On 05/02/12 09:26, Rob Brooks wrote:
"Graham P Davis" wrote in message ...

. . . showed a table of snow depths that she said were from Met Office
stations this morning where the top depth was 16cm from Church Fenton.
She then said it was probably due to drifting. Nice of her to criticise
her colleagues on breakfast TV.

Hi Graham
Why do we do this when it doesn't fit their predictions. I was looking
at the radar yesterday evening and there were pockets of heavier
snowfall. Where I live in Pudsey not a million miles from Church Fenton
we had 6 or 7 cm . We had very little drifting. I find it difficult to
imagine that they had 16 cm even in drifts. I have a friend who lives
about 8 miles away from Church Fenton and he will let me know. The depth
may have been 6 cm in Church Fenton. Can't believe that this would turn
out the snowiest either. Again looking at the radar last evening its
more likely to be the tops of the Pennines where the greatest depths
occurred! On another point Church Fenton would not be manned Saturday
evening to measure the snow. Not sure what instrumentation they have but
if its automatic I would question this depth!


On the Andrew Marr show, she included my old station, Wattisham, as one
that probably misreported the snow depth.

Regardless of whether the depths are correct or not, surely she
shouldn't come on national TV and say that these observations are made
by the Met Office and then imply that the staff don't know what they're
doing.

If the measurements were somehow made by automatic means and were
somehow in doubt, then they shouldn't have been shown at all.


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