On Aug 5, 12:57*pm, JPG wrote:
On 5 Aug, 06:16, "Phil Layton" wrote:

Having updated the rest of Summer outlook with more unsettled weather, the
progs this morning look the most settled for weeks....

Phil

--www.layton.me.uk/meteo.htm

The Met Office lay themselves open to ridicule by issuing these
seasonal forecasts. *Far better to admit that seasonal forecasting is
experimental and not over publicise them so that the red-top comics
don't latch on and come up with ridiculous headlines.

Sadly, the bulk of the British population is scientifically sub-
literate - most of them are even proud of the fact that they are
scientifically and mathematically challenged - issuing these forecasts
plays into the hand of the these people and their red-top
cheerleaders.

Martin

If the Met Office didn't issue these forecasts the trashy
tabloids and ther dim-witted readers would scream and shout and ask
what the Met Office is doing "with our money." You can't win. The
best thing would be to quietly discontinue seasonal forecasts for the
public and hope no-one notices, or, if they must persist with them, to
only use the driest scientific terms they can get away with. The
forecasts are of pretty well no use to the man-in-the-street anyway
though they may be of some use to industry and retail.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.