Post by beefus on Nov 12, 2022 14:56:03 GMT
Thing is with climate change is nothing predicted since the 50s has come to pass. The UK was supposed to be in a new ice age by now due to the collapse of various air streams.
As El Noodle says, the more data modelling you do the more accurate it becomes when you get more real life data. How much more data processing can a modern computer do to those in the past. I started in IT as a computer operator in 1985 at one of the bank's main computer centres in Gloucester. The mainframes were around the size of 5 wardrobes and we had 4 of them. From memory, the mainframe room was the size of a sports hall with a badminton court, and was full of kit like hard disk drives, each disc twice as large as an LP record, 15 disks per pack(?).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_magnetic_disk_drives#/media/File:IBM3380DiskDriveModule.agr.jpg
The IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Device was introduced in June 1980.[46] It uses film head technology and has a unit capacity of 2.52 gigabytes (two hard disk assemblies each with two independent actuators each accessing 630 MB within one chassis) with a data transfer rate of 3 megabytes per second. Average access time was 16 ms. Purchase price at time of introduction ranged from $81,000 to $142,200.
I've got 2GB of storage on my laptop, costing £500 a 5-6 years ago.
Todays mainframes are probably about the size of a fridge. I had a look around the computer centre in Poole before they closed it down, it was nearly empty.
Recent forecasts have been more extremes of weather as the jetstreams around the world have a wobble. The UK is on a highish latitude so when the warmer jetstream goes AWOL and we have high pressure and easterly winds we get the Beast from the East. When the jetstream is strong like now, instead of doing its seasonal trip north, we get warm winds from the south, Africa, so its warm.