On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:28:17 -0800 (PST), Tudor Hughes
wrote:

On Nov 22, 2:14*pm, John Hall wrote:
In article
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With the widespread ignorance of meteorology among the
population and press in particular he knows he can con people into
taking him seriously and make a lot of money in the process. This
feeds both his bank balance and his ego. And all this despite his
repeated failings.

What a pity the trades descriptions act doesn't apply to weather
forecasting, that would I suspect soon put him on the back foot.

I rarely participate in any threads about this man and his forecasting
machine because I don't like to give him or his unpublished methods
the oxygen of publicity... but this week, he's made me angry. It's
partly the North Sea storm surge debacle and his subsequent feeble
attempt to explain the total failure of his forecast but that's not
the worst of it.

His comments about "standard meteorology" forecasting of the Cumbria
rainfall event can best be described quite simply as lies. The Met
Office should challenge his statement vigorously and very publicly,
while the impressive accuracy of their forecasts of the event is still
fresh in everyone's minds. They will rarely have a better chance to
put him in his place. Code Red please, Met Office, Code Red.

--
Dave