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Old July 13th 07, 09:24 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Who to believe?

On Jul 13, 11:01 am, "MichaelJP" wrote:
"John Hall" wrote in message

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In article ,
Simon writes:
Looking for the forecast for Malvern today Metcheque says partly
cloudy, the BBC say Sunny intervals, the Met Office says heavy rain,
Weatheronline says heavy rain. So who to believe?


I would discount Metcheck. The BBC's forecasts are supposedly supposed
by the Met Office, so one wonders why they are different. Forecasts for
individual cities are I believe wholly computer generated, so may not be
very reliable. You would be better off looking at the forecast for the
West Midlands.
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John Hall


"I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)


Personally I think the best way is to view the latest BBC video forecast on
the website rather than reading any text forecast, you get a far better feel
for how the day will develop.

And I've never liked those computer generated city forecasts, totally
useless.


I refound a useful little addy today so that you can see how a run up
takes shape.
forecasts are all very well but we also need a reanalysis to go with
it all otherwise we just get half a pictu
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkfaxbraar.htm