world. Before
coming here I check in this page to see what was the weather
in Bcn.
Do you think the Forum can change anything?
Yes from my point of view it has already. We have
changed the actitud that they have forecasting.
In the dialof we have there will be the most important people
of meteorology. Maybe there will be people really great but
they cannot really speack good.
There will be a full agenda of good forecasters and scientists
speaking and changing opinions, so I think we will have really
good conclusions. I´m very proud to talk with that people
and also that there is public listening to me and to the other
meteorol.
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