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I was listening to snatches of radio five just after 9 am today and I heard
Victoria Derbyshire mention that within the next hour they'd be covering a news story about a predicted severe winter. I get in to work and than a colleague informs me, about a severe winter being forecast in the news. Eventually I check the BBC news website and find this story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3738824.stm So the source of this breaking news is METCHEQUE, Mr Andrew Bond. So the BBC has dumbed down, a down to far. Yes they've scrapped lower than Dermot Moneyhand, Slasher Kinky and that Danniel Corbett. It's so bloody bad now at the ideologically led BBC, that they've help start a wave of pending winter doom from Metcheque. Have they stopped checking the validity of their sources. We're rapidly sinking into a world of goobledy gook and nonsense. Alternative comedy, alternative lifestyle, alternative medicine and alternative meteorology. Now Andrew you've always seemed a nice chap; but you predicting weather beyond half-an-hour do me a favour! As for that bunch of fools at the BBC? Well I've always supported the notion of the BBC with it's high quality programming not influenced by commercial considerations. Now though with the opinionated dross they serve up saddled with an innept gullibility; forget it. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.760 / Virus Database: 509 - Release Date: 10/09/2004 |
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Well done Andrew Bond ....again ;-)
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![]() Well done Andrew Bond ....again ;-) For those of you lucky enough not to be living within the BBC London broadcast region, or lucky enough to have missed the local news early this evening, AB was interviewed in person (this remark is an opinion on the programme, not AB). The justification for the f'cast was given but so briefly I am afraid I missed it (I do not pay much attention to that programme). This was followed by Peter Cockcroft's forecast of a cold snap next week, though all credit to PC for expressing scepticism on the winter forecast (I had woken up a bit by this time!). The forecast details can be seen (free) at http://www.metcheck.com/premium/winter2004.asp, where it appears a bit less hyped up than on the news tonight. If Andrew is reading this thread, I am sure there would be genuine interest in his reasoning. All I think we can say at present is that AB has a 50% chance of being right if the only alternative to 'cold' is 'mild'. If this month does end up colder than average, it continues the trend for Octs. to buck the warming trend. Off the top of my head I can think of both warm and cold winters that have followed mild Octobers. Others no doubt will be able to express the odds more precisely than that. Julian Julian Mayes, Molesey, Surrey. NB. I wish to make it clear that I am not an habitual viewer of the BBC London local news in the early evening. Long may that remain true! |
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