On Sunday, 23 August 2015 10:09:13 UTC+1, Dawlish wrote:
On Sunday, August 23, 2015 at 12:36:35 AM UTC+1, wrote:
Will be interesting to see how this unfolds - and who gets the job. Surprising.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/met-office...9.html#kxWhf4P

Richard

Sounds like a very frosty stand-off. Bet there were some 'interesting' negotiations.

How do you know that, any links or have you a hotline to Exeter based on your huge forecasting successes .

Lieing idiot

On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 09:31:40 +0100
Hils wrote:

And are they a public sector organisation, or private? They seem to
have become like TOCs and the NHS, charging for services and taking
money from advertisers while also taking large subsidies from
taxpayers. They are certainly not the organisation they were.

The Met Office have always charged commercial companies for services. I
was billing people for my services well over forty years ago. If anyone
wanted a personal consultation with me about sea-ice conditions back
around 1970 it would cost them £40 per hour; an enquiry that only
needed a written response would probably have been charged at about £3
per hour for the work entailed. Any charge that came below £5 would be
provided free of charge as it then cost £5 to raise a bill.

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I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.
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On 23/08/2015 00:36, wrote:
Will be interesting to see how this unfolds - and who gets the job. Surprising.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/met-office...9.html#kxWhf4P

Richard


HOORAY! There forecasts are terrible.

On Sunday, 23 August 2015 00:36:35 UTC+1, wrote:
Will be interesting to see how this unfolds - and who gets the job. Surprising.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/met-office...9.html#kxWhf4P

Richard



Putting out for Tender abroad.

Joe *******i...... come on down.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/...-contract.html

Could MeteoGroup be in the running? I've used their WeatherPro App on my iPhone for the past few years, it's proved much more accurate, especially their 3hour nowcasts, & professional than the ones provided by the Met Office & BBC.

On 23/08/2015 11:24, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
On Sunday, 23 August 2015 00:36:35 UTC+1, wrote:
Will be interesting to see how this unfolds - and who gets the job. Surprising.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/met-office...9.html#kxWhf4P

Richard



Putting out for Tender abroad.

Joe *******i...... come on down.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/...-contract.html

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Excellent! We can have blizzards and sub-zero temperatures every day in
London.
Dave

On Sunday, 23 August 2015 12:12:29 UTC+1, Dave Cornwell wrote:
On 23/08/2015 11:24, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
On Sunday, 23 August 2015 00:36:35 UTC+1, wrote:
Will be interesting to see how this unfolds - and who gets the job. Surprising.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/met-office...9.html#kxWhf4P

Richard



Putting out for Tender abroad.

Joe *******i...... come on down.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/...-contract.html

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Excellent! We can have blizzards and sub-zero temperatures every day in
London.
Dave

But that's what we love only if real of course , if Joe started that lark , I'd turn on him quicker than a bag of prawns in the July midday sun.

Seriously though , it does seem stupid and sad to jettison UKMO, I can only guess they're proving to be too expensive.

wrote in
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Will be interesting to see how this unfolds - and who gets the job.
Surprising.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/met-office...recasting-cont
ract-213359729.html#kxWhf4P

Richard

Reading between the lines it seems to me that the BBC want a less expensive
service; not surprising given the additional costs foisted on them by the
current government (paying the licence fee for over 75s).

The Met Office have probably declined to tender as they consider such a
service would not meet their minimum quality criteria.

It will be interesting to see who gets the job, if it is a New Zealand
company then we might see Dan Corbett back on our screens.

I could be completely wrong of course about the reasons.

Alan

On Sunday, 23 August 2015 13:43:04 UTC+1, Alan Gardiner wrote:
wrote in
:

Will be interesting to see how this unfolds - and who gets the job.
Surprising.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/met-office...recasting-cont
ract-213359729.html#kxWhf4P

Richard

Reading between the lines it seems to me that the BBC want a less expensive
service; not surprising given the additional costs foisted on them by the
current government (paying the licence fee for over 75s).

The Met Office have probably declined to tender as they consider such a
service would not meet their minimum quality criteria.

It will be interesting to see who gets the job, if it is a New Zealand
company then we might see Dan Corbett back on our screens.

I could be completely wrong of course about the reasons.

Alan

I have always seen the BBC as the meat and veg in the national diet whereas the license free channels just serve up stuff that doesn't really nourish, akin to candyfloss. Saying that however, the BBC has over the decades become a propaganda machine for the left funded by, in reality, a tax. So its unfair to criticise a government for cutting the payment that allow free TV licenses over the age band.

To be honest I haven't a clues as to the dichotomy of the BBC it is without a doubt to best media outlet of them all them and I always find myself listening to Radio 4 when in the car and would not want to listen to anything else, but the Beeb for me is still a very liberal lefty biased organistion that tend to see its own country as always the bad guy in almost every news story.

Back to UKMO: I would still prefer the BBC stayed with them.

On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 16:36:34 -0700 (PDT),
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Will be interesting to see how this unfolds - and who gets the job. Surprising.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/met-office...9.html#kxWhf4P

Oh dear.

However, I shall continue to use the Met Office website. On the beeb,
I guess I'll be stuck with Joe, Dan or whoever they decide to 'excite'
us with... now where's that rolleyes smiley?

--
Dave
Fareham