"Robin Nicholson" wrote in message
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On 28 Nov 2005 12:36:34 -0800, "Pete L"
wrote:

Be fair, on the whole the forecasts are pretty good and it is
very rare that the forecast is totally wrong.

Quite so- I listen to the met people on Radio Solent a good deal and
can say that there have been several occasions when things have not
happened as forecast - and there have been apologies on every occasion

To be fair the NW Tonight forecast admitted that there was a lot more
snow than they had ever forecast.
However I didn't see anything like this in the BBC national forecast.
What irritates me is that they just seem to blithely carry on with today's
forecast as if nothing had happened when today's weather is
completely different from what they said it would be yesterday!
Now I *know* that it's not an exact science and that formal apolgies
might not be the order of the day but somekind of simple acknolwlegement
that things didn't go to plan might be in order, surely?
Perhaps even shock, horror! tied in with a little 'education' (remember
that word) as to why it happened......

Col
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Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.