On Fri, 2 Aug 2013 02:18:12 -0700 (PDT), Scott W
wrote:
Just like the other week with that cell over Bracknell that Roy
reported. Surely with all their data the MetO should be producing
better forecasts at a local level

The MetO did forecast the storms on that occasion. They correctly
identified where a convergence zone would form, and the intensities
involved. The problem was that it was forecast to affect such a small
area that the emphasis would've (quite rightly) been on the dry
weather that the vast majority of the population would've
experienced. If the MetO had been emphasising the showers then I'm
sure there would've been plenty of complaints of 'over egging' of the
storms :-)

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