"Col" wrote in message
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| Dawlish wrote:
|
| I've argued for a long time that the MetO should be more open about
| the limitations of its forecasts and I agree entirely that people
| respect you less if they feel that they are not subject to
| explanations of why a forecast says what it does.
|
| http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/10209
|
| This monthly forecast at least owns up to the challenges
| of forecasting beyond a week.
|
| See the caveat at the bottom of the page.

But that forecast is produced by one of the BBC's own weather experts and is
not the same as the forecast shown on the Met Office site. The Met Office
also update their forecast daily, whilst the BBC one says it is updated at
weekly intervals.

The monthly forecast on the Met Office site also lacks (or did the last time
I looked) the caveat at the end of the BBC's version. If you click on the
"Printable view" link you get the whole month with no division between the
bits which should be reliable (the first two sections) and the bits which
are less reliable / total guesswork (the last two sections).

Many of us on here may know the difference because we are interested or have
specialist knowledge - but the Met Office site is provided for Joe Public to
use.
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