Weather forecasting moan and groan

The 'cold front' due to come in on SUNDAY night, arrived overnight Saturday
for Glenshee and Glen Clunie! The rivers rose some 3 feet - just under a
metre for those that like it that way! :-)
Some campers even got caught out as far south as the Sma' Glen according to
the news!

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Andy
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I know this has been posted before some weeks ago, but since the Met Office
has started them fancy BBC graphics the weather forecasting seems to have
gone haywire.

I know, that the Met forecasting and the graphics are on different
computer systems - it just seems strange this has happened since the fancy
dangly thing has started.

I was actually going to post about this subject on Saturday night, but
decided to post on Sunday instead, however I was a bit busy. Then came
the thunderstorms in North Yorkshire.

I've used the BBC website for years and apart from a few grumbles, it's
been very accurate.

A good example was yesterday, I viewed North Cheviots, the 5 day forecast
(for that day) showed showers and sun, yet when you clicked on the 24 hr
(for the same period!) it was bright sun only throughout the day.

Another example was the night before and day of my car crash. There was
no indication of heavy rain anywhere in the area I'd be travelling, yet,
many have said there was torrential rain the night before.

Mid May saw me in York Dales, again the forecast said cloudy and warm -
actually, it was sunny, then cloudy and torrential rain late afternoon.

Anyone else think somethings wrong, or is it just my interpretation?

Jhimmy

Jhimmy said:

I know this has been posted before some weeks ago, but since the Met Office
has started them fancy BBC graphics the weather forecasting seems to have
gone haywire.

Agreed, last Wednesday evening, the BBC weather web-site predicted
sunny weather for the next day. Reality, it rained nearly all day from
around 9:30am until 7pm. Very low cloud, the base as low as 250m!

David.

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Jhimmy said:

I know this has been posted before some weeks ago, but since the Met Office
has started them fancy BBC graphics the weather forecasting seems to have
gone haywire.

Agreed, last Wednesday evening, the BBC weather web-site predicted
sunny weather for the next day. Reality, it rained nearly all day from
around 9:30am until 7pm. Very low cloud, the base as low as 250m!

David.

It's not necessarily recent. Back in the 80's one Easter a work
colleague and I were visiting our respective parents, in the relevant
area, so we arranged a day out in the Lake District. The forecast was
for fine weather. Come the morning it's raining, but the forecast is for
fine. We turn off the motorway at Penrith, and the weather's getting
worse, so we pull up at a phone box and ring the Lake District forecast
line - still supposedly fine. We get to Dockray, and it's snowing, so we
give up and go to Brockholes.

In the end the precipitation stopped in the early afternoon, and we went
up Red Screes from Kirkstone.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley

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Anyone else think somethings wrong, or is it just my interpretation?

There have been several occasions in the recent past where the breakfast
forecasts can't even get the current situation anywhere near right. I am
beginning to think that such supposedly live broadcasts are really
potted versions recorded anything up to 12 hours earlier. If they were
really live then it would be the simplest thing in the world to start
each forecast with a synoptic chart and the rain radar display. Of
course if the forecasts aren't live then including the rain radar is a
great big no-no. The other problem is to persuade the BBC that despite
their endless adverts aimed squarely at the intellectually challenged
they still probably have more viewers with IQs of over 80 than under.

This message would have been posted much earlier if my ISP hadn't thrown
a wobbly and refused to log me on.

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Repeats - 23 (Marilyns 7, Nuttalls 14, Wainwrights 12, Outlying Fells 0)

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Anyone else think somethings wrong, or is it just my interpretation?

There have been several occasions in the recent past where the breakfast
forecasts can't even get the current situation anywhere near right.

The following image http://www.stuartstuart.fsnet.co.uk/misc/mc.jpg is a
screen shot of the met office weather cam situated at Eskdalemuir. Take a
look at the weather observations "Mostly Cloudy"???? Sort of sums up what
you are saying!

I do know the observations are an hour out from the images, but theirs
hardly been a cloud in the sky since midday!

"Jhimmy" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I know this has been posted before some weeks ago, but since the Met

Office

Quoted message said:

has started them fancy BBC graphics the weather forecasting seems to have
gone haywire.

I know, that the Met forecasting and the graphics are on different

computer

Quoted message said:

systems - it just seems strange this has happened since the fancy dangly
thing has started.

I was actually going to post about this subject on Saturday night, but
decided to post on Sunday instead, however I was a bit busy. Then came

the

Quoted message said:

thunderstorms in North Yorkshire.

I've used the BBC website for years and apart from a few grumbles, it's

been

Quoted message said:

very accurate.

A good example was yesterday, I viewed North Cheviots, the 5 day forecast
(for that day) showed showers and sun, yet when you clicked on the 24 hr
(for the same period!) it was bright sun only throughout the day.

Another example was the night before and day of my car crash. There was

no

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indication of heavy rain anywhere in the area I'd be travelling, yet, many
have said there was torrential rain the night before.

Mid May saw me in York Dales, again the forecast said cloudy and warm -
actually, it was sunny, then cloudy and torrential rain late afternoon.

Anyone else think somethings wrong, or is it just my interpretation?

Jhimmy

In most of these cases they had predicted thunder showers, so in many ways
they were right, OK some turned out to be freak thunder storms, but "freak"
weather is strange and bizare, so therefor you can't really expect anyone to
predicted it!

Ysgrifennodd "Roger" <[email hidden]> mewn neges
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Anyone else think somethings wrong, or is it just my interpretation?

There have been several occasions in the recent past where the breakfast
forecasts can't even get the current situation anywhere near right. I am
beginning to think that such supposedly live broadcasts are really
potted versions recorded anything up to 12 hours earlier.

My sentiments exactly.

I keep winding my girlfriend up when the weather is on, saying that the ITV
weather only has about 30 pre-recorded forecasts that they put on when the
weather is suitable, however, i now think the BBC are doing this. :-) Await
for forecast with michael fish resplendent in flares and kipper tie.

I get all my info online since BBC changed everything.

t dave r

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