On 23/08/2015 09:16, xmetman wrote:
On Sunday, 23 August 2015 08:54:28 UTC+1, Scott W wrote:
BBC forecasts have been decreasing in quality for a while now - but that's nothing to do with Met Office, who provide their own very good presenters and forecasts on their own site every day - far superior to anything on BBC. I think Yahoo have a contract with them.
A Met Office professor after a RMetS meeting earlier this year told me that forecasts would become an ever decreasing part of MetO services. The MetO is a world organisation now and I'd imagine that the BBC contract is just a small part of their business.
I suppose in the grander scheme of things people will no longer be able to "blame the Met Office" when the BBC get it wrong!

Scott

If the source of the NWP data that they use in the forecast is not clearly labeled, I think that most viewers will assume its from the Met office as they do now. What makes a good TV forecast is down to:

(1) good presenters
(2) great graphics
(3) sufficent time to present the forecast in
(4) the best available NWP data
(5) hi-res satellite, weather radar, SFERIC, obsevational and climate data

The Met Office has all these even if the first two are not 100% and (2) and (3) are conrolled by the BBC.

Bruce

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Well we know since Maggie everything has to go out to tender - and look
at the wonderful value for money we get from all those privatised
services. If it goes to a private company and not another National
forecasting service (which would be a joke) at least we will be able to
complain about the Chief Executive earning 180x what the forecasters do
which we can't now.