Having grown up in an era when trying to predict rainfall
amounts even 24 hours ahead was regarded as laughable,
I find these really quite impressive

I agree. This is quite a laborious exercise to carry out, which explains
why I never do it. Is this accuracy typical of such predictions? My own
suspicion is that it is not but I don't have figures to support this view. I
don't think the same success would be found in non-frontal situations,
particularly in summer, but that is a notoriously difficult problem and again I
can't prove my suspicions.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.