On Jan 26, 5:31*am, "Col" wrote:
Dawlish wrote:
On Jan 25, 8:35 pm, Ian H wrote:

But tonight the forecast ended on Saturday. The presenter stated that
there was no forecast for Sunday, " as we don't know what's going to
happen on that day".

Perhaps Mr Braine should take a peak on here. No harm in that is
there?

Ian H

Plymstock

He really did say that and I sat momentarily open mouthed at what I'd
just heard - then I actually laughed out loud! It was very funny. The
two news presenters just looked a bit stunned!

That sounds like one of your forecasts.
If you're not sure, you just don't issue
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl



And that is the same honesty. It says, ATM, I dont know and most of
the time, I quite simply don't. If only the public could accept the
MetO doing that. The expectation, however, is that the MetO is somehow
expected to know and unfortunately the MetO feeds that expectation by
(until very recently) giving the public a forecast with no
qualifications, that tells them that it must know, when in fact, at 10
days, they only have an idea of what it will be like and that idea may
well be wrong.

I'm a long way from beig alone in wanting to see an indication of the
MetO's confidence in forecasts at 10 and 15 days, instead of the 6-15
day precis that is scribbled for us at present - probably by the tea
boy *)).