On Feb 21, 9:14*am, Graham P Davis wrote:
John Dann wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/we...de-network-of-

amateur-weather-stations-takes-on-Met-Office.html



I was just trying to work out what the trigger for this story in
today's Telegraph might have been? A press release of some sort?

John Dann
www.weatherstations.co.uk

"A nationwide network of amateur weather stations is taking on the Met
Office in an attempt to become the country's most accurate forecaster. "

What a pity that newspapers seem to employ people with IQ's that would shame
a mentally-challenged amoeba.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. *E-mail: newsman not newsboy

Such people have to work somewhere. To be serious, there is a
widespread confusion between accurate local measurements and accurate
local forecasts and not just in the media. Many (most?) people seem
to think that if you monitor your local weather in the minutest detail
you should be able to come up with an accurate forecast but in fact
the link between the two is rather tenuous ecept where the local
amateur forecaster can modify the general forecast to some benefit.
But none if this makes much difference to the forecasting of synoptic-
scale systems. The Telegraph, rather disappointingly, is guilty of
promoting this general ignorance.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.