On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 7:26:08 PM UTC, John Hall wrote:
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John Hall writes:

Having just looked at the UKMO site, I was surprised to see that the

6-15 day forecast was updated at 4am today rather than at 11am-

noon, which I thought was the time of day that it was normally

updated.



The time on it has now been updated again to 4pm, but as far as I can

see it's still the same old forecast, which is now looking very out of

date. Maybe they require a certain number of successive forecasts to

show a change before adopting it, but don't publicly acknowledge that?

They might fear that otherwise there would be constant flip-flops when,

as happens quite often, the models can;t make their minds up for the

roughly 8-10 day period.

--

John Hall "He crams with cans of poisoned meat

The subjects of the King,

And when they die by thousands G.K.Chesterton:

Why, he laughs like anything." from "Song Against Grocers"

"UK Outlook for Monday 13 Jan 2014 to Wednesday 22 Jan 2014:

Although showers and longer spells of rain will continue to affect the UK, conditions are not expected to be as stormy as those of recent weeks. At first, the strongest winds and heaviest rain are most likely in the west of the UK, then perhaps in the south and southwest, whilst the east will hang on to the driest weather. It will become colder, especially in the north where there is an increasing risk of snow, mainly over hills, with nearer normal temperatures at times in the south, and an increasing risk of frost, ice and fog. Later in the month changeable conditions are likely to continue, especially in the northwest, with the best of the drier weather in the east..

Updated: 1156 on Wed 8 Jan 2014"

Seems very out of step and certainly not what I think - but what do I know? *))