Despite my despair with the station reports printed daily in 'The
Times',today ,their weather man Paul Simons has actually mentioned the above
in not too glowing terms !.
If you read this newsgroup Paul well done,at least somebody in newspaperland
is willing to break ranks and acknowledge that the charlatans don't always
win. Hurrah !

RonB

If you read this newsgroup Paul well done,at least somebody in
newspaperland is willing to break ranks and acknowledge that the
charlatans don't always win. Hurrah !


Ron

Beat me to it, it's about time someone exposed these charlatans.

John T

On 4 Jan, 10:17, "John T" wrote:
If you read this newsgroup Paul well done,at least somebody in
newspaperland is willing to break ranks and acknowledge that the
charlatans don't always win. *Hurrah !

Ron

Beat me to it, it's about time someone exposed these charlatans.

John T

Paul has done this before actually - a previous Weather Eye from
December effectively rubbished his forecasts. I hear through "sources"
that Mr Corbyn bombarded said author with several emails following his
last article!

Richard

On Jan 4, 11:34 am, Malcolm wrote:

Mr Corbyn also forecast a storm over Christmas, and that failed
to materialise. "

And yet there were terrible things happening earth-wide in those far
off days of yore.

Perhaps I could make a more lucid defence for the man if I actually
read some of his stuff. OTOH, one ponders how useful it is to have a
five day forecast.

What exactly does a hyper accurate forecast allow anyone serious to
do?

Take a trip abroad?
Bring the washing in?
Put off going shopping until later?
Take a walk instead of a bus?
Wear a coat to work?

But if you knew weeks or months in advance that there was a cold spell
due at a certain date give or take a week or so?

How much would that save local councils?

Put it another way:

How much better is it to have a general pattern of trends for the year
ahead?

Farmers would know what sort of crops to plant, when to fertilize when
to spray pesticiedes, move the sheep to lower ground.

Shops would know what stocks to get in, what to sell off cheap when to
supply and when to buy.

People would have an idea what cash group their bills are going to be
in, when to fill the freezer, when to have a wedding, when not to
party at which pop festivals -which will have alternate dates for
venues..

And how does that add up to a bad thing? Is Mr Corbyn advocating that
the Met Office be shut down and the inhabitants of Bracknell carted
off to some god forsaken place like Exi... oh.

On 4 Jan, 15:15, Weatherlawyer wrote:

Take a trip abroad?
Bring the washing in?
Put off going shopping until later?
Take a walk instead of a bus?
Wear a coat to work?

You forgot about taking Doggie for the walk - not of course forgetting
the umbrella.

Oh sorry - that was Desperate Dan. Maybe Messrs Corbyn and Corbett
should get together and form a new company!

Jack

On 4 Jan, 14:17, Malcolm wrote:

Well, that certainly didn't stop Simons doing it again. Perhaps Corbyn
should have realised that his bombardment might have the opposite effect
to that intended :-)

To be fair to Corbyn, he seems to be remarkably good at replying to
emails from what I've heard on here - although that could maybe be due
a near-obsessive tendency of not liking being proven wrong (which
admittedly is a common human failing!!)

Richard

Squelching through the mud, Richard Dixon at , blathered
on thus, and it became the following missive...

On 4 Jan, 14:17, Malcolm wrote:

Well, that certainly didn't stop Simons doing it again. Perhaps Corbyn
should have realised that his bombardment might have the opposite effect
to that intended :-)

To be fair to Corbyn, he seems to be remarkably good at replying to
emails from what I've heard on here - although that could maybe be due
a near-obsessive tendency of not liking being proven wrong (which
admittedly is a common human failing!!)

And he's got a thick skin so he can't detect when he's being ridiculed either.
he also doesn't seem to care about his lack of credibility either, but that his
problem.
--
Rob C. Overfield
Hull

On 4 Jan, 16:39, RCO wrote:

he also doesn't seem to care about his lack of credibility either, but that his
problem.

Aside from Piers, the only other people who enjoy getting column
inches in the Daily Mail/Express are Big Brother contestants. Oh, and
Kilroy.

Richard

On Jan 4, 4:50*pm, Richard Dixon wrote:
On 4 Jan, 16:39, RCO wrote:

he also doesn't seem to care about his lack of credibility either, but that his
problem.

Aside from Piers, the only other people who enjoy getting column
inches in the Daily Mail/Express are Big Brother contestants. Oh, and
Kilroy.

Richard

I just love that Richard Littlejohn,

On Jan 4, 4:39*pm, RCO wrote:
Squelching through the mud, Richard Dixon at , blathered
on thus, and it became the following missive...

On 4 Jan, 14:17, Malcolm wrote:

Well, that certainly didn't stop Simons doing it again. Perhaps Corbyn
should have realised that his bombardment might have the opposite effect
to that intended :-)

To be fair to Corbyn, he seems to be remarkably good at replying to
emails from what I've heard on here - although that could maybe be due
a near-obsessive tendency of not liking being proven wrong (which
admittedly is a common human failing!!)

And he's got a thick skin so he can't detect when he's being ridiculed either.
he also doesn't seem to care about his lack of credibility either, but that his
problem.
--
Rob C. Overfield
Hull

Actually Corbyn is very thick skinned or very clever.