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Old February 9th 07, 12:51 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Forecasts up the spout!

On Feb 9, 12:46 pm, "David Gartrell"
wrote:
Hi Everyone,

Over the last few days all the forecasters have been banging on about a
'major snow event' wednesday night into thursday but nothing more after
that. The reality of the situation is that the wed/thurs snow turned out to
be a big disappointment for a lot of snow-loving people. Now here we are on
friday - a day described as a much quieter day just yesterday by the BBC -
and what's it doing - it's snowing like bilio !


They were just about spot-on for me in Hertfordshire. I don't remember
them saying -9C for Tuesday night, but I got my dollop of snow.
According to a friend it stated at 04:20 Thursday morning, which was
right according to the last broadcast I watched at 10:30.


I do realise that snow can be notoriously difficult to forecast accurately
but I'd be very interested to hear everyones thoughts about the last 2 days'
weather - especially the fact that todays snow was completely unforecast
just 24 hours ago - maybe the first front was just a decoy for today's
weather :-)


On Tuesday the BBC London area television warned of snow risk for
today.