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Experts debunk super storm claimsTuesday 06 November 2007 Predictions by a maverick British meteorologist that the Netherlands is set to be hit by a ‘super storm’ were debunked in many of Tuesday’s papers. London-based Piers Corbyn, who uses solar activity to predict the weather, says a storm with winds of up to 200kph is set to hit the UK, and probably the Netherlands, between November 24 and 28, with a foretaste this weekend. The story was picked up by Dutch weatherman Piet Paulusma, who placed it on his website. Since then, the panic has spread. ‘What Corbyn says is complete nonsense,’ said professor Vincent Icke in the AD. KNMI’s expert Cees Molenaars said in the Spits that the claims should not be taken seriously. ‘There are no scientific grounds for the claims and people are being frightened unnecessarily,’ he told the paper. The KNMI says it may indeed be very windy this weekend, but that this is quite normal for this time of year. © DutchNews.nl
I think Piers has been smoking the same stufft as Al Bore. Or maybe he's been staring at the sun too long without sunglasses and fried his noodle a bit. By cdn.infidel | November 7, 2007 4:55 AM Weather is very unpredictable, but we have gone a long way from looking at the sky and say is going to rain. Solar storms had created chaos in the past (black out in NY and Montreal for instance) and will happen again, I really don’t know if can interfere with our weather, but if this guy is saying could happen then is serious enough that he felt compelled to warn us. We at least should take the necessary precautions in case it happens. This is a person with knowledge and I’m sure he would never say something just to scare the general population for the fun of it. I could never understand why people would go scare and in panic, is beyond me. What we have to do is be smart and make intelligent decisions, prepare ourselves for any kind of event, instead of disregard his predictions even if we think he is wrong, or think is a hoax. By kristy Hartmann | November 7, 2007 8:08 AM On Piers literature (which I have scrutinised in great interest) with his forecasts he details what he can predict. If you then examine his actual predictions he gets what he claims he can. This does not mean that every day is as he says it will be. Whole 2-3 day periods can be totally wrong. Major weather events like flooding and storms he gets a high accuracy in, to me it would make a lot of sense even if he was wrong, TO THINK WHAT YOU WOULD DO IF SOMETHING STARTS KICKING OFF. The sun is a very large part of this solar system and we are actually nearer to it in the winter. It's the less exposure time that brings the cold so if solar flares change on the sun why wouldn't that change the weather, the cold does. The sun's radiation changes. People think methane from cows can compete with that. This always made me laugh. I hope you see it too. Piers is just trying to help people here with what he definitely believes is a risk. All the best. By Edward Morgan | November 13, 2007 11:06 PM
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Here in the UK we hear a lot of Pier's forecasts and they usually turn out inaccurate and certainly no better that a wild guess. Alarmist predictions and alarmist reporting.
By Jim Dale | November 6, 2007 2:10 PM