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Old July 6th 17, 04:39 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Useless met office rainfaill predictions

On Thu, 6 Jul 2017 13:38:19 +0100
Will Hand wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jul 2017 09:55:03 +0000 (UTC)
wrote:
Very erudite. Got anything further to add or is that your contribution for
the day and you need to go lie down now?

FWIW I dragged around a useless umbrella and I suspect some farmers and

event
managers are a bit put out too. No one expects them to get the weather dead

on
a week ahead, but 12 hours?? A piece of seaweed could have done better.


Clearly you have not understood the Met Office warnings properly. It said most
places will miss the storms altogether and stay dry. They did not go for wall


I don't know what the warnings were, I simply watched a number of forecasts
both broadcast and the online map. They all showed rain and storms over a
significant part of the southeast. The rain graphics arn't a probability map,
they're where they expect rain to fall with a high certainty.

They weren't slightly wrong, they were completely arse about face wrong.

to wall storms. Even the auto site forecasts were dry (mainly). Now go away and
come back when you understand a bit more about meteorology and the nature of
convection - thank you. Also I am not sure now that BBC weather get their


Spare me your feable attempts at being patronising, there are far better
practioners than you at it on usenet. And as for the "nature of convection",
yes, it might be chaotic and I wouldn't expect them to be bang on the money
but to predict a large swathe of storms over an area 80 miles wide and then we
get *none at all* leads me to believe theres a problem with either their models
or measurements.

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Spud