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Old 31-08-2008, 03:15 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren Nick Maclaren is offline
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Default has the Met office lost the plot?


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Alan writes:
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| A few years back one of the retiring TV weather men admitted that if
| they just reported today's weather as tomorrow's weather they would
| probably be more accurate than trying to analyse the data from any
| computer model. ...

That's a few decades ago, actually, as far as the actual patterns go.
The other problem with forecasting is that most people want to know
if THEY will be rained on - and a forecast of patchy rainfall over an
area may be right, but isn't what they regard as right.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.