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| Britain |
| BBC Considers Changing Weather Forecaster |
| 2010-01-17 |
| BUFFETED by complaints about its inaccurate weather forecasts, the Met Office [the UK public weather service] now faces being dumped by the BBC after almost 90 years. Last July the state-owned forecaster's predictions for a "barbecue summer" turned into a washout. And its forecast for a mild winter attracted derision when temperatures recently plunged as low as -22C. Last week the Met Office failed to predict heavy snowfall in the southeast that brought traffic to a standstill. This weekend a YouGov poll for The Sunday Times reveals that 74% of people believe its forecasts are generally inaccurate. By contrast, many commercial rivals got their predictions for winter right. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #9 "Met Office computer accused of Fixed. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-01-17 23:36 |
| #8 See above post: Met Office computer accused of 'warm bias' by BBC weatherman for more detail.... |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2010-01-17 21:02 |
| #7 We call our local weather show "The weather Guessers? their accuracy is around 50% at best, I can do as well looking out the window. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-01-17 19:13 |
| #6 Wish they could stick around long enough for me, Ali-Gore and the boys at Goldman to make some quick $$$$$$$$$ in the carbon futures markets... |
| Posted by: lex 2010-01-17 18:59 |
| #5 All this cost only 2 billion pounds in the last decade... That's more moolah to add to the AGW scam costs. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-01-17 18:31 |
| #4 Snark o' the Day award to Frank. A round on me at the Club for that one. |
| Posted by: lotp 2010-01-17 16:23 |
| #3 and they were so accepting of constructive criticism too! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-01-17 15:53 |
| #2 Seems a little mean to diss the Met just because they have been completely and utterly wrong in their forecasts for the last couple of years. A compass that reliably points south instead of north is still useful. Besides, they just bought that big honking super-computer which will let them be wrong much faster. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2010-01-17 15:28 |
| #1 I would suggest thare are more reasons to "cancel" the connection to the BBC and the MET Office as the below article points out: Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with the Climategate whitewash, says Christopher Booker. The MET is out of touch by using "corrupt data" to make weather predictions: Professor Philip Jones, the CRU's director, is in charge of the two key sets of data used by the IPCC to draw up its reports. Through its link to the Hadley Centre, part of the UK Met Office, which selects most of the IPCC's key scientific contributors, his global temperature record is the most important of the four sets of temperature data on which the IPCC and governments rely – not least for their predictions that the world will warm to catastrophic levels unless trillions of dollars are spent to avert it. |
| Posted by: Snereng Hapsburg1595 2010-01-17 07:38 |