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[grafikhaus]

Can anyone explain why the summary forecast for Sheffield tonight on the BBC says “Heavy snow showers” (top left in graphic, below), but the detailed hour by hour forecast from 1800 to 0500 suggests not a single flake will fall?

Forecast? My arse.

It's not a Forecast any more, just a wild prediction. On BBC this morning, I thought they'd give us a clue about how Saturday would pan out. No chance. They gave a detailed guess of today's weather but, as for Friday, 'keep an eye on the BBC Weather app.' Just look out the fucking window in other words.

 

[ShockingBadBuy]

It's not a Forecast any more, just a wild prediction. On BBC this morning, I thought they'd give us a clue about how Saturday would pan out. No chance. They gave a detailed guess of today's weather but, as for Friday, 'keep an eye on the BBC Weather app.' Just look out the fucking window in other words.

They seem to find snowfall hard to predict, and I guess that’s to do with marginal calculations about temperature, etc. So far, so fair enough.

Less generously ....

1) forecasters today seem ridiculously risk averse. “Up until a few hours beforehand, we’ll give you the worst case scenario in case we’re wrong, meaning that the general population often have to make completely unnecessary, and sometimes costly, risk averse decisions about travel/work/leisure ‘just in case’. Then, when the predicted risks don’t emerge, we’ll change our ridiculously risk averse predictions at the very last minute, leaving you buggers to deal with the logistical and financial consequences of our risk averse bullshit, with zero comeback on us”.

2) “We reserve the right to publish contradictory, and thus completely confusing, forecasts” (per that copied above, in post 89, ‘just in case’).

Twats.

 

[BushBlade]

They seem to find snowfall hard to predict, and I guess that’s to do with marginal calculations about temperature, etc. So far, so fair enough.

Less generously ....

1) forecasters today seem ridiculously risk averse. “Up until a few hours beforehand, we’ll give you the worst case scenario in case we’re wrong, meaning that the general population often have to make completely unnecessary, and sometimes costly, risk averse decisions about travel/work/leisure ‘just in case’. Then, when the predicted risks don’t emerge, we’ll change our ridiculously risk averse predictions at the very last minute, leaving you buggers to deal with the logistical and financial consequences of our risk averse bullshit, with zero comeback on us”.

2) “We reserve the right to publish contradictory, and thus completely confusing, forecasts” (per that copied above, in post 89, ‘just in case’).

Twats.

I don’t normally moan about the BBC but their weather on line is crap. So I tried watching a forecast but at the end I realised I’d just been staring at the forecaster’s rack and not heard any of it.

 

[ShockingBadBuy]

I don’t normally moan about the BBC but their weather on line is crap. So I tried watching a forecast but at the end I realised I’d just been staring at the forecaster’s rack and not heard any of it.

Some of their forecasters have spectacular racks, to be fair.

Me, I never take in anything forecast by Lisa Gallagher, me.

And she’s not even “racked”. Sigh.

 

[Rodley]