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Old 19-09-2011, 05:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Martin[_2_] View Post

The Dutch Met Office website KNRM | Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij gives probabilities, as you
suggested the UK Met Office should, on their website.
The Met Office gives probabilities of rainfall on their mountain area forecasts, and are currently carrying out an exercise to see what presentation of probabilities are best understood by the general public, with a view to introducing probabilities into the rest of their forecasts.
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