Useless BBC weather forecasts
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According to the BBC's Weather Web-Site it's raining hard right this second outside my house. Well it isn't. In fact the weather is quit pleasant. It's one thing to get tomorrow's weather wrong, but you have to be really bad to get nows weather so wrong.
So what? I hear you thinking. Well I was going to Santa Pod today to watch the dragster racing and fireworks. However, after reading the BBC's weather forecast last night, much to my kids' disappointment, I decided that standing in the rain watching them try and dry the strip for hours on end seemed a little dull. So I called it off. What an idiot I was - believing the BBC's weather.
It's not the first time either - it seemed to be VERY regular. They seldom say it's going to be sunny and then it rains, they usually say it's going to be rainy but it doesn't rain.
So what? I hear you thinking. Well I was going to Santa Pod today to watch the dragster racing and fireworks. However, after reading the BBC's weather forecast last night, much to my kids' disappointment, I decided that standing in the rain watching them try and dry the strip for hours on end seemed a little dull. So I called it off. What an idiot I was - believing the BBC's weather.
It's not the first time either - it seemed to be VERY regular. They seldom say it's going to be sunny and then it rains, they usually say it's going to be rainy but it doesn't rain.
I used to work at the local brach of the nation bureau of meterology back in Australia and they had a website which listed almost all their weather stations and rain radar which could be accessed in real time, mainly for pilots and seafaring types but it was available to anyone
surely there is an english equivalent? I'd like to know since the BBC one always gets it wrong for me as well.
www.bom.gov.au
www.bom.gov.au/weather/sa/sa-observations-map.shtml
http://mirror.bom.gov.au/weather/rada
surely there is an english equivalent? I'd like to know since the BBC one always gets it wrong for me as well.
www.bom.gov.au
www.bom.gov.au/weather/sa/sa-observations-map.shtml
http://mirror.bom.gov.au/weather/rada
[url]www.metoffice.com/weather/europe/uk/radar/[/url] Shows real time radar and animation.
By the way, why have the press and other media been hyping up the likelihood of a very bad winter when the Met Office says only that it could, statistically, be a bit worse than recent years?
By the way, why have the press and other media been hyping up the likelihood of a very bad winter when the Met Office says only that it could, statistically, be a bit worse than recent years?
alfaman said:
try www.metcheck.com , quite reliable
Wow like that, and its actually doing what it says.
BBC rubbish, hardly ever right......but Yahoo weather has it raining every day.......miserable buggers
grass widow said:
try www.metcheck.com , quite reliable
Wow like that, and its actually doing what it says.
BBC rubbish, hardly ever right......but Yahoo weather has it raining every day.......miserable buggers
Hmm!! Just had a look at Cambridgeshire for tomorrow - all OK except for 9-12 am, says it'll be -66 deg c and light snow.
alfaman said:
try www.metcheck.com , quite reliable
I just tried this and got this result www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/today.asp?zipcode=wd17
apparently it'll be -61 at 9am, lets hope we get home from the tuneel run ok then fellas !!
>> Edited by Hughesie2 on Saturday 5th November 19:00
zippee said:
try www.metcheck.com , quite reliable
Wow like that, and its actually doing what it says.
BBC rubbish, hardly ever right......but Yahoo weather has it raining every day.......miserable buggers
Hmm!! Just had a look at Cambridgeshire for tomorrow - all OK except for 9-12 am, says it'll be -66 deg c and light snow.
Newcastle, 9am, Temp -84 deg c, but the "realfeel" is 159 deg c
Me thinks its bollox. waits to be proven wrong....
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