Weather forecasters: just stop, ok?!
Discussion
Shouldn't we call time on this mystic b
ks?
They are never right. Ever.
At least, they're no more right than you or I would be standing out in our garden each evening, looking around and deciding what tomorrow will bring.
According to last night's forecast, there should have been torrential rain here for the last six hours. Of course, there has been nothing. How often do their forecasts utterly ruin people's plans. And if they can't forecast tomorrow's weather, what hope is there for the thousands which companies fork out for long range prophecies?
I've tried every 'no this weather forecasting organisation is better than that one' suggestion and they are all wrong more often than right. I beat bookies more often than weather forecasters get their predictions right!
Isn't it about time meteorologists were bagged up and ostracised along with religious fundamentalists et al and made to give back their three minute slots to the nation?
ks?They are never right. Ever.
At least, they're no more right than you or I would be standing out in our garden each evening, looking around and deciding what tomorrow will bring.
According to last night's forecast, there should have been torrential rain here for the last six hours. Of course, there has been nothing. How often do their forecasts utterly ruin people's plans. And if they can't forecast tomorrow's weather, what hope is there for the thousands which companies fork out for long range prophecies?
I've tried every 'no this weather forecasting organisation is better than that one' suggestion and they are all wrong more often than right. I beat bookies more often than weather forecasters get their predictions right!
Isn't it about time meteorologists were bagged up and ostracised along with religious fundamentalists et al and made to give back their three minute slots to the nation?
V8mate said:
Shouldn't we call time on this mystic bks?
They are never right. Ever.
At least, they're no more right than you or I would be standing out in our garden each evening, looking around and deciding what tomorrow will bring.
According to last night's forecast, there should have been torrential rain here for the last six hours. Of course, there has been nothing. How often do their forecasts utterly ruin people's plans. And if they can't forecast tomorrow's weather, what hope is there for the thousands which companies fork out for long range prophecies?
I've tried every 'no this weather forecasting organisation is better than that one' suggestion and they are all wrong more often than right. I beat bookies more often than weather forecasters get their predictions right!
Isn't it about time meteorologists were bagged up and ostracised along with religious fundamentalists et al and made to give back their three minute slots to the nation?
Which is the best website you have used so far? (paste a link)ks?They are never right. Ever.
At least, they're no more right than you or I would be standing out in our garden each evening, looking around and deciding what tomorrow will bring.
According to last night's forecast, there should have been torrential rain here for the last six hours. Of course, there has been nothing. How often do their forecasts utterly ruin people's plans. And if they can't forecast tomorrow's weather, what hope is there for the thousands which companies fork out for long range prophecies?
I've tried every 'no this weather forecasting organisation is better than that one' suggestion and they are all wrong more often than right. I beat bookies more often than weather forecasters get their predictions right!
Isn't it about time meteorologists were bagged up and ostracised along with religious fundamentalists et al and made to give back their three minute slots to the nation?
They concetrate too much on being chummy 'personalities' for my taste. A couple of them cannot even enunciate clearly so part of the message is lost in mumbling. The clearest is the Polish chap Tomasz Chefernaaker (sp?) whose mother tongue resembles a box of bricks, and yet he speaks more intelligbly than the native versions.
Police State said:
V8mate said:
OP stuff
Which is the best website you have used so far? (paste a link)And why does the Met Office have different predictions on its website compared to those it supplies to the BBC?
ShadownINja said:
Out of interest, how do they predict the weather 5 days ahead? I can use a barometer to predict the weather 5 or 6 hours in advance to reasonable accuracy but not days ahead.
They can't. They must just look at clouds and prevailing winds and hope that things blow in the direction they think they might based on previous performance.
V8mate said:
ShadownINja said:
Out of interest, how do they predict the weather 5 days ahead? I can use a barometer to predict the weather 5 or 6 hours in advance to reasonable accuracy but not days ahead.
They can't. They must just look at clouds and prevailing winds and hope that things blow in the direction they think they might based on previous performance.
If I recall correctly (and it's a long time since I had this conversation, so it could have gone a bit hazy), the sequence of events goes something like this:
- Met Office produces a detailed forecast with probabilities and possible outcomes, e.g. "50% chance precipitation, light to heavy."
- BBC receives forecast.
- BBC assume such scary ideas as probability will twist their viewers' melons, so weather presenter just says, "heavy rain tonight".
ShadownINja said:
Out of interest, how do they predict the weather 5 days ahead? I can use a barometer to predict the weather 5 or 6 hours in advance to reasonable accuracy but not days ahead.
they have a fking great Cray computer that can model down to 0.5.km2 in the uk, paid for by you and me.That and their climate change bias piss me off.
V8mate said:
Police State said:
V8mate said:
OP stuff
Which is the best website you have used so far? (paste a link)V8mate said:
Police State said:
V8mate said:
OP stuff
Which is the best website you have used so far? (paste a link)And why does the Met Office have different predictions on its website compared to those it supplies to the BBC?
Edited by Police State on Sunday 3rd October 14:30
Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff