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Old 05-09-2008, 10:58 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Gordon H Gordon H is offline
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Default has the Met office lost the plot?

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Last night I checked today's forecast for my area, it was: Sunny
intervals up until early evening then heavy rain and thunderstorms. I
woke up this morning to thick fog and it's now raining. This means that
last nights forecast was 100% wrong, in fact I can't remember when we
last had a reasonably correct forecast in the last few months but I
suppose there must have been some.
While I appreciate it's a difficult art surely they, with all the super
computers etc they have, they could do better than this.


For a short term forecast I look at this:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/

Animating it gives a good idea of what's coming in the next hour or
three.
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Gordon H