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Old November 21st 03, 01:06 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Weekend Min Temp

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:00:32 +0000, Mike Tullett wrote in


On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:20:31 -0000, Calum wrote in


The met office website is showing minimum temperatures of -7 and -9 for
Penrith at the weekend.

http://www.meto.gov.uk/weather/europ...s/penrith.html

I don't see any proof of this from other charts yet. Does anyone know of a
source to back this up.


I'd take that page with a large dose of salt:-) It looks like the usual
computer generated rubbish many of us have seen over the months. It may go
below 0C, but not that far.


I've just checked the BBC site and it comes up with -1 and -2 for those two
days, more realistic figures IMHO. Yet, the source for those data are
surely the same - UKMO?

I agree with Norman too about other machine generated "products". From
talking to others, who look at such forecasts, I am often asked why there
are such big discrepancies and in all honesty I cannot give a sensible
answer. It is even difficult to say which is the most reliable source.
One would hope the MO site would be, but.....

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