Duncan Heenan wrote:
I think I have detected an increasing trend in Met Office Weather
forecasts over the past year or so, to exaggerate weather dangers.
Not only in general forecasts when it never seems to get as wet, hot,
cold, windy etc as they say, but also in shipping and inshore
forecasts. A number of times over the last year I have not sailed
because of warnings of Gales or F6s and above which have not
materialised, and consequently I have missed a good day out. I am now
beginning to discount their pessimism a bit, and no doubt one day the
forecast will come true and I'll get caught out and they can shout
'We told you so'.
I can't help thinking that there's a lawyer somewhere in the
background advising them to forecast the worst possible, rather than
the most likely, weather, in order to avoid litigation or criticism.
(a la M. Fish -'There won't be a Hurricane").
What do you think?
I wonder if anyone there reads this newsgroup?

Well if you are listening to the road traffic reports as I am at the moment in Northants, I'd probably say that a severe warning was not enough for most of the 'drivers' out there - reports of multiple accidents and closures and that's WITH gritted roads!

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