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Old May 18th 05, 05:51 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Robin Nicholson Robin Nicholson is offline
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On 17 May 2005 17:36:13 -0700, "Tudor Hughes"
wrote:

Just watched 'em - they're as bad as everyone says. In fact I'd
say idiotic. They seem to have gone for the 8-12 age range except that
any earnest young kid of that age would learn nothing about the weather
whatsoever from this Disneyfication of the forecasts.


Agreed: the fact that synoptics have gone makes it very difficult
using the material for A level teaching (Geography) that specifically
uses basic synoptics.
Cheers Robin