BBC WEATHER CENTRE what a joke !!

coupon_king_2

Can anyone one explain to me the point of the BBCs weather centre forecasts.... all week they have been predicting a great weekend ( so hire bouncy castle for kids & promise them BBQ )... WHAT HAPPENS on fridays 6.55pm forecast all of sudden N.E. England coastline will be affected by seafret ( fair enough I tell kids who are now very worried we can put up with a bit of cloud I tell them and off we go to ASDA and spend nearly £50 on meats, pop,sweets,crisps ect )......... knocked out of bed 8.15 am by bouncy castle guys and by 9.00am gigantic yellow & red thing ready to be pounced upon by twenty angelic kids who have all arrived by 10am..... UNFORTUNATELY what happens 10.15am it LASHES it down with rain NOT ONCE has it stopped & its now 2.20pm I can also assure you this is in for the rest of the day............ So cheesed off ( 20 screaming kids jumping all over my furniture nowt to do with it ) I put TV on and notice triathalon event in MANCHESTER and GUESS WHAT .!! its PELTING down there also .......... SO NOW TO MY RANT... on seeing this I phone BBC weather centre to ask what they were playing at as surely with technology that is available now days heavy rain should be easily detected........ but the PRAT on the other end of the line couldn`t understand my point that if there had been the slightest hint of rain in THEIR forecast I would have saved the kids fun day for another time ( total wasted on the day about £120 )........ but he amazed me with the statement I quote " we cannot predict when it rains you know " and he put the phone down without another word... while I accept our weather forecasts have always been a standing joke !!! MY QUESTION IS THIS ... If they cannot predict the weather WHY do they insist on trying to tell us whats going to happen 3 or 4 days in advance.... !! by the way ITS STILL RAINING !!

IvanOpinion

I doubt if this will help but the sun is splitting the trees over here in Northern Ireland - best day this year. Maybe it will have pushed its way over to you tomorrow.

I hate it when the weatherman starts the forecast with 'we have just had another beautiful day' when it has actually been raining all day and his weather chart is showing rain over the while country except for London.

Ivan

scheming_gypsy

I put TV on and notice triathalon event in MANCHESTER and GUESS WHAT .!! its PELTING down there also ..........

You sure that was live TV? i'm only 10 - 15 miles away from Manchester and it's been cracking the flags all day here. My mate in Burnley who's about 10 miles in a different direction from Manchester has said it's been hot and i've just text my mum who's just outside the centre of Manchester and she say's it's 'Lovely, sunny and pleasant. warm'

sloppychops

Its been scorching here all day in County Durham

Raggie

I know it wil not help now.. But

We have alway found BBC Online weather more accurate than the dorks on the telly...

enter you postcode.. and well ...its worked for us..

Rags...

PS.. my sympathy with the kids.. just got through a 5 year old B'day party.. 30 little S*ds.. running hell in the house garden...were is my beer... ;D

coupon_king_2

OOPs .... SORRY automatically assumed triathlon in MANCHESTER was live today.. to be honest had one eye on god-daughter trying to stuff her beefburger in my video machine..... Well it finally stopped raining at 4pm but kids were happy to line up wanting their soggy sausages cooked ( which I did in my snorkle, rubber ring & flippers )........ REALLY GLAD TO HEAR SOME OF YOU HAVE BEEN TOPPING UP ON THE SUNTANS THOUGH !!!!.... TIME FOR A PINT ME THINKS !!

Fatboy_NSS

Gorgeous in Oxford this weekend, weathermen got it spot on.

In fairness to the weathermen, conditions can change rapidly and can't always be predicted. Personally I'd rather than have a forecast that'll be wrong say 20% of the time than not get a forecast at all. I'm sure the kids would have been perfectly happy to bounce about in the rain anyway!

Nerf18

They said it would rain today at 5pm and it infact starting raining at 4.54pm. Not impressed!!

dmg24

How come this thread has been restarted? It is from 2004!!!

patwa_2

I use https://www.accuweather.com which has never led me wrong. I find the realfeel measurement particularly useful, it's saved me a few times when I would have been roasting to death under jackets and sweaters but instead wore a T-Shirt, I did end up having to carry everyone else's stripped clothese though hehe.

H.

timelord_4

So why not take Mother Nature to court and claim your costs back. How dare she rain.........