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Old December 18th 10, 10:48 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
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In article om,
Lawrence Jenkins writes:

"John Hall" wrote in message
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In article om,
Lawrence Jenkins writes:
Yes where is my &*%ing snow, just checked with UKMO and the clowns have
been
adamant since last night about snow for the SE from midday tomorrow, why
they even updated this afternoon yet now its gone.


Gone? What are you looking at that makes you think that? If it's one of
their maps with the sun, cloud and snow symbols, we've discussed before
that these are best ignored. They seem to be generated by a not very
satisfactory piece of software. Much better to go with the text
forecasts and the Weather Warnings, which at least are produced by human
forecasters.

snip

But surely my point is John, if you suggest they are best ignored then why
display the montages of garbage in the first place-what purpose do they
serve?



I wouldn't argue with that. They really ought to have some human input
rather than - as it would seem - being produced totally automatically.
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John Hall
"I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
will hardly mind anything else."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)