In article ,
Phil Layton writes:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/we.../Outlook-fair-
for-amateurs-as-Met-Office-releases-data.html

Not sure what 'data' this is referring to. Perhaps we may get hourly
synops on the web :-)

Sounds like good news.

But it was a poor article, with the usual ill-informed sniping at the
Met Office. The Telegraph seems to have something of a campaign going
against the MO. A couple of years ago they switched the provider of
their daily forecast from the MO to Accuweather. They don't seem to have
noticed - or maybe just don't care - that this has resulted in their
publishing poorer forecasts.

It's lucky that the MO forecasters' standards of accuracy are rather
higher than those of many journalists. In this article the most glaring
error was the reference to Sir Tim Berners-Lee having invented the
Internet. (He invented the WWW, of course, but even today the two are
not synonymous.)

There's also a third leader in the Telegraph, mentioning the possibility
of the greater release of data leading to "cowboy" forecasters. The
writer clearly doesn't realise that there are plenty of those already
(mostly those pretending to offer forecasts for a month or more ahead).
--
John Hall
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism
by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw