On Feb 12, 6:23 pm, GREGG wrote:
Does any one else think that weather men are pointless? Yesterday I was
expecting to get poured on and it isn't raining. I talked to my friend
in Michigan, and their weather man said it was going to snow, 90%
chance...apparently it is a bright, sunny day. They need to just be
honest and say they have no idea what is going to happen?
GRRRR!

So it was a nice day and you were absolutely gutted?

Listen!

No matter how u.s. you think the U.S. forecasters are, they are not a
patch on how bad the BBC's version is. In the morning, in the middle
of winter, they send out girls -who aught to know better, to stand in
the rain, in the dark and try to tell us what the weather is going to
be.

There they are; totally in the dark; don't know when to come in out of
the rain and telling us what to expect.....

Plus, you get to see weather charts -even hear about Jet Streams. We
don't. Certainly not in the mornings at least.

The forecasters over here that will show us a chart and speak about
them fluently, are few and far between. The official viewpoint of the
BBC is that the British public is not ready to hear about Jet Streams.

There are two types of newspaper here, the "Quality" ones and rags.
The Quality ones show the Atlantic Weather Chart and give an account
of it in the legend.

The rags, if they carry the forecast, just tuck in a map of the
British Isles somewhere (mainland only) with silly little icons on it
representing rain or sun or whatever.

Most BBC weather forecasts are like the forecasts carried in the rags.
There are one or two examples of very good quality. These are
exceptions.

It's so bad now, that having been insulted for so long by their poor
standards, I no longer watch the BBC morning show even though the
alternative is puerile. Aimed at people with a telly addiction and low
IQs.

At least they keep their forecasters warm, in the light and capable of
concentrating on telling it like it is.

Or isn't, as the case may be.