"Steve Jones" wrote in message
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How on earth do you think we arrived at the current situation of
having reasonably accurate 5 day forecasts?

LOL, Your idea of "reasonably accurate" is different than mine!

Note use of the word 'reasonably'.
Take the Countryfile forecast for example. The Sunday forecast for Friday
is usually pretty good, at least for the general situation. Detail at that range
is difficult of course but this point is often stressed during the broadcasts.
It is relatively rare for it to go completely pear shaped.

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