On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 7:07:32 PM UTC, John Hall wrote:

I suppose that astronomy, meteorology and biology are the three sciences
in which amateur observers can still have a worthwhile part to play, so
it's not unreasonable for the BBC to have "seasonwatch live"
programmes for all of them. If it gets more people interested in making
observations then it can only be a good thing.

There's a lot to be said for that.
Not everybody can operate a Large Hadron Collider but anybody, anybody at all can make a valid observation as to whether it is snowing or not. You don't even need any instuments, unless you count your eyes.

Col