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Old October 22nd 04, 08:02 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
TudorHgh TudorHgh is offline
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Default Somebody wants their ar*e kicking for forecasting cold this week.

Wonder how much heating oil has been bought this week.

People who make forecasts should be accountable otherwise how do we trust
what
they say


So? Heating oil doesn't go bad, does it? In any case there could be a
commercial penalty for continually issuing bad forecasts.
If forecasters could be sued for their mistakes they would simply issue
forecasts that cover everything and thus be meaningless. Or they could insure
themselves, which is expensive, and there'd be fewer forecasters.
Let the user beware!

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.