My daughter lives in Colchester, spoke to her this evening "NO SNOW"

Regards. Len.
"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
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"Tom" wrote in message
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They also had 10 cm in Colchester - the Met Office link posted by Jon
earlier proves it!
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporat...r20050224.html

I was in Colchester this morning and there WAS NO SNOW! As I said
earlier, someone has fed the Met Office duff information.

Tom, given the comments in other threads, I think David was
being ironic ... :-)

pe

My daughter lives in Colchester, spoke to her this evening "NO SNOW"

Regards. Len.
"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
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"Tom" wrote in message
.. .
They also had 10 cm in Colchester - the Met Office link posted by Jon
earlier proves it!
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporat...r20050224.html

I was in Colchester this morning and there WAS NO SNOW! As I said
earlier, someone has fed the Met Office duff information.

Tom, given the comments in other threads, I think David was
being ironic ... :-)

pe

My daughter lives in Colchester, spoke to her this evening "NO SNOW"

Regards. Len.
"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
...

"Tom" wrote in message
.. .
They also had 10 cm in Colchester - the Met Office link posted by Jon
earlier proves it!
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporat...r20050224.html

I was in Colchester this morning and there WAS NO SNOW! As I said
earlier, someone has fed the Met Office duff information.

Tom, given the comments in other threads, I think David was
being ironic ... :-)

pe

My daughter lives in Colchester, spoke to her this evening "NO SNOW"

She has now though, most of North and Central Essex is under a blanket :-)

Tom
Chelmsford, Essex (106m)

My daughter lives in Colchester, spoke to her this evening "NO SNOW"

She has now though, most of North and Central Essex is under a blanket :-)

Tom
Chelmsford, Essex (106m)

My daughter lives in Colchester, spoke to her this evening "NO SNOW"

She has now though, most of North and Central Essex is under a blanket :-)

Tom
Chelmsford, Essex (106m)

My daughter lives in Colchester, spoke to her this evening "NO SNOW"

She has now though, most of North and Central Essex is under a blanket :-)

Tom
Chelmsford, Essex (106m)

"Col" wrote in message
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The saddest thing is, they 'got it wrong' not because of incompetence
but because of the usual hype. The comments on this ng last night
suggest the MO knew full well what the 'real' chances of that happening
were, but they decided to go into full 'panic mode' all the same.
Thing is, the public won't see it that way and will just put it down to
'oh they never get it bloody right' and will trust them just a little bit
less
next time.

Why can't they just 'tell it like it is'?

Not true, Col. As far as I can tell it was told as it was seen, it that
makes sense. There was no panic. Some accumulated snow (not necessarily
devastating amounts and note that flash warnings didn't go out for southern
areas, at least until this evening) was expected in areas where there hasn't
been any. That's it really. The variation in the reports in the ng alone
shows the difficulty of the situation.

I think the old chestnut of presentation is the most worrying aspect, plus
the sweeping statements in the media as they reported it. The snow depth
image that the was posted earlier was quite laughable.

Jon.

"Col" wrote in message
...

The saddest thing is, they 'got it wrong' not because of incompetence
but because of the usual hype. The comments on this ng last night
suggest the MO knew full well what the 'real' chances of that happening
were, but they decided to go into full 'panic mode' all the same.
Thing is, the public won't see it that way and will just put it down to
'oh they never get it bloody right' and will trust them just a little bit
less
next time.

Why can't they just 'tell it like it is'?

Not true, Col. As far as I can tell it was told as it was seen, it that
makes sense. There was no panic. Some accumulated snow (not necessarily
devastating amounts and note that flash warnings didn't go out for southern
areas, at least until this evening) was expected in areas where there hasn't
been any. That's it really. The variation in the reports in the ng alone
shows the difficulty of the situation.

I think the old chestnut of presentation is the most worrying aspect, plus
the sweeping statements in the media as they reported it. The snow depth
image that the was posted earlier was quite laughable.

Jon.

"Col" wrote in message
...

The saddest thing is, they 'got it wrong' not because of incompetence
but because of the usual hype. The comments on this ng last night
suggest the MO knew full well what the 'real' chances of that happening
were, but they decided to go into full 'panic mode' all the same.
Thing is, the public won't see it that way and will just put it down to
'oh they never get it bloody right' and will trust them just a little bit
less
next time.

Why can't they just 'tell it like it is'?

Not true, Col. As far as I can tell it was told as it was seen, it that
makes sense. There was no panic. Some accumulated snow (not necessarily
devastating amounts and note that flash warnings didn't go out for southern
areas, at least until this evening) was expected in areas where there hasn't
been any. That's it really. The variation in the reports in the ng alone
shows the difficulty of the situation.

I think the old chestnut of presentation is the most worrying aspect, plus
the sweeping statements in the media as they reported it. The snow depth
image that the was posted earlier was quite laughable.

Jon.