On Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 2:58:39 PM UTC-5, John Hall wrote:
In message , Norman
writes
If I thought that this was the start of the BBC treating meteorology as
a serious scientific subject rather than just entertainment I might be
interested but, for the moment, no thanks :-(

Don't the Met Office already have a very similar scheme for amateur
observers? I wonder why the BBC feel the need to duplicate it.
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John Hall

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I guess because the are a separate entity to the Met Office and this sort of thing is becoming common. Weather Underground has been doing it for years - part of the reason they got bought by The Weather Channel. Which in turn is part of the reason IBM has bought parts of the The Weather Channel. Big Data looms large in the future of many spheres, and meteorology is one of them. Crowd sourcing is part of that. The BBC's scheme is a simple take on this.

Stephen.