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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	How do ants know? Feb 26^th, 2014 at 1:14pm How is it they tell us days in advance of any forecast that there is going to be some prolonged rain? Of course sometimes they get it wrong. It does happen that something throws them, but I venture to suggest their margin of error is way below our forecasters for all their satellites, radar and fingers in the air.
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Prime Minister for Canyons Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 26906 Canberra Gender:	Re: How do ants know? Reply #1 - Feb 26^th, 2014 at 1:26pm Hello Bogarde My feeling is that its a lot about humidity changes. THey may be able to pick up the rising humidity. They can also detect changes in pressure. I suspect then, they will often get it wrong, if the changes aren't associated with rain, or the rain comes too quickly for them to detect the changes
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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Re: How do ants know? Reply #2 - Feb 26^th, 2014 at 1:30pm Forget the ants ~ just check out the snails. If you see them up a brick wall, or colorbond fencing panel ~ then it's going to rain to flood proportions.
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cods Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 88048	Re: How do ants know? Reply #3 - Feb 26^th, 2014 at 5:35pm arthritis can do it too.
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Reply #4 - Feb 26^th, 2014 at 5:47pm

bogarde73 wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 1:14pm:

How is it they tell us days in advance of any forecast that there is going to be some prolonged rain?
Of course sometimes they get it wrong. It does happen that something throws them, but I venture to suggest their margin of error is way below our forecasters for all their satellites, radar and fingers in the air.

And the faster they move, the heavier the rain.

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Neferti Gold Member Offline Posts: 7965 Canberra Gender:	Re: How do ants know? Reply #5 - Feb 26^th, 2014 at 6:03pm So, "they" should be checking out the ants, snails, spiders and their arthritic hips and knees before allowing the BOM to announce weather forecasts? Who pays this lot to "predict" what the weather is going to be tomorrow? Why do we pay for them to get it so wrong, so often? Who cares anyway?
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Reply #6 - Feb 26^th, 2014 at 6:59pm

Neferti wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 6:03pm:

So, "they" should be checking out the ants, snails, spiders and their arthritic hips and knees before allowing the BOM to announce weather forecasts?

Who pays this lot to "predict" what the weather is going to be tomorrow? Why do we pay for them to get it so wrong, so often?

Who cares anyway? Wink

and yet the Warmists reckon they can tell us what the weather and climate is going to be like in 100 years.... !!! Grin

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Prime Minister for Canyons Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 26906 Canberra Gender:	Re: How do ants know? Reply #7 - Feb 26^th, 2014 at 7:00pm cods wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 5:35pm: arthritis can do it too. Studies show this to be a myth, its an example of confirmation bias.
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Reply #8 - Feb 26^th, 2014 at 7:01pm

True Blue... wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 6:59pm:

Neferti wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 6:03pm:

So, "they" should be checking out the ants, snails, spiders and their arthritic hips and knees before allowing the BOM to announce weather forecasts?

Who pays this lot to "predict" what the weather is going to be tomorrow? Why do we pay for them to get it so wrong, so often?

Who cares anyway? Wink

and yet the Warmists reckon they can tell us what the weather and climate is going to be like in 100 years.... !!! Grin

Really never seen them predict what it will be like 25th Feb 2114

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Reply #9 - Feb 26^th, 2014 at 7:17pm

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 7:01pm:

True Blue... wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 6:59pm:

Neferti wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 6:03pm:

So, "they" should be checking out the ants, snails, spiders and their arthritic hips and knees before allowing the BOM to announce weather forecasts?

Who pays this lot to "predict" what the weather is going to be tomorrow? Why do we pay for them to get it so wrong, so often?

Who cares anyway? Wink

and yet the Warmists reckon they can tell us what the weather and climate is going to be like in 100 years.... !!! Grin

Really never seen them predict what it will be like 25th Feb 2114

Thunderstorms predicted here from 2pm today. Still waiting.

It was predicted to be a very dry weekend and it came down in buckets.

BOM = waste of space. Old Tom with his arthritic hip and drinking problem can predict the weather better than the BOM. Grin

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Reply #10 - Feb 26^th, 2014 at 7:20pm

Neferti wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 7:17pm:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 7:01pm:

True Blue... wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 6:59pm:

Neferti wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 6:03pm:

So, "they" should be checking out the ants, snails, spiders and their arthritic hips and knees before allowing the BOM to announce weather forecasts?

Who pays this lot to "predict" what the weather is going to be tomorrow? Why do we pay for them to get it so wrong, so often?

Who cares anyway? Wink

and yet the Warmists reckon they can tell us what the weather and climate is going to be like in 100 years.... !!! Grin

Really never seen them predict what it will be like 25th Feb 2114

Thunderstorms predicted here from 2pm today. Still waiting.

It was predicted to be a very dry weekend and it came down in buckets.

BOM = waste of space. Old Tom with his arthritic hip and drinking problem can predict the weather better than the BOM. Grin

I can "feel" when rain is coming if im outside...

if it's cloudy and the mrs can't tell whether to put the washing out or not I can usually walk outside and make a prediction of whether it's close (say an hour or 2) or not until later on.. maybe in the afternoon...

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Reply #11 - Feb 26^th, 2014 at 7:21pm

Neferti wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 7:17pm:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 7:01pm:

True Blue... wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 6:59pm:

Neferti wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 6:03pm:

So, "they" should be checking out the ants, snails, spiders and their arthritic hips and knees before allowing the BOM to announce weather forecasts?

Who pays this lot to "predict" what the weather is going to be tomorrow? Why do we pay for them to get it so wrong, so often?

Who cares anyway? Wink

and yet the Warmists reckon they can tell us what the weather and climate is going to be like in 100 years.... !!! Grin

Really never seen them predict what it will be like 25th Feb 2114

Thunderstorms predicted here from 2pm today. Still waiting.

It was predicted to be a very dry weekend and it came down in buckets.

BOM = waste of space. Old Tom with his arthritic hip and drinking problem can predict the weather better than the BOM. Grin

Confirmation bias

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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Re: How do ants know? Reply #12 - Feb 26^th, 2014 at 7:29pm My false teeth begin to chatter in the glass on my bedside table on nights before it's going to rain.
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Redmond Neck Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 21747 ACT Gender:	Re: How do ants know? Reply #13 - Feb 26^th, 2014 at 7:51pm Jesus Herbie stop looking at that Samantha Armytage on the net!!!
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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Re: How do ants know? Reply #14 - Feb 27^th, 2014 at 10:36am Redmond Neck wrote on Feb 26^th, 2014 at 7:51pm: Jesus Herbie stop looking at that Samantha Armytage on the net!!! She's quite a girl. She's from the country ... where they breed them sweet and unaffected, and a good roo.. ... er ... good in the kitchen.
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