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It's been chucked it down all day here in mid-Norfolk. Constant rain, windy...
The stream at the end of the garden is a tad high. So I go to the BBC weather
pages to look at the forecast... to decide if I need to start moving
possessions ;-)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=2882

Apparently today's forecast is for light showers... perhaps this is a forecast
for a different planet!



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It's been chucked it down all day here in mid-Norfolk. Constant rain, windy...
The stream at the end of the garden is a tad high. So I go to the BBC weather
pages to look at the forecast... to decide if I need to start moving
possessions ;-)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=2882

Apparently today's forecast is for light showers... perhaps this is a forecast
for a different planet!


Perhaps you are missing the point. The computer models are always right.
It's your local weather that's wrong :-)

More seriously, my subjective gut feeling is that over the past 6 months
or so the forecasts issued to Joe Public via the BBC have often been of
very poor accuracy, at least as far as the bit of the country where I
have been located. The often quoted 85 percent accuracy for 24-hour
forecasts has certainly not been applicable to the last 6 months.

Norman.
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Perhaps you are missing the point. The computer models are always right.
It's your local weather that's wrong :-)


Of course, you are correct. I hang my head in shame ;-)

More seriously, my subjective gut feeling is that over the past 6 months
or so the forecasts issued to Joe Public via the BBC have often been of
very poor accuracy, at least as far as the bit of the country where I
have been located. The often quoted 85 percent accuracy for 24-hour
forecasts has certainly not been applicable to the last 6 months.


Yup - I agree, my feelings too. I keep a close eye on the forecasts because of
my interest in cycling - always useful to have a reasonable idea of what to
wear... and because my son cycles competitively. Knowing the weather with a
reasonable degree of accuracy is vital - events can be cancelled, postponed, I
could decide to withdraw him from an event... and as there is often a fiar bit
of travelling to events involved, accurate weather forecasts are important to
me.





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I have to say dirtylitterboxofferingstospammer- or can I call you Dirty? -
that with the hitherto unknown speed of communications that we now enjoy, it
just doesn't add up.!
Surely someone could look out a window or make a call to ascertain the
forecast accuracy and respond by updating the bleeding info on their web
page. It's not as Bracknell is three days ride by horse from Norfolk, is it?
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It's been chucked it down all day here in mid-Norfolk. Constant rain,
windy...
The stream at the end of the garden is a tad high. So I go to the BBC
weather
pages to look at the forecast... to decide if I need to start moving
possessions ;-)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=2882

Apparently today's forecast is for light showers... perhaps this is a
forecast
for a different planet!



--This is an invalid email address to avoid spam--
to get correct one remove fame & fortune
**$om $

--Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched
off--





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I have to say dirtylitterboxofferingstospammer- or can I call you Dirty? -
that with the hitherto unknown speed of communications that we now enjoy, it
just doesn't add up.!
Surely someone could look out a window or make a call to ascertain the
forecast accuracy and respond by updating the bleeding info on their web
page. It's not as Bracknell is three days ride by horse from Norfolk, is it?


Exeter is though

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it's not as Bracknell is three days ride by horse from Norfolk, is it?


You mean Exeter of course Lawrence which maybe is a three day ride by horse
from Norfolk :-)

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I have to say dirtylitterboxofferingstospammer- or can I call you Dirty? -
Try calling him Helen. :-)

Anne




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